How much does Wake Up Screen make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Wake Up Screen earns approximately $500/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 Wake Up Screen profitable?

With estimated build cost $115K and monthly revenue $500, Wake Up Screen 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 Wake Up Screen have?

Estimated audience: ~105K lifetime downloads, ~15K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 Wake Up Screen?

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What is Wake Up Screen built with?

Our heuristic places Wake Up Screen 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 Wake Up Screen still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (88% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Wake Up Screen sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 15× 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 Wake Up Screen last updated?

Wake Up Screen last shipped a new version on 2023-01-02 — more than 3 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Wake Up Screen?

Wake Up Screen is published by Riko Chen 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 Wake Up Screen's BU Score?

Wake Up Screen has a BU Score of 57/100 (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.

Wake Up Screen

Quality Score

Solid

Wake Up Screen

Name: Wake Up Screen — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Wake Up Screen revenue, Wake Up Screen app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Tools revenue, Android app revenue

by Riko Chen

Medium confidence

4.2 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Wake Up Screen is an Android app from Riko Chen in the Tools category, currently rated 4.2★ across 790 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For a Tools 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

$500

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$437 – $1575

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$405 – $3644

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.2

Reviews

790 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$500

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$115K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $85K – $155K

$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
⚙ Tools complexity ×0.90	$-5049
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$24K
⚙ 7.3y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$43K

Total estimate $115K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$10K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 15× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.1× 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
📅 7.3y proven track record	+20%
🏷 Tools category multiple	-8%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 15× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

105K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

15K

Daily active

2.7K

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

📲 Tools engagement	~190 installs / rating
📅 7.3y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Tools D30 retention	22%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.18

DAU / MAU 17% 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	Tools
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

88%

Last shipped 2023-01-02 · 1365 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

📅 3y+ since last update

Likely abandoned

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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

Pre-traction · 36/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Revenue Strength

2.7

Product Quality

5.9

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

3.8

Operational Safety

7.0

Founder Strength

3.3

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.25★ across 790 reviews — below category median.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1365d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (1365d 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.

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 5 of 5 triggers

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

excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Good rating (4.2★)METRIC		+$800
Established app (7y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Early-stage install base (790 ratings)METRIC		+$400

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: Wake Up Screen
Developer: Riko Chen
Bundle ID: com.symeonchen.wakeupscreen
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Tools
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: github.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: $500/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

Make your phone automatically light up when you receive a notification.

Specially optimized for the Samsung S10 and S20 series.

The following features are supported:

1. Support custom bright time

2. Customize the application that needs to be lit

3. Pocket mode

This application is completely open source and does not apply for networking privileges. Welcome feedback if you encounter problems during use.

App Specs

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🔖 v2.2.2🔄 updated 3y ago📂 Tools💰 Free🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)

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Tech & Domain Intel — github.com

Mail provider: Microsoft 365
Tech stack: Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · Loom · Shopify · Stripe

Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

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