Big Clock HD
36
Quality Score
Emerging
Big Clock HD
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Big Clock HD is an iOS app from TheCodingMonkeys in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.0★ across 22 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 36: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Utilities app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$1.9K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.6K – $5.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.5K – $13.6K
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
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
Total estimate
$45K
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$1.6K – $3.7K
12 months
$1.6K – $5.9K
24 months
$1.5K – $13.6K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 34/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
3.3
Product Quality
2.4
Market Position
1.5
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
3.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $746 - $4663/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.95★ across 22 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2074d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2074d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $33K-$59K.
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 | |
| Below-average rating (3.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (147 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| 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 · v3.0
Full iOS 14 support including widgets. All localizations now available in the settings app. You need to configure at least one separate on screen keyboard to enable that setting.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Big Clock HD
- Developer
- TheCodingMonkeys
- Bundle ID
- de.codingmonkeys.BigClockHD
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AF, AK, SQ, AM, AR, HY, AS, AZ, BM, BA, EU, BE, BN, BS, BR, BG, MY, KM, CA, CE, NY, CV, KW, CO, HR, CS, DA, DV, NL, DZ, EN, ET, EE, FO, FI, FR, FY, FF, GD, GL, LG, KA, DE, EL, KL, GN, GU, HA, HE, HI, HU, IS, IO, IG, ID, IA, IU, GA, IT, JA, JV, KN, KS, KK, KI, RW, RN, KO, KU, KY, LO, LV, LN, LT, LU, LB, MK, MG, MS, ML, MT, GV, MI, MR, MN, ND, NR, NE, SE, NB, NN, OC, OR, OM, OS, PS, FA, PL, PT, PA, QU, RM, RO, RU, SG, SA, SC, SR, ST, TN, SN, II, ZH, SD, SI, SS, SK, SL, SO, ES, SW, SV, TG, TA, TT, TE, TH, BO, TI, TO, ZH, TS, TR, TK, UG, UK, UR, UZ, VE, VI, WA, CY, WO, XH, YI, YO, ZU
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- TheCodingMonkeys Homepage
- Description
- TheCodingMonkeys produce fine Apps and Games since 2003. Current Lineup: Cards!, Polarized!, Carcassonne, Rules!, Lost Cities, SubEthaEdit, Tageslicht, Big Clock, Chicken Cha Cha Cha.
- 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
- $86/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth22 ratings+2100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (23 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 → $0.49 (+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
Big Clock HD displays a big digital clock on your iPhone / iPad that's readable even from a distance. All iOS locales are supported, change them in the settings for the app.
If there's no big clock on the wall - now there's one in your pocket or in your iPad Dock!
FEATURES
- Big, readable display of date and time
- Localized in all languages the iPhone/iPad supports
- Prevents phone / iPad from auto-locking while displaying the time
- Add seconds display via the Settings App
- Widgets
If there's no big clock on the wall - now there's one in your pocket or in your iPad Dock!
FEATURES
- Big, readable display of date and time
- Localized in all languages the iPhone/iPad supports
- Prevents phone / iPad from auto-locking while displaying the time
- Add seconds display via the Settings App
- Widgets
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 725 KB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v3.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AF, AK, SQ, AM, AR +142📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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 ↓ 5.00 → 2.95 (dropped 2.05★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.49 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.62 → 5.00 (improved 2.38★)
2014-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.80 → 3.33 (dropped 0.47★)
2012-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 4.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2012-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2011-01
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 5 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.04348★ | 23 | 3.04348★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3★ | 5 | 3★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3★ | 3 | 3★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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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
Big Clock HD 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 Big Clock HD make per month?▴
Our model estimates Big Clock HD earns roughly $86/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 Big Clock HD?▴
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Who makes Big Clock HD?▴
Big Clock HD is published by TheCodingMonkeys 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 Big Clock HD's BU Score?▴
Big Clock HD has a BU Score of 36/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.