Words - Learn Languages Fast
71
Quality Score
Strong
Words - Learn Languages Fast
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Words - Learn Languages Fast is an iOS app from Andrey Lebedev in the News category, currently rated 4.5★ across 1,056 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a News 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
$833
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$728 – $2625
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$675 – $6073
per month
INDIE tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (101 MB) | +$20K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$14K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $375K · 15× MRR multiple
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~3.2× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
125K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
18K
Daily active
8.3K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$833/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$709 – $1.7K
12 months
$728 – $2.6K
24 months
$675 – $6.1K
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 · 46/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
8.2
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $333 - $2083/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.55★ across 1,056 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 ($18K/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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (1,056 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (7 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 · v6.10
This update includes bug fixes and general performance improvements. Thanks for sticking with us! — Ulilab Team
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Words - Learn Languages Fast
- Developer
- Andrey Lebedev
- Bundle ID
- ru.uchimslova.words
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, RU, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Apps That Make Learning Fun
- Description
- Ulilab builds educational apps for language learning and mental math. Available on iOS and Android.
- 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
- $18.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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 growth1,056 ratings+8023% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 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.
🚀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
Words - Your Ultimate Language Learning Companion!
TOP App of 2014 and Best New App (April 2014)
With over 10 years of experience, we've created an app that is motivational, easy to use, and built for your success.
Do you want to master a new language quickly and confidently?
Trusted by over 3.000.000 users, Words is your best choice for learning English and German.
Why Words is the best app:
- 10 Unique Exercises: Master specific skills with short and fun lessons.
- Ready-made & Custom Lessons: Learn with expert-created lessons or make your own.… View full description on the official store →
TOP App of 2014 and Best New App (April 2014)
With over 10 years of experience, we've created an app that is motivational, easy to use, and built for your success.
Do you want to master a new language quickly and confidently?
Trusted by over 3.000.000 users, Words is your best choice for learning English and German.
Why Words is the best app:
- 10 Unique Exercises: Master specific skills with short and fun lessons.
- Ready-made & Custom Lessons: Learn with expert-created lessons or make your own.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 101 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.1+🔖 v6.10🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +2📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.90 → 4.60 (improved 0.70★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.86 → 4.38 (dropped 0.48★)
2013-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2013-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Words - Learn Languages Fast: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,056 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Words - Learn Languages Fast make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Words - Learn Languages Fast earns approximately $18K/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 Words - Learn Languages Fast?▴
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Who makes Words - Learn Languages Fast?▴
Words - Learn Languages Fast is published by Andrey Lebedev 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 Words - Learn Languages Fast's BU Score?▴
Words - Learn Languages Fast has a BU Score of 71/100 (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.