Royal Road - Read Stories
76
Quality Score
Strong
Royal Road - Read Stories
by Not Yet Media LTD
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Royal Road - Read Stories is an iOS app from Not Yet Media LTD in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 4,271 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 76: Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink 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
$12.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$12.5K – $26.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$15.5K – $46.4K
per month
MID tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
85 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
4,271 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$12.1K
Snapshots tracked
85
since Oct 2023
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~10 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 (219 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
| ⚙ 2.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$17K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$250K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~2.2× 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 |
| 📅 2.9y proven track record | +15% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
360K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
47K
Daily active
9.5K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅 2.9y of rating accumulation | -15% |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 55%
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 | 219 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-03 · 21 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
| 📅 21 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$12.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$11.5K – $19.1K
12 months
$12.5K – $26.2K
24 months
$15.5K – $46.4K
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 · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Product Quality
8.6
Revenue Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.7
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $8K - $18K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.8★ across 4,271 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $217K-$386K. Portfolio play ($46K/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 13 of 13 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 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (4,271 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v2.49
- Fix: Pull to refresh had stopped working.
- Fix: Mature content sometimes glitches and mature content is not loaded even when having it switched on.
- Fix: Title match did not work in dropdowns with search box.… Full release notes →
- Fix: Mature content sometimes glitches and mature content is not loaded even when having it switched on.
- Fix: Title match did not work in dropdowns with search box.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Royal Road - Read Stories
- Developer
- Not Yet Media LTD
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- 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
- $12.1K/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.
📈Ratings growth5,151 ratings+2948% 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter9 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
Your main source for Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. Find many stories within your new favorite genres such as Progression Fantasy, Litrpg, Portal Fantasy and Isekai stories, among many others.
Explore over 50,000 novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
Royal Road Premium - Subscribe to our Premium service to receive the following features:
- Ad-free reading experience
- Downloading chapters for offline reading
- Premium badge on your comments
- Itemized reading history of individual chapters read… View full description on the official store →
Explore over 50,000 novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
Royal Road Premium - Subscribe to our Premium service to receive the following features:
- Ad-free reading experience
- Downloading chapters for offline reading
- Premium badge on your comments
- Itemized reading history of individual chapters read… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 219 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.49🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2023 (2y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
19 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
📈
Crossed 5,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v2.46 → v2.49
→ 30 days after: reviews +162 low · multiple changes
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v2.45 → v2.46
→ 30 days after: reviews +230 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.44 → v2.45
→ 30 days after: reviews +120 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.43 → v2.44
→ 30 days after: revenue +$35.6K/mo · reviews +157 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.42 → v2.43
→ 30 days after: revenue +$35.6K/mo · reviews +202 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.41 → v2.42
→ 30 days after: reviews +175 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v2.40 → v2.41
→ 30 days after: reviews +213 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v2.37 → v2.40
→ 30 days after: reviews +213 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +139 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.1K/mo · rating +0.76★ · reviews +4,071 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.04 → 4.80 (improved 0.76★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.1K/mo · rating +0.76★ · reviews +4,071 high confidence
2024-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.13★ · reviews +11 high confidence
2023-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.18★ · reviews +11 high confidence
2023-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.18★ · reviews +11 low · multiple changes
2023-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.18★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2023-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.18★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2023-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.18★ · reviews +11 low · multiple changes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.84127★ | 315 | 4.84127★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.9375★ | 48 | 4.9375★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.80556★ | 396 | 4.80556★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.76952★ | 256 | 4.76952★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.85484★ | 62 | 4.85484★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.78517★ | 391 | 4.78517★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.77465★ | 71 | 4.77465★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.7619★ | 21 | 4.7619★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.82172★ | 5,211 | 4.82172★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Royal Road - Read Stories: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 4,271 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Royal Road - Read Stories make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Royal Road - Read Stories earns approximately $12K/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 Royal Road - Read Stories profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $115K and monthly revenue $12K, Royal Road - Read Stories looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 10 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 Royal Road - Read Stories have?▴
Estimated audience: ~360K lifetime downloads, ~47K monthly active users, and ~9K 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 Royal Road - Read Stories?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink 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 Royal Road - Read Stories built with?▴
Our heuristic places Royal Road - Read Stories on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Royal Road - Read Stories still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 21 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Royal Road - Read Stories sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $250K (marketplace range $175K – $300K). Calculated as 20× 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 Royal Road - Read Stories last updated?▴
Royal Road - Read Stories last shipped a new version on 2026-09-03 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Royal Road - Read Stories?▴
Royal Road - Read Stories is published by Not Yet Media LTD 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 Royal Road - Read Stories's BU Score?▴
Royal Road - Read Stories has a BU Score of 76/100 (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.