ReadAnywhere
71
Quality Score
Strong
ReadAnywhere
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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ReadAnywhere is an iOS app from McGraw-Hill in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.6★ across 10,318 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
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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
$90K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $120K
$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 (128 MB) | +$31K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$8K |
Total estimate
$90K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
140K
Daily active
28K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
Below median · 44/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
7.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
5.7
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.2
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.63★ across 10,318 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -2.95 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (10,318 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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 · v4.3.1
- Improved UI for a cleaner, more intuitive experience.
- Faster, more fluid interactions across the app.
- Bug fixes and stability improvements.
- Faster, more fluid interactions across the app.
- Bug fixes and stability improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- ReadAnywhere
- Developer
- McGraw-Hill
- Bundle ID
- com.mhe.read.anywhere
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Find the path to what's possible.
- Description
- Navigate your educational journey with McGraw Hill. We provide essential tools and resources for both instructors and students to foster effective learning.
- 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
- $1.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/MHEducation
- linkedin.com/company/mcgraw-hill-educ…
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/McGrawHillEducation · instagram instagram.com/mheducation · linkedin linkedin.com/company/mcgraw-hill-educ… · twitter twitter.com/MHEducation · youtube youtube.com/watch?v=kG2JzZedK3k
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- mheducation.com/prek-12/purchase/cont…
- About page
- mheducation.com/highered/discipline/h…
📈Ratings growth10,318 ratings+22% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 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
Read or study when it's convenient for you with the McGraw Hill ReadAnywhere app. ReadAnywhere gives users access to McGraw Hill tools including the eBook and adaptive assignments in Connect and the McGraw Hill eBook. Take notes, highlight and complete assignments offline - all of your work will sync next time you open ReadAnywhere when online. Log in with your McGraw Hill Connect or McGraw Hill eBook username & password to start learning – anytime, anywhere!
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 128 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v4.3.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 ↑ 2.22 → 4.63 (improved 2.41★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.60 → 2.22 (dropped 2.38★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.23 → 4.60 (improved 2.37★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.17 → 2.86 (dropped 0.31★)
2017-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.33 (dropped 1.17★)
2017-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2017-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 404 reviews across 3 markets● 49% positive · ● 9% neutral · ● 42% negative · Rating drift: -2.95★ (declining — recent 50: 1.68★ vs lifetime: 4.63★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.26
🇺🇸 US
+0.10
🇨🇦 CA
-0.01
Top praise themes
read anywhere ×7 life saver ×4 dark mode ×3 between sections ×3 audio function ×3 left off ×3 read textbook ×3 apple pencil ×3
Top complaint themes
log doesn ×17 doesn log ×16 dark mode ×14 read aloud ×11 doesn work ×9 read book ×9 please fix ×9 copy paste ×7
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.73684★ | 76 | 4.73684★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 5 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.4897★ | 874 | 4.4897★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.5★ | 18 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.76923★ | 13 | 4.76923★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.74545★ | 55 | 4.74545★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.62791★ | 43 | 4.62791★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.59259★ | 27 | 4.59259★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.62504★ | 10,313 | 4.62504★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for ReadAnywhere: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 10,318 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does ReadAnywhere make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, ReadAnywhere earns approximately $1.1K/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 ReadAnywhere?▴
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Who makes ReadAnywhere?▴
ReadAnywhere is published by McGraw-Hill 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 ReadAnywhere's BU Score?▴
ReadAnywhere has a BU Score of 71/100 (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.