45
Quality Score
Emerging
Parallel Texts Reader
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Parallel Texts Reader is an iOS app from Ivan Savchenko in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.0★ across 10 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 45: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink app, that means early traction worth watching. 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$500/mo
In 12 months
$437 – $1575
In 24 months
$405 – $3644
INDIE tier
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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
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since first record
💰 Estimated build cost
$135K
Likely range $100K – $180K
$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 |
| ⚙Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙12.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$77K |
Total estimate$135K
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦App bundle size | 2 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2019-03-13 · 2627 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅7y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥Small user base (10 ratings) + 12.9y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| •13y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/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
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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
Pre-traction · 35/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
3.2
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.0★ across 10 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2627d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2627d 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 = $9K-$16K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.0★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (9 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 2 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v1.3.4🔄 updated 7y ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, RU +4📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (12y old)
📝 About this app
Application for reading books with parallel translation. Allows you to listen and see the translation of any sentence while reading. Constantly updated library of books - we are adding books every month.
Now the library has more then 370 books:
- English - Russian
- English - French
- English - German
- English - Italian
- English - Spanish
- English - Ukrainian
- English - Polish
- English - Chinese
- Russian - English
- Russian - French
- French - Russian
- French - English
- French - Ukrainian
- French - Polish
- Spanish - Russian
- Spanish - English
- Spanish - Ukrainian… View full description on the official store →
Now the library has more then 370 books:
- English - Russian
- English - French
- English - German
- English - Italian
- English - Spanish
- English - Ukrainian
- English - Polish
- English - Chinese
- Russian - English
- Russian - French
- French - Russian
- French - English
- French - Ukrainian
- French - Polish
- Spanish - Russian
- Spanish - English
- Spanish - Ukrainian… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.3.4
- iPhone X support
- subscription removed, all books are free now
- subscription removed, all books are free now
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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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.55 → 4.80 (improved 1.25★)
2023-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.33 (dropped 1.17★)
2014-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2014-02
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4★ | 10 | 4★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3★ | 2 | 3★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Parallel Texts Reader
- Developer
- Ivan Savchenko
- Bundle ID
- bymer.Reader
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, UK
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $86/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews10 latest · avg 3.6★ · 40.0% 5★ · 20.0% 1★
5★4 (40%)
4★2 (20%)
3★2 (20%)
2★0 (0%)
1★2 (20%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×3 love ×1 perfect ×1 awesome ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Великолепно!
Это именно то, что я искал. Огромное спасибо автору. Особенно порадовали книги с аудио. И читаешь, и слова новые изучаешь, тут же тебе произносят, как правильно. Огромное спасибо автору. Премного благодарен, надеюсь, проект не будет заброше…
★★★★★ Add more
Can you add more audio books?…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn‘t work anymore
Please help, I can‘t download any books anymore. I had a book I was reading. I wanted to go back and refresh the list. Now I got nothing. Deletedthe App…
★☆☆☆☆ Zero functionality.
I would really like this app to work, but I get a "Language List Failed to Load" error on startup. I hope this gets developed further: parallel text reading on the iPad seems like a great opportunity.…
📈Ratings growth10 ratings+900% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (12 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Parallel Texts Reader: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.