63
Quality Score
Solid
Simple Sticky Note Widget
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Simple Sticky Note Widget is an Android app from michael lin in the Productivity category, currently rated 3.7★ across 15,415 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 63: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity 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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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$170K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $230K
$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 |
| ⚙Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$30K |
| ⚙14.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$84K |
Total estimate$170K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 18× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× 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 |
| 📅14.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
805K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
65K
Daily active
29K
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
| 📲Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 📅14.1y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
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 | Productivity |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2023-12-12 · 895 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
| 📅2y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| •14y 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)
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 peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.6
Product Quality
7.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.73★ across 15,415 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 890d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (890d 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.
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 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (15,415 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| 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 →🔖 v22🔄 updated 2y ago📂 Productivity💰 Free🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)
📝 About this app
Discover the simplicity of Simple Sticky Note Widget, the lightweight sticky note widget that enhances your productivity without unnecessary complexities. No permissions required!
Key Features:
- Resizable & Scrollable: Customize the size of your sticky notes to fit your preferences. Scroll through your notes effortlessly.
- Home & Lock Screen Compatible: Enjoy the convenience of having your sticky notes on both your home screen and, on devices running Jelly Bean and KitKat, your lock screen.… View full description on the official store →
Key Features:
- Resizable & Scrollable: Customize the size of your sticky notes to fit your preferences. Scroll through your notes effortlessly.
- Home & Lock Screen Compatible: Enjoy the convenience of having your sticky notes on both your home screen and, on devices running Jelly Bean and KitKat, your lock screen.… 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
- Simple Sticky Note Widget
- Developer
- michael lin
- Bundle ID
- com.clarendon128.android.widget.stickynote
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $1.2K/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
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📈Ratings growth15,415 ratings+17% 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 Simple Sticky Note Widget: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 15,415 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Simple Sticky Note Widget make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Simple Sticky Note Widget earns approximately $1.2K/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 Simple Sticky Note Widget profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $1.2K, Simple Sticky Note Widget 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 Simple Sticky Note Widget have?▴
Estimated audience: ~805K lifetime downloads, ~65K monthly active users, and ~29K 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 Simple Sticky Note Widget?▴
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What is Simple Sticky Note Widget built with?▴
Our heuristic places Simple Sticky Note Widget 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 Simple Sticky Note Widget still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Simple Sticky Note Widget sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $20K (marketplace range $15K – $25K). Calculated as 18× 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 Simple Sticky Note Widget last updated?▴
Simple Sticky Note Widget last shipped a new version on 2023-12-12 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Simple Sticky Note Widget?▴
Simple Sticky Note Widget is published by michael lin 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 Simple Sticky Note Widget's BU Score?▴
Simple Sticky Note Widget has a BU Score of 63/100 (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.