Reading List: Book Tracker
81
Quality Score
Excellent
Reading List: Book Tracker
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Reading List: Book Tracker is an iOS app from Andrew Bennet Ltd in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 29,016 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 81: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Food & Drink app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$22.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$22.8K – $47.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$28.3K – $84.9K
per month
MID tier
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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
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4 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 |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$55K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $350K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~5.0× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.9M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
405K
Daily active
81K
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
$22.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$20.9K – $34.9K
12 months
$22.8K – $47.8K
24 months
$28.3K – $84.9K
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 · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $15K - $33K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 29,016 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $397K-$706K.
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 (29,016 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| 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 · v2.9.0
Hello readers!
Many of you have emailed in to report that the barcode scan or online search was no longer returning results. I've been investigating these issues for some time now, and this update at last switches to a different provider of book metadata.… Full release notes →
Many of you have emailed in to report that the barcode scan or online search was no longer returning results. I've been investigating these issues for some time now, and this update at last switches to a different provider of book metadata.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Reading List: Book Tracker
- Developer
- Andrew Bennet Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.andrewbennet.books
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Reading List
- Description
- Free iOS app for iPhone and iPad, to help track books you've read, books you're reading, and books you want to read. Track your reading progress by recording the start and finish dates of the books in your list.
- 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
- $15.4K/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.
📈Ratings growth29,278 ratings+13% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (32 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
Easily track books you’ve read, books you’re reading, and books you want to read. Record your progress by adding the start and finish date of your books.
ADD NEW BOOKS
• Scan the barcode of a book to quickly add it to your list
• Search online to find and add books
• Alternatively, add a book manually by typing in its details
• Sync your data between all devices via iCloud
TRACK YOUR READING
• Quickly log the dates you start and finish each book with a tap or swipe
• Order the books, to help plan what to read next
• Create your own custom lists, like "Wishlist", "Favourites", etc… View full description on the official store →
ADD NEW BOOKS
• Scan the barcode of a book to quickly add it to your list
• Search online to find and add books
• Alternatively, add a book manually by typing in its details
• Sync your data between all devices via iCloud
TRACK YOUR READING
• Quickly log the dates you start and finish each book with a tap or swipe
• Order the books, to help plan what to read next
• Create your own custom lists, like "Wishlist", "Favourites", etc… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 50 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2.9.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 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 →
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2021-06
🚀
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 | 4.747★ | 2,498 | 4.747★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.88011★ | 367 | 4.88011★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.77045★ | 3,398 | 4.77045★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.75451★ | 721 | 4.75451★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.77273★ | 264 | 4.77273★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.77726★ | 7,619 | 4.77726★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.78113★ | 265 | 4.78113★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.75472★ | 53 | 4.75472★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.82366★ | 29,278 | 4.82366★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Reading List: Book Tracker: 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: 29,016 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Reading List make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Reading List earns approximately $15K/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 Reading List?▴
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Who makes Reading List?▴
Reading List is published by Andrew Bennet Ltd 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 Reading List's BU Score?▴
Reading List has a BU Score of 81/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.