LeReader
60
Quality Score
Solid
LeReader
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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LeReader is an iOS app from Luyao Hong in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.1★ across 550 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 60: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink 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
$5.9K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.1K – $18.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.8K – $42.9K
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
$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 ~1.4y 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 (146 MB) | +$38K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$8K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
55K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.7K
Daily active
1.5K
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
19% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$5.0K – $11.7K
12 months
$5.1K – $18.6K
24 months
$4.8K – $42.9K
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
Early-stage solo · 42/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.8
Product Quality
5.7
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.2
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $2K - $14K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.1★ across 550 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 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 = $106K-$188K.
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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Good rating (4.1★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (550 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 · v2.27.0
fixed some bugs
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- LeReader
- Developer
- Luyao Hong
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, FR, ES, TH
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
- $5.9K/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 growth550 ratings+111% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (40 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.
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
Hello! For every reader, LeReader is an awesome novel reading app! LeReader is a partner of Letterlux. It has the the best authors and classic books from all over the world, with a wide range of novels and a comfortable reading experience for you to enjoy anytime, anywhere.
--WHY LeReader?--
-Newcomer's Gift Package
Charge up and get a discount, but the quality of the novels will not be discounted!
-Read anytime, anywhere
On the bus, in bed - whenever you want! The LeReader app puts tens of thousands of books at your fingertips.
-Unlimited free books… View full description on the official store →
--WHY LeReader?--
-Newcomer's Gift Package
Charge up and get a discount, but the quality of the novels will not be discounted!
-Read anytime, anywhere
On the bus, in bed - whenever you want! The LeReader app puts tens of thousands of books at your fingertips.
-Unlimited free books… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 146 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.27.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, ES, TH📂 Food & Drink💰 Free
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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 ↑ 3.45 → 4.11 (improved 0.66★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.10 → 3.45 (dropped 0.65★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.46 → 4.10 (improved 0.64★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2021-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.10952★ | 557 | 4.10952★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4★ | 65 | 4★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.11765★ | 17 | 4.11765★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.4★ | 5 | 2.4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.16667★ | 6 | 3.16667★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.75556★ | 45 | 3.75556★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.9697★ | 33 | 3.9697★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for LeReader: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 550 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does LeReader make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, LeReader earns approximately $5.9K/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 LeReader?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink 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 LeReader?▴
LeReader is published by Luyao Hong 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 LeReader's BU Score?▴
LeReader has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.