UpScrolled
75
Quality Score
Strong
UpScrolled
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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UpScrolled is an iOS app from RECURSIVE METHODS PTY LTD in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.7★ across 3,639 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 75: Strong (healthy traction). For a Social Networking 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
$827
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$723 – $2607
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$670 – $6030
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
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$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 (221 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$63K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~1.3× build cost (break-even+)
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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
325K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
81K
Daily active
44K
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
| 📲 Social Networking engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$827/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$704 – $1.6K
12 months
$723 – $2.6K
24 months
$670 – $6.0K
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 · 44/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
8.5
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.2
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $330 - $2068/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 3,639 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $14K-$26K. Portfolio play ($10K/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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (3,639 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| New app (11 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (6 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 · v1.6.1
Hotfix: this is a hotfix for subscription paywall. Full updates are below:
v1.6.0 just landed.
Hello and Marhaba. That was then. This is now: Hola, Ciao, Bonjour, Hallo.
VERIFICATION? YOU DECIDE
Self-verification is here.
VIDEOS TOO LONG? SPEED IT UP
Faster loading.… Full release notes →
v1.6.0 just landed.
Hello and Marhaba. That was then. This is now: Hola, Ciao, Bonjour, Hallo.
VERIFICATION? YOU DECIDE
Self-verification is here.
VIDEOS TOO LONG? SPEED IT UP
Faster loading.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- UpScrolled
- Developer
- RECURSIVE METHODS PTY LTD
- Bundle ID
- com.upscrolled.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Time to scroll differently.
- Description
- UpScrolled puts you back in control of social media. Chronological feeds, transparent moderation, no data sales. Connect safely, share freely, build community.
- 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
- $10.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- 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
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- upscrolled.com/en/contact
- About page
- upscrolled.com/en/about
📈Ratings growth3,639 ratings+1525% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (29 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (12 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 Timeline2 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
Social media that puts you back in control.
Chronological feeds. Transparent moderation. Privacy by design. Connect safely, share freely, and build community on a platform that answers to you.
UpScrolled is independent social media, built around the people who use it.
CONNECT SAFELY
Your data, your rights. We do not sell your data, feed it into AI training, or build surveillance profiles on you. If you delete your account, your data goes with you. Privacy is built in, not toggled on.
SHARE FREELY
Your voice, unfiltered. No shadowbanning. No invisible suppression.… View full description on the official store →
Chronological feeds. Transparent moderation. Privacy by design. Connect safely, share freely, and build community on a platform that answers to you.
UpScrolled is independent social media, built around the people who use it.
CONNECT SAFELY
Your data, your rights. We do not sell your data, feed it into AI training, or build surveillance profiles on you. If you delete your account, your data goes with you. Privacy is built in, not toggled on.
SHARE FREELY
Your voice, unfiltered. No shadowbanning. No invisible suppression.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 221 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.6.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, EN, FR, DE, IT +1📂 Social Networking💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 ↑ 4.05 → 4.72 (improved 0.67★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.06 → 4.90 (improved 0.84★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2026-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for UpScrolled: 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: 3,639 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does UpScrolled make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, UpScrolled earns approximately $10K/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 UpScrolled?▴
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Who makes UpScrolled?▴
UpScrolled is published by RECURSIVE METHODS PTY LTD 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 UpScrolled's BU Score?▴
UpScrolled has a BU Score of 75/100 (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.