Alert for Embrace watch
39
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Alert for Embrace watch is an iOS app from Empatica in the Education category, currently rated 3.0★ across 76 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 39: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
45 snapshots on record
Rating
3.0
Reviews
76 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
45
since Oct 2016
🤖Also on Android
$453/mo · 593 ratings · 3.3★
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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
📈
Pays back in ~2.4y 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 (105 MB) | +$22K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$14K |
| ⚙ 10.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$60K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× 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 |
| 📅 10.0y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× 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 | 105 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2020-04-21 · 2353 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
| 📅 6y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (76 ratings) + 10.0y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 10y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 37/100MID TIERno growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.4
Product Quality
2.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.95★ across 76 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2352d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2352d 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 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 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 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (76 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 · v4.3.5
We've made improvements that effect the general stability of the app.
We'd love to hear your feedback regarding the new updates. Let us know what you think by writing to us at: support@empatica.com
We'd love to hear your feedback regarding the new updates. Let us know what you think by writing to us at: support@empatica.com
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Alert for Embrace watch
- Developer
- Empatica
- Bundle ID
- com.empatica.alert
- 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
- $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 growth76 ratings+7500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (45 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.
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 Alert App pairs up with Embrace smartband and sends your chosen caregivers an automated SMS and phone call when Embrace detects unusual patterns that may be associated to a convulsive seizure.
The Alert App requires a dedicated smartphone with Bluetooth connectivity, and is available with a subscription plan. It is only designed to work with the Embrace smartband by Empatica www.empatica.com/store/ (http://www.empatica.com/store/).
++++ ALERT FEATURES ++++
The Alert App:
- Sends automatic calls and SMS to your caregiver when a possible convulsive seizure is detected.… View full description on the official store →
The Alert App requires a dedicated smartphone with Bluetooth connectivity, and is available with a subscription plan. It is only designed to work with the Embrace smartband by Empatica www.empatica.com/store/ (http://www.empatica.com/store/).
++++ ALERT FEATURES ++++
The Alert App:
- Sends automatic calls and SMS to your caregiver when a possible convulsive seizure is detected.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 105 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 9.3+🔖 v4.3.5🔄 updated 6y ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Free🚀 Launched 2016 (10y 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 →
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2019-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ medium · co-occurring
2019-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.75 → 2.11 (improved 0.36★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.11★ high confidence
2018-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.50 → 2.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2017-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.50★ high confidence
2016-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.33333★ | 3 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4★ | 6 | 4★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2★ | 1 | 2★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4★ | 10 | 4★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.94737★ | 76 | 2.94737★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 76 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 Alert for Embrace watch make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Alert for Embrace watch 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 Alert for Embrace watch profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Alert for Embrace watch looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Alert for Embrace watch?▴
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What is Alert for Embrace watch built with?▴
Our heuristic places Alert for Embrace watch 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 Alert for Embrace watch still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Alert for Embrace watch sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 14× 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 Alert for Embrace watch last updated?▴
Alert for Embrace watch last shipped a new version on 2020-04-21 — more than 6 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Alert for Embrace watch?▴
Alert for Embrace watch is published by Empatica 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 Alert for Embrace watch's BU Score?▴
Alert for Embrace watch has a BU Score of 39/100 (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.