Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep
84
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep is an iOS app from Aceable Inc. in the Education category, currently rated 4.9★ across 102,128 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 84: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Education app, that means strong product-market fit. 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 tierFREE
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
118 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
102,128 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
118
since Jan 2022
🤖Also on Android
$338/mo · 9K ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.4y 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 (70 MB) | +$7K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$11K |
| ⚙ 12.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$74K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 23× 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 |
| 📅 12.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
23× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
6.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
405K
Daily active
120K
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 📅 12.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 70 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-09 · 15 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
| 📅 15 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 · 42/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
8.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
4.3
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.89★ across 102,128 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -1.07 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 ($38K/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:
| High install base (102,128 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| moneybackREVIEW | +$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 · v7.14.0
Signing up is faster — you can now continue with your email right at the top of the create-account screen. We also fixed the daily Question of the Day so your answer and its result display correctly.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep
- Developer
- Aceable Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.aceable.AceableDrivingDE
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 12+
- 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
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- 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 growth105,349 ratings+23468% 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 Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Get Your Driver’s License & Ace Your Permit Test – Anytime, Anywhere
Ready to hit the road? Aceable makes it simple, fun, and affordable to get your driver’s license and ace your permit test.
With Aceable, you can take state-approved drivers ed courses and practice for your DMV permit test, driver license test, or DMV written test – all in one app! Our interactive lessons, unlimited DMV practice test questions, and new permit practice courses help you pass with flying colors.
Why Aceable?
Over 1 million students have trusted Aceable to earn their driver’s license and permit.… View full description on the official store →
Ready to hit the road? Aceable makes it simple, fun, and affordable to get your driver’s license and ace your permit test.
With Aceable, you can take state-approved drivers ed courses and practice for your DMV permit test, driver license test, or DMV written test – all in one app! Our interactive lessons, unlimited DMV practice test questions, and new permit practice courses help you pass with flying colors.
Why Aceable?
Over 1 million students have trusted Aceable to earn their driver’s license and permit.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 70 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v7.14.0🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
18 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 — v7.10.0 → v7.14.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +616 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v7.6.0 → v7.10.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,508 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v7.4.0 → v7.6.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +789 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.8 → v7.4.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,713 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +924 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.80 → 4.90 (improved 1.10★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2022-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +25 medium · co-occurring
2022-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.11★ · reviews +7 high confidence
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.29 → 3.65 (improved 0.36★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2022-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.36★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2022-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.15★ · reviews +12 medium · co-occurring
2022-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.15★ · reviews +12 medium · co-occurring
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.33 → 2.75 (dropped 0.58★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.15★ · reviews +12 low · multiple changes
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.33 (improved 0.83★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.15★ · reviews +12 low · multiple changes
2022-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 2.50 (dropped 1.50★)
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 350 reviews across 1 markets● 74% positive · ● 9% neutral · ● 17% negative · Rating drift: -1.07★ (declining — recent 50: 3.82★ vs lifetime: 4.89★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Top praise themes
super easy ×10 easy understand ×10 driving school ×7 customer service ×7 easy learn ×6 easy fun ×6 easy follow ×5 new driver ×5
Top complaint themes
customer service ×7 waste money ×7 won let ×5 full course ×5 actual permit ×4 doesn show ×3 roadside assistance ×3 texas dps ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.0% Bug mentions: 3% Fraud / scam mentions: 1.1%
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep: 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 high confidence: 102,128 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep 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 Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep have?▴
Estimated audience: ~6.0M lifetime downloads, ~405K monthly active users, and ~120K 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 Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep?▴
Browse the full Education 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 Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep built with?▴
Our heuristic places Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 15 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $75K – $150K). Calculated as 23× 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 Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep last updated?▴
Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep last shipped a new version on 2026-09-09 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep?▴
Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep is published by Aceable Inc. 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 Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep's BU Score?▴
Aceable Drivers Ed & Test Prep has a BU Score of 84/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.