Keybuild
55
Quality Score
Solid
Keybuild
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Keybuild is an iOS app from James Froggatt in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.2★ across 43 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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
$2.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.4K – $8.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.2K – $19.8K
per month
INDIE tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
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
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.9y 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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 12× 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 |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
High confidence · 95%
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📝 Stack mentioned in store description | Native iOS (SwiftUI) |
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.7K/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
$2.3K – $5.4K
12 months
$2.4K – $8.5K
24 months
$2.2K – $19.8K
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 · 37/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
3.4
Product Quality
3.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.4
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $6K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.21★ across 43 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 613d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (613d 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 = $48K-$86K.
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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (43 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 · v1.7.4
• Makes the Paste option always visible when adding a key, to aid discovery.
• Updated to use iOS 18 SDKs.
• Adds emoji jump option for the unicode picker. (Slow, but doesn’t crash!)
• Various optimisations.
• Updated to use iOS 18 SDKs.
• Adds emoji jump option for the unicode picker. (Slow, but doesn’t crash!)
• Various optimisations.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Keybuild
- Developer
- James Froggatt
- Bundle ID
- James.Keyboard-Editor
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $1.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews27 latest · avg 4.15★ · 59.3% 5★ · 3.7% 1★
5★16 (59%)
4★5 (19%)
3★1 (4%)
2★4 (15%)
1★1 (4%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: love ×4 perfect ×3 amazing ×2 great ×2 recommend ×2Complaints: crash ×2 hate ×1 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Thank you
Thank you for developing this app. I am able to type on iPad with the dvorak left-handed keyboard. I am wondering if this can work with an add on iPad keyboard. Thanks again!…
★★★★★ Really cool app
Keybuild is great. It took me a while to figure out, but now I’ve got a great keyboard. I’m really looking forward to future updates. Worth every penny!…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ This app really needs to have instructions
Couldn’t figure out how to use Unicode to customize a keyboard AT ALL. Would it hurt to put ANYTHING about how to use this app?…
★★☆☆☆ Warning: no autocorrect
I was really excited to find an app that let me customize the size of the keys. I set up my new keyboard and was all ready to go, then started using it and found it doesn’t have autocorrect. It is unusable without it for me.…
📈Ratings growth43 ratings+4200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (28 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $3.99 (+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
Build your own keyboard!
Touchscreen keyboards don't need to be one-size-fits-all, so let's change that! With Keybuild, you choose the layout, the keys, everything.
Keys can be set up to type whatever you want! Letters, greek letters (ɑ, β, ɣ), maths symbols (π, ∫, ∑), arrows (↑→↓←), or even your favourite emoji can be added and organised depending on your needs.
Create multiple ‘panes’, each containing keys arranged using a stack-based layout, and switch between them with either an automatic menu, or direct links.… View full description on the official store →
Touchscreen keyboards don't need to be one-size-fits-all, so let's change that! With Keybuild, you choose the layout, the keys, everything.
Keys can be set up to type whatever you want! Letters, greek letters (ɑ, β, ɣ), maths symbols (π, ∫, ∑), arrows (↑→↓←), or even your favourite emoji can be added and organised depending on your needs.
Create multiple ‘panes’, each containing keys arranged using a stack-based layout, and switch between them with either an automatic menu, or direct links.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 2 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.7.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $3.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.15 → 4.50 (improved 0.35★)
2023-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.25 (dropped 0.75★)
2021-01
🚀
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 | 4.2093★ | 43 | 4.2093★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.5★ | 8 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.66667★ | 6 | 2.66667★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.66667★ | 6 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.33333★ | 3 | 3.33333★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 43 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 Keybuild make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Keybuild earns approximately $1.3K/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 Keybuild?▴
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Who makes Keybuild?▴
Keybuild is published by James Froggatt 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 Keybuild's BU Score?▴
Keybuild has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.