55
Quality Score
Solid
PhoenixStudio
Why medium confidence: 1,073 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PhoenixStudio is an Android app from Henrik Rydgård in the Music & Audio category, currently rated 4.0★ across 1,073 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 55: 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$5.0K/mo
In 12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
In 24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
MID tier
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Snapshots tracked
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$185K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $250K
$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 |
| ⚙Music & Audio complexity ×1.45 | +$22K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$40K |
| ⚙12.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$73K |
Total estimate$185K
👥 Estimated audience size
97K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.4K
Daily active
3.7K
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 |
| 📅12.3y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Music & Audio D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.50 |
DAU / MAU50% 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 | Music & Audio |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
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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 · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.1
Product Quality
7.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.0★ across 1,073 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($25K/mo combined) commands premium.
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:
| Low install base (1,073 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.0★)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📂 Music & Audio💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📝 About this app
IMPORTANT: Stylus or a large screen is required.
Three monosynths, a drum machine, a mixer and some effects - what else do you really need? Oh yeah, a sequencer, so you can put it all together! And all this is what PhoenixStudio is!
PhoenixStudio is a re-release of the smash hit PocketPC app I originally created in 2001. For a long time it was by far the most powerful and user friendly music app for the platform.… View full description on the official store →
Three monosynths, a drum machine, a mixer and some effects - what else do you really need? Oh yeah, a sequencer, so you can put it all together! And all this is what PhoenixStudio is!
PhoenixStudio is a re-release of the smash hit PocketPC app I originally created in 2001. For a long time it was by far the most powerful and user friendly music app for the platform.… 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
- PhoenixStudio
- Developer
- Henrik Rydgård
- Bundle ID
- com.henrikrydgard.phoenixstudio
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Music & Audio
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.getphoenixstudio.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
- $483/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 growth1,073 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 PhoenixStudio: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PhoenixStudio make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PhoenixStudio earns approximately $483/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 PhoenixStudio profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $185K and monthly revenue $483, PhoenixStudio 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 PhoenixStudio have?▾
Estimated audience: ~97K lifetime downloads, ~7K monthly active users, and ~3K 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 PhoenixStudio?▾
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What is PhoenixStudio built with?▾
Our heuristic places PhoenixStudio 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.
Who makes PhoenixStudio?▾
PhoenixStudio is published by Henrik Rydgård 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 PhoenixStudio's BU Score?▾
PhoenixStudio has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.