Bhagavad-gita As It Is
67
Quality Score
Solid
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Bhagavad-gita As It Is is an iOS app from The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc. in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.9★ across 547 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 67: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink 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
$6.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$6.6K – $13.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$8.2K – $24.6K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- 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 ~2.2y 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 (277 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $45K – $75K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× build cost (under-water)
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% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
54K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.6K
Daily active
1.5K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$6.4K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$6.1K – $10.1K
12 months
$6.6K – $13.9K
24 months
$8.2K – $24.6K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
6.8
Revenue Strength
3.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $9K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.88★ across 547 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 453d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (453d 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 = $115K-$204K.
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 9 of 9 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 (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (547 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.
🆕 What's New · v1.5.9
Bug fixes and maintenance.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Bhagavad-gita As It Is
- Developer
- The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.bbt.bgaii
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, EN, FR, DE, HU, LT, PL, RU
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $3.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇮🇳#64 /100
- 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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth547 ratings+54600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (34 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇮🇳
IN
Top-grossing rank: #64 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#64 now · best #61 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+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
• Contains the full text in English, German, French, Hungarian and Russian.
• Customize what you see as you read – devanagari, transliterated verses, word for- word translations, verse translations, purports … each element can be turned on and off globally.
• Read the text in two languages at once by pinching in or out on a paragraph (just place two thumbs on a paragraph and pull them away from each other).
• An extensive image gallery, including paintings from the first and second editions of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is.… View full description on the official store →
• Customize what you see as you read – devanagari, transliterated verses, word for- word translations, verse translations, purports … each element can be turned on and off globally.
• Read the text in two languages at once by pinching in or out on a paragraph (just place two thumbs on a paragraph and pull them away from each other).
• An extensive image gallery, including paintings from the first and second editions of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 277 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v1.5.9🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 DA, EN, FR, DE, HU +3📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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 $4.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.41 → 5.00 (improved 0.59★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2017-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.90475★ | 42 | 4.90475★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.91303★ | 23 | 4.91303★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.97619★ | 42 | 4.97619★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 6 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.89609★ | 77 | 4.89609★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.9★ | 170 | 4.9★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 5 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.8816★ | 549 | 4.8816★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Bhagavad-gita As It Is: 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: 547 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Bhagavad-gita As It Is make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Bhagavad-gita As It Is earns approximately $3.9K/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 Bhagavad-gita As It Is?▴
Bhagavad-gita As It Is is published by The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, 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 Bhagavad-gita As It Is's BU Score?▴
Bhagavad-gita As It Is has a BU Score of 67/100 (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.