BePresent: Screen Time Control
82
Quality Score
Excellent
BePresent: Screen Time Control
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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BePresent: Screen Time Control is an iOS app from Screen Detox Inc in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.8★ across 46,114 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Productivity app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$22.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$23.0K – $48.1K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$28.5K – $85.4K
per month
MID 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
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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
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (258 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$425K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $300K – $500K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~4.2× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + 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
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
3.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.0M
Daily active
450K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$22.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$21.1K – $35.1K
12 months
$23.0K – $48.1K
24 months
$28.5K – $85.4K
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 · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.9
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $15K - $33K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.84★ across 46,114 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 = $399K-$710K.
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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (46,114 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)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.
🆕 What's New · v0.18.76
We made improvements and squashed bugs to make BePresent better for you.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- BePresent: Screen Time Control
- Developer
- Screen Detox Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.getpresentapp.Present
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- BePresent | Reduce Screen Time
- Description
- BePresent: the fun and easy way to control your screen time.
- 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
- $22.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#34 /99 🇬🇧#47 /100 🇦🇺#56 /100 🇩🇪#66 /100 🇺🇸#76 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/jackwinston
- linkedin.com/company/getpresentapp
- GitHub
- Not found
- 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
- linkedin linkedin.com/company/getpresentapp · twitter twitter.com/jackwinston
- contact@bepresentapp.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- bepresentapp.com/contact-8
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth46,114 ratings+231% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (10 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank5 countries
🇨🇦CA#34 /99
🇬🇧GB#47 /100
🇦🇺AU#56 /100
🇩🇪DE#66 /100
🇺🇸US#76 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#34 now · best #31 · worst #99
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
BePresent is the #1 app to control your screen time and supercharge your productivity, mental health, and quality of life. Experience life beyond the screen as you reclaim Your Time and earn rewards that improve your life with BePresent!
25 years. That’s the average time you will spend on your phone.
With a combination of app blocking, gamification, social competition with friends, and real-life rewards, you will reclaim YEARS of your life like thousands of BePresent members already have.
We know you’ve tried to solve this problem before. But we’re not like other screen time apps.… View full description on the official store →
25 years. That’s the average time you will spend on your phone.
With a combination of app blocking, gamification, social competition with friends, and real-life rewards, you will reclaim YEARS of your life like thousands of BePresent members already have.
We know you’ve tried to solve this problem before. But we’re not like other screen time apps.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 258 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v0.18.76🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.24 → 4.84 (improved 1.60★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.26 → 4.70 (improved 1.44★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #21Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
time tracker·#21🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.73419★ | 1,787 | 4.73419★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84014★ | 52,572 | 4.84014★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for BePresent: Screen Time Control: 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 high confidence: 46,114 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does BePresent make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, BePresent earns approximately $22K/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 BePresent?▴
BePresent is published by Screen Detox Inc 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 BePresent's BU Score?▴
BePresent has a BU Score of 82/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.