The Palace Project
64
Quality Score
Solid
The Palace Project
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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The Palace Project is an iOS app from The Palace Project in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.6★ across 3,768 ratings. Initial signal reads as early reviews are neutral, awaiting larger sample.
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
$772
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$675 – $2435
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$626 – $5632
per month
INDIE tier
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- 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
$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
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
375K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
52K
Daily active
10K
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
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$772/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$658 – $1.5K
12 months
$675 – $2.4K
24 months
$626 – $5.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
8.3
Market Position
0.9
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.2
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $309 - $1932/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.6★ across 3,768 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $13K-$24K.
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:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Low install base (3,768 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (5 languages)METRIC | +$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.
🆕 What's New · v3.1.0
- Apple CarPlay support: listen to your borrowed audiobooks right from your car's display, with standard play, pause, and skip controls.
- Audiobook download progress is now visible for every title, so you can see at a glance when a book is ready to listen offline.… Full release notes →
- Audiobook download progress is now visible for every title, so you can see at a glance when a book is ready to listen offline.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- The Palace Project
- Developer
- The Palace Project
- Bundle ID
- org.thepalaceproject.palace
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Palace Project Home - The Palace Project
- Description
- The Power of The Library at Your Fingertips Enjoy instant access to ebooks and audiobooks from your library—no matter where you are. Multiple Content Sources.One Simple App. Access more of your library's ebooks and audiobooks in one place Unique Contentand Innovative Partnerships Options for community-provided
- 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
- $773/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/Palacelib
- linkedin.com/company/palacelibrary
- 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/ThePalaceProject · instagram instagram.com/the_palace_project · linkedin linkedin.com/company/palacelibrary · twitter twitter.com/Palacelib · youtube youtube.com/channel/UC47f4_CKZVIPH2-G…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- thepalaceproject.org/contact
- About page
- thepalaceproject.org/about
📈Ratings growth3,768 ratings+77% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (46 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
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
Palace is a free, easy-to-use e-reader app that lets you find, check out, and read or listen to books from your local library.
It’s been said that libraries are “palaces for the people” and the Palace app gives you instant access to your local “palace” any time, right from the palm of your hand.
All you need to sign up is your library card! And even if your library isn’t using Palace yet, you can still read more than 10,000 books--from children’s books to classics to foreign language books--for free from our Palace Bookshelf.… View full description on the official store →
It’s been said that libraries are “palaces for the people” and the Palace app gives you instant access to your local “palace” any time, right from the palm of your hand.
All you need to sign up is your library card! And even if your library isn’t using Palace yet, you can still read more than 10,000 books--from children’s books to classics to foreign language books--for free from our Palace Bookshelf.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 41 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v3.1.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, ES📂 Food & Drink💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 ↑ 2.46 → 4.60 (improved 2.14★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.60 → 2.46 (dropped 2.14★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.47 → 4.60 (improved 2.13★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.14 (dropped 0.36★)
2022-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.80 (dropped 0.70★)
2022-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2021-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 3 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.66667★ | 3 | 4.66667★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for The Palace Project: 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: 3,768 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does The Palace Project make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, The Palace Project earns approximately $772/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 Palace Project?▴
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Who makes The Palace Project?▴
The Palace Project is published by The Palace Project 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 Palace Project's BU Score?▴
The Palace Project 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.