MonkeyMote Music Remote
65
Quality Score
Solid
MonkeyMote Music Remote
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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MonkeyMote Music Remote is an iOS app from Martin Tofall in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.4★ across 142 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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💰 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v2.8.10
iOS 14 local network privacy support
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- MonkeyMote Music Remote
- Developer
- Martin Tofall
- Bundle ID
- com.obsidium.monkeymote4winamp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- MonkeyMote is a music remote control app for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android supporting Winamp, foobar2000, MediaMonkey, JRiver Media Center and AIMP
- 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
- $16.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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.
📈Ratings growth142 ratings+14100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 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 → $1.99 (+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
MonkeyMote gives you a full-fledged wireless music remote control for your iPhone or iPod touch. It supports several popular media players:
• Winamp
• MediaMonkey
• JRiver Media Center
• AIMP
The app connects to your Windows PC via your WiFi network and allows you to view information about currently playing tracks and control every important playback feature.
Key features:
• Playback control
• Display song information, lyrics and cover art
• View and control the current playlist
• Browse and search your media library
• Load playlists from your media library
• Create and edit playlists… View full description on the official store →
• Winamp
• MediaMonkey
• JRiver Media Center
• AIMP
The app connects to your Windows PC via your WiFi network and allows you to view information about currently playing tracks and control every important playback feature.
Key features:
• Playback control
• Display song information, lyrics and cover art
• View and control the current playlist
• Browse and search your media library
• Load playlists from your media library
• Create and edit playlists… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 4 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v2.8.10🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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
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Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
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Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2023-02
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Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-01
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 13× MRR multiple
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~5.0× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
13× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
28K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.6K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for MonkeyMote Music Remote: 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: 142 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does MonkeyMote Music Remote make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, MonkeyMote Music Remote earns approximately $16K/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 MonkeyMote Music Remote?▴
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Who makes MonkeyMote Music Remote?▴
MonkeyMote Music Remote is published by Martin Tofall 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 MonkeyMote Music Remote's BU Score?▴
MonkeyMote Music Remote has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.