Level It Books
39
Quality Score
Emerging
Level It Books
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Level It Books is an iOS app from KTL Mobile Apps LLC in the News category, currently rated 1.9★ across 142 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 39: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News 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
$654
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$572 – $2061
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$530 – $4768
per month
INDIE tier
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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
🤖Also on Android
$3.7K/mo · 275 ratings · 2.2★
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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 ~3 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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $275K · 11× MRR multiple
💸
~3.3× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
11× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
17K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.5K
Daily active
1.1K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$654/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
$557 – $1.3K
12 months
$572 – $2.1K
24 months
$530 – $4.8K
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 · 35/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
2.8
Product Quality
2.6
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $261 - $1635/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.85★ across 142 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3861d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (3861d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $11K-$20K. Portfolio play ($23K/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 9 of 9 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (1.9★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Early-stage install base (142 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)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 · v3.0.1
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
v3.0.1
‣ Squashed some bugs from our last update.
v.3.0.0
‣ Cloud Syncing! Easily access all of your data across iOS devices.… Full release notes →
v3.0.1
‣ Squashed some bugs from our last update.
v.3.0.0
‣ Cloud Syncing! Easily access all of your data across iOS devices.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Level It Books
- Developer
- KTL Mobile Apps LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.ktlmobileapps.levelItBooks
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- 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
- $19.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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 Reviews49 latest · avg 1.29★ · 2.0% 5★ · 85.7% 1★
5★1 (2%)
4★2 (4%)
3★0 (0%)
2★4 (8%)
1★42 (86%)
+14 ratings/week
Praise: recommend ×3 perfect ×1 love ×1 great ×1Complaints: refund ×8 terrible ×2 crash ×1 hate ×1 expensive ×1
Top positive
★★★★☆ Good, but needs cleaned up
I’ve been able to find a majority of the levels that I need, but some of them I have to dig for. The barcode option is wonderful, but sometimes it comes up with no information for any of the level types. However, if you search the title man…
★★★★☆ Limited Selection
This app gave level information for only about 10% of my classroom library. Glad I got a free trial. Now it’s time to cancel because this app is definitely NOT worth money. Very disappointed because the scan feature would have been super co…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ App needs leveled up
Don’t waste your money or time. Very disappointed. Scan is touchy and takes too long to register. So far 1 of 4-5 of our books are in database with grade level (reason I bought app) and our books are all normal assigned reading in public sc…
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t Scan
The app clearly hasn’t been updated in years. The keyboard is old iPhone style and the phone camera scanner doesn’t work, it’s just blurry and won’t scan. Waste of my money.…
📈Ratings growth142 ratings+-25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 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 → $4.99 (+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
Visit levelitbooks.com for any questions you have about the app!
A library management app that allows you to scan your books' ISBNs to view the Guided Reading, Lexile®, Grade Level Equivalent, and DRA levels for the book and store them in a personalized library. You can build your leveled library quickly by searching our comprehensive database of over 300K books spanning those 4 leveling standards. We have a passion for education and our goals are to help you organize your classroom library and to alleviate the struggles associated with finding the levels of books.… View full description on the official store →
A library management app that allows you to scan your books' ISBNs to view the Guided Reading, Lexile®, Grade Level Equivalent, and DRA levels for the book and store them in a personalized library. You can build your leveled library quickly by searching our comprehensive database of over 300K books spanning those 4 leveling standards. We have a passion for education and our goals are to help you organize your classroom library and to alleviate the struggles associated with finding the levels of books.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 7 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v3.0.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2013-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2013-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.50 (improved 0.50★)
2013-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Level It Books: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 84% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 142 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Level It Books make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Level It Books earns approximately $19K/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.
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Who makes Level It Books?▴
Level It Books is published by KTL Mobile Apps 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 Level It Books's BU Score?▴
Level It Books has a BU Score of 39/100 (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.