65
BU Score
Solid
Hörbücher HQ
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Hörbücher HQ is an iOS app from Inkstone Software, Inc. in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.6★ across 6,816 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 65 — 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.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (6,816 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (17 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 39 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v4.18🔄 updated 2y ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FI, FR +12📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
📝 About this app
FEATURED ON CNET—this is *the* app for busy people who have a graveyard of eBooks (you know who you are, you well-meaning intellectual, you.)
ROAD TRIP? TRAIN RIDE? JUST TRYING TO TUNE OUT THE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO YOU ON THE PLANE? ;)
With over 895,000 premium audiobooks, and 100,000 free, you can get your wisdom on—and politely protect your headspace.
IT’S LIKE MUSIC...ERRR, NARRATION TO YOUR EARS.
From the latest bestsellers to timeless classics to up-and-coming indie authors, Free Audiobooks HQ is the app for a massive selection of studio-recorded quality audiobooks at your fingertips. Or should we say earbuds?
ON DEMAND, NO SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED
Just open, search, click and listen. There are no credits and no recurring monthly fees. Free Audiobooks HQ lets you download and listen on demand, wherever you are, whenever you're ready. Even find the top rated books with the click of a button, or switch the language and get your Spanish on!
FANCY FEATURES YOU’LL WANT TO BRAG ABOUT TO YOUR FRIENDS
Free Audiobooks HQ even does neat tricks like adjusts the speed, slows down or speeds up playback in 40 increments (without affecting pitch!), and even sets a sleep timer when it's time for bed.
BONUS: ACCESS 158,000 EPISODES OF OLD TIME RADIO, TOO!
It's the best radio dramas of the 1930's, 1940's, 1950's and more. Because what's modern technology without a little old-school entertainment?
GREAT FOR AROUND THE HOUSE, TOO!
Washing the car. Check. Washing the dog. Probably that, too. Whether you're logging some miles on the ol' treadmill, or logging 'em driving cross country, we're the companion you didn't know you needed. (Sorry, dog.)
ROAD TRIP? TRAIN RIDE? JUST TRYING TO TUNE OUT THE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO YOU ON THE PLANE? ;)
With over 895,000 premium audiobooks, and 100,000 free, you can get your wisdom on—and politely protect your headspace.
IT’S LIKE MUSIC...ERRR, NARRATION TO YOUR EARS.
From the latest bestsellers to timeless classics to up-and-coming indie authors, Free Audiobooks HQ is the app for a massive selection of studio-recorded quality audiobooks at your fingertips. Or should we say earbuds?
ON DEMAND, NO SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED
Just open, search, click and listen. There are no credits and no recurring monthly fees. Free Audiobooks HQ lets you download and listen on demand, wherever you are, whenever you're ready. Even find the top rated books with the click of a button, or switch the language and get your Spanish on!
FANCY FEATURES YOU’LL WANT TO BRAG ABOUT TO YOUR FRIENDS
Free Audiobooks HQ even does neat tricks like adjusts the speed, slows down or speeds up playback in 40 increments (without affecting pitch!), and even sets a sleep timer when it's time for bed.
BONUS: ACCESS 158,000 EPISODES OF OLD TIME RADIO, TOO!
It's the best radio dramas of the 1930's, 1940's, 1950's and more. Because what's modern technology without a little old-school entertainment?
GREAT FOR AROUND THE HOUSE, TOO!
Washing the car. Check. Washing the dog. Probably that, too. Whether you're logging some miles on the ol' treadmill, or logging 'em driving cross country, we're the companion you didn't know you needed. (Sorry, dog.)
🆕 What's New · v4.18
Support for iOS 17 and bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hörbücher HQ
- Developer
- Inkstone Software, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.inkstonesoftware.audiobooksfree
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, IT, JA, KO, NB, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH
Company
- Website
- www.audiobookshq.com
- Tagline
- Audiobooks HQ ™
- Description
- Over 12,500 free audiobooks for iPhone, iPad, and Android
- 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
- $921/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
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- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
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- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
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- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- http://www.audiobookshq.com/contact.html
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth6,816 ratings+1442% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 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.
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.
