GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed.
44
Quality Score
Emerging
GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed.
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed. is an iOS app from The Japan Times Publishing, Ltd. in the News category, currently rated 2.7★ across 21 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 44: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News 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
$1.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.5K – $5.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.4K – $12.4K
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 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
🤖Also on Android
$1.2K/mo · 77 ratings · 3.0★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~7 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 (99 MB) | +$19K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$14K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 11× MRR multiple
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~1.5× build cost (break-even+)
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% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
11× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$1.5K – $3.4K
12 months
$1.5K – $5.4K
24 months
$1.4K – $12.4K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 38/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
2.2
Revenue Strength
3.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.8
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $681 - $4261/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.71★ across 21 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 = $30K-$54K. Portfolio play ($22K/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 6 of 6 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.7★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (21 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 · v1.4
We have complied with the latest age rating settings. The app content remains unchanged.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed.
- Developer
- The Japan Times Publishing, Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- jp.co.japantimes.genkikanji2
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- ジャパンタイムズ出版のウェブサイトです。TOEIC・英検などの試験対策書、ニュースで学ぶ英語学習書、「げんき」シリーズをはじめとする外国人向けの日本語学習書などを紹介しています。ダウンロード用無料音声の案内や、学習に役立つコラム・イベント情報も掲載中。
- 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
- $11.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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
- facebook facebook.com/japantimespub · twitter twitter.com/japantimespub
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- bookclub.japantimes.co.jp/company/cc1…
📈Ratings growth21 ratings+2000% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (14 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $6.99 (+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
Learn basic kanji through kanji words:
GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed. is an app that helps users become able to recognize 317 basic kanji by studying more than 1,100 kanji words at their own pace!
This is the official iPhone app from the 3rd edition of GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, a best-selling series of Japanese learning materials boasting more than 2 million copies sold.
Advantages
◆ Users can view the kanji words as they like, enabling them to study at their own pace.… View full description on the official store →
GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed. is an app that helps users become able to recognize 317 basic kanji by studying more than 1,100 kanji words at their own pace!
This is the official iPhone app from the 3rd edition of GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, a best-selling series of Japanese learning materials boasting more than 2 million copies sold.
Advantages
◆ Users can view the kanji words as they like, enabling them to study at their own pace.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 99 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v1.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 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 ↑ 2.00 → 2.71 (improved 0.71★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $6.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.58 → 2.00 (dropped 0.58★)
2025-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.75 → 2.40 (dropped 0.35★)
2023-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 2.75 (improved 0.42★)
2023-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
2022-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 21 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed. is a small / niche iOS app in the news space with weak public traction — only 21 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
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed. make per month?▴
Our model estimates GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed. earns roughly $11K/mo, but with only 21 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed.?▴
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Who makes GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed.?▴
GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed. is published by The Japan Times Publishing, Ltd. 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 GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed.'s BU Score?▴
GENKI Kanji for 3rd Ed. has a BU Score of 44/100 (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.