Royal Road - Read Stories
76
Quality Score
Strong
Royal Road - Read Stories
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Royal Road - Read Stories is an iOS app from Not Yet Media LTD in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 4,271 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 76: 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
$12.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$12.5K – $26.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$15.5K – $46.4K
per month
MID 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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~9 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 (213 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 17× MRR multiple
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~1.8× build cost (break-even+)
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
425K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
59K
Daily active
11K
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
19% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$12.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$11.5K – $19.1K
12 months
$12.5K – $26.2K
24 months
$15.5K – $46.4K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
8.6
Revenue Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.7
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $8K - $18K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.8★ across 4,271 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $217K-$386K.
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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| Low install base (4,271 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v2.42
- Fix: Corrupted data on downloads page.
- Fix: On some devices, if next chapter is auto loaded within 3 minutes of app minimization or screen lock; when screen is unlocked or app was maximized, the app jumped back to that auto loaded chapter which loaded within 3 minutes, no… Full release notes →
- Fix: On some devices, if next chapter is auto loaded within 3 minutes of app minimization or screen lock; when screen is unlocked or app was maximized, the app jumped back to that auto loaded chapter which loaded within 3 minutes, no… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Royal Road - Read Stories
- Developer
- Not Yet Media LTD
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $10.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth4,702 ratings+1944% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (50 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (29 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 Timeline4 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
Your main source for Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. Find many stories within your new favorite genres such as Progression Fantasy, Litrpg, Portal Fantasy and Isekai stories, among many others.
Explore over 50,000 novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
Royal Road Premium - Subscribe to our Premium service to receive the following features:
- Ad-free reading experience
- Downloading chapters for offline reading
- Premium badge on your comments
- Itemized reading history of individual chapters read… View full description on the official store →
Explore over 50,000 novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
Royal Road Premium - Subscribe to our Premium service to receive the following features:
- Ad-free reading experience
- Downloading chapters for offline reading
- Premium badge on your comments
- Itemized reading history of individual chapters read… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 213 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.42🔄 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.04 → 4.80 (improved 0.76★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2023-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-10
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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 | 4.83959★ | 293 | 4.83959★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.95238★ | 42 | 4.95238★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.80278★ | 360 | 4.80278★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.77974★ | 227 | 4.77974★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.81818★ | 55 | 4.81818★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.78125★ | 352 | 4.78125★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.74193★ | 62 | 4.74193★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.7619★ | 21 | 4.7619★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.81991★ | 4,692 | 4.81991★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Royal Road - Read Stories: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 4,271 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Royal Road - Read Stories make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Royal Road - Read Stories earns approximately $10K/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 Royal Road - Read Stories?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
Who makes Royal Road - Read Stories?▴
Royal Road - Read Stories is published by Not Yet Media 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 Royal Road - Read Stories's BU Score?▴
Royal Road - Read Stories has a BU Score of 76/100 (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.