62
Quality Score
Solid
New In Chess Yearbook
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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New In Chess Yearbook is an iOS app from New In Chess in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.9★ across 46 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink 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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
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🤖Also on Android
$188/mo · 41 ratings · 4.3★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~1.2y 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 |
| ⚙Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙10.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$64K |
Total estimate$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $200K · 19× MRR multiple
💸~1.2× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅10.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple19× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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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 | 23 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
87%
Last shipped 2025-02-27 · 451 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅1y 2mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| 👥Small user base (46 ratings) + 10.7y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| •11y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 43/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
3.9
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.89★ across 46 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 451d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (451d 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($8K/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:
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (15 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (46 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 23 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v2.23.3🔄 updated 1y ago🌐 AR, CA, CS, NL, EN +10📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
📝 About this app
New In Chess Yearbook - Chess opening news
This app contains all Opening Surveys of the celebrated New In Chess Yearbook.
In this app you will find dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. Other Surveys will give fresh insights in classic variations, special gambits or opening weapons that you can use in blitz or at your chess club.
These Opening Surveys are written by world class experts, but the ideas and strategies are explained clearly and in plain language.… View full description on the official store →
This app contains all Opening Surveys of the celebrated New In Chess Yearbook.
In this app you will find dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess theory. Other Surveys will give fresh insights in classic variations, special gambits or opening weapons that you can use in blitz or at your chess club.
These Opening Surveys are written by world class experts, but the ideas and strategies are explained clearly and in plain language.… View full description on the official store →
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.30 (improved 0.63★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2019-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2018-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — newinchess.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.8913★ | 46 | 4.8913★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.83333★ | 12 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.33333★ | 12 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.625★ | 8 | 4.625★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3★ | 1 | 3★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.66667★ | 3 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.66667★ | 3 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- New In Chess Yearbook
- Developer
- New In Chess
- Bundle ID
- com.newinchess.yearbook
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CA, CS, NL, EN, FR, DE, HU, IT, JA, PT, RU, ES, SV, TR
Company
- Website
- www.newinchess.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- New In Chess is a prize-winning publisher of chess books, the Yearbook and its flagship periodical: New In Chess magazine.
- 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
- $8.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/newinchess · instagram instagram.com/newinchess · twitter x.com/NewInChess · youtube youtube.com/@NewInChessMagazine
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- newinchess.com/contact
- About page
- newinchess.com/more-to-explore/biogra…
⭐Recent App Store Reviews2 latest · avg 3.0★ · 50.0% 5★ · 50.0% 1★
5★1 (50%)
4★0 (0%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★1 (50%)
+0 ratings/week
Top positive
★★★★★ Good
I’m happy that a Chess magazine Company is developing e-Chess Magazines, and book Study.
I’m sure improvements will be made, needs to hold position last read, and bookmark.
I’m very happy to have electronic Chess magazines now. I just hope …
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Loss of archives
I lost over two hundred dollars in back issues today because an app update purged downloaded files and gives no option to re-download purchased volumes.…
📈Ratings growth46 ratings+4500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (4 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
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.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 92% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 46 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does New In Chess Yearbook make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, New In Chess Yearbook earns approximately $8.1K/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 New In Chess Yearbook profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $8.1K, New In Chess Yearbook looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like New In Chess Yearbook?▴
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What is New In Chess Yearbook built with?▴
Our heuristic places New In Chess Yearbook 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 New In Chess Yearbook still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (87% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would New In Chess Yearbook sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $150K (marketplace range $125K – $200K). Calculated as 19× 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 New In Chess Yearbook last updated?▴
New In Chess Yearbook last shipped a new version on 2025-02-27 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes New In Chess Yearbook?▴
New In Chess Yearbook is published by New In Chess 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 New In Chess Yearbook's BU Score?▴
New In Chess Yearbook has a BU Score of 62/100 (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.