Note Rush: Music Reading Game
60
Quality Score
Solid
Note Rush: Music Reading Game
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Note Rush: Music Reading Game is an iOS app from Thomas Grayston in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.3★ across 2,269 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 60: 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$10.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$10.4K – $21.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$12.8K – $38.5K
per month
MID 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
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (279 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
👥 Estimated audience size
450K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
90K
Daily active
18K
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
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$10.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$9.5K – $15.8K
12 months
$10.4K – $21.7K
24 months
$12.8K – $38.5K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 43/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.4
Product Quality
7.7
Revenue Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $7K - $15K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.29★ across 2,269 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 956d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (956d 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 = $180K-$320K.
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($8.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (2,269 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)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 · v2.01.2
Lots of improvements/fixes in this update:
- Improvements to the Audio Recognition Engine.
- Level Designer has now been given its own dedicated tab at the top of the level selection screen, as it has proven difficult to find in the instrument list!… Full release notes →
- Improvements to the Audio Recognition Engine.
- Level Designer has now been given its own dedicated tab at the top of the level selection screen, as it has proven difficult to find in the instrument list!… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Note Rush: Music Reading Game
- Developer
- Thomas Grayston
- Bundle ID
- com.TGSoftware.NoteRush
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- 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
- $241/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 growth2,269 ratings+10% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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
Learn to Read Music with Note Rush! Note Rush boosts your note reading speed and accuracy, building a strong mental model of where each written note is on your instrument. Now even better with Note Rush: 2nd Edition!
How it Works
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Note Rush is like a virtual flash card deck for all ages that listens to you play each note, giving instant feedback and awarding stars based on speed and accuracy of note identification.
Race against the clock to improve your performance or hide the timer to gently engage those just starting out with the staff.… View full description on the official store →
How it Works
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Note Rush is like a virtual flash card deck for all ages that listens to you play each note, giving instant feedback and awarding stars based on speed and accuracy of note identification.
Race against the clock to improve your performance or hide the timer to gently engage those just starting out with the staff.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 279 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v2.01.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 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 →
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-04
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Went paid — introduced $8.99 price point
2020-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2016-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.50 (dropped 1.50★)
2016-06
🚀
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.23698★ | 384 | 4.23698★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.125★ | 296 | 4.125★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.75★ | 4 | 3.75★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.46154★ | 13 | 4.46154★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.23345★ | 287 | 4.23345★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3★ | 2 | 3★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.88889★ | 18 | 3.88889★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.29309★ | 2,286 | 4.29309★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Note Rush: Music Reading Game: 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: 2,269 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Note Rush make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Note Rush earns approximately $241/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 Note Rush?▴
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Who makes Note Rush?▴
Note Rush is published by Thomas Grayston 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 Note Rush's BU Score?▴
Note Rush has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.