Histo!
57
Quality Score
Solid
Histo!
Low confidence
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Histo! is an iOS app from John Ash in the Education category, currently rated 5.0★ across 29 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For a Education 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
$2.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.1K – $7.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.9K – $17.5K
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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (456 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
Total estimate
$110K
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.4K/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
$2.0K – $4.8K
12 months
$2.1K – $7.6K
24 months
$1.9K – $17.5K
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 · 36/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
3.4
Product Quality
4.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.8
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $961 - $6008/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.97★ across 29 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 644d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (644d 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 = $43K-$76K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($9.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (29 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 · v1.4.03
•The explanation text for the Label, Learn, and Quiz modes on iPads is now presented in a popup window controlled by a button, rather than being squeezed into a small window at the bottom right.
•All Subtopics are now displayed in two scrollable windows on the Subtopic Menu.… Full release notes →
•All Subtopics are now displayed in two scrollable windows on the Subtopic Menu.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Histo!
- Developer
- John Ash
- Bundle ID
- com.learnhisto.histo
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Learn Histology with Histo!
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- 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
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- learnhisto.com/contact
- About page
- learnhisto.com/about
📈Ratings growth29 ratings+2800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (15 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
Histo! helps you learn histology and test your knowledge. It is the favorite study aid of medical and dental students in histology courses at the University of Utah.
The App currently contains 2179 identification slides, based on 547 photomicrographic images. It is organized into 19 Main Topics and 148 Subtopics.
It does not require an internet connection.
NAVIGATION
•Three navigation menus are provided, one to choose among the Main Topics, a second to select Subtopics of the Main Topics, and a Search feature to find slides using 675 keywords.… View full description on the official store →
The App currently contains 2179 identification slides, based on 547 photomicrographic images. It is organized into 19 Main Topics and 148 Subtopics.
It does not require an internet connection.
NAVIGATION
•Three navigation menus are provided, one to choose among the Main Topics, a second to select Subtopics of the Main Topics, and a Search feature to find slides using 675 keywords.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 456 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v1.4.03🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid
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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 →
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $9.99 price point
2020-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-07
🚀
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.96552★ | 29 | 4.96552★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 29 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Histo! is a small / niche iOS app in the education space with weak public traction — only 29 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 Histo! make per month?▴
Our model estimates Histo! earns roughly $86/mo, but with only 29 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 Histo!?▴
Browse the full Education category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
Who makes Histo!?▴
Histo! is published by John Ash 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 Histo!'s BU Score?▴
Histo! has a BU Score of 57/100 (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.