Hörbücher HQ
65
Quality Score
Solid
Hörbücher HQ
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Hörbücher HQ is an iOS app from Inkstone Software, Inc. in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.6★ across 6,816 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink app, that means established niche player. 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
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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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5.0y 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 |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$55K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
680K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
95K
Daily active
19K
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
Mixed signals · 56/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.5
Product Quality
8.3
Revenue Strength
6.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $880K - $4840K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.63★ across 6,816 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 869d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (869d since update).
🎯 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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (6,816 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (17 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| 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 · v4.18
Support for iOS 17 and bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hörbücher HQ
- Developer
- Inkstone Software, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.inkstonesoftware.audiobooksfree
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, IT, JA, KO, NB, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Audiobooks HQ ™
- Description
- Over 12,500 free audiobooks for iPhone, iPad, and Android
- 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
- $921/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 growth6,816 ratings+1439% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 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.
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
FEATURED ON CNET—this is *the* app for busy people who have a graveyard of eBooks (you know who you are, you well-meaning intellectual, you.)
ROAD TRIP? TRAIN RIDE? JUST TRYING TO TUNE OUT THE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO YOU ON THE PLANE? ;)
With over 895,000 premium audiobooks, and 100,000 free, you can get your wisdom on—and politely protect your headspace.
IT’S LIKE MUSIC...ERRR, NARRATION TO YOUR EARS.… View full description on the official store →
ROAD TRIP? TRAIN RIDE? JUST TRYING TO TUNE OUT THE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO YOU ON THE PLANE? ;)
With over 895,000 premium audiobooks, and 100,000 free, you can get your wisdom on—and politely protect your headspace.
IT’S LIKE MUSIC...ERRR, NARRATION TO YOUR EARS.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 39 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v4.18🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FI, FR +12📂 Food & Drink💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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 ↑ 3.90 → 4.63 (improved 0.73★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.33 (improved 0.33★)
2015-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2015-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.46296★ | 378 | 4.46296★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.59218★ | 358 | 4.59218★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.48366★ | 918 | 4.48366★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.93913★ | 230 | 3.93913★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.93197★ | 147 | 3.93197★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.5645★ | 783 | 4.5645★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.48718★ | 117 | 4.48718★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.17722★ | 79 | 4.17722★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.62837★ | 6,816 | 4.62837★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Hörbücher HQ: 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: 6,816 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Hörbücher HQ make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hörbücher HQ earns approximately $921/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.
What apps are like Hörbücher HQ?▴
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Who makes Hörbücher HQ?▴
Hörbücher HQ is published by Inkstone Software, Inc. 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 Hörbücher HQ's BU Score?▴
Hörbücher HQ has a BU Score of 65/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.