Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis
62
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis is an iOS app from James Holmes in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.5★ across 29 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Health & Fitness 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
43 snapshots on record
Rating
4.5
Reviews
29 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
43
since Mar 2012
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$215K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $160K – $290K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.6y 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (1086 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$36K |
| ⚙ 14.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$87K |
Total estimate
$215K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| 📅 14.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
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 | 1086 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Health & Fitness |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2019-09-26 · 2555 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · 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
| 📅 7y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (29 ratings) + 14.6y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 15y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 43/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
3.6
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.45★ across 29 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2551d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2551d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($22K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 9 of 9 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 (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (29 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.
🆕 What's New · v3.2.4
Fixed crashed happening on iOS 13+ when trying to play audio sessions
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis
- Developer
- James Holmes
- Bundle ID
- com.titanic2011.VGB-Hypnosis
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Health & Fitness
- 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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth29 ratings+2800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (43 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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 → $12.99 (+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.
📝 About this app
AS SEEN on CNN, BBC, Daily Mail, Chat Magazine, Channel 4's 'How to Lose Weight Well', Vogue and Marie Claire... the American, British (and Australian!) WEIGHT LOSS PHENOMENON - now in a top-selling APP!
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPad in the UK
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPad in Ireland
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPhone in Cyprus
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPhone in the Bahamas
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPad in the UAE
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPad in Venezuela… View full description on the official store →
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPad in the UK
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPad in Ireland
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPhone in Cyprus
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPhone in the Bahamas
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPad in the UAE
* No1 Grossing Health & Fitness App for iPad in Venezuela… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1.1 GB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.3+🔖 v3.2.4🔄 updated 7y ago🌐 EN📂 Health & Fitness💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $12.99 price point
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$73/mo high confidence
2012-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.21875★ | 32 | 4.21875★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3★ | 4 | 3★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.45098★ | 306 | 4.45098★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.44827★ | 29 | 4.44827★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 29 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis is a small / niche iOS app in the health & fitness space with weak public traction — only 29 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis make per month?▴
Our model estimates Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis earns roughly $5.0K/mo, but with only 29 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis?▴
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What is Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis built with?▴
Our heuristic places Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis last updated?▴
Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis last shipped a new version on 2019-09-26 — more than 7 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis?▴
Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis is published by James Holmes 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 Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis's BU Score?▴
Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis has a BU Score of 62/100 (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.