AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match
33
Quality Score
Emerging
AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match
by Audioforge Labs Inc.
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match is an iOS app from Audioforge Labs Inc. in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 2.1★ across 21 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 33: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Health & Fitness app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$1.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.4K – $5.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.3K – $11.5K
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
24 snapshots on record
Rating
2.1
Reviews
21 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.6K
Snapshots tracked
24
since Jun 2013
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$150K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $200K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$20K |
| ⚙ 13.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$79K |
Total estimate
$150K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$25K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $20K – $30K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| 📅 13.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 5 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Health & Fitness |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2015-09-30 · 4015 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
| 📅 11y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (21 ratings) + 13.3y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 13y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$1.3K – $3.1K
12 months
$1.4K – $5.0K
24 months
$1.3K – $11.5K
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
Pre-traction · 32/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
1.7
Revenue Strength
3.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $631 - $3945/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.1★ across 21 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 4009d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (4009d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $28K-$50K.
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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (21 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v2.07
This app has been updated by Apple to prepare for watchOS 27 compatibility. No new features are included.
Fixed iOS9 crash
Fixed iOS9 crash
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match
- Developer
- Audioforge Labs Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.ibeatmaker.AudioStep
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- 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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $1.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Health & Fitness
- 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 growth21 ratings+950% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (24 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $0.99 (+0%)
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
Reduce your risk of injury when running. Run faster! AudioStep helps you to run consistently by running to the beat of all your music.
AudioStep analyzes your music and adjusts the tempo on the fly. The pitch does not change. No Chipmunks were harmed building this app!
You select your BPM (beats per minute) and all your music plays at that tempo.
Initially AudioStep was designed to consistently run at 180 steps per minute by matching each step to the beat of the music playing at 180 beats per minute.… View full description on the official store →
AudioStep analyzes your music and adjusts the tempo on the fly. The pitch does not change. No Chipmunks were harmed building this app!
You select your BPM (beats per minute) and all your music plays at that tempo.
Initially AudioStep was designed to consistently run at 180 steps per minute by matching each step to the beat of the music playing at 180 beats per minute.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 5 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v2.07🔄 updated 11y ago🌐 EN📂 Health & Fitness💰 Free🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.30 → 1.82 (dropped 0.48★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.48★ medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.86 → 2.30 (improved 0.44★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.48★ medium · co-occurring
2016-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.50 → 2.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2013-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.50★ medium · co-occurring
2013-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.50★ medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.33333★ | 3 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1★ | 3 | 1★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.33333★ | 3 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2★ | 5 | 2★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.09524★ | 21 | 2.09524★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 21 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match is a small / niche iOS app in the health & fitness space with weak public traction — only 21 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match make per month?▴
Our model estimates AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match earns roughly $1.6K/mo, but with only 21 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match?▴
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What is AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match built with?▴
Our heuristic places AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match last updated?▴
AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match last shipped a new version on 2015-09-30 — more than 11 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match?▴
AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match is published by Audioforge Labs 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 AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match's BU Score?▴
AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match has a BU Score of 33/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.