Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder
79
Quality Score
Strong
Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder
by Mohrer Associates LLC
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder is an iOS app from Mohrer Associates LLC in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.9★ across 11,374 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity app, that means healthy traction. 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
$15.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$15.7K – $32.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$19.5K – $58.4K
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
87 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
11,374 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$15.2K
Snapshots tracked
87
since Sep 2023
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~7 months 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 (106 MB) | +$22K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$7K |
| ⚙ 3.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$19K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 22× MRR multiple
💸
~3.2× 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 |
| 📅 3.3y proven track record | +16% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple
22× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
710K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
195K
Daily active
87K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 📅 3.3y of rating accumulation | -16% |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 60%
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 | 106 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-11-07 · 1 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
| 📅 1 day since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$15.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$14.4K – $24.0K
12 months
$15.7K – $32.9K
24 months
$19.5K – $58.4K
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 · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $10K - $22K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.86★ across 11,374 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 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 = $273K-$485K.
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:
| Mid install base (11,374 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (15 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v4.2.2
Wave 4.2.2
• Tap Record during a phone call and Wave now explains that iOS reserves the microphone for the call, and offers to record the call with Wave instead
• Share Audio is hidden for notes that have no audio (YouTube, PDF and photo sessions)… Full release notes →
• Tap Record during a phone call and Wave now explains that iOS reserves the microphone for the call, and offers to record the call with Wave instead
• Share Audio is hidden for notes that have no audio (YouTube, PDF and photo sessions)… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder
- Developer
- Mohrer Associates LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.ma.waveapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, HE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TR
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
- $15.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#61 /100 🇫🇷#98 /100
- 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 growth12,288 ratings+8316% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇺🇸US#61 /100
🇫🇷FR#98 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#61 now · best #61 · worst #63
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter14 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline8 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
Wave AI Note Taker: Audio and Phone Call Recorder for Transcription, Note-Taking & More
Whether you're in a business meeting, classroom lecture, or on a call, Wave ensures you never miss a crucial detail.
With its seamless background audio recording, intelligent summaries, and powerful AI transcription, Wave simplifies meetings for maximum productivity.
Put AI into action today to capture, organize, and share your conversations.
WHAT CUSTOMERS SAY
"Honestly don't know how this app can do such a good job with taking notes of technical stuff and acronyms and things, but it does."… View full description on the official store →
Whether you're in a business meeting, classroom lecture, or on a call, Wave ensures you never miss a crucial detail.
With its seamless background audio recording, intelligent summaries, and powerful AI transcription, Wave simplifies meetings for maximum productivity.
Put AI into action today to capture, organize, and share your conversations.
WHAT CUSTOMERS SAY
"Honestly don't know how this app can do such a good job with taking notes of technical stuff and acronyms and things, but it does."… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 106 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v4.2.2🔄 updated 1d ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, DE +10📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2023 (3y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
28 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 →
2026-09
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Shipped update — v3.9.8 → v4.0.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +167 high confidence
2026-09
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Shipped update — v3.9.5 → v3.9.8
→ 30 days after: reviews +349 high confidence
2026-08
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Shipped update — v3.9.4 → v3.9.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +238 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
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Shipped update — v3.9.3 → v3.9.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +278 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
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Shipped update — v3.9.2 → v3.9.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +294 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
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Shipped update — v3.9.1 → v3.9.2
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.3K/mo · reviews +150 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
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Shipped update — v3.8.8 → v3.9.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.3K/mo · reviews +160 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
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Shipped update — v3.8.7 → v3.8.8
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.3K/mo · reviews +149 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
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Shipped update — v3.8.6 → v3.8.7
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.3K/mo · reviews +141 low · multiple changes
2026-06
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Shipped update — v3.8.5 → v3.8.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +126 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
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Shipped update — v3.8.2 → v3.8.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +176 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
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Shipped update — v3.8.0 → v3.8.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +161 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +128 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.42 → 4.86 (improved 1.44★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +128 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.41 → 4.85 (improved 1.44★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$212/mo high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$212/mo high confidence
2024-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$215/mo high confidence
2024-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$853/mo · rating +0.11★ · reviews +12 high confidence
2024-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.83 → 3.35 (dropped 0.48★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$853/mo · rating +0.11★ · reviews +12 high confidence
2024-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.1K/mo · rating −0.48★ · reviews +18 high confidence
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Store Page History
14 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
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🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #8Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
meeting notes·#8🇺🇸note taking·#45🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.71242★ | 153 | 4.71242★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.83193★ | 119 | 4.83193★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.84016★ | 513 | 4.84016★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.55396★ | 139 | 4.55396★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.69038★ | 239 | 4.69038★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.83798★ | 358 | 4.83798★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.78462★ | 65 | 4.78462★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.5★ | 78 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.85325★ | 12,260 | 4.85325★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 11,374 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder earns approximately $15K/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 Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $100K and monthly revenue $15K, Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 7 months 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 Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder have?▴
Estimated audience: ~710K lifetime downloads, ~195K monthly active users, and ~87K 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 Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder?▴
Browse the full Productivity category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder built with?▴
Our heuristic places Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $325K (marketplace range $250K – $425K). Calculated as 22× 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 Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder last updated?▴
Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder last shipped a new version on 2026-11-07 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder?▴
Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder is published by Mohrer Associates LLC 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 Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder's BU Score?▴
Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder has a BU Score of 79/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.