Disappearing Bedside Clock
63
Quality Score
Solid
Disappearing Bedside Clock
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Disappearing Bedside Clock is an iOS app from Midnight Oil Enterprises LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.3★ across 92 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 63: 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
$2.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7K – $6.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.6K – $14.3K
per month
INDIE tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2 months 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 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$250K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $325K · 12× MRR multiple
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~5.6× return on build cost
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 |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$1.7K – $3.9K
12 months
$1.7K – $6.2K
24 months
$1.6K – $14.3K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 34/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
3.0
Revenue Strength
3.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
3.3
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $783 - $4897/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.34★ across 92 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1128d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 2.1% refund mentions, dormant (1128d since update).
🎯 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 = $23K-$43K. Portfolio play ($20K/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 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (92 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v1.4.6
Minor bug fixes to support dark mode.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Disappearing Bedside Clock
- Developer
- Midnight Oil Enterprises LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.mn-oil.BedsideClock
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Midnight Oil Enterprises
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $20.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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 4.22★ · 67.3% 5★ · 10.2% 1★
5★33 (67%)
4★7 (14%)
3★1 (2%)
2★3 (6%)
1★5 (10%)
+6 ratings/week
Praise: great ×14 perfect ×13 best ×9 love ×9 awesome ×6Complaints: subscription ×1 crash ×1 refund ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Great!
Just what I was looking for. I like a dark room when sleeping but also like to occasionally check the time. This product allows my room to stay dark and when I need to see the time I just tap my iPhone screen and the time is displayed for a…
★★★★★ Best Clock App Ever!
This is the best Clock app that I have ever tried for my iPhone(s)! Over the years I have tried dozens of clock and clock/alarm apps. Most of them have alarms, which is good for some people and a lot of fluff. I just wanted a simple Cloc…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Crash
Since 14.2 update, app crashes on open.…
★☆☆☆☆ Needs iOS 13 update
No longer works after iOS 13 update. Developers need to get on this fix ASAP…
📈Ratings growth92 ratings+475% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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 → $2.99 (+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
A bedside clock that keeps you in the dark—except when you want to know the time. The clock display disappears after an adjustable time interval, letting you (and the device) rest peacefully.
Touch the screen to check the time, which will again disappear after the adjustable interval. On iPhones in portrait orientation, you don't have to touch the screen to see the time.… View full description on the official store →
Touch the screen to check the time, which will again disappear after the adjustable interval. On iPhones in portrait orientation, you don't have to touch the screen to see the time.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 835 KB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v1.4.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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 →
2019-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2014-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2014-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2014-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 95 reviews across 4 markets● 90% positive · ● 1% neutral · ● 10% negative · Rating drift: -0.18★ (declining — recent 50: 4.16★ vs lifetime: 4.34★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.89
🇬🇧 GB
+0.76
🇺🇸 US
+0.67
🇨🇦 CA
-0.04
Top praise themes
proximity sensor ×8 wave hand ×5 tap nightstand ×4 off backlight ×4 few seconds ×3 dark room ×3 after few ×3 screen off ×3
Top complaint themes
doesn't work ×3 drains battery ×3 screen off ×3 night ×8 light ×6 turn ×6 phone ×5 iphone ×5
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.1% Bug mentions: 3%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.85714★ | 7 | 3.85714★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.2★ | 5 | 3.2★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.46666★ | 15 | 4.46666★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.33696★ | 92 | 4.33696★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 92 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Disappearing Bedside Clock make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Disappearing Bedside Clock earns approximately $20K/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.
What apps are like Disappearing Bedside Clock?▴
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Who makes Disappearing Bedside Clock?▴
Disappearing Bedside Clock is published by Midnight Oil Enterprises 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 Disappearing Bedside Clock's BU Score?▴
Disappearing Bedside Clock has a BU Score of 63/100 (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.