Exam Countdown - School & Uni
73
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Exam Countdown - School & Uni is an iOS app from ROOT38 LIMITED in the Education category, currently rated 4.7★ across 1,609 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
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
31 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
1,609 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
31
since May 2015
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$160K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $120K – $215K
$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 (102 MB) | +$20K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$14K |
| ⚙ 12.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$74K |
Total estimate
$160K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $11.5M – $20.0M · 22× MRR multiple
💸
~97× 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 |
| 📅 12.5y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
Final multiple
22× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
95K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
6.3K
Daily active
1.8K
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 |
| 📅 12.5y 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 | 102 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-09-25 · 36 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
| 📅 36 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
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 · 59/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
8.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
7.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 1,609 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (1,609 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| ad freeREVIEW | +$1,300 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v5.8
iOS 27 Ready! A bigger widget, and a round of fixes for the Home Screen.
• New: the Upcoming Exams widget, formerly Next 4 Exams, now comes in an extra-large size that shows up to eight exams at once. Find it on iPad, and on iPhone with iOS 27.… Full release notes →
• New: the Upcoming Exams widget, formerly Next 4 Exams, now comes in an extra-large size that shows up to eight exams at once. Find it on iPad, and on iPhone with iOS 27.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Exam Countdown - School & Uni
- Developer
- ROOT38 LIMITED
- Bundle ID
- com.root38.ExamOrganiser2014
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, HI, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, 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
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- 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 growth1,639 ratings+163800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (31 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
Exam Countdown is the beautifully simple countdown, planner and widget app for every exam that matters. Counting down since 2015, rated 4.7 stars from over 30,000 ratings.
The original exam countdown app, used by students, teachers and schools in over 100 countries.
Count down to the ones that count: matric prelims, trials and NSC finals, GCSE and A Level papers, IB, SQA Highers, university finals, coursework and homework deadlines, driving theory, music grades and every test in between.
CALENDAR VIEW
See your whole semester on a month grid, color coded, with every exam a tap away.… View full description on the official store →
The original exam countdown app, used by students, teachers and schools in over 100 countries.
Count down to the ones that count: matric prelims, trials and NSC finals, GCSE and A Level papers, IB, SQA Highers, university finals, coursework and homework deadlines, driving theory, music grades and every test in between.
CALENDAR VIEW
See your whole semester on a month grid, color coded, with every exam a tap away.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 102 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v5.8🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, HI +7📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v5.7 → v5.8
→ 30 days after: reviews +19 high confidence
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 4 of 4 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +19 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v5.4 → v5.7
→ 30 days after: reviews +24 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.2 → v5.4
→ 30 days after: revenue +$41.3K/mo high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.25 → 4.70 (improved 0.45★)
2024-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 4.09 (dropped 0.31★)
2018-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2015-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
4 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-08-31
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-08-31
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-08-31
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-08-31
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.70167★ | 1,676 | 4.70167★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.69074★ | 11,107 | 4.69074★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.63372★ | 172 | 4.63372★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.70807★ | 161 | 4.70807★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.83333★ | 12 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.72816★ | 206 | 4.72816★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.59504★ | 242 | 4.59504★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.72727★ | 33 | 4.72727★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.47754★ | 423 | 4.47754★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Exam Countdown - School & Uni: 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 medium confidence: 1,609 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Exam Countdown - School & Uni make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Exam Countdown - School & Uni earns approximately $700K/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 Exam Countdown - School & Uni profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $700K, Exam Countdown - School & Uni 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 Exam Countdown - School & Uni have?▴
Estimated audience: ~95K lifetime downloads, ~6K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Exam Countdown - School & Uni?▴
Browse the full Education category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Exam Countdown - School & Uni built with?▴
Our heuristic places Exam Countdown - School & Uni 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 Exam Countdown - School & Uni still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Exam Countdown - School & Uni sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $15.5M (marketplace range $11.5M – $20.0M). 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 Exam Countdown - School & Uni last updated?▴
Exam Countdown - School & Uni last shipped a new version on 2026-09-25 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Exam Countdown - School & Uni?▴
Exam Countdown - School & Uni is published by ROOT38 LIMITED 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 Exam Countdown - School & Uni's BU Score?▴
Exam Countdown - School & Uni has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.