Beside (M1): AI Receptionist
77
Quality Score
Strong
Beside (M1): AI Receptionist
by Interface, Inc.
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Beside (M1): AI Receptionist is an iOS app from Interface, Inc. in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.8★ across 8,559 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 77: 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
$982
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$858 – $3094
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$795 – $7158
per month
INDIE 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
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
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
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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 (197 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $375K · 19× MRR multiple
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~2.8× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
640K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
190K
Daily active
85K
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 |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$982/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$836 – $2.0K
12 months
$858 – $3.1K
24 months
$795 – $7.2K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 45/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
8.6
Revenue Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.6
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $392 - $2455/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.78★ across 8,559 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $17K-$31K. Portfolio play ($15K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (8,559 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v2.20.0
Hello everyone,
This update focuses on making your day-to-day smoother.
Your contact cards have been redesigned, bringing a caller’s details and full history across all your inboxes together in one place.… Full release notes →
This update focuses on making your day-to-day smoother.
Your contact cards have been redesigned, bringing a caller’s details and full history across all your inboxes together in one place.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Beside (M1): AI Receptionist
- Developer
- Interface, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.hearthands.TheMessagingApp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- 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
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $15.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#80 /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 growth8,559 ratings+1181% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (18 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (30 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #80 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#80 now · best #73 · worst #90
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter8 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
Meet Beside, the work number that works for you
Beside remembers all your texts & calls and outlines your next steps.
Beside IS YOUR NEW WORK NUMBER
Beside lets you choose a new business phone number in your local area code, so you can enhance your professional brand and separate your work and personal life.
Beside REMEMBERS EVERYTHING
Beside automatically transcribes all your calls and voicemails. Ask Beside AI to retrieve a detail and receive an answer in seconds, without keywords or scrolling.
Beside KNOWS WHAT TO DO NEXT… View full description on the official store →
Beside remembers all your texts & calls and outlines your next steps.
Beside IS YOUR NEW WORK NUMBER
Beside lets you choose a new business phone number in your local area code, so you can enhance your professional brand and separate your work and personal life.
Beside REMEMBERS EVERYTHING
Beside automatically transcribes all your calls and voicemails. Ask Beside AI to retrieve a detail and receive an answer in seconds, without keywords or scrolling.
Beside KNOWS WHAT TO DO NEXT… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 197 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v2.20.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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 →
2026-07
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Shipped update — v2.19.1 → v2.20.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +14 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
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Shipped update — v2.19.0 → v2.19.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +40 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
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Shipped update — v2.18.0 → v2.19.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.3K/mo · reviews +83 high confidence
2026-07
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Shipped update — v2.17.0 → v2.18.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.3K/mo · reviews +118 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
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Shipped update — v2.15.3 → v2.17.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.3K/mo · reviews +172 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
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Shipped update — v2.15.1 → v2.15.3
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.3K/mo · reviews +165 high confidence
2026-06
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Shipped update — v2.11.0 → v2.15.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +279 high confidence
2026-03
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.48259★ | 201 | 4.48259★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78359★ | 8,909 | 4.78359★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Beside (M1): AI Receptionist: 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: 8,559 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Beside (M1) make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Beside (M1) 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.
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Who makes Beside (M1)?▴
Beside (M1) is published by Interface, Inc. 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 Beside (M1)'s BU Score?▴
Beside (M1) has a BU Score of 77/100 (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.