Chegg Study - Homework Help
78
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Chegg Study - Homework Help is an iOS app from Chegg, Inc. in the Education category, currently rated 4.7★ across 204,805 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Education app, that means healthy traction. 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
$772K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$818K – $1259K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$978K – $1816K
per month
BIG 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
69 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
204,805 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$772K
Snapshots tracked
69
since Feb 2024
🤖Also on Android
$103/mo · 46K ratings · 3.2★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$190K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $255K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 (122 MB) | +$28K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$15K |
| ⚙ 16.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$97K |
Total estimate
$190K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$16.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $12.5M – $21.5M · 22× MRR multiple
💸
~87× 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 |
| 📅 16.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
22× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
12.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
430K
Daily active
125K
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 |
| 📅 16.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
29% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 122 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-09 · 3 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 3 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$772K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$761K – $1.0M
12 months
$818K – $1.3M
24 months
$978K – $1.8M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 57/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.9
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
5.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $309K - $1699K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.69★ across 204,805 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 = $13.9M-$24.7M.
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:
| High install base (204,805 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 |
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 · v6.45.0
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Chegg Study - Homework Help
- Developer
- Chegg, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.chegg.mobile.consumer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, KO, ES, TR
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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $772K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#66 /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 growth204,651 ratings+58877% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #66 / 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#66 now · best #66 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Get ready for exam season with the Chegg Study® app.
Used by millions of students, the Chegg Study app is the homework helper which offers school help and personalized support for each of your courses—from homework to exam prep, study your courses inside-out and learn your own way. Tap into our huge library of millions of fully explained, step-by-step solutions, and flashcards for subjects including Math, English, Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, and more.
Get school help for 80 subjects and hundreds of courses and flashcards.… View full description on the official store →
Used by millions of students, the Chegg Study app is the homework helper which offers school help and personalized support for each of your courses—from homework to exam prep, study your courses inside-out and learn your own way. Tap into our huge library of millions of fully explained, step-by-step solutions, and flashcards for subjects including Math, English, Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, and more.
Get school help for 80 subjects and hundreds of courses and flashcards.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 122 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v6.45.0🔄 updated 3d ago🌐 EN, KO, ES, TR📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (16y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v6.42.0 → v6.44.0
→ 30 days after: reviews −38 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v6.41.0 → v6.42.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.9K/mo · reviews −40 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v6.40.0 → v6.41.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.9K/mo · reviews −100 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews −60 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +3.25★ · reviews +204,324 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.45 → 4.70 (improved 3.25★)
→ 30 days after: rating +3.25★ · reviews +204,324 medium · co-occurring
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +3.25★ · reviews +204,326 medium · co-occurring
2024-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +55 medium · co-occurring
2024-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.15★ · reviews +119 low · multiple changes
2024-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +64 medium · co-occurring
2024-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +64 medium · co-occurring
2024-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +64 medium · co-occurring
2024-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.33 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +64 medium · co-occurring
2024-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +64 medium · co-occurring
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #15Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
homework helper·#15🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — chegg.com
- Tech stack
- Anthropic · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · Shopify · Stripe · Zoho
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Chegg Study - Homework Help: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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✓ Diversified — top app contributes 27%; risk spread across portfolio
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 204,805 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Chegg Study - Homework Help make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Chegg Study - Homework Help earns approximately $772K/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.
Is Chegg Study - Homework Help profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $190K and monthly revenue $772K, Chegg Study - Homework Help looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Chegg Study - Homework Help have?▴
Estimated audience: ~12.0M lifetime downloads, ~430K monthly active users, and ~125K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Chegg Study - Homework Help?▴
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What is Chegg Study - Homework Help built with?▴
Our heuristic places Chegg Study - Homework Help on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Chegg Study - Homework Help still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Chegg Study - Homework Help sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $16.5M (marketplace range $12.5M – $21.5M). Calculated as 22× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Chegg Study - Homework Help last updated?▴
Chegg Study - Homework Help last shipped a new version on 2026-10-09 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Chegg Study - Homework Help?▴
Chegg Study - Homework Help is published by Chegg, 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 Chegg Study - Homework Help's BU Score?▴
Chegg Study - Homework Help has a BU Score of 78/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.