Book of Mushrooms PRO
61
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Book of Mushrooms PRO is an Android app from headcorp in the Books & Reference category, currently rated 4.6★ across 109 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 61: Solid (established niche player). For a Books & Reference 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
💡 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
1 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
109 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
1
since Sep 2026
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 |
| ⚙ Books & Reference complexity ×0.95 | $-2525 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$26K |
| ⚙ 11.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$71K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.7× 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 |
| 📅 11.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Books & Reference category multiple | -2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
8.3K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
330
Daily active
60
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 |
| 📅 11.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Books & Reference D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
18% 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 | Books & Reference |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2017-05-12 · 3445 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
| 📅 9y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (109 ratings) + 11.9y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 12y 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)
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
Below median · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.8
Product Quality
6.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.57★ across 109 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3442d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (3442d 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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Early-stage install base (109 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Book of Mushrooms PRO
- Developer
- headcorp
- Bundle ID
- com.headcorp.bookofmushroomsnoads
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Books & Reference
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- headcorp.blogspot.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
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
- 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.
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
No ads version.
"Book of Mushrooms" is your personal assistant in the woods. Contains information about fungus parameters, the places of growth, hunting time, information about the edibility, as well as lots of other useful information.
The app contains 254 mushroom species - edible, conditionally edible, inedible and poisonous.
We've collected more than 1400+ mushrooms pictures from different angles for a maximum probability of correctly identify.
Menu "Favorites" will help you to make your own mushroom list, which can be quickly accessed any time.… View full description on the official store →
"Book of Mushrooms" is your personal assistant in the woods. Contains information about fungus parameters, the places of growth, hunting time, information about the edibility, as well as lots of other useful information.
The app contains 254 mushroom species - edible, conditionally edible, inedible and poisonous.
We've collected more than 1400+ mushrooms pictures from different angles for a maximum probability of correctly identify.
Menu "Favorites" will help you to make your own mushroom list, which can be quickly accessed any time.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v4.4🔄 updated 9y ago📂 Books & Reference💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Book of Mushrooms PRO: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 109 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Book of Mushrooms PRO make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Book of Mushrooms PRO 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 Book of Mushrooms PRO profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Book of Mushrooms PRO 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.
How many users does Book of Mushrooms PRO have?▴
Estimated audience: ~8K lifetime downloads, ~330 monthly active users, and ~60 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 Book of Mushrooms PRO?▴
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 Book of Mushrooms PRO built with?▴
Our heuristic places Book of Mushrooms PRO 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 Book of Mushrooms PRO still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Book of Mushrooms PRO sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). 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 Book of Mushrooms PRO last updated?▴
Book of Mushrooms PRO last shipped a new version on 2017-05-12 — more than 9 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Book of Mushrooms PRO?▴
Book of Mushrooms PRO is published by headcorp 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 Book of Mushrooms PRO's BU Score?▴
Book of Mushrooms PRO has a BU Score of 61/100 (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.