Helper Hive
35
Quality Score
Emerging
Helper Hive
by The Helper Bees
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Helper Hive is an Android app from The Helper Bees in the Business category, currently rated 2.6★ across 51 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 35: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Business app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$119
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$60 – $555
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$60 – $1663
per month
MICRO 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
1 snapshots on record
Rating
2.6
Reviews
51 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$119
Snapshots tracked
1
since Jul 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$170K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $230K
$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 |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$41K |
| ⚙ 9.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$54K |
Total estimate
$170K
🛠 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 | Business |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2025-10-28 · 350 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
| 📅 11 months since last update | Concerning gap |
| 👥 Small user base (51 ratings) + 9.1y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$119/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$76 – $303
12 months
$60 – $555
24 months
$60 – $1.7K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 31/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
2.1
Revenue Strength
2.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.3
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.65★ across 51 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 345d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $2K-$3K.
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:
| Below-average rating (2.6★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (51 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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
- Helper Hive
- Developer
- The Helper Bees
- Bundle ID
- com.thehelperbees.helperhive
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.thehelperbees.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
- $119/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
Welcome to the hive! Helper Hive allows caregivers to keep all of their visitation information in one place. From within the app you will be able to:
* View the details of your timesheets
* Confirm new timesheets
* View the statuses of your bank transfers
* Access your current customers’ information
The Helper Bees is a revolutionary model for senior in-home care. We match great, independent helpers with seniors who need care based upon personality, interests and experience.… View full description on the official store →
* View the details of your timesheets
* Confirm new timesheets
* View the statuses of your bank transfers
* Access your current customers’ information
The Helper Bees is a revolutionary model for senior in-home care. We match great, independent helpers with seniors who need care based upon personality, interests and experience.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v5.9.002🔄 updated 11mo ago📂 Business💰 Free🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 51 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Helper Hive make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Helper Hive earns approximately $119/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 Helper Hive profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $119, Helper Hive 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.
What apps are like Helper Hive?▴
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What is Helper Hive built with?▴
Our heuristic places Helper Hive 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 Helper Hive still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Helper Hive last updated?▴
Helper Hive last shipped a new version on 2025-10-28 — 11 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Helper Hive?▴
Helper Hive is published by The Helper Bees 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 Helper Hive's BU Score?▴
Helper Hive has a BU Score of 35/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.