Rock Identifier: Gesteins
81
Quality Score
Excellent
Rock Identifier: Gesteins
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Rock Identifier: Gesteins is an iOS app from Next Vision Limited in the Education category, currently rated 4.7★ across 71,031 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 81: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Education 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
📈
Pays back in ~8 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 (224 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Education 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 · 17× MRR multiple
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~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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
6.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.1M
Daily active
315K
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 · 57/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.2
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.3
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.67★ across 71,031 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 (71,031 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (14 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 |
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 · v2.19.2
A few minor bugs have been fixed for smoother user experience.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Rock Identifier: Gesteins
- Developer
- Next Vision Limited
- Bundle ID
- com.picturerock.rock
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Discover 1,000+ Rock Types
- Description
- Online rock encyclopedia and rock identifier, Try out Rock Identifier app on your phone and identify thousands of rocks for free, AI rock expert in your pocket
- 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
- $14.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#31 /100 🇨🇦#32 /100 🇬🇧#52 /100 🇦🇺#60 /100 🇩🇪#72 /100 🇫🇷#82 /100 🇯🇵#86 /100
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/Rock-Identifier-10160491…
- support@rockidentifier.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth72,111 ratings+112% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (29 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank8 countries
🇺🇸US#31 /100
🇨🇦CA#32 /100
🇬🇧GB#52 /100
🇦🇺AU#60 /100
🇩🇪DE#72 /100
🇫🇷FR#82 /100
🇯🇵JP#86 /100
🇧🇷BR#91 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#31 now · best #30 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Rock Identifier is an all-in-one stone, crystal, mineral, and gemstone identifier. Simply take or upload a photo of a rock or crystal, and the app will tell you all about it in seconds.
Want to know the name of a stone you discovered in your rock hounding? Are you curious about the different properties of each stone and crystal you own? Looking to learn about rock and crystal knowledge? Don't miss this powerful stone identifier and crystal guidebook. We will satisfy all your needs!
Rock & Mineral & Crystal Identifier… View full description on the official store →
Want to know the name of a stone you discovered in your rock hounding? Are you curious about the different properties of each stone and crystal you own? Looking to learn about rock and crystal knowledge? Don't miss this powerful stone identifier and crystal guidebook. We will satisfy all your needs!
Rock & Mineral & Crystal Identifier… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 224 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.19.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, DE +9📂 Education💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 ↑ 3.75 → 4.67 (improved 0.92★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.75 → 4.60 (improved 0.85★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2025-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2025-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.54584★ | 3,283 | 4.54584★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.66648★ | 72,111 | 4.66648★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Rock Identifier: Gesteins: 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: 71,031 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Rock Identifier make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Rock Identifier earns approximately $14K/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.
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Who makes Rock Identifier?▴
Rock Identifier is published by Next Vision Limited 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 Rock Identifier's BU Score?▴
Rock Identifier 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.