Folder Player Pro

Quality Score

Solid

Folder Player Pro

Medium confidence

4.4 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Folder Player Pro is an Android app from Peter Shashkin in the Music & Audio category, currently rated 4.4★ across 1,054 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Music & Audio 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

$6.8K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$5.9K – $21.3K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$5.5K – $49.4K

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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Forecast Revenue / mo

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Snapshots tracked

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$115K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $85K – $155K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~1.4y 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
⚙ Music & Audio complexity ×1.45	+$22K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$40K

Total estimate $115K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$100K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 16× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.9× 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
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%

Final multiple 16× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

135K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

27K

Daily active

13K

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

📲 Music & Audio engagement	~130 installs / rating
🔁 Music & Audio D30 retention	20%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.50

DAU / MAU 50% sticky

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$6.8K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$5.8K – $13.4K

12 months

$5.9K – $21.3K

24 months

$5.5K – $49.4K

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.

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BU Investment Matrix

Early-stage solo · 48/100INDIE TIERexpected for tier

Revenue Strength

3.8

Product Quality

8.0

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

6.0

Operational Safety

10.0

Founder Strength

4.9

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $2K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.44★ across 1,054 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 = $121K-$216K.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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:

Paid app ($2.99)METRIC		+$2,800
Low install base (1,054 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Mature app (12y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.4★)METRIC		+$800

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Folder Player Pro
Developer: Peter Shashkin
Bundle ID: com.folderplayerpro
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Music & Audio
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: folderplayer.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: $6.8K/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 growth1,054 ratings+21% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.

📝 About this app

Folder Player Pro is  a directory - centric music\mp3 player and is a more advanced version of its free counterpart. 

In addition to the features of its Free counterpart, which offers features like no ads,  compact yet feature-rich alternative music player which uses folders as playlists to play music or audiobooks, it adds the following capabilities on top of free version:

 -  Priority updates

 -  Unlimited tagging, allowing you to create multiple "playlists"

 -  Extended cross-fading functionality

 -  Ability to auto-delete tracks during playback

 -  Option to stop on power loss… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v6.01🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Music & Audio💰 Free

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Tech & Domain Intel — folderplayer.com

Mail provider: Google Workspace
Tech stack: Google Workspace

Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).

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📝 Description

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