Living Worlds – Mark Ferrari
65
Quality Score
Solid
Living Worlds – Mark Ferrari
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Living Worlds – Mark Ferrari is an Android app from Pixfabrik in the Entertainment category, currently rated 4.7★ across 576 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Entertainment 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
$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 ~1.6y 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 |
| ⚙ Entertainment complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$36K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Entertainment category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
86K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
10K
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
| 📲 Entertainment engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Entertainment D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
40% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 40/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.7
Product Quality
6.7
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.8★ across 286 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($5K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (576 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Living Worlds – Mark Ferrari
- Developer
- Pixfabrik
- Bundle ID
- com.pixfabrik.livingworlds
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Entertainment
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- pixfabrik.com
- 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
- $5.1K/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.
📈Ratings growth576 ratings+40% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
📝 About this app
** Includes live wallpaper! **
This Living Worlds app is a modern recreation of a set of dynamic pixel art scenes first published in the early 90s as part of an "illustrated personal organizer" named Seize the Day, and seen as screenshots across the Internet since then. These scenes were created by Mark Ferrari, legendary artist from such classic games as Loom and The Secret of Monkey Island as well as the recent Thimbleweed Park. Now, 25 years later, Ian Gilman, the original software developer, has resurrected the Living Worlds, with Mark's support and additional code from Joseph Huckaby.… View full description on the official store →
This Living Worlds app is a modern recreation of a set of dynamic pixel art scenes first published in the early 90s as part of an "illustrated personal organizer" named Seize the Day, and seen as screenshots across the Internet since then. These scenes were created by Mark Ferrari, legendary artist from such classic games as Loom and The Secret of Monkey Island as well as the recent Thimbleweed Park. Now, 25 years later, Ian Gilman, the original software developer, has resurrected the Living Worlds, with Mark's support and additional code from Joseph Huckaby.… View full description on the official store →
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 576 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Living Worlds – Mark Ferrari make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Living Worlds – Mark Ferrari earns approximately $5.1K/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.
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Who makes Living Worlds – Mark Ferrari?▴
Living Worlds – Mark Ferrari is published by Pixfabrik 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 Living Worlds – Mark Ferrari's BU Score?▴
Living Worlds – Mark Ferrari has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.