Sapio – General Knowledge
53
Quality Score
Solid
Sapio – General Knowledge
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Sapio – General Knowledge is an iOS app from THETYS LAB in the News category, currently rated 4.6★ across 36 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 53: 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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- 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
📈
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 (284 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 14× MRR multiple
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~0.1× 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% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/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
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
3.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.8
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.56★ across 36 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($1K/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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| New app (12 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (36 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 · v2.2.0
- New onboarding
- New pages
- Bug fixing
- New pages
- Bug fixing
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Sapio – General Knowledge
- Developer
- THETYS LAB
- Bundle ID
- com.thetyslab.sapio
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Coming Back Soon
- Description
- Retroc app
- 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
- $976/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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews4 latest · avg 4.75★ · 75.0% 5★ · 0% 1★
5★3 (75%)
4★1 (25%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★0 (0%)
+1 ratings/week
Praise: great ×3 love ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Great app
We need to be ipad compatible plz…
★★★★★ Great App
This is my first time ever writing review. App is great, very educational and fun. And please can you make create a website for this app? I want to use it on my MacBook. I downloaded the app but it shows in phones format, not on full screen…
Top negative
★★★★☆ Great App - Button Struggles
I love the app! It’s a great concept, a fun way to relax and learn easily. However, I have noticed that the screen is not very reactive. I need to hit buttons to enter lessons, submit answers, and continue learning several times before the …
★★★★★ Great app
We need to be ipad compatible plz…
📈Ratings growth36 ratings+3500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (7 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (13 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
Become the smartest person in the room, in just 5 minutes a day.
Over 15,000 facts are waiting for you in a journey through time. Travel through the 9 great eras of humanity, from the Big Bang to today, and finally understand how the world was shaped.
How does it work?
Sapio takes you through history, era by era. Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, the World Wars, the space race… At every stage, you discover why an artistic movement was born, how an invention changed everything, or what caused a civilisation to collapse.
The goal isn’t to memorise only dates.… View full description on the official store →
Over 15,000 facts are waiting for you in a journey through time. Travel through the 9 great eras of humanity, from the Big Bang to today, and finally understand how the world was shaped.
How does it work?
Sapio takes you through history, era by era. Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, the World Wars, the space race… At every stage, you discover why an artistic movement was born, how an invention changed everything, or what caused a civilisation to collapse.
The goal isn’t to memorise only dates.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 284 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.2.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
🚀
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.58974★ | 39 | 4.58974★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.74074★ | 54 | 4.74074★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.56098★ | 41 | 4.56098★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.74308★ | 1,553 | 4.74308★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.70587★ | 34 | 4.70587★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.33333★ | 9 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.85714★ | 7 | 4.85714★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 36 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 Sapio – General Knowledge make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Sapio – General Knowledge earns approximately $975/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 Sapio – General Knowledge?▴
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Who makes Sapio – General Knowledge?▴
Sapio – General Knowledge is published by THETYS LAB 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 Sapio – General Knowledge's BU Score?▴
Sapio – General Knowledge has a BU Score of 53/100 (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.