Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom
74
Quality Score
Strong
Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom is an Android app from Waking Up LLC in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.6★ across 41,604 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 74: Strong (healthy traction). For a Health & Fitness app, that means healthy traction. 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
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📊 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
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🍎Also on iOS
$13.7K/mo · 42K ratings · 4.9★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$23K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$45K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 33× MRR multiple
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~0.4× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
33× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.9M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
635K
Daily active
220K
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
| 📲 Health & Fitness engagement | ~70 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Health & Fitness D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
35% sticky
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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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.2
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.4
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
4.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.61★ across 41,604 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 = $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 (41,604 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Established app (7y old)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
- Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom
- Developer
- Waking Up LLC
- Bundle ID
- org.wakingup.android
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- wakingup.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
- $1.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $7.99 - $209.99 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 growth41,604 ratings+65% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (2 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🚀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
<b>About this app</b>
A Life-Changing Approach to Mindfulness—Learn More than Basic Relaxation Methods
<b>Recognized as a 2025 Pick by NYT Wirecutter</b>
<b>Featured as a 2026 pick for the App Store “App of the Day”</b>
Thousands worldwide call Waking Up life changing. Whether you want better sleep, more clarity, or deeper meditation, Waking Up is your complete guide.
<b>Testimonials</b>
“Waking Up has led to my most consistent meditation practice. Family and staff also use it because it’s such a powerful tool.” —Andrew Huberman, neuroscientist… View full description on the official store →
A Life-Changing Approach to Mindfulness—Learn More than Basic Relaxation Methods
<b>Recognized as a 2025 Pick by NYT Wirecutter</b>
<b>Featured as a 2026 pick for the App Store “App of the Day”</b>
Thousands worldwide call Waking Up life changing. Whether you want better sleep, more clarity, or deeper meditation, Waking Up is your complete guide.
<b>Testimonials</b>
“Waking Up has led to my most consistent meditation practice. Family and staff also use it because it’s such a powerful tool.” —Andrew Huberman, neuroscientist… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v3.22.0🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Health & Fitness💰 Free💎 IAP $7.99 - $209.99 per item
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected 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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Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
2026-06
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Shipped update — v3.21.0 → v3.22.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +53 high confidence
2026-05
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +53 high confidence
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Store Page History
8 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
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📝 Description
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BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Waking Up: Meditation & Wisdom: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 41,604 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Waking Up make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Waking Up earns approximately $1.6K/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 Waking Up?▴
Waking Up is published by Waking Up LLC 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 Waking Up's BU Score?▴
Waking Up has a BU Score of 74/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.