67
Quality Score
Solid
True Ilm: Audiobooks & eBooks
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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True Ilm: Audiobooks & eBooks is an iOS app from True Ilm Ltd in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 70 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 67: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink app, that means established niche player. 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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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
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~4 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 (145 MB) | +$38K |
| ⚙Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$8K |
| ⚙2.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$13K |
Total estimate$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$475K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $350K – $600K · 18× MRR multiple
💸~4.3× 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 |
| 📅2.2y proven track record | +11% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple18× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React NativeFlutter
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 | 145 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
25%
Last shipped 2026-03-20 · 65 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅65 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
| 👥Small user base (70 ratings) + 2.2y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictSlowing
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
3.8
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 70 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($27K/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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (70 ratings)METRIC | −$300 | |
| 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 145 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.24🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2024 (2y old)
📝 About this app
Struggling to find time to read?
Between work, studies, and daily responsibilities, many people want to learn and read more - but books pile up and time disappears.
True Ilm makes it simple.
Instead of carrying heavy books or scrolling through endless PDFs, you can listen and read anytime, anywhere.
Whether you are commuting, walking, cooking, or relaxing at home, learning fits naturally into your day.
A Powerful Library in Your Pocket… View full description on the official store →
Between work, studies, and daily responsibilities, many people want to learn and read more - but books pile up and time disappears.
True Ilm makes it simple.
Instead of carrying heavy books or scrolling through endless PDFs, you can listen and read anytime, anywhere.
Whether you are commuting, walking, cooking, or relaxing at home, learning fits naturally into your day.
A Powerful Library in Your Pocket… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.24
- Added new theme support
- Introduced Light Theme mode
- Improved overall UI consistency and appearance
- Fixed various bugs and performance issues
- Introduced Light Theme mode
- Improved overall UI consistency and appearance
- Fixed various bugs and performance issues
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.25 → 5.00 (improved 0.75★)
2025-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.56 → 4.20 (dropped 0.36★)
2025-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — trueilm.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.66667★ | 3 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.63636★ | 22 | 4.63636★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.83333★ | 6 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.76★ | 25 | 4.76★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.69231★ | 13 | 4.69231★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.75713★ | 70 | 4.75713★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- True Ilm: Audiobooks & eBooks
- Developer
- True Ilm Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.trueilm.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- This site requires JavaScript
- Description
- Listen and read 500+ authentic books and audiobooks from trusted scholars. Including Quran, Seerah, History, Self Growth and more. Try for free on the True Ilm app.
- 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
- $27.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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
- Socials
- instagram instagram.com/trueilmapp · tiktok tiktok.com/@trueilmhq · twitter redirect.appmetrica.yandex.com/serve/… · youtube youtube.com/@trueilmhq
- muhammed@trueilm.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
⭐Recent App Store Reviews11 latest · avg 4.27★ · 72.7% 5★ · 9.1% 1★
5★8 (73%)
4★0 (0%)
3★2 (18%)
2★0 (0%)
1★1 (9%)
+4 ratings/week
Praise: great ×3 amazing ×3 recommend ×3 excellent ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Easy to Use and a Great Start to Reading
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
This app was exactly what I was looking for. While online you can find PDF’s of books from scholars or Muslim authors on certain Islamic topics… but that does come with a risk of not knowing what site you a…
★★★★★ Please Keep as Sadaqah
This is such a useful and masterfully done library, please keep it free as sadaqah for generations to come…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ App Not Working
After updating to iOS 26, the app doesn’t work. I’m taken back to the home screen whenever I try to open the app. Please fix.…
📈Ratings growth70 ratings+775% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (14 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (27 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.
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 analysis
Why low confidence: only 70 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does True Ilm make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, True Ilm earns approximately $27K/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 True Ilm profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $110K and monthly revenue $27K, True Ilm looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 4 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like True Ilm?▴
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What is True Ilm built with?▴
Our heuristic places True Ilm 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 True Ilm still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would True Ilm sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $475K (marketplace range $350K – $600K). Calculated as 18× 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 True Ilm last updated?▴
True Ilm last shipped a new version on 2026-03-20 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes True Ilm?▴
True Ilm is published by True Ilm 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 True Ilm's BU Score?▴
True Ilm has a BU Score of 67/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.