73
Quality Score
Strong
Culture Kings
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Culture Kings is an iOS app from Culture Kings in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.9★ across 4,579 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Shopping 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$851/mo
In 12 months
$744 – $2681
In 24 months
$689 – $6203
INDIE tierFREE
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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
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$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 (53 MB) | +$1K |
| ⚙Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
| ⚙4.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$27K |
Total estimate$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$25K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $20K – $35K · 21× MRR multiple
💸~0.3× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| 📅4.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
350K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
35K
Daily active
6.3K
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
| 📲Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅4.6y of rating accumulation | -23% |
| 🔁Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU18% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 70%
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
| 📦App bundle size | 53 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Shopping |
| 📦Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-05 · 18 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
| 📅18 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$851/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$724 – $1.7K
12 months
$744 – $2.7K
24 months
$689 – $6.2K
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 · 30/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
7.4
Market Position
0.6
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.1
Operational Safety
0.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $340 - $2127/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.92★ across 4,579 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -1.52 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $10K-$18K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (4,579 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (27 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 53 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v7.5🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 AR, HR, CS, NL, EN +22📂 Shopping💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2021 (4y old)
📝 About this app
World Famous for Streetwear
Culture Kings stands at the forefront of a worldwide streetwear phenomenon, showcasing a unique blend of music, sport, and fashion found across the globe. These core foundations represent the three pillars from which Culture Kings is built, bringing to the international stage an unforgettable atmosphere and exclusive buying experience.Download our app today to shop globally exclusive styles and Hyped Sneaker you can’t buy anywhere else!
Culture Kings stands at the forefront of a worldwide streetwear phenomenon, showcasing a unique blend of music, sport, and fashion found across the globe. These core foundations represent the three pillars from which Culture Kings is built, bringing to the international stage an unforgettable atmosphere and exclusive buying experience.Download our app today to shop globally exclusive styles and Hyped Sneaker you can’t buy anywhere else!
🆕 What's New · v7.5
• New and improved user accounts
• Easier and faster checkout
• View and keep track of your orders
• Easier and faster checkout
• View and keep track of your orders
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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
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v7.5
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.55 → 4.92 (improved 1.37★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.43 → 3.13 (dropped 0.30★)
2022-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.83 → 3.43 (dropped 0.40★)
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.25 → 3.60 (dropped 0.65★)
2021-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.67 → 4.25 (dropped 0.42★)
2021-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2021-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 69 reviews across 2 markets● 65% positive · ● 12% neutral · ● 23% negative · Rating drift: -1.52★ (declining — recent 50: 3.4★ vs lifetime: 4.92★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇨🇦 CA
+0.75
🇺🇸 US
+0.31
Top praise themes
quality ×9 awesome ×5 site ×5 hats ×5 service ×4 amazing ×4 customer ×4 worth ×4
Top complaint themes
fast shipping ×3 wrong address ×3 order ×15 customer ×6 because ×6 sent ×5 received ×5 through ×5
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.5% Bug mentions: 4% Fraud / scam mentions: 4.3%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.91767★ | 4,579 | 4.91767★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.90566★ | 106 | 4.90566★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Culture Kings
- Developer
- Culture Kings
- Bundle ID
- com.tapcart.lV7vf6cOcx
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, HR, CS, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, HE, HI, HU, IS, ID, IT, JA, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR
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
- $1.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- 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 growth4,579 ratings+86% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Culture Kings: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Culture Kings make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Culture Kings earns approximately $1K/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.
Is Culture Kings profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $95K and monthly revenue $1K, Culture Kings 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.
How many users does Culture Kings have?▾
Estimated audience: ~350K lifetime downloads, ~35K monthly active users, and ~6K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Culture Kings?▾
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What is Culture Kings built with?▾
Our heuristic places Culture Kings on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Culture Kings still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 18 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Culture Kings sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $25K (marketplace range $20K – $35K). Calculated as 21× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Culture Kings last updated?▾
Culture Kings last shipped a new version on 2026-05-05 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Culture Kings?▾
Culture Kings is published by Culture Kings 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 Culture Kings's BU Score?▾
Culture Kings has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.