TV Remote & Smart TV Control
83
Quality Score
Excellent
TV Remote & Smart TV Control
by To Ngoc Mai
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 mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
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 tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 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
309 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
131,985 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$34.8K
Snapshots tracked
309
since Apr 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3 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 (207 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 3.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$18K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$700K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $500K – $900K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~7.4× 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 |
| 📅 3.1y proven track record | +16% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
22.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.1M
Daily active
820K
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 |
| 📅 3.1y of rating accumulation | -16% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 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 | 207 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-08 · 17 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
| 📅 17 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
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 · 50/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
8.0
Revenue Strength
4.5
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
5.3
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $24K - $52K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 131,985 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 9% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -2.04 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $417K-$765K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 12 of 12 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 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (39 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 |
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 · v2.5.1
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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $34.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#21 /100 🇨🇦#57 /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 growth147,058 ratings+30035% 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#21 /100
🇨🇦CA#57 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#21 now · best #21 · worst #22
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀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
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 →💾 207 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2.5.1🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 AR, BN, HR, CS, DA +34📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2023 (3y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 12 of 12 updated
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v2.4.7 → v2.5.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,843 low · multiple changes
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +4,003 high confidence
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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.31 → 4.80 (improved 1.49★)
→ 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★)
📸
Store Page History
12 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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Voice of Customer
Based on 463 reviews across 5 markets● 33% positive · ● 27% neutral · ● 40% negative · Rating drift: -2.04★ (declining — recent 50: 2.72★ vs lifetime: 4.76★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.19
🇬🇧 GB
+0.12
🇺🇸 US
-0.02
🇧🇷 BR
-0.05
🇨🇦 CA
-0.18
Top praise themes
muito bom ×8 five star ×4 muy buena ×4 bom bom ×4 five stars ×3 roku ×20 review ×9 works ×7
Top complaint themes
free trial ×18 without paying ×10 doesn work ×10 gotta pay ×8 don waste ×8 waste money ×6 official roku ×6 one button ×6
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.9% Subscription complaints: 9% Fraud / scam mentions: 8.4%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.47368★ | 38 | 4.47368★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.76672★ | 2,572 | 4.76672★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.61915★ | 1,389 | 4.61915★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.58333★ | 12 | 4.58333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.41667★ | 12 | 4.41667★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.69947★ | 569 | 4.69947★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.56773★ | 155 | 4.56773★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.38462★ | 13 | 4.38462★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.75211★ | 148,223 | 4.75211★ 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.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 131,985 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 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.
Is TV Remote & Smart TV Control profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $95K and monthly revenue $34K, TV Remote & Smart TV Control looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 3 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 TV Remote & Smart TV Control have?▴
Estimated audience: ~22.0M lifetime downloads, ~4.1M monthly active users, and ~820K 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 TV Remote & Smart TV Control?▴
Browse the full Utilities 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 TV Remote & Smart TV Control built with?▴
Our heuristic places TV Remote & Smart TV Control 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 TV Remote & Smart TV Control still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 17 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would TV Remote & Smart TV Control sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $700K (marketplace range $500K – $900K). 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 TV Remote & Smart TV Control last updated?▴
TV Remote & Smart TV Control last shipped a new version on 2026-09-08 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
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.