SimpleStudy: Exams & Revision
70
Quality Score
Strong
SimpleStudy: Exams & Revision
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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SimpleStudy: Exams & Revision is an iOS app from SimpleStudy in the News category, currently rated 4.8★ across 2,101 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 70: Strong (healthy traction). For a News 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
$9.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$8.4K – $30.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$7.8K – $70.3K
per month
INDIE 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
$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 ~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 (61 MB) | +$4K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$11K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 16× MRR multiple
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~1.9× 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% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
250K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
37K
Daily active
16K
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
44% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$9.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$8.2K – $19.2K
12 months
$8.4K – $30.4K
24 months
$7.8K – $70.3K
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 · 45/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
8.6
Revenue Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.6
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.8★ across 2,101 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $173K-$308K.
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 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (2,101 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| 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 · v2.0.49
We're excited to bring you this new update! We've squashed some bugs and made a bunch of improvements to boost your experience. The app is now smoother, faster, and more fun to use! Enjoy!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- SimpleStudy: Exams & Revision
- Developer
- SimpleStudy
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- 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
- $81.0K ($54.0K – $108.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $972.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $8.2K/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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
SimpleStudy: Exams & Revision is estimated to generate between $54,000 and $108,000 in monthly revenue, with an annual estimate of approximately $972,000. This is based on a co-founder's stated goal of €50,000 monthly recurring revenue by Q1 2024 and significant user growth since then, though the app is not currently a top 100 grossing app.
Sources mentioned: Statista, Sensor Tower, PitchBook, Silicon Republic, bumetric, AppBrain
📈Ratings growth55 ratings+-72% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (11 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (30 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.
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
Study smarter with SimpleStudy – the trusted revision app for UK, Ireland & South Africa students
SimpleStudy is the all-in-one study planner and revision app made for UK, Irish, and South African students. Whether you’re preparing for your GCSEs, A Levels, Scottish Highers, Junior Cert, Leaving Cert, or NSC exams, we’re here to help you revise smarter, study faster, and feel confident on exam day.… View full description on the official store →
SimpleStudy is the all-in-one study planner and revision app made for UK, Irish, and South African students. Whether you’re preparing for your GCSEs, A Levels, Scottish Highers, Junior Cert, Leaving Cert, or NSC exams, we’re here to help you revise smarter, study faster, and feel confident on exam day.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 61 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.0.49🔄 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
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Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for SimpleStudy: Exams & Revision: 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: 2,101 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does SimpleStudy make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, SimpleStudy earns approximately $8.2K/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 SimpleStudy?▴
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Who makes SimpleStudy?▴
SimpleStudy is published by SimpleStudy 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 SimpleStudy's BU Score?▴
SimpleStudy has a BU Score of 70/100 (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.