ListenPal
52
Quality Score
Solid
ListenPal
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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ListenPal is an iOS app from SoulZ AI Inc. in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.4★ across 37 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 52: 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
$2.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.8K – $6.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.7K – $15.3K
per month
INDIE tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (84 MB) | +$13K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$6K |
Total estimate
$70K
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat
6 months
$1.8K – $4.2K
12 months
$1.8K – $6.6K
24 months
$1.7K – $15.3K
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 signalRevenue Strength
3.3
Product Quality
3.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.1
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $839 - $5247/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.41★ across 37 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $37K-$67K.
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 5 of 5 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 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| New app (6 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (37 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 · v2.4.3
1. Book Details Upgrade: Explore our redesigned book detail pages to get richer information and a smoother browsing experience.
2. Fix some bugs.
2. Fix some bugs.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- ListenPal
- Developer
- SoulZ AI Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.oversea.bardai
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- 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
- $144/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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews7 latest · avg 4.0★ · 57.1% 5★ · 0% 1★
5★4 (57%)
4★1 (14%)
3★0 (0%)
2★2 (29%)
1★0 (0%)
+2 ratings/week
Praise: love ×1 great ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ 好评
应用功能非常实用，点赞！…
★★★★★ Great App
help me to listen anything…
Top negative
★★☆☆☆ Alpha bride
The story just cut off in the middle.…
★★☆☆☆ False advertising
The app is not for listening to actual audio books. It summarizes and gives you a couple “episodes” not to mention the filtering is awful. Certainly not worth the money.…
📈Ratings growth42 ratings+4100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (8 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (6 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
ListenPal: Your Immersive Audio Story World
ListenPal is an audio entertainment app for discovering immersive serialized stories. Explore a curated collection of audio series designed for screen-free listening, with expressive narration, background music, and atmospheric sound design.
Enjoy engaging stories across drama, fantasy, mystery, and other fiction genres. Each episode is crafted with vivid characters, clear storytelling, and well-paced plot development, making it easy to follow and enjoy wherever you are.
Why Choose ListenPal?
• Curated Story Library… View full description on the official store →
ListenPal is an audio entertainment app for discovering immersive serialized stories. Explore a curated collection of audio series designed for screen-free listening, with expressive narration, background music, and atmospheric sound design.
Enjoy engaging stories across drama, fantasy, mystery, and other fiction genres. Each episode is crafted with vivid characters, clear storytelling, and well-paced plot development, making it easy to follow and enjoy wherever you are.
Why Choose ListenPal?
• Curated Story Library… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 84 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.4.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 ↓ 4.80 → 4.41 (dropped 0.39★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
🚀
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 | 4.0465★ | 43 | 4.0465★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 37 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 ListenPal make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, ListenPal earns approximately $143/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 ListenPal?▴
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Who makes ListenPal?▴
ListenPal is published by SoulZ AI Inc. 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 ListenPal's BU Score?▴
ListenPal has a BU Score of 52/100 (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.