Material Islands™ - Semi-live
67
Quality Score
Solid
Material Islands™ - Semi-live
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Material Islands™ - Semi-live is an Android app from Jenny Hanell in the Personalization category, currently rated 4.1★ across 10,686 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 67: Solid (established niche player). For a Personalization 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
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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
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4.8y 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 |
| ⚙ Personalization complexity ×0.90 | $-5049 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$24K |
Total estimate
$70K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 13× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 |
| 🏷 Personalization category multiple | -15% |
Final multiple
13× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
235K
Daily active
23K
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
| 📲 Personalization engagement | ~220 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Personalization D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.10 |
DAU / MAU
10% sticky
🔬
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 · 44/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.2
Product Quality
8.3
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: 4.14★ across 10,686 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1780d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (1780d 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:
| Mid install base (10,686 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.1★)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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Material Islands™ - Semi-live
- Developer
- Jenny Hanell
- Bundle ID
- com.hippotech.materialislands
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Personalization
- 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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth10,686 ratings+31% 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
Material Islands™ is a Minimal and Material design inspired semi-live wallpaper that does not drain your battery or eat up your RAM.
<b>Material & Minimalistic</b>
Choose among several different, individually unique and beautifully minimalistic islands for your homescreen. Feeling forest-y? 🌲 Go with <i>Isle of Trees</i>! Feeling that anger boiling? Maybe <i>Isle of Lava</i> is more fitting! 🔥 Sitting on the subway? 🚆 <i>Isle of Urbanity</i> is probably a good fit! More islands are constantly being worked on as the artist Jenny Hanell finds the time to do so.… View full description on the official store →
<b>Material & Minimalistic</b>
Choose among several different, individually unique and beautifully minimalistic islands for your homescreen. Feeling forest-y? 🌲 Go with <i>Isle of Trees</i>! Feeling that anger boiling? Maybe <i>Isle of Lava</i> is more fitting! 🔥 Sitting on the subway? 🚆 <i>Isle of Urbanity</i> is probably a good fit! More islands are constantly being worked on as the artist Jenny Hanell finds the time to do so.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Material Islands™ - Semi-live : 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 high confidence: 10,686 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Material Islands™ - Semi-live make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Material Islands™ - Semi-live 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.
What apps are like Material Islands™ - Semi-live?▴
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Who makes Material Islands™ - Semi-live?▴
Material Islands™ - Semi-live is published by Jenny Hanell 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 Material Islands™ - Semi-live's BU Score?▴
Material Islands™ - Semi-live has a BU Score of 67/100 (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.