37
Quality Score
Emerging
Anim8
Why low confidence: only 22 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
✍️ bumetric analysis
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ℹ️ Honest verdict for low-signal apps
Anim8 is a small / niche iOS app in the productivity space with weak public traction — only 22 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate. Treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers below as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
Anim8 is an iOS app from Arjun Gupte in the Productivity category, currently rated 3.0★ across 22 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 37: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Productivity app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$500/mo
In 12 months
$437 – $1575
In 24 months
$405 – $3644
INDIE tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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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
$165K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $125K – $225K
$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 (226 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
| ⚙10.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$63K |
Total estimate$165K
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React NativeFlutter
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 | 226 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Productivity |
| 📦Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
40%
Last shipped 2026-02-21 · 91 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
| 📅3 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
| 👥Small user base (22 ratings) + 10.6y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictAt risk
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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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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 · 36/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
2.4
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.05★ across 22 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (22 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 →💾 226 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v1.6🔄 updated 3mo ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
📝 About this app
Anim8 lets beginners and hobbyists create 3D Character Animation in a fun and intuitive manner.
Anim8 is being used by 3500+ schools globally in order to train kids and adults in 3D Animation since 2015
Animate 3D characters by posing 5 existing characters in 3D space with a simple interface and easy workflow, perfect for first time students of animation and for animators looking to hone their skills.
*Simple UI, easy learning curve.Start animating in minutes.
*Advanced articulation in all rigs lets animators create full body animation with ease.… View full description on the official store →
Anim8 is being used by 3500+ schools globally in order to train kids and adults in 3D Animation since 2015
Animate 3D characters by posing 5 existing characters in 3D space with a simple interface and easy workflow, perfect for first time students of animation and for animators looking to hone their skills.
*Simple UI, easy learning curve.Start animating in minutes.
*Advanced articulation in all rigs lets animators create full body animation with ease.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.6
* Optimised for new iOS version
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2022-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2016-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2016-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2016-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — appymonkeys.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.6★ | 5 | 2.6★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.25★ | 4 | 4.25★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.33333★ | 3 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.6★ | 5 | 3.6★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.04545★ | 22 | 3.04545★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Anim8
- Developer
- Arjun Gupte
- Bundle ID
- com.appymonkeys.animeight
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Lokko
- 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 Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/appymonkey01
- linkedin.com/in/arjungupte
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/AppyMonkeys · instagram instagram.com/appy_monkeys · linkedin linkedin.com/in/arjungupte · twitter twitter.com/appymonkey01
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- appymonkeys.com/contact.html
- About page
- appymonkeys.com/about.html
⭐Recent App Store Reviews10 latest · avg 2.9★ · 20.0% 5★ · 30.0% 1★
5★2 (20%)
4★2 (20%)
3★2 (20%)
2★1 (10%)
1★3 (30%)
+2 ratings/week
Praise: love ×2 great ×1 best ×1 perfect ×1Complaints: overpriced ×1 crash ×1
Top positive
★★★★☆ Oh god!
The controls are soooo hard when your using the dinisur,AND yes I don't know how to spell dinisur!!…
★★★★★ Best CGI app ever! Works perfectly
Anim8 is such a great CGI animation app. It’s totally worth the price as you can use the controls functionally and make as many movements as you want. I loved it. I thank the app developers for creating something so wholesome. It’s perfect.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ HORRIBLE
FIRST OF ALL ITS OVERPRICED SECOND OF ALL I WAS THINKING IT WOULD LET YOU DESIGN YOUR OWN CHARACTERS AND NOT JUST GIVE YOU THESE STUPID CHARACTERS IM SWITCHING TO PLOTAGON…
★☆☆☆☆ I want my money back
Give me my mone back this game isn’t fun…
📈Ratings growth22 ratings+2100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (14 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $19.99 (+0%)
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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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Anim8 make per month?▾
Our model estimates Anim8 earns roughly $86/mo, but with only 22 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like Anim8?▾
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What is Anim8 built with?▾
Our heuristic places Anim8 on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Anim8 still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: At risk (40% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Anim8 last updated?▾
Anim8 last shipped a new version on 2026-02-21 — 3 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Anim8?▾
Anim8 is published by Arjun Gupte 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 Anim8's BU Score?▾
Anim8 has a BU Score of 37/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.