78
Quality Score
Strong
slither.io
✍️ bumetric analysis
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slither.io is an Android app from Lowtech Studios in the Action category, currently rated 3.9★ across 6,571,718 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Action 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
$8.1K/mo
In 12 months
$8.4K – $17.6K
In 24 months
$10.4K – $31.2K
MID tier
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$170K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $230K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~1.8y 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 |
| ⚙Action complexity ×2.20 | +$60K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$61K |
Total estimate$170K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 13× MRR multiple
💸~0.6× 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 |
| ⭐★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷Action category multiple | -15% |
| ⭐Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple13× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
985.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
98.5M
Daily active
34.0M
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
| 📲Action engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 🔁Action D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU35% 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 | Action |
| 📦Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2025-11-09 · 195 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
| 📅6 months since last update | Concerning gap |
VerdictAt risk
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$8.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$7.7K – $12.8K
12 months
$8.4K – $17.6K
24 months
$10.4K – $31.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 42/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
7.8
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $5K - $12K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.9★ across 6,571,718 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 191d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $146K-$259K.
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.
📈 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
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📝 About this app
Play against other people online! Can you become the longest slither?
If your head touches another player, you will explode and then it's game over. But if others run into YOU, then THEY will explode, and you can eat their remains!
In slither.io, you have a chance to win even if you're tiny. You can swerve in front of a much larger player to defeat them, no matter how big you are!
Download now and start slithering! Good luck!
If your head touches another player, you will explode and then it's game over. But if others run into YOU, then THEY will explode, and you can eat their remains!
In slither.io, you have a chance to win even if you're tiny. You can swerve in front of a much larger player to defeat them, no matter how big you are!
Download now and start slithering! Good luck!
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- slither.io
- Developer
- Lowtech Studios
- Bundle ID
- air.com.hypah.io.slither
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Action
- 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
- $1.0KAI low
- AI annual estimate
- $12.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $8.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Slither.io's revenue has significantly declined from its peak in 2016, when its creator reportedly earned over $100,000 per day from ads. Recent Sensor Tower estimates for 'last month' (as of November 2025) indicate less than $5,000 in monthly app revenue across various regions and platforms, with some reports for the US in late 2023 and early 2025 explicitly stating no reported revenue. Reddit discussions suggest the game is largely sustained by past earnings and potentially merchandise licensing, with some users noting the mobile app is now ad-free.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Reddit, Wikipedia, Apptopia, Wall Street Journal, Loop Insight, App2top
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 slither.io: 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 slither.io make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, slither.io earns approximately $8K/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 slither.io profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $8K, slither.io looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does slither.io have?▾
Estimated audience: ~985.5M lifetime downloads, ~98.5M monthly active users, and ~34.0M 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 slither.io?▾
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What is slither.io built with?▾
Our heuristic places slither.io on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is slither.io still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would slither.io sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 13× 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 slither.io last updated?▾
slither.io last shipped a new version on 2025-11-09 — 6 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes slither.io?▾
slither.io is published by Lowtech Studios 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 slither.io's BU Score?▾
slither.io has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.