59
Quality Score
Solid
Tally Counter Pro
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Tally Counter Pro is an iOS app from Pixel Research Labs, Inc. in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.9★ across 69 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 59: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$1.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.6K – $5.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.5K – $13.2K
per month
INDIE tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~7 months at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
| ⚙13.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$82K |
Total estimate$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$250K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $350K · 14× MRR multiple
💸~2.0× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅13.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple14× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦App bundle size | 5 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Utilities |
| 📦Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2015-05-16 · 4027 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅11y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥Small user base (69 ratings) + 13.8y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| •14y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.8K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$1.5K – $3.6K
12 months
$1.6K – $5.7K
24 months
$1.5K – $13.2K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 29/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
1.7
Revenue Strength
3.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
1.3
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $724 - $4525/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.94★ across 69 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 4022d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 2.2% refund mentions, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.34 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $21K-$39K. Portfolio play ($19K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (69 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 5 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v2.1.3🔄 updated 11y ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)
📝 About this app
An attractive counter with multiple tallies.
Features:
- Apple Watch app, change your counters on your Apple Watch.
- Today extension, change your counters from your lock screen or notification center.
- List view. See all your tallies at a glance.
- Page view. Focus on one tally with large, easy to hit buttons.
- Reset a tally with undo.
- Reset all tallies.
- Set a custom reset value.
- Set a custom limit value.
- Set custom increment and decrement amounts.
- Set the value of tallies by flicking the individual digits.
- Option for silent operation.… View full description on the official store →
Features:
- Apple Watch app, change your counters on your Apple Watch.
- Today extension, change your counters from your lock screen or notification center.
- List view. See all your tallies at a glance.
- Page view. Focus on one tally with large, easy to hit buttons.
- Reset a tally with undo.
- Reset all tallies.
- Set a custom reset value.
- Set a custom limit value.
- Set custom increment and decrement amounts.
- Set the value of tallies by flicking the individual digits.
- Option for silent operation.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.1.3
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
A great new update.
- Watch app, change your counters on your Apple Watch.
- Today view, change your counters on your lock screen or in notification center.… Full release notes →
A great new update.
- Watch app, change your counters on your Apple Watch.
- Today view, change your counters on your lock screen or in notification center.… Full release notes →
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.14 → 5.00 (improved 0.86★)
2018-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 92 reviews across 5 markets● 84% positive · ● 9% neutral · ● 8% negative · Rating drift: -0.34★ (declining — recent 50: 3.6★ vs lifetime: 3.94★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.69
🇺🇸 US
+0.65
🇫🇷 FR
+0.64
🇦🇺 AU
+0.38
🇨🇦 CA
+0.36
Top praise themes
apple watch ×11 multiple counters ×11 keep track ×4 total count ×4 please update ×3 tracks reps ×3 reps set ×3 free version ×3
Top complaint themes
apple watch ×13 doesn work ×4 works apple ×3 iphone ×5 version ×5 longer ×4 bought ×4 because ×4
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.2% Fraud / scam mentions: 1.1%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3★ | 6 | 3★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4★ | 10 | 4★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.7★ | 10 | 3.7★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.94203★ | 69 | 3.94203★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Tally Counter Pro
- Developer
- Pixel Research Labs, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.pixelresearchlabs.ios.tallycounterpro
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Pixel Research Labs
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $19.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- twitter twitter.com/pixelresearch
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- pixelresearchlabs.com/about
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.94★ · 51.0% 5★ · 12.2% 1★
5★25 (51%)
4★10 (20%)
3★6 (12%)
2★2 (4%)
1★6 (12%)
+5 ratings/week
Praise: great ×17 love ×10 excellent ×5 best ×4 perfect ×3Complaints: expensive ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Nothing really wrong
Basically perfect for what it is. Great app.…
★★★★★ Very simple counter that does the job!
Just a very simple counter that I use to count my activities for the day…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ No longer supported, Watch app doesn’t work
Not supported…
★☆☆☆☆ Not compatible with Apple Watch
This is advertised as designed for Apple Watch and iPhone. I specifically bought it for my watch, but it only works on my iPhone. I have a Series 3. I contacted the developer who agrees that it no longer works on Apple Watch! Yet Apple wou…
📈Ratings growth69 ratings+431% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $1.99 (+0%)
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 69 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Tally Counter Pro make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Tally Counter Pro earns approximately $19K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Tally Counter Pro profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $19K, Tally Counter Pro looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 7 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Tally Counter Pro?▴
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What is Tally Counter Pro built with?▴
Our heuristic places Tally Counter Pro on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is Tally Counter Pro still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Tally Counter Pro sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $250K (marketplace range $200K – $350K). Calculated as 14× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Tally Counter Pro last updated?▴
Tally Counter Pro last shipped a new version on 2015-05-16 — more than 11 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Tally Counter Pro?▴
Tally Counter Pro is published by Pixel Research Labs, Inc. on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Tally Counter Pro's BU Score?▴
Tally Counter Pro has a BU Score of 59/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.