55
Quality Score
Solid
Turn Off the Lights for Mobile
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Turn Off the Lights for Mobile is an Android app from Stefan vd in the Communication category, currently rated 4.0★ across 744 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Communication 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
$500/mo
In 12 months
$437 – $1575
In 24 months
$405 – $3644
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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 · 45/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
5.7
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.04★ across 744 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2083d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2083d 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 = $9K-$16K.
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.
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Tech & Domain Intel — turnoffthelights.com
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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💰 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:
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.0★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (744 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.2.7🔄 updated 5y ago📂 Communication💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $2.49 per item🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
💰 Estimated build cost
$220K
Likely range: $165K – $295K
Synthetic estimate derived from category, file size, screen count, monetization layer, and platform reach. Methodology benchmarks: Clutch + GoodFirms 2024-2026 agency surveys. See /methodology.
Breakdown
| MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| Communication complexity ×1.65 | +$38K |
| Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$53K |
| 11.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$66K |
📝 About this app
The most popular Turn Off the Lights browser extension that dims everything in the background, so you can enjoy the video you’re watching without any distractions. This app is the darkest mobile web browser where it loads pages super-fast, with the power of the latest rendering engine.
No more white screen when browsing the web on your mobile device. With one tap on the white lamp button, it dims the web page. For example, if there is a YouTube video on the page, it will automatically highlight the video player.… View full description on the official store →
No more white screen when browsing the web on your mobile device. With one tap on the white lamp button, it dims the web page. For example, if there is a YouTube video on the page, it will automatically highlight the video player.… View full description on the official store →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Turn Off the Lights for Mobile
- Developer
- Stefan vd
- Bundle ID
- com.stefanvd.turnoffthelights
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Communication
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.turnoffthelights.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
- $443/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $2.49 per item
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 growth744 ratings+43% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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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