Scroll The Bible
67
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Scroll The Bible is an iOS app from Gabriel Jacobson, currently rated 4.8★ across 6,680 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 67: Solid (established niche player). For an app like this, 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 tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
3 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
6,680 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
3
since Aug 2026
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 ~1.2y 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 (92 MB) | +$16K |
| ⚙ 0.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$4K |
Total estimate
$70K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~1.4× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅 0.8y proven track record | +4% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
960K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
140K
Daily active
28K
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
| 📲 category engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 🔁 category D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 60%
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 | 92 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | category |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-28 · 17 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
| 📅 17 days since last update | Active development |
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)
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 TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
8.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.7
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 6,680 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($31K/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 5 of 5 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 | |
| Low install base (6,680 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| New app (9 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v1.24
This update comes straight from your feedback. We've focused on making the whole experience smoother and faster, so your feed flows better and feels more seamless every time you open the app. We also tracked down the bugs you reported and fixed them.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Scroll The Bible
- Developer
- Gabriel Jacobson
- Bundle ID
- com.gabrieljacobson.biblescroll
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Not found
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#6 /100 🇬🇧#53 /100 🇩🇪#68 /100 🇦🇺#97 /100 🇨🇦#98 /100
- 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 3.67★ · 55.1% 5★ · 20.4% 1★
5★27 (55%)
4★3 (6%)
3★5 (10%)
2★4 (8%)
1★10 (20%)
+800 ratings/week
Praise: love ×10 great ×6 best ×5 amazing ×4 perfect ×2Complaints: subscription ×8 bug ×1 refund ×1 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ The best
It fells so good to read and just love god it’s so good ❤️…
★★★★★ AMAZING
This app allows you to scroll through the bible verse by verse! It will bring you closer to God, and keep you off social media.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Buggy. Subscribed and still couldn’t get in.
Not sure what the deal is but I subscribed and still whenever I went into the app it had a pop up that wanted me to now pay for another subscription. Probably not the designer’s intent, but basically the app was so buggy and is so focused o…
★☆☆☆☆ Misleading claims about trial
Trial stated it would provide 2-3 day notice prior to renewal, no notice was provided so I was unable to cancel in time. Refund was denied.…
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank5 countries
🇺🇸US#6 /100
🇬🇧GB#53 /100
🇩🇪DE#68 /100
🇦🇺AU#97 /100
🇨🇦CA#98 /100
🚀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
What if your phone could pull you closer to God instead of further away?
Scroll The Bible turns the same scrolling habit that drains your day into the one that fills it. Verse by verse. Just like your favorite social app. But this feed is the Word of God.
No clutter. No noise. No comparison traps. Just Scripture, beautifully designed, one verse at a time.
SCROLL THE BIBLE LIKE SOCIAL MEDIA
The main feed is a smooth, full-screen, vertical scroll through every book and chapter of the Bible. Swipe up. Swipe up again. Read the Word the way your brain is already wired to consume content.… View full description on the official store →
Scroll The Bible turns the same scrolling habit that drains your day into the one that fills it. Verse by verse. Just like your favorite social app. But this feed is the Word of God.
No clutter. No noise. No comparison traps. Just Scripture, beautifully designed, one verse at a time.
SCROLL THE BIBLE LIKE SOCIAL MEDIA
The main feed is a smooth, full-screen, vertical scroll through every book and chapter of the Bible. Swipe up. Swipe up again. Read the Word the way your brain is already wired to consume content.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 92 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v1.24🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN💰 Free🚀 Launched 2025 (0y old)
📅
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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v1.20 → v1.24
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,513 high confidence
2026-09
📈
Crossed 10,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,513 medium · co-occurring
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v1.18 → v1.20
→ 30 days after: reviews +10,445 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +6,932 high confidence
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.65625★ | 64 | 4.65625★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.5★ | 4 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.88095★ | 126 | 4.88095★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.63415★ | 41 | 4.63415★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.875★ | 24 | 4.875★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.75★ | 208 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.8★ | 5 | 4.8★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.81635★ | 16,499 | 4.81635★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Scroll The Bible: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 91% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 6,680 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Scroll The Bible make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Scroll The Bible 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 Scroll The Bible profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $70K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Scroll The Bible looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Scroll The Bible have?▴
Estimated audience: ~960K lifetime downloads, ~140K monthly active users, and ~28K 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 is Scroll The Bible built with?▴
Our heuristic places Scroll The Bible 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 Scroll The Bible still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 17 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Scroll The Bible sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). 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 Scroll The Bible last updated?▴
Scroll The Bible last shipped a new version on 2026-09-28 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Scroll The Bible?▴
Scroll The Bible is published by Gabriel Jacobson 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 Scroll The Bible's BU Score?▴
Scroll The Bible 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.