42
Quality Score
Emerging
Tiltometer
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Tiltometer is an iOS app from Steven Eppler in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.6★ across 13 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 42: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Utilities app, that means early traction worth watching. 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$878/mo
In 12 months
$768 – $2768
In 24 months
$711 – $6403
INDIE tier
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Snapshots tracked
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$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 |
| ⚙Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
| ⚙15.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$91K |
Total estimate$135K
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦App bundle size | 32 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Utilities |
| 📦Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
25%
Last shipped 2026-03-26 · 58 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅58 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
| 👥Small user base (13 ratings) + 15.2y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictSlowing
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$878/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$748 – $1.7K
12 months
$768 – $2.8K
24 months
$711 – $6.4K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
2.9
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $351 - $2196/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.62★ across 13 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $15K-$28K. Portfolio play ($8K/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 4 of 4 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 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (13 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 32 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v3.0.1🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)
📝 About this app
Tiltometer turns your iPhone or iPad into a precision inclinometer for off-road driving, overlanding, and trail riding. See your vehicle's pitch and roll in real time on animated gauges that move with your device.
REAL-TIME TILT GAUGES
Front and side vehicle silhouettes rotate live with your device orientation, giving you an intuitive read on pitch and roll displayed in degrees or percent grade.
CUSTOMIZE YOUR RIDE
Choose from 13 built-in vehicle silhouettes or upload your own photos to create a custom front and side profile that matches your exact rig.… View full description on the official store →
REAL-TIME TILT GAUGES
Front and side vehicle silhouettes rotate live with your device orientation, giving you an intuitive read on pitch and roll displayed in degrees or percent grade.
CUSTOMIZE YOUR RIDE
Choose from 13 built-in vehicle silhouettes or upload your own photos to create a custom front and side profile that matches your exact rig.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v3.0.1
Fixed a bug that would cause the screen to turn off after the app was brought back to the foreground.
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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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.77 → 5.00 (improved 1.23★)
2018-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.63 (dropped 0.37★)
2011-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2011-04
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — epplersoft.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.61538★ | 13 | 3.61538★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Tiltometer
- Developer
- Steven Eppler
- Bundle ID
- com.epplersoft.tiltometer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- epplersoft.com
- Tagline
- Eppler Software
- Description
- iOS, macOS, and open-source software by Steven Eppler.
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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 Reviews12 latest · avg 4.0★ · 58.3% 5★ · 16.7% 1★
5★7 (58%)
4★2 (17%)
3★1 (8%)
2★0 (0%)
1★2 (17%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×4 amazing ×1 love ×1 awesome ×1 best ×1Complaints: hate ×1 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Cool app for off roading.
Works great. Easy to use.…
★★★★★ Does all you could ask of it
I bought this one over some
Of the others available since it was able to be used in both orientations and also because the basic UI seemed uncluttered yet functional. Does all I could ask of it, responsive and accurate so far, adjustable se…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Incorrect display
The display for the front of your vehicle displays opposite of what the front of the vehicle is actually doing. If the back of the vehicle was displayed, it would be correct.…
★☆☆☆☆ Terrible
Don't buy this terrible at best.…
📈Ratings growth13 ratings+1200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (14 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
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.
More by Steven Eppler
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
2apps·$8K/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 99% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Tiltometer: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Tiltometer make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Tiltometer earns approximately $86/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.
Is Tiltometer profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $86, Tiltometer looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Tiltometer?▾
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What is Tiltometer built with?▾
Our heuristic places Tiltometer on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Tiltometer still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Tiltometer last updated?▾
Tiltometer last shipped a new version on 2026-03-26 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Tiltometer?▾
Tiltometer is published by Steven Eppler 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 Tiltometer's BU Score?▾
Tiltometer has a BU Score of 42/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.