Stenographer
62
Quality Score
Solid
Stenographer
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Stenographer is an iOS app from Caleb Phillips in the Productivity category, currently rated 5.0★ across 2 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity 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
$1.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$883 – $3181
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$818 – $7360
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
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📊 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
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$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 (1185 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$425K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $300K – $500K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~4.2× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.0K/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
$859 – $2.0K
12 months
$883 – $3.2K
24 months
$818 – $7.4K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
4.0
Revenue Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $403 - $2524/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 5.0★ across 2 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 = $18K-$32K. Portfolio play ($24K/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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| multilingualREVIEW | +$1,700 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (2 ratings)METRIC | −$300 | |
| Growing app (1y 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 · v1.21
Bug and stability fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Stenographer
- Developer
- Caleb Phillips
- Bundle ID
- dev.sleepingbear.Stenographer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Record, Transcribe, and Summarize—All On Your Device
- Description
- Stenographer - Your private, on-device AI transcription app for iPhone and Apple Watch
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $24.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews1 latest · avg 5.0★ · 100.0% 5★ · 0% 1★
5★1 (100%)
4★0 (0%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★0 (0%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: amazing ×1 perfect ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ The Perfect App
This is an amazing app, however if you run it for too long your phone gets really hot from the compute.
**Feature Request**
A “Bring your own key” option to connect to a 3rd party service like OpenAI, Groq or AssemblyAI for transcription t…
📈Ratings growth2 ratingsShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (5 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (18 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 app
Stenographer is your discreet audio companion that captures, processes, and analyzes speech entirely on-device. Never miss a moment while keeping your data completely private.
Key Features:
100% Local Processing – All transcription and AI processing happens directly on your device. Your data never leaves your phone.
No Subscriptions – One purchase, unlimited usage. Record and transcribe as much as you want with no hidden costs or time limits.
Discreet Recording – Capture audio passively from your iPhone or Apple Watch in the background, completely discreetly.… View full description on the official store →
Key Features:
100% Local Processing – All transcription and AI processing happens directly on your device. Your data never leaves your phone.
No Subscriptions – One purchase, unlimited usage. Record and transcribe as much as you want with no hidden costs or time limits.
Discreet Recording – Capture audio passively from your iPhone or Apple Watch in the background, completely discreetly.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1.2 GB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.5+🔖 v1.21🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 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 →
2026-04
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2025-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 2 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Stenographer is a very early-stage iOS app in the productivity space with weak public traction — only 2 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
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Stenographer make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Stenographer has only 2 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$24K/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
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Who makes Stenographer?▴
Stenographer is published by Caleb Phillips 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 Stenographer's BU Score?▴
Stenographer has a BU Score of 62/100 (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.