How much does Wattpad - Read & Write Stories make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Wattpad - Read & Write Stories earns approximately $8.1K/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 Wattpad - Read & Write Stories?

Wattpad - Read & Write Stories is published by Wattpad.com 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 Wattpad - Read & Write Stories's BU Score?

Wattpad - Read & Write Stories has a BU Score of 77/100 (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.

Wattpad - Read & Write Stories

Quality Score

Strong

Wattpad - Read & Write Stories

Name: Wattpad - Read & Write Stories — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Wattpad - Read & Write Stories revenue, Wattpad - Read & Write Stories app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Books & Reference revenue, Android app revenue

High confidence

3.8 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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This Android app carves out a distinct niche in social storytelling, directly competing with platforms like FanFiction.net and Archive of Our Own (AO3) by fostering a community for both reading and writing original content. Its substantial user rating, derived from over five million individual assessments, strongly signals significant traction and a mature growth stage, indicating a deeply engaged and widespread user base. As a free app, its revenue strategy relies entirely on alternative monetization. In the Books & Reference category, a common upgrade path involves premium subscriptions offering ad-free reading, offline access, or exclusive content. Given Wattpad’s community focus, a compelling monetization observation would be the potential for tiered subscriptions unlocking advanced writer tools, direct author-to-reader tipping mechanisms, or enhanced social features, moving beyond typical content access upgrades.

BU Score 77 · Strong — healthy traction. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$8.1K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$8.4K – $17.6K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$10.4K – $31.2K

per month

MID tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$90K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $70K – $120K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~11 months at current MRR

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

Total estimate $90K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$225K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 27× MRR multiple

💸 ~2.5× return on build cost

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 3.5-4.0 (mixed)	-8%
🏷 Books & Reference category multiple	-2%
⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple 27× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

552.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

55.0M

Daily active

11.0M

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
🔁 Books & Reference D30 retention	10%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

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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

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$8.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$7.7K – $12.8K

12 months

$8.4K – $17.6K

24 months

$10.4K – $31.2K

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 peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.0

Product Quality

7.6

Revenue Strength

3.9

Monetization Maturity

5.0

Defensibility

6.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $5K - $12K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.81★ across 5,026,797 reviews — strong (top 10%).
📍 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 = $146K-$259K.

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.

📥 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: Wattpad - Read & Write Stories
Developer: Wattpad.com
Bundle ID: wp.wattpad
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Books & Reference
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.wattpad.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: $8.1K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $0.99 - $89.99 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.

🚀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

Wattpad. Stories to obsess over.

Read and write original stories in your own language!

Discover the social storytelling platform that connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story. 

Download Wattpad today to start reading or writing.

Join Wattpad to become a member of an international community of story lovers. Connect with other passionate readers & writers, comment directly on stories as you read them, and support writers as they create and share their original creations.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v11.32.0🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Books & Reference💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $89.99 per item

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

3 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 — v11.29.1 → v11.32.0

→ 30 days after: reviews +3,189 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +3,189 high confidence

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Store Page History

8 SCREENSHOT CHANGES

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iPhone screenshots

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📝 Description

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