Satchel One
55
Quality Score
Solid
Satchel One
by TeacherCentric Ltd
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Satchel One is an iOS app from TeacherCentric Ltd in the Education category, currently rated 3.7★ across 376 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 55: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
59 snapshots on record
Rating
3.7
Reviews
376 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
59
since Mar 2017
🤖Also on Android
$114/mo · 43K ratings · 2.5★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.3y 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 (61 MB) | +$4K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| ⚙ 12.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$72K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| 📅 12.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
22K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.5K
Daily active
450
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 |
| 📅 12.1y 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 | 61 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
25%
Last shipped 2026-08-28 · 36 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
| 📅 36 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
| 👥 Small user base (376 ratings) + 12.1y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
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 · 44/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
5.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.67★ across 376 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K.
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:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (376 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.
🆕 What's New · v11.3.6
This update focuses on ensuring full compatibility with the iOS 27 environment, addressing critical changes, and improving system stability across both iPhone and iPad devices.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Satchel One
- Developer
- TeacherCentric Ltd
- Bundle ID
- uk.co.showmyhomework.SMHW
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- 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
- $5.0K/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 growth379 ratings+37800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 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 Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Satchel One for iOS allows you to access our learning platform on the go.
Since launching Show My Homework in 2011, we’ve been proud to call 1 in 3 UK secondary schools our partners, and we still are. Since our inception, we’ve expanded our award-winning software into a number of additional apps to create Satchel One, our learning platform. Today, Satchel One is home to Show My Homework, Content, Timetables, Behaviour, Seating, Attendance and Detentions apps.
Benefits for teachers:
- Set, grade and comment on homework
- Assign Behaviour points and award Badges… View full description on the official store →
Since launching Show My Homework in 2011, we’ve been proud to call 1 in 3 UK secondary schools our partners, and we still are. Since our inception, we’ve expanded our award-winning software into a number of additional apps to create Satchel One, our learning platform. Today, Satchel One is home to Show My Homework, Content, Timetables, Behaviour, Seating, Attendance and Detentions apps.
Benefits for teachers:
- Set, grade and comment on homework
- Assign Behaviour points and award Badges… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 61 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v11.3.6🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
15 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v11.3.5 → v11.3.6
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v11.3.4 → v11.3.5
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.45 → 3.00 (dropped 0.45★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.3K/mo · rating −0.45★ · reviews +129,959 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.3K/mo · rating −0.45★ · reviews +129,959 high confidence
2025-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.22★ · reviews +10 medium · co-occurring
2020-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.26★ · reviews +17 low · multiple changes
2018-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.14★ medium · co-occurring
2018-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 low · multiple changes
2018-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.86 → 3.50 (dropped 0.36★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 low · multiple changes
2018-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 4.00 (dropped 0.40★)
2017-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2017-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.50★ high confidence
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.82927★ | 41 | 3.82927★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.55★ | 20 | 4.55★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.45833★ | 48 | 3.45833★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.41667★ | 48 | 4.41667★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.03081★ | 133,828 | 3.03081★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.53333★ | 60 | 4.53333★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.83333★ | 30 | 2.83333★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.66667★ | 381 | 3.66667★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Satchel One: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 376 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Satchel One make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Satchel One 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 Satchel One profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Satchel One looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.3 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Satchel One have?▴
Estimated audience: ~22K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~450 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 Satchel One?▴
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 Satchel One built with?▴
Our heuristic places Satchel One 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 Satchel One still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Satchel One sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $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 Satchel One last updated?▴
Satchel One last shipped a new version on 2026-08-28 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Satchel One?▴
Satchel One is published by TeacherCentric Ltd 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 Satchel One's BU Score?▴
Satchel One has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.