76
Quality Score
Strong
Skeelo: Audiobooks & Ebooks
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Skeelo: Audiobooks & Ebooks is an Android app from Skeelo in the Books & Reference category, currently rated 4.5★ across 199,756 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 76: Strong (healthy traction). For a Books & Reference app, that means healthy traction. 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$700K/mo
In 12 months
$741K – $1141K
In 24 months
$886K – $1645K
BIG tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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since first record
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
📈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 |
| 💎In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙Books & Reference complexity ×0.95 | $-2975 |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$31K |
| ⚙5.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$34K |
Total estimate$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 37× MRR multiple
💸~0.4× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
| 💎IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| 📅5.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷Books & Reference category multiple | -2% |
| ⭐Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple37× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
15.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.1M
Daily active
230K
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
| 📲Books & Reference engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 📅5.8y of rating accumulation | -29% |
| 🔁Books & Reference D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
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
| 🏷Category context | Books & Reference |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-04-30 · 23 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
| 📅23 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 58/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
8.9
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Monetization Maturity
4.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.45★ across 199,756 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (199,756 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 →🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 3w ago📂 Books & Reference💰 Free💎 IAP $0.05 - $999.99 per item🚀 Launched 2020 (5y old)
📝 About this app
Skeelo is the ideal app for those who love books, ebooks and audiobooks. Our digital library brings you the best titles for you to read and listen to at your leisure. If you're looking for a reading app like Kindle or Kobo, you'll love our selection of digital books.
Explore an incredible collection:
✅ Bestsellers and releases by great authors
✅ Thousands of digital books and audiobooks available: from novels to business books, at Skeelo you will find your favorite literary genre.
✅ Reading your way: personalized experience for reading and listening… View full description on the official store →
Explore an incredible collection:
✅ Bestsellers and releases by great authors
✅ Thousands of digital books and audiobooks available: from novels to business books, at Skeelo you will find your favorite literary genre.
✅ Reading your way: personalized experience for reading and listening… View full description on the official store →
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Skeelo: Audiobooks & Ebooks
- Developer
- Skeelo
- Bundle ID
- br.com.gold360.skeelo
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Books & Reference
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- ajuda.skeelo.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $1.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.05 - $999.99 per item
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 growth199,756 ratings+55% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Skeelo: Audiobooks & Ebooks: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Skeelo make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Skeelo earns approximately $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 Skeelo profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $1K, Skeelo looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Skeelo have?▾
Estimated audience: ~15.5M lifetime downloads, ~1.1M monthly active users, and ~230K 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 Skeelo?▾
Browse the full Books & Reference 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 Skeelo built with?▾
Our heuristic places Skeelo on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Skeelo still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 23 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Skeelo sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $50K (marketplace range $40K – $75K). Calculated as 37× 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 Skeelo last updated?▾
Skeelo last shipped a new version on 2026-04-30 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Skeelo?▾
Skeelo is published by Skeelo on the Google Play 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 Skeelo's BU Score?▾
Skeelo has a BU Score of 76/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.