Builda: Create & Play Games
50
Quality Score
Solid
Builda: Create & Play Games
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Builda: Create & Play Games is an iOS app from Beijing Hortor Interactive Technology Co., Ltd. in the News category, currently rated 3.6★ across 503 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a News app, that means established niche player. 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
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
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (220 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
Total estimate
$110K
👥 Estimated audience size
60K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
9.0K
Daily active
4.0K
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
44% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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 · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
5.1
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.1
Market Position
1.2
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.64★ across 503 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 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 = $9K-$16K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (503 ratings)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 · v1.72.4
Optimized known experience issues
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Builda: Create & Play Games
- Developer
- Beijing Hortor Interactive Technology Co., Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- com.hortor.juliancysj
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 9+
- Languages
- EN, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- 创游世界
- 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 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
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- 2021010632
- Contact page
- hortorinteractive.com/contact.html?v=3
- About page
- hortorinteractive.com/about.html?v=3
📈Ratings growth503 ratings+127% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (39 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.
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
Join the Builder Community. Builda is the updated version of Julian's Editor with tons of new features to help you create and make anything you want. You can now team up with friends to create fun games together, draw and animate your favorite characters and oc with new drawing canvas and tools, play games made by the community and share your creations with everyone.
● Create your own games together with friends even if you can't code
● Draw, animate and record characters and your OC
● Remix games with a level builder, animation editor, custom character creator and more… View full description on the official store →
● Create your own games together with friends even if you can't code
● Draw, animate and record characters and your OC
● Remix games with a level builder, animation editor, custom character creator and more… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 220 MB🔞 9+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v1.72.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, ZH📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 ↑ 3.03 → 3.64 (improved 0.61★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.01 → 3.60 (improved 0.59★)
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 3.00 (improved 0.40★)
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.60 (dropped 0.40★)
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 3.00 (improved 0.67★)
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.33 (improved 1.33★)
2022-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 4 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.33333★ | 18 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.90909★ | 44 | 3.90909★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 11 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.5★ | 10 | 4.5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Builda: Create & Play Games: 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: 503 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Builda make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Builda 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.
What apps are like Builda?▴
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Who makes Builda?▴
Builda is published by Beijing Hortor Interactive Technology Co., 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 Builda's BU Score?▴
Builda has a BU Score of 50/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.