How much does Serious Crosswords - daily make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Serious Crosswords - daily earns approximately $295/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 Serious Crosswords - daily?

Serious Crosswords - daily is published by Ben Papacek on the Google Play 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 Serious Crosswords - daily's BU Score?

Serious Crosswords - daily has a BU Score of 56/100 (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.

Serious Crosswords - daily

Quality Score

Solid

Serious Crosswords - daily

Name: Serious Crosswords - daily — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
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License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Medium confidence

4.4 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Serious Crosswords - daily is an Android app from Ben Papacek in the Word category, currently rated 4.4★ across 296 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 56: Solid (established niche player). For a Word 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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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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

📈 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
⚙ Word complexity ×1.30	+$15K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$36K

Total estimate $100K

👥 Estimated audience size

44K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

4.4K

Daily active

1.3K

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

📲 Word engagement	~150 installs / rating
🔁 Word D30 retention	10%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.30

DAU / MAU 30% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

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Native Android (Kotlin)

Medium confidence · 55%

Also possible

Flutter

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

🏷 Category context	Word
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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 · 40/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

3.5

Product Quality

6.1

Revenue Strength

2.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

3.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.37★ across 296 reviews — solid.
📍 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

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 4 of 4 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Good rating (4.4★)METRIC		+$800
Established app (6y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Early-stage install base (296 ratings)METRIC		+$400

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.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: Serious Crosswords - daily
Developer: Ben Papacek
Bundle ID: com.boxdroid.crossworx
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Word
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: Not found
Tagline: Not found
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: $296/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: Not found

Founder

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Funding

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Press & Links

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Contacts & Socials

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📈Ratings growth296 ratings+60% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

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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