Nerva: Gut-Brain Therapy
77
Quality Score
Strong
Nerva: Gut-Brain Therapy
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Nerva: Gut-Brain Therapy is an iOS app from Mindset Health Pty Ltd in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.7★ across 13,779 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 77: Strong (healthy traction). For a Health & Fitness 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
$15.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$15.9K – $33.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$19.6K – $58.9K
per month
MID tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 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
🤖Also on Android
$428/mo · 6K ratings · 4.5★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$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 (133 MB) | +$33K |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$33K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~2.8× 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% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
960K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
210K
Daily active
73K
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
| 📲 Health & Fitness engagement | ~70 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Health & Fitness D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
35% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$15.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$14.5K – $24.2K
12 months
$15.9K – $33.2K
24 months
$19.6K – $58.9K
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
Building · 55/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive build-outGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
7.8
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
7.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
2.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $10K - $22K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.67★ across 13,779 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 4.3% refund mentions, 9% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected.
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $183K-$336K. Portfolio play ($26K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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:
| Mid install base (13,779 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v51.1
Performance improvements and minor bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Nerva: Gut-Brain Therapy
- Developer
- Mindset Health Pty Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.mindsethealth.ibs
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.mindsethealth.com
- 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
- $18.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇦🇺#28 /100 🇬🇧#85 /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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth13,779 ratings+48% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (51 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇦🇺AU#28 /100
🇬🇧GB#85 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#28 now · best #27 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Fix the miscommunication between your gut and brain. Designed for people living with IBS, functional dyspepsia (FD), GERD, bloating symptoms, and other gut–brain disorders — as well as those seeking additional support alongside IBD care — Nerva is a personalized gut–brain therapy program that supports symptom management through daily sessions, practical tools, and structured guidance.
Target the root cause
Many people spend years cutting out foods in an effort to calm their gut - a difficult path that can miss what’s really driving symptoms.… View full description on the official store →
Target the root cause
Many people spend years cutting out foods in an effort to calm their gut - a difficult path that can miss what’s really driving symptoms.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 133 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v51.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Health & Fitness💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 ↑ 4.03 → 4.67 (improved 0.64★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.03 (dropped 0.47★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.03 → 4.50 (improved 0.47★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.20 → 3.67 (dropped 0.53★)
2023-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2023-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.50 (dropped 1.50★)
2023-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 70 reviews across 2 markets● 69% positive · ● 11% neutral · ● 20% negative · Rating drift: -0.61★ (declining — recent 50: 4.06★ vs lifetime: 4.67★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.44
🇫🇷 FR
+0.24
Top praise themes
nervous system ×4 highly recommend ×4 ibs ×18 program ×17 sessions ×14 week ×11 symptoms ×11 weeks ×9
Top complaint themes
week program ×3 new version ×3 langue française ×3 subscription ×8 hypnotherapy ×7 content ×6 one ×6 expensive ×6
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 4.3% Subscription complaints: 9% Fraud / scam mentions: 1.4%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.62108★ | 6,537 | 4.62108★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.9★ | 20 | 4.9★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.62216★ | 2,906 | 4.62216★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.69955★ | 223 | 4.69955★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.4375★ | 160 | 4.4375★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.52203★ | 4,015 | 4.52203★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.41859★ | 86 | 4.41859★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.66667★ | 9 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.6749★ | 13,891 | 4.6749★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Nerva: Gut-Brain Therapy: 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 high confidence: 13,779 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Nerva make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Nerva earns approximately $17K/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.
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Who makes Nerva?▴
Nerva is published by Mindset Health Pty Ltd 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 Nerva's BU Score?▴
Nerva has a BU Score of 77/100 (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.