Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook
61
Quality Score
Solid
Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook is an iOS app from Ryan Zander in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 4 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 61: Solid (established niche player). For a Travel 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO 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
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 ~3 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 |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$300K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $400K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~4.6× return on build cost
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% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
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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 · 36/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreRevenue Strength
2.3
Product Quality
3.8
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.75★ across 4 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2681d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2681d since update).
🎯 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($19K/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 7 of 7 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (4 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 · v3.0
- Improved audio playback
- UI improvements
- UI improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook
- Developer
- Ryan Zander
- Bundle ID
- com.nagarajarivers.speakthai
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Nagaraja Rivers
- Description
- Independently developed iPhone apps to grow your knowledge of the world. Focused on Thai language learning and travel phrasebooks in a dozen languages.
- 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
- $19.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/NagarajaRivers · twitter twitter.com/nagarajarivers
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- nagarajarivers.com/about
⭐Recent App Store Reviews29 latest · avg 4.28★ · 65.5% 5★ · 10.3% 1★
5★19 (66%)
4★6 (21%)
3★0 (0%)
2★1 (3%)
1★3 (10%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×13 love ×6 awesome ×3 excellent ×2 perfect ×2Complaints: bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Flawless!
The thing that catches me greatly is the no wifi needed and the app if very useful and fun to use! Not even a bug has hit yet which is excellent!…
★★★★★ Nice
Would love to see more words/sentences.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Useless
This does not work on my iPhone 5.…
★☆☆☆☆ iOS 6
Does not work with iOS six…
📈Ratings growth4 ratings+300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (33 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 → $2.99 (+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
Great for travel or study! Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook is easy to use, with every phrase you need to enjoy your trip to Thailand. Each phrase is displayed in Thai script, phonetic transliteration, and English translation. Hear the audio for each phrase in a clear, pleasant voice from a native Thai speaker. Separate versions of phrases for male and female speakers are recorded or indicated where appropriate. There are a total of 586 words and phrases in the following categories:
* Greetings
* Basics
* Shopping
* Restaurant
* Hotel
* Transportation
* Places
* Sightseeing
* Health
* Money… View full description on the official store →
* Greetings
* Basics
* Shopping
* Restaurant
* Hotel
* Transportation
* Places
* Sightseeing
* Health
* Money… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 37 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v3.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 ↑ 4.00 → 4.75 (improved 0.75★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.32 → 4.00 (dropped 0.32★)
2011-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2010-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 4 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook is a very early-stage iOS app in the travel space with weak public traction — only 4 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook has only 4 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$19K/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook?▴
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Who makes Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook?▴
Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook is published by Ryan Zander 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 Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook's BU Score?▴
Speak Thai Travel Phrasebook has a BU Score of 61/100 (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.