Brilliant: Learn by doing
80
Quality Score
Excellent
Brilliant: Learn by doing
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Brilliant: Learn by doing is an iOS app from Brilliant.org in the Education category, currently rated 4.7★ across 29,374 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 80: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Education 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
$20.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$21.2K – $44.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$26.3K – $78.8K
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
🤖Also on Android
$2.0K/mo · 108K ratings · 4.5★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4 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 (99 MB) | +$19K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$14K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$375K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $275K – $475K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
440K
Daily active
130K
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$20.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$19.4K – $32.4K
12 months
$21.2K – $44.4K
24 months
$26.3K – $78.8K
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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.3
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $14K - $30K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.74★ across 29,374 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $368K-$655K.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (29,374 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$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 · v10.1.3
The best way to learn math and computer science, now even better. Inside:
• Bug fixes and performance updates to help you learn on the go
• Bug fixes and performance updates to help you learn on the go
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Brilliant: Learn by doing
- Developer
- Brilliant.org
- Bundle ID
- com.brilliant.Brilliant
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Learn by doing
- Description
- Guided interactive problem solving that’s effective and fun. Try thousands of interactive lessons in math, programming, data analysis, AI, science, and more.
- 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
- $20.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇮🇳#23 /100 🇬🇧#67 /100 🇩🇪#78 /100 🇺🇸#82 /100 🇨🇦#83 /100 🇦🇺#83 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/brilliantorg
- linkedin.com/company/brilliant-org
- 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
- facebook facebook.com/brilliantorg · instagram instagram.com/brilliantorg · linkedin linkedin.com/company/brilliant-org · twitter twitter.com/brilliantorg
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- brilliant.org/help
- About page
- brilliant.org/about
📈Ratings growth29,878 ratings+40% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (29 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank6 countries
🇮🇳IN#23 /100
🇬🇧GB#67 /100
🇩🇪DE#78 /100
🇺🇸US#82 /100
🇨🇦CA#83 /100
🇦🇺AU#83 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#23 now · best #22 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
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
Brilliant is a superintelligent tutor for math and coding. Our team of experts from MIT and Harvard has built a world-class personalized learning system. For students from grade 5 to college and beyond – you work through problems with a tutor that sees where you’re stuck, can sketch right on your screen, asks the right questions, and guides you to real a-ha moments.
Forget memorizing formulas. Brilliant is designed to build real understanding and help you excel. It’s there when you need it, adapts to how you think, and makes learning feel like a fun challenge instead of a chore.… View full description on the official store →
Forget memorizing formulas. Brilliant is designed to build real understanding and help you excel. It’s there when you need it, adapts to how you think, and makes learning feel like a fun challenge instead of a chore.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 99 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v10.1.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 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 ↑ 4.03 → 4.74 (improved 0.71★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.03 → 4.70 (improved 0.67★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.43 (dropped 0.57★)
2025-06
🚀
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 | 4.68025★ | 2,577 | 4.68025★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.81015★ | 1,064 | 4.81015★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.66546★ | 3,883 | 4.66546★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.71796★ | 3,340 | 4.71796★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.74479★ | 1,489 | 4.74479★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.66066★ | 5,440 | 4.66066★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.78828★ | 2,338 | 4.78828★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.74535★ | 538 | 4.74535★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.73991★ | 29,818 | 4.73991★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Brilliant: Learn by doing: 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: 29,374 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Brilliant make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Brilliant earns approximately $20K/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 Brilliant?▴
Brilliant is published by Brilliant.org 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 Brilliant's BU Score?▴
Brilliant has a BU Score of 80/100 (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.