Home Tab for Safari
49
Quality Score
Emerging
Home Tab for Safari
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Home Tab for Safari is an iOS app from Stefan Van Damme in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.4★ across 14 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 49: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Utilities 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
$1.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$953 – $3437
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$883 – $7950
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
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~6 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 (98 MB) | +$19K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-10466 |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 10× MRR multiple
💸
~1.7× 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% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
10× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.1K/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
$928 – $2.2K
12 months
$953 – $3.4K
24 months
$883 – $8.0K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 38/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
2.7
Revenue Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.7
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $436 - $2727/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.36★ across 14 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 187d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $19K-$34K. Portfolio play ($10K/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 (3.4★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (23 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (14 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 · v1.13
+ Support for iOS 26
+ Translation update
If you like Home Tab, the best way to support the app is by sharing it with others, so please consider telling your friends and family about Home Tab!… Full release notes →
+ Translation update
If you like Home Tab, the best way to support the app is by sharing it with others, so please consider telling your friends and family about Home Tab!… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Home Tab for Safari
- Developer
- Stefan Van Damme
- Bundle ID
- com.stefanvd.hometabsafari
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Stefan Van Damme - Browser Extension Developer | Google Developer Expert
- Description
- Google Developer Expert creating browser extensions like Turn Off the Lights (2M+ users). Free Chrome, Firefox, Edge extensions. Featured on ZDNET, CNET.
- 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
- $10.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- x.com/intent/follow?screen_name=stefanvd
- linkedin.com/in/stefan-van-damme
- 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
- linkedin linkedin.com/in/stefan-van-damme · twitter x.com/intent/follow?screen_name=stefanvd · youtube youtube.com/@stefanvandamme?sub_confi…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- stefanvd.net/support
- About page
- stefanvd.net/about
📈Ratings growth14 ratings+1300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (12 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $1.99 (+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
Sets your new tab page to a beautiful and inspiring background scene that personally greets you, tailored to the time of day. That will brighten up your day when you open a new page in your Safari web browser. The Home Tab for Safari is a simple and elegant dashboard. It provides options to display the current time and date, a warm greeting, a search box, and a speed dial of shortcuts. Additionally, you can toggle everything off, allowing Safari to open a dark blank page.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 98 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v1.13🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 CS, DA, NL, EN, FI +18📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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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 ↓ 5.00 → 3.36 (dropped 1.64★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.50 → 5.00 (improved 2.50★)
2023-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.40 → 3.00 (dropped 0.40★)
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.75 → 3.40 (dropped 0.35★)
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.33 → 3.75 (improved 0.42★)
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
2021-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
2021-09
🚀
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 | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.35714★ | 14 | 3.35714★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 14 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Home Tab for Safari is a early-stage iOS app in the utilities space with weak public traction — only 14 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 Home Tab for Safari make per month?▴
Our model estimates Home Tab for Safari earns roughly $10K/mo, but with only 14 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 Home Tab for Safari?▴
Browse the full Utilities 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 Home Tab for Safari?▴
Home Tab for Safari is published by Stefan Van Damme 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 Home Tab for Safari's BU Score?▴
Home Tab for Safari has a BU Score of 49/100 (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.