Best Timer
56
Quality Score
Solid
Best Timer
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Best Timer is an iOS app from Serhii Simkovskyi in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.9★ across 22 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 56: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO 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
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3 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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 11× MRR multiple
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~4.4× 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 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
11× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 35/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreRevenue Strength
2.3
Product Quality
3.1
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.91★ across 22 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2307d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2307d 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($17K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (22 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v3.2
- Fixed layout problems for latest iPhones
- iOS 13 support added
- iOS 13 support added
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Best Timer
- Developer
- Serhii Simkovskyi
- Bundle ID
- com.smartphoneware.timer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.smartphoneware.com
- Tagline
- Timers
- Description
- Software and Games for iOS and Android
- 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
- $17.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/Smartphoneware
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- smartphoneware.com/support
- About page
- Not found
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.12★ · 34.7% 5★ · 30.6% 1★
5★17 (35%)
4★7 (14%)
3★5 (10%)
2★5 (10%)
1★15 (31%)
+2 ratings/week
Praise: great ×12 best ×5 love ×5 perfect ×3 recommend ×3Complaints: crash ×3 bug ×2 scam ×1 expensive ×1 refund ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Very soothing
Sometimes a soft approach is best, especially if you are timing rest or mindfulness. I really like this app for that. Next update, a soft bell or chimes would be a good sound addition.…
★★★★★ Attractive functionality!
Latest update is a subtle visual enhancement. Prettier clock faces. But uglier time set feature---all white background for choosing numbers instead of varied grey and colored slots. Works very well though. Simple timers. I like this app!!…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Misleading
From the images it looks like you can set multiple timers. You can not.…
★☆☆☆☆ Update
Needs update for iPhone 11.
Are you ever going to update for ios13 and iPhone11.
Customer support should be your goal.…
📈Ratings growth22 ratings+-82% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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 → $0.99 (+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
Great way to measure and visualize time. Beautifully designed sand timer, stylish kitchen timer, countdown and powerful stopwatch to enjoy counting time, feel time or visualize time to kids.
Turn your timer to attractive ultramodern fashion accessory!
* ALL-IN-ONE CREATIVELY COMBINED TIMER APPLICATION:
- Sand timer is a digitized hourglass with artistic design which can be used to time anything for up to 60 minutes. It's an elegant visualization of the time flow.
- Kitchen timer can also be used to time your activities up to 60 minutes.… View full description on the official store →
Turn your timer to attractive ultramodern fashion accessory!
* ALL-IN-ONE CREATIVELY COMBINED TIMER APPLICATION:
- Sand timer is a digitized hourglass with artistic design which can be used to time anything for up to 60 minutes. It's an elegant visualization of the time flow.
- Kitchen timer can also be used to time your activities up to 60 minutes.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 49 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v3.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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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
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.32 → 3.80 (improved 0.48★)
2012-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.40 → 3.00 (dropped 0.40★)
2011-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
2011-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2011-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Similar apps in Utilities
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 22 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Best Timer is a small / niche iOS app in the utilities space with weak public traction — only 22 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Best Timer make per month?▴
Our model estimates Best Timer earns roughly $17K/mo, but with only 22 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like Best Timer?▴
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Who makes Best Timer?▴
Best Timer is published by Serhii Simkovskyi 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 Best Timer's BU Score?▴
Best Timer has a BU Score of 56/100 (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.