How much does Skipper make per month?

Low-confidence model estimate. Skipper has only 8 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$15K/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.

What apps are like Skipper?

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Skipper is published by Katherine Apone 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 Skipper's BU Score?

Skipper has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.

Skipper: flashback journal

Quality Score

Solid

Skipper: flashback journal

Name: Skipper: flashback journal — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
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License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Low confidence

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Skipper: flashback journal is an iOS app from Katherine Apone in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 5.0★ across 8 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Health & Fitness 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

$200

per month

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12-mo forecast

$100 – $931

per month

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24-mo forecast

$100 – $2790

per month

MICRO tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$70K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $50K – $95K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~5 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
⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40	+$20K

Total estimate $70K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$275K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $200K – $350K · 18× MRR multiple

💸 ~3.9× 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%
🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple	+10%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 18× MRR

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat

6 months

$127 – $508

12 months

$100 – $931

24 months

$100 – $2.8K

Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Insufficient data · 38/100MICRO TIERtoo early to score

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.2

Product Quality

4.0

Revenue Strength

2.3

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

2.2

Market Position

0.6

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 5.0★ across 8 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($15K/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

MODEL

Revenue 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 ($1.99)METRIC		+$2,800
subscriptionREVIEW		+$2,500
Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC		+$2,200
New app (9 months old)METRIC		−$700
Single-language (English only)METRIC		−$400
Pre-traction phase (8 ratings)METRIC		−$300

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v2.1.0

What's new in Skipper
-Support for VoiceOver and Larger Text. “Inclusive design doesn’t mean you’re designing one thing for all people. You’re designing a diversity of ways to participate so that everyone has a sense of belonging.” —Susan Goltsman

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Skipper: flashback journal
Developer: Katherine Apone
Bundle ID: Not found
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

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
ML model estimate / mo: $15.1K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
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 growth8 ratings+700% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (6 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (10 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

Explore your emotions and thoughts with the buffer of time. Write yourself a message, and Skipper will deliver it to you as a notification 3-8 days later at a random time during the day. 

Skipper lends a hand to whatever you’re working on: 
- grounding yourself in the present moment
- moving through whatever emotions arise
- speaking more kindly to yourself
- inspiring yourself for a creative project
- motivating yourself to take action
- reminding yourself to be playfully absurd
- whatever your heart desires

No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No data collected.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 7 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2.1.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Health & Fitness💰 Paid

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

2 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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

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Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point

2025-09

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

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