GALATEA: Bücher & Hörbücher
78
Quality Score
Strong
GALATEA: Bücher & Hörbücher
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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GALATEA: Bücher & Hörbücher is an iOS app from Inkitt in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.6★ across 265,946 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink 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
$2.2M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.3M – $3.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.8M – $5.2M
per month
BIG tier
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- 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
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.1y 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 (167 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
26.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.7M
Daily active
740K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.2M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$2.2M – $2.9M
12 months
$2.3M – $3.6M
24 months
$2.8M – $5.2M
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
Concerning · 53/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.6
Product Quality
9.2
Revenue Strength
6.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $880K - $4840K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.62★ across 265,946 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 = $39.6M-$70.4M.
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:
| High install base (265,946 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 |
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 · v17.0.3
Hot girl summer prep starts with hot app updates
We tuned up the speed, squashed the bugs, and made everything run smoother than your favorite slow-burn payoff.
May is for momentum - in your TBR and in your app experience.… Full release notes →
We tuned up the speed, squashed the bugs, and made everything run smoother than your favorite slow-burn payoff.
May is for momentum - in your TBR and in your app experience.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- GALATEA: Bücher & Hörbücher
- Developer
- Inkitt
- Bundle ID
- org.reactjs.native.Inkitt.App.Colt
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, PL, PT, RU, ES, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Get an extra 20% off unlimited access to thousands of best-selling romance novels
- Description
- Read our bestselling fiction series. Werewolf & shifter romance, billionaire bad boys, contemporary romance, fantasy & thriller, available in eBook and audiobook.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $2.5M ($2.0M – $3.0M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $30.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $4.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#2 /100 🇫🇷#3 /100 🇨🇦#5 /100 🇬🇧#6 /100 🇧🇷#6 /100 🇦🇺#7 /100 🇮🇳#12 /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
- Socials
- discord discord.com/invite/4E8HeDVt5B · facebook facebook.com/groups/galatea.stories · instagram instagram.com/galatea.stories · tiktok tiktok.com/@galatea.stories
- support@galatea.zendesk.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- galatea.com/en/p/about
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "GALATEA: Bücher & Hörbücher" by Inkitt is estimated to generate between $2 million and $3 million in monthly revenue, with a central estimate of $2.5 million. This leads to an estimated annual revenue of $30 million. Recent Sensor Tower data indicates monthly revenues of $1 million each for the US and German iOS markets. An Adapty source also suggests a monthly revenue of $3 million for the iOS platform.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty, Forbes, Tech.eu, Jane Friedman, Trend Hunter, ScreensDesign
📈Ratings growth265,946 ratings+30% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (9 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank8 countries
🇩🇪DE#2 /100
🇫🇷FR#3 /100
🇨🇦CA#5 /100
🇬🇧GB#6 /100
🇧🇷BR#6 /100
🇦🇺AU#7 /100
🇮🇳IN#12 /100
🇺🇸US#14 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#2 now · best #2 · worst #48
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Experience pure joy on the Galatea App!
- Unlimited access to thousands of delicious romance stories and audiobooks
- Join a community of 15 million women who read and listen on the Galatea App for a joyful recharge
- Absorb yourself with the wildest, hottest romance stories–available whenever, wherever you like
- Your me-time just got a major upgrade with bestsellers added every week
- The deepest collection of trending romance genres and tropes
Read Bestselling Romance Stories and More:
- Lose yourself in stories that span multiple seasons ultimate me-time… View full description on the official store →
- Unlimited access to thousands of delicious romance stories and audiobooks
- Join a community of 15 million women who read and listen on the Galatea App for a joyful recharge
- Absorb yourself with the wildest, hottest romance stories–available whenever, wherever you like
- Your me-time just got a major upgrade with bestsellers added every week
- The deepest collection of trending romance genres and tropes
Read Bestselling Romance Stories and More:
- Lose yourself in stories that span multiple seasons ultimate me-time… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 167 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v17.0.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 FR, DE, ID, IT, JA +5📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 ↑ 4.26 → 4.61 (improved 0.35★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2026-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.33 (improved 0.33★)
2026-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — galatea.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · SendGrid
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.47725★ | 18,596 | 4.47725★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.79824★ | 40,577 | 4.79824★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.4981★ | 26,717 | 4.4981★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.40573★ | 43,997 | 4.40573★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.50462★ | 40,493 | 4.50462★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.54239★ | 34,499 | 4.54239★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.49529★ | 3,927 | 4.49529★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.54219★ | 640 | 4.54219★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.61592★ | 268,430 | 4.61592★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for GALATEA: Bücher & Hörbücher: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 265,946 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does GALATEA make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, GALATEA earns approximately $4.0K/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 GALATEA?▴
GALATEA is published by Inkitt 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 GALATEA's BU Score?▴
GALATEA 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.