shiftscreen 4X
33
Quality Score
Emerging
shiftscreen 4X
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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shiftscreen 4X is an iOS app from Yannik Schrade in the Productivity category, currently rated 2.2★ across 157 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 33: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Productivity app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$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 |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$55K
👥 Estimated audience size
11K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.4K
Daily active
1.5K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 32/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
3.1
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.7
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.21★ across 157 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1725d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (1725d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($8K/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 6 of 6 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (157 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- shiftscreen 4X
- Developer
- Yannik Schrade
- Bundle ID
- tech.schrade.shiftscreen
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, DE, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Second screen for your iPad and iPhone
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/shiftscreen
- linkedin.com/company/shiftscreen
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- instagram instagram.com/shiftscreenapp · linkedin linkedin.com/company/shiftscreen · twitter twitter.com/shiftscreen · youtube youtube.com/watch?v=bDCSYR_itVM
- support@shiftscreen.app
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth157 ratings+528% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 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 → $7.99 (+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
Use a monitor with your iPad or iPhone as a second screen!
Work with your iPad and place things on your monitor.
Connect your external monitor via cable or AirPlay and start using your monitor in fullscreen.
**Please make sure that you can connect your device to a monitor using a cable or AirPlay.**
No more black bars around your monitor, shiftscreen brings you fullscreen external display support.
Work with the integrated web-browser, the PDF-viewer, the integrated webapps or the calculator app.… View full description on the official store →
Work with your iPad and place things on your monitor.
Connect your external monitor via cable or AirPlay and start using your monitor in fullscreen.
**Please make sure that you can connect your device to a monitor using a cable or AirPlay.**
No more black bars around your monitor, shiftscreen brings you fullscreen external display support.
Work with the integrated web-browser, the PDF-viewer, the integrated webapps or the calculator app.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 5 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v1.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, DE, ZH📂 Productivity💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 ↑ 1.80 → 2.21 (improved 0.41★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $7.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.16 → 1.80 (dropped 0.36★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.57 (dropped 0.43★)
2021-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)
2021-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for shiftscreen 4X: 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 medium confidence: 157 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does shiftscreen 4X make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, shiftscreen 4X earns approximately $86/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 shiftscreen 4X?▴
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Who makes shiftscreen 4X?▴
shiftscreen 4X is published by Yannik Schrade 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 shiftscreen 4X's BU Score?▴
shiftscreen 4X has a BU Score of 33/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.