Countdown: Event Countdown
79
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Countdown: Event Countdown is an iOS app from ROOT38 LIMITED in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.8★ across 23,410 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity 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
$1.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.6M – $2.4M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.9M – $3.5M
per month
BIG 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
🤖Also on Android
$373/mo · 9K ratings · 4.6★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (189 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$1.1M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $800K – $1.4M · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~11× 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% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.8M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
525K
Daily active
235K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.5M – $2.0M
12 months
$1.6M – $2.4M
24 months
$1.9M – $3.5M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 61/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.6
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $600K - $3300K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.75★ across 23,410 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $27.0M-$48.0M.
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 15 of 15 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (23,410 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| ad freeREVIEW | +$1,300 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 |
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 · v5.28.1
NEW: Calendar View
See all your events laid out month by month. Tap the calendar icon at the top of your events list to open it, tap any day to see what is on, and tap the month name to jump around. Your list view is always one tap away.
Also in this update:… Full release notes →
See all your events laid out month by month. Tap the calendar icon at the top of your events list to open it, tap any day to see what is on, and tap the month name to jump around. Your list view is always one tap away.
Also in this update:… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Countdown: Event Countdown
- Developer
- ROOT38 LIMITED
- Bundle ID
- com.root38.CountdownTimer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, HI, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $58.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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 growth23,410 ratings+38% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter6 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline6 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
Event Countdown is the beautifully simple countdown, calendar and widget app for the important days in your life. Counting down since 2015, rated 4.7 stars from over 130,000 ratings worldwide.
The original Event Countdown app, used by over a million people every month. Start straight away with unlimited countdowns. No account or sign-up needed.
Count down to the days that matter: Birthday, Holiday, Party, Christmas, Halloween, Wedding, Anniversary, Baby Due Date, Graduation, New Home, Match Day, Concert, Film Release, Retirement, Bucket List and many more.
NEW: CALENDAR VIEW… View full description on the official store →
The original Event Countdown app, used by over a million people every month. Start straight away with unlimited countdowns. No account or sign-up needed.
Count down to the days that matter: Birthday, Holiday, Party, Christmas, Halloween, Wedding, Anniversary, Baby Due Date, Graduation, New Home, Match Day, Concert, Film Release, Retirement, Bucket List and many more.
NEW: CALENDAR VIEW… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 189 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v5.28.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, HI +7📂 Productivity💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
18 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 →
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.27.1 → v5.28.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +76 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.27.0 → v5.27.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +92 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.25.2 → v5.27.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$41.3K/mo · reviews +114 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.25.1 → v5.25.2
→ 30 days after: revenue +$41.3K/mo · reviews +108 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +67 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.10 → 4.70 (improved 0.60★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$16.8K/mo · rating +0.60★ · reviews +89,661 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$16.8K/mo · rating +0.60★ · reviews +89,661 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$16.8K/mo · rating +0.60★ · reviews +89,661 medium · co-occurring
2017-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 high confidence
2017-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +24 high confidence
2017-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.08★ · reviews +22 high confidence
2017-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +25 high confidence
2017-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ · reviews +29 high confidence
2017-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.20★ · reviews +9 high confidence
2017-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.20★ · reviews +9 low · multiple changes
2017-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.00 (improved 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.20★ · reviews +9 low · multiple changes
2017-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.20★ · reviews +9 low · multiple changes
2017-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.20★ · reviews +9 low · multiple changes
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.64398★ | 4,247 | 4.64398★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.86567★ | 67 | 4.86567★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.64278★ | 2,903 | 4.64278★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.45253★ | 316 | 4.45253★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.62238★ | 286 | 4.62238★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.74176★ | 93,605 | 4.74176★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.51613★ | 31 | 4.51613★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.76923★ | 13 | 4.76923★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.74652★ | 23,686 | 4.74652★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Countdown: Event Countdown: 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: 23,410 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Countdown make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Countdown earns approximately $58K/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.
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Who makes Countdown?▴
Countdown is published by ROOT38 LIMITED 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 Countdown's BU Score?▴
Countdown has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.