Tally Counters
69
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Tally Counters is an iOS app from Thomas Tsopanakis in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 2,869 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 69: 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.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
5 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
2,869 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$600K
Snapshots tracked
5
since Mar 2026
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 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (2,869 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| intuitive designREVIEW | +$1,000 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v3.1
Minor bugs fixed!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Tally Counters
- Developer
- Thomas Tsopanakis
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- 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
- $600K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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.
🌍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%)
🚀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
Tally Counters is a personal counter to let you easily track unlimited things in your life
USE IT FOR EVERYTHING:
• How many hours did i paid for?
• How many cupcakes did i eat this month?
• How many cigarettes did i have?
• How many times did i hit the gym?
• How many days left for my big event?
• How many coins in my precious collection?
• How many money do i have in my bank account?
Anything else you can think of….
PRODUCTIVITY
- Large buttons to increase and decrease counters
- Set STEP UP, STEP DOWN and RESET values
- Option to turn on/off sound effects
- No limit to counter value… View full description on the official store →
USE IT FOR EVERYTHING:
• How many hours did i paid for?
• How many cupcakes did i eat this month?
• How many cigarettes did i have?
• How many times did i hit the gym?
• How many days left for my big event?
• How many coins in my precious collection?
• How many money do i have in my bank account?
Anything else you can think of….
PRODUCTIVITY
- Large buttons to increase and decrease counters
- Set STEP UP, STEP DOWN and RESET values
- Option to turn on/off sound effects
- No limit to counter value… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 3 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v3.1🔄 updated 4mo ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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
🔧
Shipped update — v3.0 → v3.1
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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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 under a month 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 |
| ⚙ 13.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$80K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$11.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~88× 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 |
| 📅 13.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
400K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
25K
Daily active
5.0K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅 13.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 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 | Utilities |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
30%
Last shipped 2026-05-24 · 126 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 |
Verdict
Slowing
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Tally Counters: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 2,869 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Tally Counters make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Tally Counters earns approximately $600K/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 Counters profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $600K, Tally Counters looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Tally Counters have?▴
Estimated audience: ~400K lifetime downloads, ~25K monthly active users, and ~5K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Tally Counters?▴
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What is Tally Counters built with?▴
Our heuristic places Tally Counters 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 Counters still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (30% 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 Tally Counters sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $11.0M (marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M). Calculated as 19× 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 Counters last updated?▴
Tally Counters last shipped a new version on 2026-05-24 — 4 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Tally Counters?▴
Tally Counters is published by Thomas Tsopanakis 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 Counters's BU Score?▴
Tally Counters has a BU Score of 69/100 (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.