Manga Reader King
68
Quality Score
Solid
Manga Reader King
by Monstera Labs LLC
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Manga Reader King is an iOS app from Monstera Labs LLC in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.2★ across 1,341 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 68: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
190 snapshots on record
Rating
4.2
Reviews
1,341 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
190
since May 2025
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 ~1.8y 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 (213 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
| ⚙ 1.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$9K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.7× 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 |
| 📅 1.6y proven track record | +8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
120K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
16K
Daily active
3.3K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅 1.6y of rating accumulation | -8% |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 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 | 213 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-12 · 45 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
| 📅 45 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 · 49/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
6.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
4.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
2.2
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.23★ across 1,341 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 6% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm.
🎯 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 = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($34K/mo combined) commands premium. 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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,341 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| intuitive designREVIEW | +$1,000 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (9 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| 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 · v6.5.3
We’ve enhanced overall performance to deliver a smoother, more stable reading experience. If you have a moment, we'd appreciate your help via support@monsteralabs.co
Thank you for reading with Manga Reader King.
Thank you for reading with Manga Reader King.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Manga Reader King
- Developer
- Monstera Labs LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.king.mangareader
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- CA, DA, EN, FR, ID, IT, PT, ZH, 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
- $5.0K/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.63★ · 20.4% 5★ · 42.9% 1★
5★10 (20%)
4★8 (16%)
3★6 (12%)
2★4 (8%)
1★21 (43%)
+1 ratings/week
Praise: great ×9 love ×8 favorite ×5 amazing ×4 best ×4Complaints: bug ×2 subscription ×2 refund ×2 worst ×1 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ I LOVE IT!!!!
I absolutely ADORE this app!!! The ads aren’t to frequenct, you can find most mangas and manwha, and you can even auto scroll with different speed!!! The only thing that slightly bugs me is that the next and back buttons are swapped so I so…
★★★★★ THE BEST APP EVER
Usually when I download MANGA apps, I’m always a bit disappointed because it’s like free trial or something but this is the best MANGA app you can everything of like you don’t really need to pay. I mean you can for no items and stuff yeah I…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Not bad but not great
I love this app to read manga, but the way they organize the manga seems very ahem …..empty. For example jjk manga, it starts in one story lets say sukana and jumps next to junpei. Theres no completion between chapters before jumping on to…
★☆☆☆☆ Update 4/21
Hello! Today’s update has removed all of the UI so no more favorites or your ongoing manga are listed. You can explore google using this app or go to the websites that host the ongoing manga/comics. Is this app no longer being supported and…
📈Ratings growth1,359 ratings+857% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Read Manga, Manhwa, Manhua and Comics Free! Manga Reader King is the perfect app for manga lovers — enjoy endless stories online and offline in one powerful, easy-to-use reader.
New chapters weekly, with brand new series added regularly! EVERY CHAPTER, ALWAYS FREE!
Discover and read every genre you love: action, romance, fantasy, adventure, drama, manga, manhwa, manhua, webtoon, horror, school life, comedy, sci-fi, comics and more.
Experience faster loading, smoother reading, and amazing features crafted for every manga fan.
Amazing Key Features
• Free and Unlimited Access… View full description on the official store →
New chapters weekly, with brand new series added regularly! EVERY CHAPTER, ALWAYS FREE!
Discover and read every genre you love: action, romance, fantasy, adventure, drama, manga, manhwa, manhua, webtoon, horror, school life, comedy, sci-fi, comics and more.
Experience faster loading, smoother reading, and amazing features crafted for every manga fan.
Amazing Key Features
• Free and Unlimited Access… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 213 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v6.5.3🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 CA, DA, EN, FR, ID +4📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2025 (1y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v6.5.2 → v6.5.3
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v6.4.2 → v6.5.2
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.75 → 4.23 (improved 0.48★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.78 (dropped 0.72★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$776/mo · rating −0.08★ · reviews +14 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$836/mo · rating −0.08★ · reviews +15 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.78 → 4.50 (improved 0.72★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$836/mo · rating −0.08★ · reviews +15 medium · co-occurring
2025-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.2K/mo · reviews +19 high confidence
2025-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.1K/mo · rating −0.36★ · reviews +69 high confidence
2025-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$908/mo · rating −0.11★ · reviews +15 medium · co-occurring
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.15 (dropped 0.85★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$908/mo · rating −0.11★ · reviews +15 medium · co-occurring
2025-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.6K/mo · rating −0.96★ · reviews +27 low · multiple changes
2025-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$734/mo · rating −0.85★ · reviews +12 high confidence
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 328 reviews across 4 markets● 59% positive · ● 10% neutral · ● 31% negative · Rating drift: -1.69★ (declining — recent 50: 2.54★ vs lifetime: 4.23★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.27
🇺🇸 US
+0.26
🇦🇺 AU
+0.21
🇨🇦 CA
+0.14
Top praise themes
new update ×13 next chapter ×13 one piece ×7 black screen ×5 recent update ×5 left right ×4 please fix ×4 won let ×4
Top complaint themes
new update ×38 latest update ×19 web browser ×14 search engine ×13 update ruined ×12 recent update ×12 search bar ×9 doesn work ×7
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.5% Subscription complaints: 6% Bug mentions: 11% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.9%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.02985★ | 201 | 4.02985★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.35294★ | 17 | 4.35294★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4★ | 115 | 4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.7★ | 10 | 4.7★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.24608★ | 256 | 4.24608★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.11111★ | 9 | 4.11111★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.22614★ | 1,362 | 4.22614★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Manga Reader King: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,341 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Manga Reader King make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Manga Reader King earns approximately $5.0K/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 Manga Reader King profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $110K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Manga Reader King looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Manga Reader King have?▴
Estimated audience: ~120K lifetime downloads, ~16K monthly active users, and ~3K 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 Manga Reader King?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink 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 Manga Reader King built with?▴
Our heuristic places Manga Reader King 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 Manga Reader King still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Manga Reader King sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 16× 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 Manga Reader King last updated?▴
Manga Reader King last shipped a new version on 2026-08-12 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Manga Reader King?▴
Manga Reader King is published by Monstera Labs LLC 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 Manga Reader King's BU Score?▴
Manga Reader King has a BU Score of 68/100 (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.