e-Sword LT: Bible Study to Go
68
Quality Score
Solid
e-Sword LT: Bible Study to Go
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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e-Sword LT: Bible Study to Go is an iOS app from Rick Meyers in the Reference category, currently rated 4.8★ across 7,025 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a Reference 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
$15.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$15.9K – $33.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$19.6K – $58.9K
per month
MID tier
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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
$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 ~5.0y 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 |
| ⚙ Reference complexity ×0.90 | $-5049 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 16× MRR multiple
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~0.2× 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% |
| 🏷 Reference category multiple | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
225K
Daily active
33K
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
| 📲 Reference engagement | ~180 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Reference D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$15.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$14.5K – $24.2K
12 months
$15.9K – $33.2K
24 months
$19.6K – $58.9K
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 · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.9
Product Quality
8.7
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $10K - $22K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.84★ across 7,025 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 320d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $275K-$490K.
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:
| Paid app ($3.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| user friendlyREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (7,025 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| feature richREVIEW | +$1,300 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 |
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 · v13.3
Fixed random audio Bible issues and improved access reliability!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- e-Sword LT: Bible Study to Go
- Developer
- Rick Meyers
- Bundle ID
- net.e-sword.e-Sword-LT
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Reference
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, PT, ES
Company
- Website
- www.e-sword.net
- Tagline
- e‑Sword
- Description
- e-Sword: Free Bible Study for the PC
- 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
- $752/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Reference
- 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
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- e-sword.net/support.html
- About page
- e-sword.net/history.html
📈Ratings growth7,025 ratings+49% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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 → $3.99 (+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
e-Sword® — the world's most popular PC Bible study software is now available on the world's most advanced mobile operating system! e-Sword LT is the little brother of e-Sword HD for the iPad, but has many of the same powerful features in a slimmer design for the iPhone. e-Sword LT is feature rich and user friendly. As your Biblical library grows you will appreciate the intuitive layout and synchronization of resources. e-Sword LT is so easy to use you may never need to read the Tutorial!
EVERYTHING NEEDED to study the Bible in an enjoyable and enriching manner.… View full description on the official store →
EVERYTHING NEEDED to study the Bible in an enjoyable and enriching manner.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 21 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v13.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, PT, ES📂 Reference💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 $3.99 price point
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.38 → 4.84 (improved 0.46★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v13.3
2017-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-04
🚀
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 | 4.83012★ | 312 | 4.83012★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.54783★ | 115 | 4.54783★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.8079★ | 354 | 4.8079★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.73913★ | 46 | 4.73913★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.55556★ | 18 | 4.55556★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.76154★ | 260 | 4.76154★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.71186★ | 59 | 4.71186★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.45763★ | 59 | 4.45763★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83606★ | 7,027 | 4.83606★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for e-Sword LT: Bible Study to Go: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 7,025 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does e-Sword LT make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, e-Sword LT earns approximately $751/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 e-Sword LT?▴
e-Sword LT is published by Rick Meyers 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 e-Sword LT's BU Score?▴
e-Sword LT has a BU Score of 68/100 (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.