Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts
77
Quality Score
Strong
Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts is an iOS app from Pearson Education, Inc. in the Education category, currently rated 4.8★ across 57,774 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 77: Strong (healthy traction). For a Education 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- 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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Pays back in ~4.9y 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 (507 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× build cost (under-water)
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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
4.9M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
880K
Daily active
260K
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 58/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.7
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.83★ across 57,774 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (57,774 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (15 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v1.3.80
Usability improvements and bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts
- Developer
- Pearson Education, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.pearson.plus
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Where learning comes to life
- Description
- Discover all Pearson has to offer for every step of your learning journey.
- 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
- $1.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- x.com/pearson
- linkedin.com/company/pearson
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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 growth57,774 ratings+100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (53 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.
📝 About this app
The Pearson+ mobile app provides you access to all your Pearson eTextbooks in one place, as well as curated bite-sized video explanations of complex topics for your toughest college courses. Get started by logging in with the same username and password you created via the web-based version of Pearson+.
Feature highlights:
-- Anytime, anywhere access to eTextbook content and embedded media assets
-- Short video explanations of complex topics to help you succeed in the classroom
-- Ability to easily create and refer to your notes and highlights within the eTextbook… View full description on the official store →
Feature highlights:
-- Anytime, anywhere access to eTextbook content and embedded media assets
-- Short video explanations of complex topics to help you succeed in the classroom
-- Ability to easily create and refer to your notes and highlights within the eTextbook… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 507 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.3.80🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, ID +10📂 Education💰 Free
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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 ↑ 2.61 → 4.83 (improved 2.22★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.61 → 4.80 (improved 2.19★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.20 → 2.67 (improved 0.47★)
2022-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2022-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.33 (improved 0.33★)
2022-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2022-06
🚀
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 | 4.77684★ | 354 | 4.77684★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.92307★ | 26 | 4.92307★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.73848★ | 4,562 | 4.73848★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.55224★ | 67 | 4.55224★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.14286★ | 35 | 4.14286★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.58277★ | 151 | 4.58277★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.84821★ | 112 | 4.84821★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.60526★ | 76 | 4.60526★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.8265★ | 58,324 | 4.8265★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts: 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: 57,774 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts earns approximately $1.9K/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 Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts?▴
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Who makes Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts?▴
Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts is published by Pearson Education, Inc. 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 Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts's BU Score?▴
Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts 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.