Kindle
92
Quality Score
Transcendent
Kindle
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This app dominates the digital book consumption niche, directly competing with other e-reading platforms like Apple Books and Google Play Books, along with audiobook-focused apps. Its substantial user rating, backed by millions of reviews, clearly signals deeply entrenched market traction and a mature growth stage. The relatively modest estimated monthly revenue, despite its massive user base, suggests a monetization strategy heavily reliant on driving content sales outside the app, or through subscription models like Kindle Unlimited where the revenue isn't fully attributed to in-app purchases. For this category, a common monetization observation is that while the app itself is often free, the primary revenue driver is the sale of digital content, with in-app purchases typically limited to subscriptions or single-title purchases, not a high price-per-download for the app itself. The focus is on ecosystem lock-in and volume of content sales rather than direct app-based revenue.
BU Score 92 · Transcendent — category-leading momentum. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$18.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$18.5M – $24.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$20.6M – $30.9M
per month
MEGA tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 (185 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$400K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $300K – $500K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~4.0× return on build cost
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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
562.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
78.5M
Daily active
15.5M
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
$18.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$17.7M – $21.7M
12 months
$18.5M – $24.6M
24 months
$20.6M – $30.9M
Compound growth at +1.5% MoM (tier baseline for MEGA). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±10% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 62/100MEGA TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.5
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
7.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Strong — $7.2M - $36.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.86★ across 5,627,169 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 32-48× monthly = $576.0M-$864.0M.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (5,627,169 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| 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 · v7.59
Several Bug fixes and improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Kindle
- Developer
- AMZN Mobile LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.amazon.Lassen
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- www.amazon.com
- 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
- $3.5K ($2.4K – $5.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $42.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $21.8K/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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Kindle" by AMZN Mobile LLC is estimated to generate between $2,400 and $5,000 in monthly revenue, with a central estimate of $3,500, leading to an annual estimate of $42,000. This low direct revenue is primarily due to Amazon's strategy of directing users to purchase Kindle books outside the app to avoid Apple's in-app purchase commissions.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Reddit, Apple App Store
📈Ratings growth5,627,169 ratings+30% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (8 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
READ ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
On the bus, on your break, in your bed—never be without a book. Kindle books you have purchased on Amazon will automatically appear in your app. Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime members can select and download Kindle books directly in the app.
FIND YOUR NEXT GREAT READ
• Read the books you buy on Amazon in the Kindle app. Choose from over six million Kindle books (including those with Audible narration), magazines, and comics and start reading in seconds.… View full description on the official store →
On the bus, on your break, in your bed—never be without a book. Kindle books you have purchased on Amazon will automatically appear in your app. Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime members can select and download Kindle books directly in the app.
FIND YOUR NEXT GREAT READ
• Read the books you buy on Amazon in the Kindle app. Choose from over six million Kindle books (including those with Audible narration), magazines, and comics and start reading in seconds.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 185 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v7.59🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +5📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.88 → 4.70 (improved 0.82★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2026-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #16Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
amazon shopping·#16🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — amazon.com
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · AWS SES · Stripe
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.78482★ | 227,978 | 4.78482★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.91103★ | 443,435 | 4.91103★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.78603★ | 305,965 | 4.78603★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.7443★ | 310,722 | 4.7443★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.76184★ | 127,165 | 4.76184★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.81012★ | 780,641 | 4.81012★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.76915★ | 173,469 | 4.76915★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.59223★ | 1,096,954 | 4.59223★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.85717★ | 5,658,426 | 4.85717★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Kindle: 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 high confidence: 5,627,169 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Kindle make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Kindle earns approximately $21K/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 Kindle?▴
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Who makes Kindle?▴
Kindle is published by AMZN Mobile 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 Kindle's BU Score?▴
Kindle has a BU Score of 92/100 (Transcendent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.