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Tortoise & the Hare

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Tortoise & the Hare is an iOS app from Wanderful, Inc. in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.2★ across 25 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Our BU Score puts it at 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink app, that means established niche player.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL
Revenue 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
great valueREVIEW
+$1,600
Mature app (13y old)METRIC
+$1,500
Good rating (4.2★)METRIC
+$800
Single-language (English only)METRIC
−$400
Pre-traction phase (25 ratings)METRIC
−$300
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📈 Reviews Growth

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Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

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Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY
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App Specs
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💾 153 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 6.0+🔖 v1.4🔄 updated 8y ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)

📝 About this app

• Winner of a MOM'S CHOICE Gold Award
• Winner of a PARENTS’ CHOICE Gold Honor Award
• A fully interactive storybook for young and emerging readers
• Based on the award winning titles originally published by Living Books

Review:
"Every word on every page is interactive, and the book comes with multiple languages, parent tips, and an extensive teacher resource guide to use the app/storybook in the classroom setting.

These features combined with top-notch storytelling make this app worth it's $4.99 price tag. Download it, and enjoy hours of fun with your little one."

- Tim Leverett ©2013 Parents' Choice

Have you ever wished you could play inside a story and really interact with all the characters and words? Now you can! The Tortoise and the Hare is an imaginative and interactive reading experience with fully animated content loved by children, parents and teachers alike.

Wanderful brings every page of this classic Aesop’s fable to life. Read and play along as the Tortoise proves that slow and steady wins the race. Join him as he accepts the much faster Hare’s challenge to a race – one that doesn’t turn out exactly as the Hare had planned.

KEY FEATURES:
• Includes both English and Spanish with dynamic switching between the languages
• French available as an upgrade
• Over 500 interactive words in each language
• 12 fully interactive pages of word play
• Virtually every item on each page comes to life when tapped
• A hidden animated surprise on each page – see if you can find Ruppert the dragonfly
• Move between pages with swipe or with scrolling page navigation
• Multiple settings to customize the App for your child’s reading experience
• Two modes: “Read to Me” and the fully interactive “Let Me Play”
• Parental tips to help you get the most out of this Wanderful interactive storybook
• Teacher resources include a 31 page overview of Wanderful interactive storybooks Classroom Activities and a free preview of the Tortoise and the Hare Classroom Activities guide
• The full 47 page Classroom Activities guide is available as an upgrade

Wanderful’s goal is to bring outstanding interactive storybooks to a new generation of children. We hope The Tortoise and the Hare provides your family, children and students with hours of story play.

The Tortoise and the Hare is credited to Greek storyteller Aesop (620-564 BC). This version is retold by Living Books creator Mark Schlichting. The characters were designed by Michael Dashow and backgrounds were painted by Barbara Lawrence, each an original Living Books team member.

Privacy Disclosure
Wanderful creates engaging interactive storybooks for children that are educational, fun, and above all safe and appropriate. Our apps:
• do not collect any information
• do not contain ads
• do contain in-app purchases
• do not have active links to websites or social networks
• do use analytics to improve our app experience but only in aggregate and never with personally identifiable data

🆕 What's New · v1.4

This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.

Optimized for full 64-bit performance.
Fixed an iOS 11 specific issue with certain buttons and page scroller.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name
Tortoise & the Hare
Developer
Wanderful, Inc.
Bundle ID
com.wanderfulstorybooks.Tortoise-full
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Food & Drink
Content rating
4+
Languages
EN

Company

Website
wanderfulstorybooks.com
Tagline
originally published as
Description
Wanderful Interactive and Animated Educational Storybook apps originally published as Living Books now on Apple, Android and Amazon
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Revenue

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ML model estimate / mo
$9.3K/mo
Top-grossing rank
Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
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Founder

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X / Twitter
https://twitter.com/wanderfulbooks
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Public statements
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Funding

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Last round
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Press & Links

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Blog
http://wanderfulstorybooks.com/news.html
Press / News
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Recent App Store Reviews14 latest · avg 4.14★ · 71.4% 5★ · 14.3% 1★
5★
10 (71%)
4★
0 (0%)
3★
2 (14%)
2★
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1★
2 (14%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: love ×8 great ×4 favorite ×3 awesome ×1Complaints: crash ×2 broken ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Finally!
We loved this software years ago, and were thrilled to find it in the App Store! We are anxiously awaiting more titles to join these classics!…
★★★★★ The gold standard
Finally! Living Books, the gold standard in which all interactive storybooks were based, is finally on the iPad! I can't wait to share these stories with my daughter! Ps: we hope "Harry and the Haunted House" is next!…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ No Audio
There’s no sound in this app! Do not buy!…
★☆☆☆☆ Broken
Will change this to a five star when my four year old stops crying that it won't open anymore...these books are our absolute favorite apps, and ALL of them are broken right now.…
📈Ratings growth25 ratings+2400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾Sep 2012Apr 2024May 2026
Tracked (16 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
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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