(beat) for iOS
53
Quality Score
Solid
(beat) for iOS
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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(beat) for iOS is an iOS app from Lauri-Matti Parppei in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.5★ across 35 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 53: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity 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
$2.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.1K – $7.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0K – $17.8K
per month
INDIE 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
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$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 |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$55K
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.4K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat
6 months
$2.1K – $4.9K
12 months
$2.1K – $7.7K
24 months
$2.0K – $17.8K
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
Pre-traction · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.3
Product Quality
3.6
Revenue Strength
3.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $977 - $6108/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.54★ across 35 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $43K-$78K.
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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (35 ratings)METRIC | −$300 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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.
🆕 What's New · v0.4.5
Fixes to crashes when dragging and dropping scenes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- (beat) for iOS
- Developer
- Lauri-Matti Parppei
- Bundle ID
- fi.KAPITAN.Beat-iOS
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- (beat)
- Description
- elegant screenwriting app for macOS and iOS – free and open source!
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $201/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/beatScreenplay
- Not found
- GitHub
- github.com/lmparppei/BeatPlugins/wiki
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- discord discord.gg/FPHjfH7ms3 · github github.com/lmparppei/BeatPlugins/wiki · instagram instagram.com/beat_in_parentheses · twitter twitter.com/beatScreenplay
- beat@beat-app.fi
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- beat-app.fi/support-the-development
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth35 ratings+3400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (15 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (26 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $11.99 (+0%)
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
An elegant Fountain screenwriting app, created by a screenwriter for screenwriters. The perfect companion for full macOS version of Beat.
Beat lets you write in a flow: Just start typing and let Beat take care of the formatting. There are as little distractions as possible to let you concentrate on writing.
The app uses Fountain markup to store your documents, so everything you write is portable and future-proof. Your files are stored only on your own accounts and devices, and they are kept completely private.
• Distraction-free UI
• Index cards
• Automatic scene numbering… View full description on the official store →
Beat lets you write in a flow: Just start typing and let Beat take care of the formatting. There are as little distractions as possible to let you concentrate on writing.
The app uses Fountain markup to store your documents, so everything you write is portable and future-proof. Your files are stored only on your own accounts and devices, and they are kept completely private.
• Distraction-free UI
• Index cards
• Automatic scene numbering… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 13 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.6+🔖 v0.4.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $11.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.90 → 4.38 (dropped 0.52★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.33 → 4.90 (improved 0.57★)
2025-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.75 → 4.33 (dropped 0.42★)
2024-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2024-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 5 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.92307★ | 13 | 4.92307★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.83333★ | 6 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.54286★ | 35 | 4.54286★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 35 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does (beat) for iOS make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, (beat) for iOS earns approximately $200/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.
What apps are like (beat) for iOS?▴
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Who makes (beat) for iOS?▴
(beat) for iOS is published by Lauri-Matti Parppei on the Apple App 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 (beat) for iOS's BU Score?▴
(beat) for iOS has a BU Score of 53/100 (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.