Baluster Calculator Elite
69
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Baluster Calculator Elite is an iOS app from Cyberprodigy LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 337 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 69: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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
$5.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.5K – $11.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.8K – $20.4K
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
4.6
Reviews
337 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.3K
Snapshots tracked
17
since Oct 2013
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.9y 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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
| ⚙ 13.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$78K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $100K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 📅 13.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
47K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.1K
Daily active
620
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 |
| 📅 13.1y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 15 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
25%
Last shipped 2026-07-03 · 83 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
| 📅 83 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
| 👥 Small user base (337 ratings) + 13.1y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$5.0K – $8.4K
12 months
$5.5K – $11.5K
24 months
$6.8K – $20.4K
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 · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
7.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.6★ across 337 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $95K-$169K. Portfolio play ($123K/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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (337 ratings)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 · v1.2.6
-Overall performance and compatibility improvements for the latest iOS platforms.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Baluster Calculator Elite
- Developer
- Cyberprodigy LLC
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, HI, JA, PT, ZH, ES
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
- $5.3K/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 growth364 ratings+18100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (17 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $8.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Baluster Calc Elite is an industry leading tool and calculator designed to simplify solving baluster spacing measurements for handrails (both flat and on a rake).
Flat Railing (inputs):
-Max baluster spacing
-Baluster width
-Run length
Flat Railing (outputs):
-Number of balusters
-Space between centers
-Number of spaces
-Space between balusters
-Measurements for marking centers of each baluster
Stair Railing (inputs):
-Max baluster spacing
-Baluster width
-Run length (on rake)
-Rake angle, stair rise, stair run, or stair run/stair rise
Stair Railing (outputs):
-Number of balusters… View full description on the official store →
Flat Railing (inputs):
-Max baluster spacing
-Baluster width
-Run length
Flat Railing (outputs):
-Number of balusters
-Space between centers
-Number of spaces
-Space between balusters
-Measurements for marking centers of each baluster
Stair Railing (inputs):
-Max baluster spacing
-Baluster width
-Run length (on rake)
-Rake angle, stair rise, stair run, or stair run/stair rise
Stair Railing (outputs):
-Number of balusters… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 15 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v1.2.6🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, HI, JA +3📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 →
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2.5 → v1.2.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +12 high confidence
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $8.99 price point
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.60 (improved 1.10★)
2018-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$61/mo · rating −0.23★ high confidence
2016-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.63 (dropped 0.37★)
2015-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 4.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2014-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.20 (dropped 0.80★)
2013-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.87363★ | 364 | 4.87363★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.63953★ | 86 | 4.63953★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.66667★ | 6 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.82667★ | 75 | 4.82667★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.76923★ | 13 | 4.76923★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Baluster Calculator Elite: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 337 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Baluster Calculator Elite make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Baluster Calculator Elite earns approximately $5.3K/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 Baluster Calculator Elite profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $5.3K, Baluster Calculator Elite looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.9 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Baluster Calculator Elite have?▴
Estimated audience: ~47K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~620 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 Baluster Calculator Elite?▴
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What is Baluster Calculator Elite built with?▴
Our heuristic places Baluster Calculator Elite on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is Baluster Calculator Elite still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Baluster Calculator Elite sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $75K – $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 Baluster Calculator Elite last updated?▴
Baluster Calculator Elite last shipped a new version on 2026-07-03 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Baluster Calculator Elite?▴
Baluster Calculator Elite is published by Cyberprodigy 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 Baluster Calculator Elite's BU Score?▴
Baluster Calculator Elite has a BU Score of 69/100 (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.