Navigation Marks
0
Quality Score
Niche
Navigation Marks
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Navigation Marks is an iOS app from Smirnov Yury in the News category, currently rated — across few ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 0: Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a News app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage. 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
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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
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 · 43/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
0.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.3
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: None★ across 0 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K.
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.
📈 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 · v1.4
- New realistic buoy illustrations for the main navigation marks
- Clearer detail screens with day/night preview support
- Better layout and spacing on iPad
- Refined dark mode contrast, typography and touch feedback
- Clearer detail screens with day/night preview support
- Better layout and spacing on iPad
- Refined dark mode contrast, typography and touch feedback
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Navigation Marks
- Developer
- Smirnov Yury
- Bundle ID
- edu.SmirnovYury.NavigationMarks
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, RU
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Jigsaw Puzzles
- Description
- rofessional iOS and Android apps for puzzle games, marine navigation training, VHF radio communication, learning COLREGs rules, and vessel lights identification for sailors and yachtsmen
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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.
🌍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
Navigation Marks is a compact reference for skippers, sailors and students learning the IALA Maritime Buoyage System.
Quickly identify lateral marks for Regions A and B, cardinal marks, isolated danger marks, safe water marks, special marks and new danger marks. Each entry shows the buoy shape, colour scheme, topmark and light rhythm so you can revise recognition rules before a course, exam or time on the water.
Why it helps:
- Covers the main IALA buoyage marks in one place
- Includes day and night views where available
- Explains colours, shapes, topmarks and light characteristics… View full description on the official store →
Quickly identify lateral marks for Regions A and B, cardinal marks, isolated danger marks, safe water marks, special marks and new danger marks. Each entry shows the buoy shape, colour scheme, topmark and light rhythm so you can revise recognition rules before a course, exam or time on the water.
Why it helps:
- Covers the main IALA buoyage marks in one place
- Includes day and night views where available
- Explains colours, shapes, topmarks and light characteristics… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 28 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v1.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, RU📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2026-03
🚀
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 | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2★ | 1 | 2★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 0 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Navigation Marks is a very early-stage iOS app in the news space with weak public traction — only 0 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
3 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Navigation Marks make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Navigation Marks has only 0 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$86/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
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Who makes Navigation Marks?▴
Navigation Marks is published by Smirnov Yury 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.