The Canterville Ghost
64
Quality Score
Solid
The Canterville Ghost
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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The Canterville Ghost is an iOS app from iClassics Productions, S.L. in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.5★ across 53 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 64: 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.
💰 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 tierFREE
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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
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 (290 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $350K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~2.8× 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% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
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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
Below median · 45/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.8
Product Quality
3.6
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
7.3
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.8
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.51★ across 53 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2100d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2100d 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($183K/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 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 (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (53 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 · v1.1.14
Minor fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- The Canterville Ghost
- Developer
- iClassics Productions, S.L.
- Bundle ID
- com.iclassicscollection.canterville
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, PT, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Immersive Experiences
- Description
- Immersive Reading. Go on a captivating literary adventure as you become completely submerged in the stories.
- 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
- $18.5K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/iclassicscollection · instagram instagram.com/iclassicscollection · twitter twitter.com/ipoecollection · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCkgipNW_WcTwAWrM…
- Not found
- Phone
- +34 934357888
- Contact page
- iclassicscollection.com/en/support
- About page
- iclassicscollection.com/en/about
📈Ratings growth53 ratings+5200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 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 → $3.99 (+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
Reader, in your eager and clasping hands, you hold one of Oscar Wilde's most cherished works: The Canterville Ghost. This comic chiller has delighted many down the years, and you now have the possibility of reading it as nobody has before.
Ferociously ironic and playfully bold, Oscar Wilde was the wild boy and rebel of the Victorian age. Bringing colour, flamboyancy, and scandal to a drab, downtrodden, and dreary age, he shocked and beguiled readers with his erudite parody and gut-punching wit.… View full description on the official store →
Ferociously ironic and playfully bold, Oscar Wilde was the wild boy and rebel of the Victorian age. Bringing colour, flamboyancy, and scandal to a drab, downtrodden, and dreary age, he shocked and beguiled readers with his erudite parody and gut-punching wit.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 290 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v1.1.14🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, PT, ES📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
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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
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.51 (dropped 0.49★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $3.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.59 → 5.00 (improved 0.41★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.33 → 3.75 (improved 0.42★)
2017-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2017-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 59 reviews across 4 markets● 92% positive · ● 5% neutral · ● 3% negative · Rating drift: +0.13★ (improving — recent 50: 4.64★ vs lifetime: 4.51★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.84
🇦🇺 AU
+0.84
🇺🇸 US
+0.79
🇨🇦 CA
+0.52
Top praise themes
story ×21 fun ×17 read ×16 book ×14 one ×10 experience ×10 music ×10 interactive ×9
Top complaint themes
black screen ×4 data ×6 suspicious ×3
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 3%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 5 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.33333★ | 3 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.63636★ | 11 | 4.63636★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 6 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.50943★ | 53 | 4.50943★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
More by iClassics Productions, S.L.
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✓ Diversified — top app contributes 18%; risk spread across portfolio
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 53 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does The Canterville Ghost make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, The Canterville Ghost earns approximately $18K/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 The Canterville Ghost?▴
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Who makes The Canterville Ghost?▴
The Canterville Ghost is published by iClassics Productions, S.L. 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 The Canterville Ghost's BU Score?▴
The Canterville Ghost has a BU Score of 64/100 (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.