Goodreads: Book Tracker & More
87
Quality Score
Excellent
Goodreads: Book Tracker & More
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Goodreads: Book Tracker & More is an iOS app from Goodreads in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 724,398 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 87: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Food & Drink app, that means strong product-market fit. 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 tierFREE
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
🤖Also on Android
$3.1K/mo · 189K ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 (91 MB) | +$16K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$6K |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $375K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~3.7× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
72.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
10.0M
Daily active
2.0M
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 · 50/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
8.1
Revenue Strength
6.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
6.9
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $880K - $4840K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.81★ across 724,398 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.45 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (724,398 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v4.34.0
This release contains several bug fixes and improvements, including the Did Not Finish (DNF) shelf. Update the app to see the new shelf!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Goodreads: Book Tracker & More
- Developer
- Goodreads
- Bundle ID
- com.goodreads.Goodreads
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.goodreads.com
- Tagline
- Goodreads
- Description
- Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.
- 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
- $15.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/goodreads
- linkedin.com/company/goodreads-com
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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/Goodreads · instagram instagram.com/goodreads · linkedin linkedin.com/company/goodreads-com · twitter twitter.com/goodreads
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- goodreads.com/genres/self-help
- About page
- goodreads.com/about/terms
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The iOS app "Goodreads: Book Tracker & More" is free to use and does not generate direct revenue through in-app purchases or subscriptions. The overall Goodreads platform, however, generates revenue primarily through advertising and affiliate marketing, with annual estimates ranging from $5.0 million to $500 million for the entire platform.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Goodreads Help, Apple App Store, Vizologi, Quora, Vendo, Medium, Hardcover, Automateed, Growjo
📈Ratings growth724,398 ratings+16% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (16 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 app
Discover stories that matter to you, from readers like you. Goodreads is the world's largest community of readers.
Find new and interesting books by browsing personalized recommendations based on books you've read and your favorite genres. See what your friends are reading, write book reviews, and keep track of what you want to read. Goodreads is a free service for book tracking, recommendations and reviews.
Use our barcode scanner the next time you are in a bookstore. Add the book in your hands to your "Want To Read" shelf and browse reviews before buying.
Features:… View full description on the official store →
Find new and interesting books by browsing personalized recommendations based on books you've read and your favorite genres. See what your friends are reading, write book reviews, and keep track of what you want to read. Goodreads is a free service for book tracking, recommendations and reviews.
Use our barcode scanner the next time you are in a bookstore. Add the book in your hands to your "Want To Read" shelf and browse reviews before buying.
Features:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 91 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v4.34.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.74 → 4.70 (improved 0.96★)
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 4.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2025-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 50 reviews across 1 markets● 72% positive · ● 6% neutral · ● 22% negative · Rating drift: -1.45★ (declining — recent 50: 3.36★ vs lifetime: 4.81★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Top praise themes
about read ×3 books ×17 reading ×12 reader ×6 reviews ×6 track ×5 readers ×5 keep ×5
Top complaint themes
reviews ×6 update ×5 fix ×5 books ×4 impossible ×3 experience ×3 please ×3 shows ×3
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 8%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.72474★ | 40,899 | 4.72474★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.8314★ | 9,935 | 4.8314★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.74225★ | 77,268 | 4.74225★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.6997★ | 16,177 | 4.6997★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.74744★ | 10,528 | 4.74744★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.75781★ | 86,523 | 4.75781★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.70668★ | 16,112 | 4.70668★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.63255★ | 1,407 | 4.63255★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.8144★ | 727,537 | 4.8144★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Goodreads: Book Tracker & More: 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 high confidence: 724,398 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Goodreads make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Goodreads earns approximately $15K/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 Goodreads?▴
Goodreads is published by Goodreads 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 Goodreads's BU Score?▴
Goodreads has a BU Score of 87/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.