Listen Audiobooks
54
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Listen Audiobooks is an Android app from Audiobooks and eBooks in the Books & Reference category, currently rated 4.0★ across 491 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Books & Reference 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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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
4.0
Reviews
491 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$500
Snapshots tracked
1
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Books & Reference complexity ×0.95 | $-2975 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$31K |
| ⚙ 9.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$57K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 30× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 📅 9.6y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Books & Reference category multiple | -2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
30× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
37K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.0K
Daily active
400
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 |
| 📅 9.6y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 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 |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2024-05-13 · 866 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
| 📅 2y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (491 ratings) + 9.6y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 47/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
5.6
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
8.4
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.03★ across 491 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 866d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (866d 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
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| ad freeREVIEW | +$1,300 | |
| Good rating (4.0★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (491 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Listen Audiobooks
- Developer
- Audiobooks and eBooks
- Bundle ID
- sinhpn.book.audiobooks
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Books & Reference
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- sinhpn.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
- $0.99 - $1.99 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.
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
Easily enjoy unlimited to thousands and over free high-quality audiobooks have been selected under the genre gives you more choice, according to your preferences.
Each audio book can be streamed over the internet or downloaded for later use without any charge. SPN Audiobooks makes it easy to find the book you want. You can see the most popular books or search by keyword with title, author and genre. This app allows you to stop playback with a sleep timer and bookmarks the book you has been listened in recent book list. You can save and listen to as many books as you like by download.… View full description on the official store →
Each audio book can be streamed over the internet or downloaded for later use without any charge. SPN Audiobooks makes it easy to find the book you want. You can see the most popular books or search by keyword with title, author and genre. This app allows you to stop playback with a sleep timer and bookmarks the book you has been listened in recent book list. You can save and listen to as many books as you like by download.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v2.1.7🔄 updated 2y ago📂 Books & Reference💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $1.99 per item🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — sinhpn.com
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Listen Audiobooks: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 491 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Listen Audiobooks make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Listen Audiobooks 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 Listen Audiobooks profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $500, Listen Audiobooks 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 Listen Audiobooks have?▴
Estimated audience: ~37K lifetime downloads, ~2K monthly active users, and ~400 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 Listen Audiobooks?▴
Browse the full Books & Reference category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Listen Audiobooks built with?▴
Our heuristic places Listen Audiobooks 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 Listen Audiobooks still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Listen Audiobooks sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $15K (marketplace range $10K – $20K). Calculated as 30× 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 Listen Audiobooks last updated?▴
Listen Audiobooks last shipped a new version on 2024-05-13 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Listen Audiobooks?▴
Listen Audiobooks is published by Audiobooks and eBooks 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 Listen Audiobooks's BU Score?▴
Listen Audiobooks has a BU Score of 54/100 (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.