Free Books - 23,469 Classics For Less Than A Cup Of Coffee. An Extensive Ebooks And Audiobooks Library
49
Quality Score
Emerging
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Free Books - 23,469 Classics For Less Than A Cup Of Coffee. An Extensive Ebooks And Audiobooks Library is an iOS app from Digital Press Publishing in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 3.0★ across 55 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 49: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID 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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3 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 (72 MB) | +$8K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 11× MRR multiple
💸
~3.5× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
11× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 39/100MID TIERno growth momentumRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
2.4
Market Position
1.8
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
6.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.04★ across 55 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3836d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (3836d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($52K/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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (55 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v4.1.5
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
Bug fixes and stability improvements
Bug fixes and stability improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Free Books - 23,469 Classics For Less Than A Cup Of Coffee. An Extensive Ebooks And Audiobooks Library
- Developer
- Digital Press Publishing
- Bundle ID
- com.spreadsong.freebooks
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Classicly
- Description
- Classicly is a open library portal which offers to read free books online and download in Kindle, ePub, and PDF formats.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
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
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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 growth55 ratings+-88% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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 → $0.99 (+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
Free Books for iPhone is the world's favorite paid book app. Browse our handpicked ebook collections, download any one of our 23,469 classic books instantly, and read with our fully featured ereader. On the go? We save your place in the book automatically.
We've crafted handpicked collections to make browsing the extensive ebook library a snap, and commissioned hundreds of custom book covers to bring you Cover Mode. This is the world of public domain literature like never before.
Unlike "free" apps that charge you $10 a book, with Free Books once you pay, everything's included.… View full description on the official store →
We've crafted handpicked collections to make browsing the extensive ebook library a snap, and commissioned hundreds of custom book covers to bring you Cover Mode. This is the world of public domain literature like never before.
Unlike "free" apps that charge you $10 a book, with Free Books once you pay, everything's included.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 72 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 7.0+🔖 v4.1.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 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
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.04 (dropped 1.96★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.20 → 5.00 (improved 0.80★)
2024-11
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2012-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 6 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.07143★ | 56 | 3.07143★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1.33333★ | 6 | 1.33333★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.41667★ | 12 | 2.41667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 55 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Free Books - 23,469 Classics For Less Than A Cup Of Coffee. An Extensive Ebooks And Audiobooks Library make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Free Books - 23,469 Classics For Less Than A Cup Of Coffee. An Extensive Ebooks And Audiobooks Library 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 Free Books - 23,469 Classics For Less Than A Cup Of Coffee. An Extensive Ebooks And Audiobooks Library?▴
Free Books - 23,469 Classics For Less Than A Cup Of Coffee. An Extensive Ebooks And Audiobooks Library is published by Digital Press Publishing 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 Free Books - 23,469 Classics For Less Than A Cup Of Coffee. An Extensive Ebooks And Audiobooks Library's BU Score?▴
Free Books - 23,469 Classics For Less Than A Cup Of Coffee. An Extensive Ebooks And Audiobooks Library has a BU Score of 49/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.