Hardcover.app
43
Quality Score
Emerging
Hardcover.app
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Hardcover.app is an iOS app from Hardcover LLC in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 3.5★ across 48 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 43: 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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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
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
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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 · 37/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
2.8
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.8
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.5★ across 48 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $9K-$16K.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (48 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 · v2.1.2
The app will now open on the new Dashboard home page, which gives you quick-access to your currently reading books, stats and more.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hardcover.app
- Developer
- Hardcover LLC
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $184/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth48 ratings+4700% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (22 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
Hardcover is a book tracking app with a social side, built for readers, not algorithms.
Add books you’ve read or want to read. Keep your library tidy with lists and tags.
See what your friends are reading, explore trending picks, and discover hidden gems through curated lists.
Rate, review, and share your thoughts. Make your profile public, private, or friends-only—your reading, your rules.
Set goals, track your stats, and find your reading rhythm.
We use Apple's standard Terms of Service (EULA). https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Add books you’ve read or want to read. Keep your library tidy with lists and tags.
See what your friends are reading, explore trending picks, and discover hidden gems through curated lists.
Rate, review, and share your thoughts. Make your profile public, private, or friends-only—your reading, your rules.
Set goals, track your stats, and find your reading rhythm.
We use Apple's standard Terms of Service (EULA). https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 6 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.1.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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 →
2025-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2023-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.11538★ | 52 | 4.11538★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.93333★ | 15 | 3.93333★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.45455★ | 11 | 3.45455★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.72727★ | 11 | 4.72727★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3★ | 3 | 3★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 48 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 Hardcover.app make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hardcover.app earns approximately $183/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 Hardcover.app?▴
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Who makes Hardcover.app?▴
Hardcover.app is published by Hardcover LLC 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 Hardcover.app's BU Score?▴
Hardcover.app has a BU Score of 43/100 (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.