21
Quality Score
Niche
EIB & ESB Digital Handbook
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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EIB & ESB Digital Handbook is an iOS app from Robert LeGrand in the News category, currently rated 1.8★ across 4 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 21: Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a News app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage. 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO 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
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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
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$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 |
| ⚙News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| ⚙2.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$17K |
Total estimate$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 12× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× 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 |
| 📅2.9y proven track record | +15% |
| ⭐★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple12× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 27 MB |
| 🏷Category context | News |
| 📦Compact iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2023-06-20 · 1070 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅2y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥Small user base (4 ratings) + 2.9y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 30/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.0
Product Quality
1.4
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.0
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.8★ across 4 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($975/mo combined) commands premium.
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 ($3.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Below-average rating (1.8★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (4 ratings)METRIC | −$300 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 27 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v0.03🔄 updated 2y ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2023 (2y old)
📝 About this app
This application was designed to give Soldiers a digital study guide for the Expert Infantryman and Expert Soldier's Badge. The information provided derives from USAIS Pamphlet 350-6 (Expert Infantryman's Badge) and TRADOC Regulation 672-9 (Expert Soldier's Badge), the governing regulation for training and testing requirements. Additionally, this application contains the updated physical fitness requirements for ESB Candidates. The ultimate key for success is to master the fundamentals and repetition. Always follow the grader's instruction.
Included:
- Physical Assessment Requirements… View full description on the official store →
Included:
- Physical Assessment Requirements… View full description on the official store →
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.50 → 1.80 (dropped 0.70★)
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $3.99 price point
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2023-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 1.75★ | 4 | 1.75★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- EIB & ESB Digital Handbook
- Developer
- Robert LeGrand
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $976/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth4 ratingsShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (4 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
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 analysis
Why low confidence: only 4 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
EIB & ESB Digital Handbook is a very early-stage iOS app in the news space with weak public traction — only 4 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
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does EIB & ESB Digital Handbook make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. EIB & ESB Digital Handbook has only 4 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$975/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like EIB & ESB Digital Handbook?▴
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What is EIB & ESB Digital Handbook built with?▴
Our heuristic places EIB & ESB Digital Handbook on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (Swift / UIKit).
Is EIB & ESB Digital Handbook still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was EIB & ESB Digital Handbook last updated?▴
EIB & ESB Digital Handbook last shipped a new version on 2023-06-20 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes EIB & ESB Digital Handbook?▴
EIB & ESB Digital Handbook is published by Robert LeGrand 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 EIB & ESB Digital Handbook's BU Score?▴
EIB & ESB Digital Handbook has a BU Score of 21/100 (Niche). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.