Acupuncture Assistant
63
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Acupuncture Assistant is an iOS app from DPG TECH LTDA in the Education category, currently rated 4.8★ across 11 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 63: Solid (established niche player). For a Education 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
$1.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.5K – $5.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.4K – $12.6K
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
50 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
11 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.7K
Snapshots tracked
50
since Feb 2015
🤖Also on Android
$700/mo · 916 ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$175K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $235K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (128 MB) | +$31K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$16K |
| ⚙ 12.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$74K |
Total estimate
$175K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 128 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-10-03 · 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 |
| 👥 Small user base (11 ratings) + 12.4y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$1.5K – $3.4K
12 months
$1.5K – $5.4K
24 months
$1.4K – $12.6K
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
Early-stage solo · 46/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
3.9
Revenue Strength
3.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $690 - $4315/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 11 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $31K-$55K. Portfolio play ($31K/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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($14.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (11 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 · v9.1.75
• Notifications about important updates
• Lao Tzu, the AI agent: real-time answers and a clear notice when you're offline
• Improved search: ignores accents and works better in every language
• Interface adapted to modern screens
• Lao Tzu, the AI agent: real-time answers and a clear notice when you're offline
• Improved search: ignores accents and works better in every language
• Interface adapted to modern screens
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Acupuncture Assistant
- Developer
- DPG TECH LTDA
- Bundle ID
- br.com.mtcbrasilia.acupuncturaassistant
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Aplicativos de referência para terapeutas
- Description
- Criadora do Assistente de Acupuntura, o 1º app de acupuntura do mundo, e do Guia de Homeopatia. Apps de referência para terapeutas desde 2010, em Brasília.
- Founded
- 2010
- 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
- $1.7K/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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews11 latest · avg 4.45★ · 72.7% 5★ · 0% 1★
5★8 (73%)
4★1 (9%)
3★1 (9%)
2★1 (9%)
1★0 (0%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×6 love ×3 excellent ×1 recommend ×1 favorite ×1Complaints: bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Great app
A first class resource.…
★★★★★ Great app!
I rarely leave reviews. This is an excellent app. I love that it shows the bone structure too, that is the traditional way of locating points that I was taught. This app is pretty feature rich as well, for example, nice search function. T…
Top negative
★★☆☆☆ Still needs refining
Interesting info, although not as advertised. Just the points. No way to add notes or blow up pics. Still buggy and needs much technical refining.…
📈Ratings growth11 ratings+1000% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (50 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 → $14.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
THE PIONEER, TWICE OVER
The world's first acupuncture app now brings you the first AI agent specialized in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Almost two decades on the road, thousands of acupuncturists, and the same mission: putting the best TCM reference in your pocket.
MEET LAO TZU, YOUR AI ASSISTANT
Ask in plain language about points, meridians, patterns of disharmony and treatment principles — and get well-founded answers in seconds, 24 hours a day.
• Clear up clinical and theoretical questions on the spot, no book-flipping
• Explore point combinations and treatment reasoning… View full description on the official store →
The world's first acupuncture app now brings you the first AI agent specialized in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Almost two decades on the road, thousands of acupuncturists, and the same mission: putting the best TCM reference in your pocket.
MEET LAO TZU, YOUR AI ASSISTANT
Ask in plain language about points, meridians, patterns of disharmony and treatment principles — and get well-founded answers in seconds, 24 hours a day.
• Clear up clinical and theoretical questions on the spot, no book-flipping
• Explore point combinations and treatment reasoning… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 128 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v9.1.75🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, PT +3📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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
💲
Price ↑ $2.99 → $14.99 (+401%)
2026-07
💲
Price ↓ $17.99 → $2.99 (-83%)
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v9.1.19 → v9.1.41
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v9.1.13 → v9.1.19
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.82 (improved 0.82★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $17.99 price point
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v9.1.13
→ 30 days after: rating +0.82★ medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2024-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2017-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2015-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.00 (improved 1.00★)
2015-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
8 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-04
2026-10-08
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-04
2026-10-08
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-04
2026-10-08
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-04
2026-10-08
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-04
2026-10-08
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-04
2026-10-08
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3★ | 1 | 3★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.82051★ | 39 | 3.82051★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.27273★ | 11 | 4.27273★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.625★ | 8 | 4.625★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.81818★ | 11 | 4.81818★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 11 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Acupuncture Assistant is a early-stage iOS app in the education space with weak public traction — only 11 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Acupuncture Assistant make per month?▴
Our model estimates Acupuncture Assistant earns roughly $1.7K/mo, but with only 11 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like Acupuncture Assistant?▴
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What is Acupuncture Assistant built with?▴
Our heuristic places Acupuncture Assistant on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) 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 Acupuncture Assistant still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% 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.
When was Acupuncture Assistant last updated?▴
Acupuncture Assistant last shipped a new version on 2026-10-03 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Acupuncture Assistant?▴
Acupuncture Assistant is published by DPG TECH LTDA 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 Acupuncture Assistant's BU Score?▴
Acupuncture Assistant 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.