Manga Reader Manga Man
61
Quality Score
Solid
Manga Reader Manga Man
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Manga Reader Manga Man is an iOS app from Tran Phong in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.4★ across 311 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 61: 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO 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
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.9y 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 (117 MB) | +$26K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$7K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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
31K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.3K
Daily active
860
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
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 36/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.6
Product Quality
6.1
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.36★ across 311 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 673d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (673d since update).
🎯 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($3K/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 7 of 7 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (311 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v1.0.3
- hot fix crash on ios 17.6
- add interface Dark Mode
- improve performance
- add interface Dark Mode
- improve performance
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Manga Reader Manga Man
- Developer
- Tran Phong
- Bundle ID
- com.viettelbuilding.mangaman.today
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Read manga offline, anywhere - Unleash your passion with the ultimate app
- Description
- Manga MAN - Manga Reader
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $3.7K/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
- Socials
- Not found
- tranphong.dev2005@gmail.com
- Phone
- +84 899 888 399
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth311 ratings+1537% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (48 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (28 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
Manga MAN: Discover your next favorite manga with an extensive library of titles and a user-friendly interface. Enjoy seamless reading and stay updated with regular chapter updates.
Explore the world of manga: Access a vast library of thousands of books, meticulously selected from more than 50 sources.
Easy Discovery: Discover new favorites with ease.
Seamless Reading: Enjoy a smooth, uninterrupted experience with customizable reading modes (continue) and orientation options (portrait, left to right, right to left).
Download on demand: Read offline anytime, anywhere.… View full description on the official store →
Explore the world of manga: Access a vast library of thousands of books, meticulously selected from more than 50 sources.
Easy Discovery: Discover new favorites with ease.
Seamless Reading: Enjoy a smooth, uninterrupted experience with customizable reading modes (continue) and orientation options (portrait, left to right, right to left).
Download on demand: Read offline anytime, anywhere.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 117 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v1.0.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.18 (improved 0.51★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 4.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.33 (improved 0.33★)
2024-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Manga Reader Manga Man: 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: 311 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Manga Reader Manga Man make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Manga Reader Manga Man earns approximately $3.7K/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 Manga Reader Manga Man?▴
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Who makes Manga Reader Manga Man?▴
Manga Reader Manga Man is published by Tran Phong 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 Manga Reader Manga Man's BU Score?▴
Manga Reader Manga Man has a BU Score of 61/100 (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.