Set the clock
65
Quality Score
Solid
Set the clock
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Set the clock is an iOS app from Frank Guchelaar in the News category, currently rated 4.5★ across 977 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 65: 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
$12.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$12.8K – $26.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$15.9K – $47.7K
per month
MID tierFREE
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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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.5y 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 (63 MB) | +$5K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$11K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$30K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $40K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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
👥 Estimated audience size
115K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
17K
Daily active
7.6K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$12.4K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$11.8K – $19.6K
12 months
$12.8K – $26.9K
24 months
$15.9K – $47.7K
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 · 43/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.3
Product Quality
6.6
Revenue Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.6
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $8K - $18K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.5★ across 5,101 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.72 ★ (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 = $223K-$396K.
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:
| Paid app ($0.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Localized (7 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (977 ratings)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 · v5.0.1
New: Multiple profiles (In-App Purchase). Create up to 5 profiles. Your existing progress has been moved to User 1.
Bugfix: works again on older devices.
Bugfix: works again on older devices.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Set the clock
- Developer
- Frank Guchelaar
- Bundle ID
- nl.dudio.Clock
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- www.tellingtimeapp.com
- 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
- $2.2K/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 Reviews17 latest · avg 4.18★ · 64.7% 5★ · 5.9% 1★
5★11 (65%)
4★2 (12%)
3★1 (6%)
2★2 (12%)
1★1 (6%)
+123 ratings/week
Praise: perfect ×3 love ×2 best ×2 great ×1 awesome ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Set the clock
I Looooooooooooooove it…
★★★★★ It’s help me a lot with 5th grade cause I’m not good with my time soo ya :)
Enjoy the app :)…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ TURN OFF THE NOTIFICATION FOR GETTING GOLD IN A LEVEL
AND DO IT NOW…
★★☆☆☆ Be 2021 where learning gets harder!
It is way to easy it doesn’t help me at all!!!!…
📈Ratings growth977 ratings+97600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (19 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $0.99 (+0%)
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
* Listed in the top 3 of educational apps in the Dutch App Store!
‘Set the clock’ can help your child to learn to tell time and revives old times by reintroducing the wooden clock on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch!
You can practice together with your child, or let him/her perform assignments on his/her own using the nine game types in the App: "Set the clock’, ‘Tell the time’, ‘Adjust the clock’ and more. The assignments are clearly pronounced in English.
Besides English, it is also possible to have the assignments spoken in Dutch, German, French, Spanish and even Chinese.… View full description on the official store →
‘Set the clock’ can help your child to learn to tell time and revives old times by reintroducing the wooden clock on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch!
You can practice together with your child, or let him/her perform assignments on his/her own using the nine game types in the App: "Set the clock’, ‘Tell the time’, ‘Adjust the clock’ and more. The assignments are clearly pronounced in English.
Besides English, it is also possible to have the assignments spoken in Dutch, German, French, Spanish and even Chinese.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 63 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v5.0.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, ZH +2📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.18 → 4.50 (improved 0.32★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.00 (improved 0.50★)
2018-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
2017-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 111 reviews across 5 markets● 52% positive · ● 18% neutral · ● 30% negative · Rating drift: -0.72★ (declining — recent 50: 3.78★ vs lifetime: 4.5★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇨🇦 CA
+0.84
🇺🇸 US
+0.67
🇦🇺 AU
+0.43
🇬🇧 GB
+0.37
🇩🇪 DE
-0.29
Top praise themes
set clock ×12 zum lernen ×6 ton geht ×4 clock game ×3 game game ×3 sehr gut ×3 gut aber ×3 und ×20
Top complaint themes
lässt sich ×3 nicht ×15 das ×8 für ×7 ist ×7 wird ×6 ich ×5 sprache ×5
Risk signals
Fraud / scam mentions: 0.9%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.30556★ | 252 | 4.30556★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.37255★ | 102 | 4.37255★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.5294★ | 5,170 | 4.5294★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.37037★ | 27 | 4.37037★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.49906★ | 1,607 | 4.49906★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.5087★ | 977 | 4.5087★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Set the clock: 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: 977 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Set the clock make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Set the clock earns approximately $2.2K/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 Set the clock?▴
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Who makes Set the clock?▴
Set the clock is published by Frank Guchelaar 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 Set the clock's BU Score?▴
Set the clock has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.