How much does YouVersion Bible App + Audio make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, YouVersion Bible App + Audio earns approximately $10K/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.

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Who makes YouVersion Bible App + Audio?

YouVersion Bible App + Audio is published by Life.Church 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 YouVersion Bible App + Audio's BU Score?

YouVersion Bible App + Audio has a BU Score of 94/100 (Transcendent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

YouVersion Bible App + Audio

Quality Score

Transcendent

YouVersion Bible App + Audio

Name: YouVersion Bible App + Audio — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: YouVersion Bible App + Audio revenue, YouVersion Bible App + Audio app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Books & Reference revenue, Android app revenue

High confidence

4.9 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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This app dominates the digital Bible and devotional space, directly competing with other free or freemium religious content platforms like Bible Gateway or specific denominational apps. Its exceptionally high rating from millions of users signals mature, established traction and a powerful network effect, indicating a late-stage growth or market-leading position. Despite being free, the sheer scale of engagement suggests significant operational costs, likely covered by non-profit donations. In this category, a common monetization path for similar apps often involves offering premium content bundles, ad-free experiences, or exclusive study tools as in-app purchases, or leveraging a strong user base to drive donations to the parent organization. The lack of direct monetization here is a deliberate strategic choice, focusing on user acquisition and engagement over direct revenue per user.

BU Score 94 · Transcendent — category-leading momentum. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$10.9K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$11.2K – $23.5K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$13.9K – $41.8K

per month

MID tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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🍎Also on iOS

Bible

—/mo · 13.3M ratings · 4.9★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$75K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $55K – $100K

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

📈 Pays back in ~7 months 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

Total estimate $75K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$200K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 18× MRR multiple

💸 ~2.7× return on build cost

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 ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%
🏷 Books & Reference category multiple	-2%
⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple 18× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

991.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

99.0M

Daily active

19.5M

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
🔁 Books & Reference D30 retention	10%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% 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

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$10.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$10.3K – $17.2K

12 months

$11.2K – $23.5K

24 months

$13.9K – $41.8K

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 peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

6.1

Product Quality

9.9

Revenue Strength

4.0

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

3.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $7K - $16K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.94★ across 9,015,225 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 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 = $195K-$347K. Portfolio play ($24K/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

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 3 of 3 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

High install base (9,015,225 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC		+$2,200
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

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: YouVersion Bible App + Audio
Developer: Life.Church
Bundle ID: com.sirma.mobile.bible.android
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Books & Reference
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.youversion.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: $10.9K/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.

🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked

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

On more than 500 million devices around the world 🌏, people are reading, listening to, watching, and sharing the Bible daily using the YouVersion Bible App—completely free. 2,500+ Bible versions, 2,100+ languages. Listen to audio Bibles. Thousands of Reading Plans & Devotionals in 99+ languages. <b>Download the Bible App</b>

Customize your Bible 📙with Highlights, Bookmarks, and public/private Notes. Access everything online, or download select versions to read offline. Read, study, and share with friends. Enjoy honest conversations about faith in trusted community.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v11.24.0+7091608🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Books & Reference💰 Free

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

2 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →

2026-06

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Shipped update — v11.22.0+7090150 → v11.24.0+7091608

→ 30 days after: reviews +81,682 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +81,682 high confidence

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for YouVersion Bible App + Audio: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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