VIZ Manga
83
Quality Score
Excellent
VIZ Manga
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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VIZ Manga is an iOS app from VIZ Media, LLC in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 72,637 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 83: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Food & Drink app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$29.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$30.6K – $64.1K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$37.9K – $113.7K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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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
🤖Also on Android
$743/mo · 14K ratings · 4.6★
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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
📈
Pays back in ~2 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 |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$55K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$375K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $300K – $500K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~6.8× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
7.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.0M
Daily active
200K
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
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$29.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$28.1K – $46.8K
12 months
$30.6K – $64.1K
24 months
$37.9K – $113K
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 · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
4.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
1.2
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $20K - $44K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.85★ across 72,637 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $532K-$946K.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (72,637 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v7.6.12
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- VIZ Manga
- Developer
- VIZ Media, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.viz.iphone-manga
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.viz.com
- Tagline
- VIZ: The Best in Manga, Anime & Global Entertainment
- Description
- VIZ Media is one of the most comprehensive and innovative companies in the field of manga (graphic novel) publishing, animation and entertainment licensing of Japanese content.
- 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
- $22.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#51 /100 🇬🇧#73 /100 🇨🇦#76 /100
- 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/OfficialVIZMedia · instagram instagram.com/vizmedia · tiktok tiktok.com/@vizmedia · twitter twitter.com/VIZMedia · youtube youtube.com/@vizmedia
- Not found
- Phone
- 10 11 12 13 14 15
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- viz.com/company-about
📈Ratings growth72,637 ratings+32% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank3 countries
🇺🇸US#51 /100
🇬🇧GB#73 /100
🇨🇦CA#76 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#51 now · best #46 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Manga’s premier library of legendary creators across every interest. Released same day as Japan!
BELOVED SERIES ALL IN ONE PLACE! Komi Can't Communicate, Uzumaki, Inuyasha, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Nana, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Kimi ni Todoke, Call of the Night, The King’s Beast, Ima Koi: Now I’m in Love, and so many more!
WORLD-RENOWNED CREATORS. Master of horror Junji Ito. Legendary mangaka Rumiko Takahashi. Award winning storytellers Taiyo Matsumoto and Kazuo Umezz. Plus many others.
LATEST CHAPTERS FREE! New chapters weekly, simultaneous with Japan.… View full description on the official store →
BELOVED SERIES ALL IN ONE PLACE! Komi Can't Communicate, Uzumaki, Inuyasha, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Nana, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Kimi ni Todoke, Call of the Night, The King’s Beast, Ima Koi: Now I’m in Love, and so many more!
WORLD-RENOWNED CREATORS. Master of horror Junji Ito. Legendary mangaka Rumiko Takahashi. Award winning storytellers Taiyo Matsumoto and Kazuo Umezz. Plus many others.
LATEST CHAPTERS FREE! New chapters weekly, simultaneous with Japan.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 48 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.4+🔖 v7.6.12🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
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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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.35 → 4.80 (improved 1.45★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.75 → 3.44 (dropped 0.31★)
2022-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.80 → 3.33 (dropped 0.47★)
2022-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2022-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2022-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — viz.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · OpenAI · AWS SES
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 4 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.73834★ | 279 | 4.73834★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.74475★ | 4,000 | 4.74475★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.77887★ | 407 | 4.77887★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84924★ | 72,789 | 4.84924★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for VIZ Manga: 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 high confidence: 72,637 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does VIZ Manga make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, VIZ Manga earns approximately $22K/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 VIZ Manga?▴
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Who makes VIZ Manga?▴
VIZ Manga is published by VIZ Media, LLC 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 VIZ Manga's BU Score?▴
VIZ Manga has a BU Score of 83/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.