Meanwhile: Interactive Comic
56
Quality Score
Solid
Meanwhile: Interactive Comic
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Meanwhile: Interactive Comic is an iOS app from Zarfhome Software Consulting in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.1★ across 10 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 56: 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
$1.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.3K – $4.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.2K – $10.8K
per month
INDIE tier
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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 ~6 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 (55 MB) | +$2K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $200K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~2.5× 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 |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.5K/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
$1.3K – $3.0K
12 months
$1.3K – $4.7K
24 months
$1.2K – $10.8K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
3.3
Revenue Strength
3.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
1.8
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $594 - $3718/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.1★ across 10 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 247d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $26K-$47K. Portfolio play ($10K/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 6 of 6 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 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.1★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (10 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 · v1.7.8
Updated for iOS 26.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Meanwhile: Interactive Comic
- Developer
- Zarfhome Software Consulting
- Bundle ID
- com.eblong.meanwhile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 9+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- The Beyond: An Interactive Comic Book
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $10.6K/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
- zarf@zarfhome.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- zarfhome.com/support.html
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth10 ratings+233% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (15 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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
MEANWHILE: an interactive comic by Jason Shiga
On the way home from the ice cream store, little Jimmy discovers a mad scientist’s wonderland: an experimental mind-reading helmet, a time machine, and a doomsday device that can annihilate the human race. Which one would you like to test out first?
MEANWHILE is not an ordinary comic. YOU make the choices that determine how the story unfolds. MEANWHILE splits off into thousands of different adventures. Most will end in DOOM and DISASTER. Only one path will lead you to happiness and success.… View full description on the official store →
On the way home from the ice cream store, little Jimmy discovers a mad scientist’s wonderland: an experimental mind-reading helmet, a time machine, and a doomsday device that can annihilate the human race. Which one would you like to test out first?
MEANWHILE is not an ordinary comic. YOU make the choices that determine how the story unfolds. MEANWHILE splits off into thousands of different adventures. Most will end in DOOM and DISASTER. Only one path will lead you to happiness and success.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 55 MB🔞 9+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v1.7.8🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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 ↑ 3.00 → 4.10 (improved 1.10★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.73 → 3.00 (dropped 1.73★)
2013-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2011-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 6 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3★ | 2 | 3★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.59999★ | 5 | 4.59999★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.09999★ | 10 | 4.09999★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 10 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Meanwhile: Interactive Comic is a early-stage iOS app in the food & drink space with weak public traction — only 10 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Meanwhile make per month?▴
Our model estimates Meanwhile earns roughly $10K/mo, but with only 10 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
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Who makes Meanwhile?▴
Meanwhile is published by Zarfhome Software Consulting 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 Meanwhile's BU Score?▴
Meanwhile has a BU Score of 56/100 (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.