Sound Scouts Hearing Test
49
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Sound Scouts Hearing Test is an iOS app from Sound Scouts HQ Pty Ltd in the Education category, currently rated 4.3★ across 14 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 49: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Education app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$1.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.6K – $5.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.4K – $13.0K
per month
INDIE 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
9 snapshots on record
Rating
4.3
Reviews
14 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.8K
Snapshots tracked
9
since Nov 2023
🤖Also on Android
$114/mo · 603 ratings · 3.6★
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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
📈
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 (391 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 6.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$35K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$30K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $40K · 18× 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 |
| 📅 6.0y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 55%
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 | 391 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
25%
Last shipped 2026-07-30 · 88 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
| 📅 88 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
| 👥 Small user base (14 ratings) + 6.0y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.8K/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 – $3.5K
12 months
$1.6K – $5.6K
24 months
$1.4K – $13.0K
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 · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.4
Product Quality
3.4
Revenue Strength
3.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.0
Market Position
1.8
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $712 - $4450/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.29★ across 14 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 = $32K-$56K.
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 5 of 5 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 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (14 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 · v15.1.2
- Fixed an issue with skipping Tone in Noise activity
- Fixed reliability calculation in Automatic Audiometer
- Implemented iOS offer code system
- Improved network connectivity
- Dynamic levels for Automatic Audiometer Trial Run
- Fixed reliability calculation in Automatic Audiometer
- Implemented iOS offer code system
- Improved network connectivity
- Dynamic levels for Automatic Audiometer Trial Run
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Sound Scouts Hearing Test
- Developer
- Sound Scouts HQ Pty Ltd
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- 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
- $1.8K/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 growth74 ratings+7300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (9 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 Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Did you know 1 in 10 children suffer from hearing loss? Sound Scouts is clinically proven to identify children (and adults) with difficulty hearing. The science of an auditory assessment in a fun hearing test for both kids and adults!
Developed in collaboration with the National Acoustic Laboratories, this online hearing test will provide you with an instant report and guidance for next steps if a problem is detected.
Download today to check if you, your child or someone you know needs hearing support.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Testing is ONLY valid for children aged 4 years and older.… View full description on the official store →
Developed in collaboration with the National Acoustic Laboratories, this online hearing test will provide you with an instant report and guidance for next steps if a problem is detected.
Download today to check if you, your child or someone you know needs hearing support.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Testing is ONLY valid for children aged 4 years and older.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 391 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.3+🔖 v15.1.2🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2020 (5y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 →
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v15.0.0 → v15.1.2
2026-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-06
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.29 → 4.60 (improved 0.31★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 4.29 (improved 3.29★)
2023-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 6 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.83636★ | 1,699 | 4.83636★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.28571★ | 14 | 4.28571★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.59459★ | 74 | 4.59459★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 14 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Sound Scouts Hearing Test is a early-stage iOS app in the education space with weak public traction — only 14 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 Sound Scouts Hearing Test make per month?▴
Our model estimates Sound Scouts Hearing Test earns roughly $1.8K/mo, but with only 14 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 Sound Scouts Hearing Test?▴
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What is Sound Scouts Hearing Test built with?▴
Our heuristic places Sound Scouts Hearing Test on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Sound Scouts Hearing Test still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Sound Scouts Hearing Test last updated?▴
Sound Scouts Hearing Test last shipped a new version on 2026-07-30 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Sound Scouts Hearing Test?▴
Sound Scouts Hearing Test is published by Sound Scouts HQ Pty 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 Sound Scouts Hearing Test's BU Score?▴
Sound Scouts Hearing Test has a BU Score of 49/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.