StoryReel: Drama Shorts & TV
70
Quality Score
Strong
StoryReel: Drama Shorts & TV
by Equinox Enterprises Technology Limited
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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StoryReel: Drama Shorts & TV is an iOS app from Equinox Enterprises Technology Limited in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 37,655 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 70: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities app, that means healthy traction. 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
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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
17 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
37,655 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
17
since Jun 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.3y 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 (152 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 0.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$2K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.9× 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 |
| 📅 0.5y proven track record | +2% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
7.3M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.4M
Daily active
290K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 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 | 152 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-17 · 9 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
| 📅 9 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)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
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 · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.1
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.74★ across 35,066 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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.
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:
| Mid install base (37,655 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Multilingual (18 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| New app (5 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v2.29.0
A fresh StoryReel update is here to make your short drama experience even better.
What’s new:
• More exciting short dramas and fresh stories to discover.
• Performance and stability improvements, plus bug fixes.
Update StoryReel and find your next favorite story!
What’s new:
• More exciting short dramas and fresh stories to discover.
• Performance and stability improvements, plus bug fixes.
Update StoryReel and find your next favorite story!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- StoryReel: Drama Shorts & TV
- Developer
- Equinox Enterprises Technology Limited
- Bundle ID
- com.storyreel.tv.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- www.storyreel.life
- Tagline
- StoryReel - Stream Emotional Short Drama Stories Online
- Description
- Discover captivating short drama stories on StoryReel. From passionate romance and unexpected reunions to family conflicts and thrilling revenge plots, enjoy immersive episodes anytime, anywhere.
- 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
- 🇦🇺#5 /100 🇨🇦#6 /100 🇬🇧#9 /100 🇩🇪#11 /100 🇧🇷#11 /100 🇮🇳#11 /100 🇫🇷#12 /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.
📈Ratings growth34,143 ratings+588% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (17 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇦🇺AU#5 /100
🇨🇦CA#6 /100
🇬🇧GB#9 /100
🇩🇪DE#11 /100
🇧🇷BR#11 /100
🇮🇳IN#11 /100
🇫🇷FR#12 /100
🇺🇸US#21 /99
🇯🇵JP#43 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#5 now · best #5 · worst #13
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter6 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline6 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
Welcome to StoryReel — Short Drama Stories That Fit Your Day
StoryReel brings you short dramas, miniseries, and movies made for mobile viewing. Discover emotional stories with fast-paced plots, rising suspense, and memorable twists, all presented in episodes that are easy to enjoy whenever you have a moment.
Whether you are in the mood for romance, fantasy, revenge, suspense, or an unexpected second chance at love, StoryReel makes it easy to find a story that keeps you watching.
● Discover Your Next Short Drama
[Fast Stories for Every Moment]… View full description on the official store →
StoryReel brings you short dramas, miniseries, and movies made for mobile viewing. Discover emotional stories with fast-paced plots, rising suspense, and memorable twists, all presented in episodes that are easy to enjoy whenever you have a moment.
Whether you are in the mood for romance, fantasy, revenge, suspense, or an unexpected second chance at love, StoryReel makes it easy to find a story that keeps you watching.
● Discover Your Next Short Drama
[Fast Stories for Every Moment]… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 152 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.29.0🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 AR, EN, FR, DE, HI +13📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2026 (0y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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 — v2.26.2 → v2.28.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +13,498 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v2.26.0 → v2.26.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +17,215 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.25.0 → v2.26.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +9,098 high confidence
2026-07
📈
Crossed 10,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$441/mo · rating +0.06★ · reviews +12,633 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.24.0 → v2.25.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$441/mo · rating +0.06★ · reviews +13,709 low · multiple changes
2026-07
📈
Crossed 5,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$441/mo · rating +0.05★ · reviews +13,475 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.23.2 → v2.24.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$441/mo · rating +0.05★ · reviews +13,475 low · multiple changes
2026-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$441/mo · rating +0.05★ · reviews +10,755 medium · co-occurring
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — storyreel.life
- Tech stack
- AWS SES · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.67141★ | 1,686 | 4.67141★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.84957★ | 9,473 | 4.84957★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.64269★ | 2,698 | 4.64269★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.5195★ | 795 | 4.5195★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.73854★ | 1,767 | 4.73854★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.60078★ | 3,314 | 4.60078★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.67199★ | 500 | 4.67199★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.71188★ | 951 | 4.71188★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.74139★ | 37,197 | 4.74139★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for StoryReel: Drama Shorts & TV: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 37,655 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does StoryReel make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, StoryReel 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 StoryReel profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $80K and monthly revenue $5.0K, StoryReel looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.3 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does StoryReel have?▴
Estimated audience: ~7.3M lifetime downloads, ~1.4M monthly active users, and ~290K 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 StoryReel?▴
Browse the full Utilities 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 StoryReel built with?▴
Our heuristic places StoryReel 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 StoryReel still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would StoryReel 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 StoryReel last updated?▴
StoryReel last shipped a new version on 2026-09-17 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes StoryReel?▴
StoryReel is published by Equinox Enterprises Technology Limited 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 StoryReel's BU Score?▴
StoryReel has a BU Score of 70/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.