Tapas – Comics and Novels
79
Quality Score
Strong
Tapas – Comics and Novels
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Tapas – Comics and Novels is an iOS app from Radish Media in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.6★ across 44,661 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink 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
$24.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$25.2K – $52.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$31.2K – $93.7K
per month
MID tier
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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
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (79 MB) | +$11K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$6K |
Total estimate
$70K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$400K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $300K – $500K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~5.7× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
4.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
620K
Daily active
120K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
19% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$24.4K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$23.1K – $38.5K
12 months
$25.2K – $52.8K
24 months
$31.2K – $93.7K
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
Below median · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.4
Product Quality
9.1
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $17K - $36K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.57★ across 44,661 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $438K-$779K.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (44,661 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 |
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 · v7.12.0
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Tapas – Comics and Novels
- Developer
- Radish Media
- Bundle ID
- com.tapasmedia.Tapastic
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, ES
Company
- Website
- tapas.io
- Tagline
- Home | Spotlight
- Description
- Your home for the world’s most exciting and diverse web comics and novels. Discover stories you’ll love from all genres, only on Tapas!
- 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
- $24.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#7 /100 🇩🇪#12 /100 🇨🇦#12 /100 🇦🇺#15 /100 🇬🇧#24 /100 🇧🇷#27 /100 🇫🇷#57 /100
- 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
- discord discord.com/invite/tapas · facebook facebook.com/tapas.io · instagram instagram.com/tapas_app · tiktok tiktok.com/@tapasmedia · twitter twitter.com/tapas_app · youtube youtube.com/tapasmedia
- feedback@tapas.io
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth44,661 ratings+39% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (48 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank7 countries
🇺🇸US#7 /100
🇩🇪DE#12 /100
🇨🇦CA#12 /100
🇦🇺AU#15 /100
🇬🇧GB#24 /100
🇧🇷BR#27 /100
🇫🇷FR#57 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#7 now · best #7 · worst #68
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
The Ultimate App for Comics, Novels, Mangas, Manhwas, Webtoons and More!—Discover Your Next Favorite Story with Tapas
Looking for the perfect way to pass the time? Tapas is your go-to destination for captivating stories. Whether you love romance, action, or BL content, Tapas has something for everyone. Discover new chapters released daily, with free episodes dropping every three hours.
Get hooked on international sensations and famous Tapas Original Series like:
- The Beginning After the End
- Solo Leveling
- Little Rabbit and the Big Bad Leopard
- A Business Proposal
- Heartstopper… View full description on the official store →
Looking for the perfect way to pass the time? Tapas is your go-to destination for captivating stories. Whether you love romance, action, or BL content, Tapas has something for everyone. Discover new chapters released daily, with free episodes dropping every three hours.
Get hooked on international sensations and famous Tapas Original Series like:
- The Beginning After the End
- Solo Leveling
- Little Rabbit and the Big Bad Leopard
- A Business Proposal
- Heartstopper… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 79 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v7.12.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, ES📂 Food & Drink💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.65 → 4.40 (improved 1.75★)
2023-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.43 → 3.13 (dropped 0.30★)
2023-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.83 → 3.43 (dropped 0.40★)
2023-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.80 (dropped 0.70★)
2023-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2023-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — tapas.io
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Tapas – Comics and Novels: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 44,661 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Tapas – Comics and Novels make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Tapas – Comics and Novels earns approximately $24K/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 Tapas – Comics and Novels?▴
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Who makes Tapas – Comics and Novels?▴
Tapas – Comics and Novels is published by Radish Media 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 Tapas – Comics and Novels's BU Score?▴
Tapas – Comics and Novels has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.