Live Transcribe
70
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Live Transcribe is an iOS app from Mighty Fine Apps LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 6,982 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 70: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities app, that means healthy traction. 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
$13.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$14.1K – $29.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$17.5K – $52.5K
per month
MID 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
$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 ~11 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 (94 MB) | +$17K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-10237 |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~1.2× build cost (break-even+)
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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
270K
Daily active
54K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$13.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$13.0K – $21.6K
12 months
$14.1K – $29.6K
24 months
$17.5K – $52.5K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
8.3
Revenue Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $9K - $20K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.61★ across 6,982 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $245K-$437K.
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 14 of 14 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 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (6,982 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v2.65
Live Transcribe by Mighty Fine Apps helps you instantly understand conversations around you, even when hearing aids aren't enough.
We squashed some bugs and made some performance improvements to our transcription.
We squashed some bugs and made some performance improvements to our transcription.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Live Transcribe
- Developer
- Mighty Fine Apps LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.robnorback.LiveTranscribe
- 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
- $5.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#92 /100
- 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
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- apps.apple.com/us/app/foxtale-self-he…
- About page
- apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1406…
📈Ratings growth6,982 ratings+61% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (46 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #92 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#92 now · best #85 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Live Transcribe by Mighty Fine Apps. Accurate live captions for d/Deaf and hard of hearing. Reliable in noisy places and group settings. Perfect alongside hearing aids when they aren’t enough.
BUILT DIFFERENT
• Accuracy — Best-in-class captions in 145+ languages.
• Noisy Places — Works well in restaurants, in groups, and at distance.
• Offline Mode — Continue when Wi-Fi or cellular drops.
• Privacy — You choose if and when to share your transcripts.
• Readability — Large, bold text for tired eyes and distant viewing.
• Speaker Detection — Follow group chats with color-coded words.… View full description on the official store →
BUILT DIFFERENT
• Accuracy — Best-in-class captions in 145+ languages.
• Noisy Places — Works well in restaurants, in groups, and at distance.
• Offline Mode — Continue when Wi-Fi or cellular drops.
• Privacy — You choose if and when to share your transcripts.
• Readability — Large, bold text for tired eyes and distant viewing.
• Speaker Detection — Follow group chats with color-coded words.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 94 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.65🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
20 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 →
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.62 → v2.65
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.4K/mo · reviews +186 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.58 → v2.62
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.4K/mo · reviews +339 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.62 → 4.61 (improved 0.99★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +153 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +153 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −1.00★ · reviews −6,171 low · multiple changes
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.62 → 3.62 (dropped 1.00★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.62 → 4.62 (improved 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2024-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.97 → 3.54 (improved 0.57★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.10★ · reviews +23 high confidence
2023-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.14★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2022-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.13★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2021-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.25★ · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2021-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 low · multiple changes
2021-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.40 → 3.00 (dropped 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.15★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2021-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.40 (improved 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.40★ high confidence
2021-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.67 → 3.00 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.50★ high confidence
2021-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.90★ medium · co-occurring
2021-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.90★ medium · co-occurring
2021-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.90★ medium · co-occurring
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.51961★ | 306 | 4.51961★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.80556★ | 72 | 4.80556★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.46935★ | 571 | 4.46935★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.63157★ | 95 | 4.63157★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.47499★ | 40 | 4.47499★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.55503★ | 1,063 | 4.55503★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.44827★ | 87 | 4.44827★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.44444★ | 63 | 4.44444★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.61937★ | 7,388 | 4.61937★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Live Transcribe: 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 medium confidence: 6,982 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Live Transcribe make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Live Transcribe earns approximately $5.4K/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 Live Transcribe?▴
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Who makes Live Transcribe?▴
Live Transcribe is published by Mighty Fine 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 Live Transcribe's BU Score?▴
Live Transcribe has a BU Score of 70/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.