How much does Wake make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Wake 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.

With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $86, Wake 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.

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What is Wake built with?

Our heuristic places Wake on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).

Is Wake still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Wake last updated?

Wake last shipped a new version on 2023-10-24 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Wake is published by Dave Thompson 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 Wake's BU Score?

Wake has a BU Score of 36/100 (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.

Quality Score

Emerging

Wake

Name: Wake — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Wake revenue, Wake app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

ZCAnalyzed by Zakhar Chumak · founder, bumetric·Methodology

3.2 ✍️ Editor

Utilities

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Wake is an iOS app from Dave Thompson in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.2★ across 4 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 36: 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

$1.1K/mo

In 12 months

$953 – $3435

In 24 months

$883 – $7946

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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Forecast Revenue / mo

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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
⚙15.6y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$93K

Total estimate$135K

🛠 Estimated tech stack

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Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

High confidence · 80%

Also possible

Native iOS (SwiftUI)

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	1 MB
🏷Category context	Utilities
📦Compact iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

95%

Last shipped 2023-10-24 · 942 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

📅2y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
👥Small user base (4 ratings) + 15.6y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)
•16y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

VerdictLikely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$1.1K/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

$928 – $2.2K

12 months

$953 – $3.4K

24 months

$883 – $7.9K

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

Pre-traction · 33/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Revenue Strength

3.0

Product Quality

2.6

Market Position

2.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

4.5

Operational Safety

5.0

Founder Strength

2.9

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $436 - $2725/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.25★ across 4 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 942d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (942d 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 = $19K-$34K.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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 5 of 5 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
Below-average rating (3.2★)METRIC		−$1,500
Mature app (15y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Single-language (English only)METRIC		−$400
Pre-traction phase (4 ratings)METRIC		−$300

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

App Specs

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💾 570 KB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v1.6.3🔄 updated 2y ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)

📝 About this app

Wake is a professional networking tool that lets you start up PCs, Macs and Servers remotely.  Compatible with all 'Wake On Lan' capable devices, Wake even gives you a status indicator to tell you whether each machine is on or off.

Features:
* Wake button sends 'Wake On Lan' magic packet to start up a machine.
* Works over wifi or cellular data network.
* Status indicator glows to tell you whether each machine is on or off.
* Automatically detects your computers for easy setup.
* Shake'n'wake - shake the device to wake all computers! 

Typical Uses:… View full description on the official store →

🆕 What's New · v1.6.3

Updated large version of logo
Updated minimum iOS version to 12.0
[internal] removed some deprecated functions
[internal] switched revision control repository

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

4 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 ↑ 3.17 → 3.70 (improved 0.53★)

2011-01

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2010-12

⭐

Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)

2010-11

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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
🇺🇸 US	3.25★	4	3.25★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	5★	2	5★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	3.66667★	3	3.66667★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4★	1	4★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	5★	1	5★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	3.7★	20	3.7★ this version
🇦🇺 AU	1★	1	1★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	5★	1	5★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	0★	0	—

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Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Wake
Developer: Dave Thompson
Bundle ID: org.davet.Wake
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
Content rating: 4+
Languages: EN

Company

Website: www.davet.org
Tagline: WordPress
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: $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.

📈Ratings growth4 ratings+300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (46 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.

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