Skyward Mobile Access
41
Quality Score
Emerging
Skyward Mobile Access
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Skyward Mobile Access is an iOS app from Skyward Inc in the News category, currently rated 1.8★ across 3,315 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 41: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
🤖Also on Android
$1.1K/mo · 19K ratings · 3.0★
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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 (152 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 $15K – $20K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
395K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
59K
Daily active
26K
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
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
Stalled · 36/100MID TIERno growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.2
Product Quality
3.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.84★ across 3,315 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 472d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (472d 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (3,315 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (1.8★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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
- Skyward Mobile Access
- Developer
- Skyward Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.skyward.mobileaccess
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Want to see what a better experience can look like for you?
- Description
- Skyward provides enterprise software solutions for K-12 schools and municipalities. Featured products include a student information system (SIS) and integrated financial/human resources platform (ERP).
- 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
- $1.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/skyward_inc
- linkedin.com/company/skyward
- 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
- facebook facebook.com/Skyward.Inc · instagram instagram.com/skyward_inc · linkedin linkedin.com/company/skyward · twitter twitter.com/skyward_inc · youtube youtube.com/skywardk12
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- skyward.com/helpimproveskyward
- About page
- skyward.com/about
📈Ratings growth3,315 ratings+21% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (47 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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
Skyward Mobile Access provides intuitive access for students, parents, and school staff that currently use Skyward’s Family Access, Student Access, or Employee Access. Skyward Mobile Access will automatically locate your district and take you instantly to your vital information such as grades, attendance, discipline, payroll, time off, and more!
Please contact appsupport@skyward.com with questions, comments or concerns about the app.
Note: Your school district must activate Skyward Mobile Access Automatic Setup in order for this application to locate your school district and connect to it.
Please contact appsupport@skyward.com with questions, comments or concerns about the app.
Note: Your school district must activate Skyward Mobile Access Automatic Setup in order for this application to locate your school district and connect to it.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 152 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v2.10.0🔄 updated 0d ago📂 News💰 Paid
📅
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
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.67 (improved 0.67★)
2023-10
🚀
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 | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.2★ | 5 | 2.2★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 1★ | 3 | 1★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3★ | 2 | 3★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1.5★ | 2 | 1.5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 1.84373★ | 3,366 | 1.84373★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Skyward Mobile Access: 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: 3,315 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Skyward Mobile Access make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Skyward Mobile Access earns approximately $1.4K/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.
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Who makes Skyward Mobile Access?▴
Skyward Mobile Access is published by Skyward Inc 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 Skyward Mobile Access's BU Score?▴
Skyward Mobile Access has a BU Score of 41/100 (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.