TVO - Remote for TiVo
50
Quality Score
Solid
TVO - Remote for TiVo
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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TVO - Remote for TiVo is an iOS app from Danielle Jackson in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.3★ across 198 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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 tier
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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
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.2y 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 (98 MB) | +$19K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-10484 |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$40K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $30K – $50K · 10× MRR multiple
💸
~0.7× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
10× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
39K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.9K
Daily active
1.5K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
19% sticky
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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)
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
Stalled · 40/100MID TIERno growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.5
Product Quality
4.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.34★ across 198 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1271d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (1271d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.3★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Early-stage install base (198 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v1.3.6
Fixes RPC bug that may have caused recent connection issues.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- TVO - Remote for TiVo
- Developer
- Danielle Jackson
- Bundle ID
- com.annies-ok.TVO
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $3.9K/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.
📈Ratings growth198 ratings+1550% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 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.
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
TVO Remote is the easiest and fastest way to control your TiVo from your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch.
FEATURES
- Automatically discovers TiVo devices on your network
- Compatible with Series 3, Series 4 (Premiere), Series 5 (Roamio), Virgin V6, and Series 6 (Bolt and Bolt Vox) TiVos
- Easy step by step setup instructions
- Control your TiVo from your wrist by installing the Apple Watch app (included with purchase)
- View status of TiVos in your home (for example: see what channel your kid is currently watching)
- COMPLETE KEYBOARD.… View full description on the official store →
FEATURES
- Automatically discovers TiVo devices on your network
- Compatible with Series 3, Series 4 (Premiere), Series 5 (Roamio), Virgin V6, and Series 6 (Bolt and Bolt Vox) TiVos
- Easy step by step setup instructions
- Control your TiVo from your wrist by installing the Apple Watch app (included with purchase)
- View status of TiVos in your home (for example: see what channel your kid is currently watching)
- COMPLETE KEYBOARD.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 98 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v1.3.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.97 → 3.30 (improved 1.33★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2021-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.57 → 2.88 (improved 0.31★)
2017-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.40 → 2.83 (improved 0.43★)
2017-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.40 (improved 0.40★)
2017-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2017-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.33 (improved 1.33★)
2017-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5★ | 8 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.14286★ | 7 | 3.14286★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.34343★ | 198 | 3.34343★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for TVO - Remote for TiVo: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 198 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does TVO - Remote for TiVo make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, TVO - Remote for TiVo earns approximately $3.9K/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 TVO - Remote for TiVo?▴
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Who makes TVO - Remote for TiVo?▴
TVO - Remote for TiVo is published by Danielle Jackson 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 TVO - Remote for TiVo's BU Score?▴
TVO - Remote for TiVo has a BU Score of 50/100 (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.