TaoOfWisdom
52
Quality Score
Solid
TaoOfWisdom
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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TaoOfWisdom is an iOS app from Vicente Malixi in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 5.0★ across 3 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 52: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink 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.
📊 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
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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 ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (3 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 · v4.0
Updated for iOS 16.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- TaoOfWisdom
- Developer
- Vicente Malixi
- Bundle ID
- com.vipmalixi.taoofwisdom
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- 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
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $201/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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 Reviews8 latest · avg 4.12★ · 62.5% 5★ · 0% 1★
5★5 (62%)
4★1 (12%)
3★0 (0%)
2★2 (25%)
1★0 (0%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: love ×3 great ×2 excellent ×1 best ×1Complaints: crash ×1 hate ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Bravo
Many thanks for your efforts in the creation of this App. This brings the goal of peace and contentment literally to my finger tips and straight to my heart.…
★★★★★ Excellent!
This is a great application! Good graphics with a simple interface. Love the way the pages flip.…
Top negative
★★☆☆☆ Gimmick photos
This would be a truly great app if there weren't cheesy photos to defeat and draw focus away from the passages. If there's some way to purchase a version without the pictures, I'll pay for it. Hold on to the center.…
★★☆☆☆ Distracting pictures
I'd rather read a book scan of Tao than get distracted by pictures of crying kids, runners' feet or birds on every page. It is also uncertain how faithful the text was to the original.…
📈Ratings growth3 ratings+200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (11 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
For people who think there's more to life than cable news, blogs, work, family, gadgets. Find the calmness underneath. Wade through the vastness. Be grounded amidst Life's uncertainties. Peek from a transformed point of view.
Long, long ago, before Lao Tzu left the imperial kingdom, he was asked by a gatekeeper to impart his wisdom before the world lost him altogether. What he left behind was the Tao Te Ching.… View full description on the official store →
Long, long ago, before Lao Tzu left the imperial kingdom, he was asked by a gatekeeper to impart his wisdom before the world lost him altogether. What he left behind was the Tao Te Ching.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 42 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v4.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 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 → 5.00 (improved 1.00★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2013-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.20 → 3.83 (dropped 0.37★)
2012-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2012-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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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 |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$55K
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 3 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
TaoOfWisdom is a very early-stage iOS app in the food & drink space with weak public traction — only 3 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 TaoOfWisdom make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. TaoOfWisdom has only 3 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$200/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.
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Who makes TaoOfWisdom?▴
TaoOfWisdom is published by Vicente Malixi 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 TaoOfWisdom's BU Score?▴
TaoOfWisdom has a BU Score of 52/100 (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.