Plants by Tinybop
60
Quality Score
Solid
Plants by Tinybop
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Plants by Tinybop is an iOS app from Tinybop Inc. in the News category, currently rated 4.3★ across 34 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 60: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$1.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.1K – $3.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.0K – $9.0K
per month
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
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$299/mo · 349 ratings · 2.6★
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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
📈
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 (449 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$250K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $325K · 13× MRR multiple
💸
~2.3× 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 |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
13× MRR
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.2K/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
$1.1K – $2.5K
12 months
$1.1K – $3.9K
24 months
$1.0K – $9.0K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.5
Product Quality
3.4
Revenue Strength
3.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $495 - $3096/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.26★ across 34 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1251d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (1251d 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 = $22K-$39K. Portfolio play ($90K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (58 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (34 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.
🆕 What's New · v1.2.5
Updated for iOS 16.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Plants by Tinybop
- Developer
- Tinybop Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.Tinybop.PlantsEL02
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AF, SQ, AR, EU, BN, BG, KM, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, DE, EL, HT, HE, HI, HU, IS, ID, GA, IT, JA, KO, LA, LV, MS, NB, FA, PL, PT, PA, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, SL, ES, SW, SV, TL, TA, TE, TH, BO, ZH, TR, UG, UK, UR, UZ, VI, CY
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
- $18.5K/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.
📈Ratings growth34 ratings+386% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (37 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $2.99 (+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
Unearth the secrets of the green kingdom! Explore interactive dioramas of the forest, desert, and grasslands. Dozens of species spring to life & new surprises arise with every adventure in this STEM-aligned digital sandbox.
“If all apps were like Tinybop’s, we wouldn’t worry so much about our kids staring at screens.” — WIRED
Plants is No. 2 in Tinybop’s Explorer’s Library series, designed for curious kids ages 4+ to dive deep into big ideas.… View full description on the official store →
“If all apps were like Tinybop’s, we wouldn’t worry so much about our kids staring at screens.” — WIRED
Plants is No. 2 in Tinybop’s Explorer’s Library series, designed for curious kids ages 4+ to dive deep into big ideas.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 449 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v1.2.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AF, SQ, AR, EU, BN +53📂 News💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 ↓ 5.00 → 4.26 (dropped 0.74★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.84 → 5.00 (improved 1.16★)
2014-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.60 (dropped 0.40★)
2014-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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✓ Diversified — top app contributes 20%; risk spread across portfolio
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 34 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Plants by Tinybop make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Plants by Tinybop earns approximately $18K/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 Plants by Tinybop?▴
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Who makes Plants by Tinybop?▴
Plants by Tinybop is published by Tinybop 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 Plants by Tinybop's BU Score?▴
Plants by Tinybop 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.