Perfect Tempo
47
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Perfect Tempo is an iOS app from Open Planet Software in the News category, currently rated 3.7★ across 91 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News app, that means early traction worth watching. 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 tierFREE
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
63 snapshots on record
Rating
3.7
Reviews
91 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
63
since Jan 2013
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.4y 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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| ⚙ 13.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$82K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× 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 |
| 📅 13.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× 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 | 3 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
40%
Last shipped 2026-05-27 · 123 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
| 📅 4 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
| 👥 Small user base (91 ratings) + 13.7y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
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
Stalled · 30/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
1.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
0.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.69★ across 91 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 6.1% refund mentions, scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm.
🎯 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 = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($10K/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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($6.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (91 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 · v37.0
Welcome to Grooves!
Grooves is the new name for Perfect Tempo. There's also a new app icon and the interface has a refreshed look with Liquid Glass.… Full release notes →
Grooves is the new name for Perfect Tempo. There's also a new app icon and the interface has a refreshed look with Liquid Glass.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Perfect Tempo
- Developer
- Open Planet Software
- Bundle ID
- com.openplanetsoftware.highnote
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- 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 News
- 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 growth95 ratings+2275% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 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$6.99 → $4.99 (-29%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
SLOW DOWN AND SPEED UP ANY SONG
Maybe you’re trying to learn a tricky guitar riff or figure out a new dance routine. Or maybe you want to change the speed of your favourite tracks to lock into the rhythm of your fitness workout. Grooves lets you continuously adjust the speed of any song in the Apple Music catalog, in your iPhone Music Library or Files app to a speed that’s right for you.
PICK ANY SONG
• Change the tempo of any song on Apple Music, in your Music app or Files app without affecting pitch or fidelity
• Access the entire Apple Music catalog of over 100 million songs!… View full description on the official store →
Maybe you’re trying to learn a tricky guitar riff or figure out a new dance routine. Or maybe you want to change the speed of your favourite tracks to lock into the rhythm of your fitness workout. Grooves lets you continuously adjust the speed of any song in the Apple Music catalog, in your iPhone Music Library or Files app to a speed that’s right for you.
PICK ANY SONG
• Change the tempo of any song on Apple Music, in your Music app or Files app without affecting pitch or fidelity
• Access the entire Apple Music catalog of over 100 million songs!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 3 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.6+🔖 v37.0🔄 updated 4mo ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 →
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 12 of 12 updated
2026-07
💲
Price ↓ $6.99 → $4.99 (-29%)
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v36.1 → v37.0
2026-04
💲
Went paid — introduced $6.99 price point
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.22 → 3.69 (improved 0.47★)
2021-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.88 → 3.56 (dropped 0.32★)
2015-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.17 → 3.86 (dropped 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.29★ medium · co-occurring
2014-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.33 → 3.75 (improved 0.42★)
2013-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.33 (improved 0.83★)
2013-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.50 (improved 0.50★)
2013-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.50★ high confidence
📸
Store Page History
12 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPad screenshots
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iPhone screenshots
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2 ver.
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Slot 6
2 ver.
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🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 132 reviews across 7 markets● 74% positive · ● 9% neutral · ● 17% negative · Rating drift: -0.61★ (declining — recent 50: 3.08★ vs lifetime: 3.69★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.72
🇺🇸 US
+0.54
🇦🇺 AU
+0.49
🇨🇦 CA
+0.42
🇩🇪 DE
+0.31
🇧🇷 BR
+0.24
🇯🇵 JP
+0.02
Top praise themes
apple music ×21 change pitch ×4 play next ×4 next song ×4 able change ×4 music practice ×3 being able ×3 simple elegant ×3
Top complaint themes
apple music ×27 doesn work ×9 work apple ×5 loop button ×4 music apple ×3 play button ×3 please fix ×3 songs ×22
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 6.1% Bug mentions: 9% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.8%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.72632★ | 95 | 3.72632★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.2★ | 15 | 4.2★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3★ | 5 | 3★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2★ | 19 | 2★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.66667★ | 9 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.25★ | 8 | 4.25★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 91 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 Perfect Tempo make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Perfect Tempo earns approximately $5.0K/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 Perfect Tempo profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Perfect Tempo looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Perfect Tempo?▴
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What is Perfect Tempo built with?▴
Our heuristic places Perfect Tempo 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 Perfect Tempo still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (40% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Perfect Tempo sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). 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 Perfect Tempo last updated?▴
Perfect Tempo last shipped a new version on 2026-05-27 — 4 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Perfect Tempo?▴
Perfect Tempo is published by Open Planet Software 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 Perfect Tempo's BU Score?▴
Perfect Tempo has a BU Score of 47/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.