TV Remote & Smart TV Control
83
Quality Score
Excellent
TV Remote & Smart TV Control
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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TV Remote & Smart TV Control is an iOS app from To Ngoc Mai in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 131,985 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 83: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Utilities app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$34.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$36.0K – $75.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$44.6K – $133.8K
per month
MID tier
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- 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
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2 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 (174 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$600K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $425K – $700K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~8.0× 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% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
26.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.2M
Daily active
1.0M
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 |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
19% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$34.8K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$33.0K – $55.0K
12 months
$36.0K – $75.4K
24 months
$44.6K – $133K
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 · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.5
Product Quality
9.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.7
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $24K - $52K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 131,985 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 = $626K-$1.1M.
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:
| High install base (131,985 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (39 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| 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 · v2.4.7
We’re very excited to share with you our new awesome update!
- UI improvements for your streamlined and enjoyable experience
- Overall performance improvements
- Improved design for a smooth and intuitive navigation… Full release notes →
- UI improvements for your streamlined and enjoyable experience
- Overall performance improvements
- Improved design for a smooth and intuitive navigation… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- TV Remote & Smart TV Control
- Developer
- To Ngoc Mai
- Bundle ID
- com.remotecast.smarttv
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BN, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LV, LT, ML, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TL, TA, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, VI
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
- $34.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#14 /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 growth131,985 ratings+3222% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #14 / 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#14 now · best #14 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
The Ultimate TV Remote & Smart TV Control
Tired of juggling multiple remotes? Lost your Smart TV remote again? Upgrade your streaming experience with Smart TV, the most intuitive and feature-rich Smart TV remote app for your iPhone or iPad. Smart TV is the all-in-one solution for controlling your entire smart TV ecosystem — whether it's a standard Smart TV, Your TV, or any other connected device.
Its sleek, user-friendly interface puts all your favorite features at your fingertips, making navigation a breeze whether you're streaming on Your TV, adjusting settings, or browsing apps.… View full description on the official store →
Tired of juggling multiple remotes? Lost your Smart TV remote again? Upgrade your streaming experience with Smart TV, the most intuitive and feature-rich Smart TV remote app for your iPhone or iPad. Smart TV is the all-in-one solution for controlling your entire smart TV ecosystem — whether it's a standard Smart TV, Your TV, or any other connected device.
Its sleek, user-friendly interface puts all your favorite features at your fingertips, making navigation a breeze whether you're streaming on Your TV, adjusting settings, or browsing apps.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 174 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.6+🔖 v2.4.7🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, BN, HR, CS, DA +34📂 Utilities💰 Free
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +4,003 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.31 → 4.80 (improved 1.49★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.48★ · reviews +120,221 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +1.48★ · reviews +120,221 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +1.48★ · reviews +120,221 medium · co-occurring
2025-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.08★ · reviews +32 high confidence
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.75 → 4.40 (dropped 0.35★)
2025-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.75391★ | 137,980 | 4.75391★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.72179★ | 514 | 4.72179★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.58333★ | 12 | 4.58333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.36364★ | 11 | 4.36364★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.38462★ | 13 | 4.38462★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.62188★ | 1,280 | 4.62188★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.55556★ | 36 | 4.55556★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.76848★ | 2,557 | 4.76848★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.59542★ | 131 | 4.59542★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for TV Remote & Smart TV Control: 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 high confidence: 131,985 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does TV Remote & Smart TV Control make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, TV Remote & Smart TV Control earns approximately $34K/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.
What apps are like TV Remote & Smart TV Control?▴
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Who makes TV Remote & Smart TV Control?▴
TV Remote & Smart TV Control is published by To Ngoc Mai 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 TV Remote & Smart TV Control's BU Score?▴
TV Remote & Smart TV Control has a BU Score of 83/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.