Simple Zazen Timer
65
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Simple Zazen Timer is an iOS app from Pawel Urbanek in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.7★ across 487 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Health & Fitness 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
$5.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.7K – $11.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$7.0K – $21.1K
per month
MID tierFREE
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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
70 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
487 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.5K
Snapshots tracked
70
since Mar 2014
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 ~2.2y 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 |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$20K |
| ⚙ 12.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$76K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 21× 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 |
| 📅 12.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
23K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.8K
Daily active
630
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
| 📲 Health & Fitness engagement | ~70 installs / rating |
| 📅 12.7y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Health & Fitness D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
35% 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 | 2 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Health & Fitness |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2021-04-04 · 2003 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
| 📅 5y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (487 ratings) + 12.7y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 13y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$5.2K – $8.7K
12 months
$5.7K – $11.9K
24 months
$7.0K – $21.1K
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
4.3
Product Quality
6.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
6.3
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $8K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 487 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2000d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2000d since update).
🎯 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 = $98K-$175K.
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 9 of 9 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 (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Early-stage install base (487 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Simple Zazen Timer
- Developer
- Pawel Urbanek
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- 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
- $5.5K/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 growth1,156 ratings+7607% 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $3.99 (+0%)
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
"Thank you for sharing with us, meditators, this timer. It is our company along the silent way."
"In a world of increasing complexity, simple is beautiful. With an elegant design and minimal user interface, this app captures just what meditation is about: calm, peace, mindfulness and self-awareness. Recommended for daily practice, or as a gentle reminder for any timed period of activity or rest, Simple Zazen Timer was a pleasure to find."
Gong sound https://www.freesound.org/s/2166/
"In a world of increasing complexity, simple is beautiful. With an elegant design and minimal user interface, this app captures just what meditation is about: calm, peace, mindfulness and self-awareness. Recommended for daily practice, or as a gentle reminder for any timed period of activity or rest, Simple Zazen Timer was a pleasure to find."
Gong sound https://www.freesound.org/s/2166/
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 2 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v3.10🔄 updated 5y ago🌐 EN📂 Health & Fitness💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $3.99 price point
→ 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 ↑ 4.26 → 4.70 (improved 0.44★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.10★ medium · co-occurring
2015-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.27★ low · multiple changes
2015-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.50 (improved 0.50★)
2015-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 3.00 (improved 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.50★ high confidence
2015-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.60 (dropped 0.40★)
2014-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2014-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2014-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.33★ low · multiple changes
2014-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 156 reviews across 8 markets● 72% positive · ● 17% neutral · ● 10% negative · Rating drift: -0.24★ (declining — recent 50: 4.46★ vs lifetime: 4.7★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇯🇵 JP
+0.84
🇦🇺 AU
+0.70
🇬🇧 GB
+0.63
🇺🇸 US
+0.53
🇫🇷 FR
+0.38
🇧🇷 BR
+0.34
🇨🇦 CA
+0.32
🇩🇪 DE
-0.17
Top praise themes
bells whistles ×6 perfect meditation ×4 und der ×4 très bien ×4 bell rings ×3 end meditation ×3 its job ×3 ich habe ×3
Top complaint themes
meditation ×7 sound ×5 work ×4 one ×4 gong ×4 doesn ×3 intervals ×3 start ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.6%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.76087★ | 46 | 4.76087★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.71429★ | 77 | 4.71429★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.7234★ | 47 | 4.7234★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.69306★ | 505 | 4.69306★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.44156★ | 77 | 4.44156★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.82069★ | 290 | 4.82069★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.58333★ | 12 | 4.58333★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.61538★ | 13 | 4.61538★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78374★ | 1,156 | 4.78374★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Simple Zazen Timer: 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: 487 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Simple Zazen Timer make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Simple Zazen Timer earns approximately $5.5K/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 Simple Zazen Timer profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $5.5K, Simple Zazen Timer looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Simple Zazen Timer have?▴
Estimated audience: ~23K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~630 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 Simple Zazen Timer?▴
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What is Simple Zazen Timer built with?▴
Our heuristic places Simple Zazen Timer 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 Simple Zazen Timer still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Simple Zazen Timer sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $75K – $150K). Calculated as 21× 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 Simple Zazen Timer last updated?▴
Simple Zazen Timer last shipped a new version on 2021-04-04 — more than 5 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Simple Zazen Timer?▴
Simple Zazen Timer is published by Pawel Urbanek 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 Simple Zazen Timer's BU Score?▴
Simple Zazen Timer has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.