CHOMP by Christoph Niemann
71
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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CHOMP by Christoph Niemann is an iOS app from Fox and Sheep GmbH in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.7★ across 755 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$7.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$7.2K – $15.1K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$8.9K – $26.7K
per month
MID 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
95 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
755 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$7.0K
Snapshots tracked
95
since Jan 2016
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.4y 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 |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙ 10.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$64K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~1.0× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅 10.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
52K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.5K
Daily active
700
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅 10.7y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 48 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2018-07-24 · 2988 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · 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
| 📅 8y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| • 11y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$7.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$6.6K – $11.0K
12 months
$7.2K – $15.1K
24 months
$8.9K – $26.7K
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 · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.8
Product Quality
6.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
7.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $10K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.68★ across 755 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2988d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2988d since update).
🎯 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 = $125K-$222K. Portfolio play ($97K/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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($3.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (25 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Early-stage install base (755 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.
🆕 What's New · v1.5
We have fixed some bugs and optimized the App. Enjoy!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- CHOMP by Christoph Niemann
- Developer
- Fox and Sheep GmbH
- Bundle ID
- com.christophniemann.chomp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Fox & Sheep – Digital Kids Studio
- Description
- Fox & Sheep creates beautiful, high-quality digital products for kids. We are excited to bring apps, animated shows, audio plays, and podcasts.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $7.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/_foxandsheep
- linkedin.com/company/fox-&-sheep/jobs
- 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/foxandsheep · instagram instagram.com/foxsheepberlin · linkedin linkedin.com/company/fox-&-sheep/jobs · twitter twitter.com/_foxandsheep · youtube youtube.com/channel/UC2PqUk3jBjGYjywe…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- foxandsheep.com/help
- About page
- foxandsheep.com/about-us
📈Ratings growth754 ratings+126% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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 → $3.99 (+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.
📝 About this app
"Editor´s Choice Award" by Children´s Technology Review for Excellence in Design!
wired.com: "It’s not quite a storybook, and not quite a video game. It’s ostensibly for kids, but its creative appeal is universal. It’s definitely digital, but feels analog. The app lives at the intersection of all these things, which is one reason it’s such fun to play."
“CHOMP by Christoph Niemann” is the latest imagination from internationally renowned children’s author and illustrator Christoph Niemann, whose App ‘Petting Zoo’ is already loved by millions of children and families around the world.… View full description on the official store →
wired.com: "It’s not quite a storybook, and not quite a video game. It’s ostensibly for kids, but its creative appeal is universal. It’s definitely digital, but feels analog. The app lives at the intersection of all these things, which is one reason it’s such fun to play."
“CHOMP by Christoph Niemann” is the latest imagination from internationally renowned children’s author and illustrator Christoph Niemann, whose App ‘Petting Zoo’ is already loved by millions of children and families around the world.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 48 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v1.5🔄 updated 8y ago🌐 CS, DA, NL, EN, FI +20📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $3.99 price point
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.68 → 4.42 (improved 0.74★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$205/mo · reviews +12 high confidence
2016-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$205/mo · reviews +12 high confidence
2016-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.3K/mo · rating +0.74★ · reviews +135 medium · co-occurring
2016-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.3K/mo · rating +0.74★ · reviews +135 medium · co-occurring
2016-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$297/mo · rating +0.15★ · reviews +19 medium · co-occurring
2016-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$297/mo · rating +0.15★ · reviews +19 medium · co-occurring
2016-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$297/mo · rating +0.15★ · reviews +19 low · multiple changes
2016-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$297/mo · rating +0.15★ · reviews +19 low · multiple changes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.68122★ | 756 | 4.68122★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.68★ | 125 | 4.68★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.74838★ | 155 | 4.74838★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.45238★ | 42 | 4.45238★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.18519★ | 27 | 4.18519★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.62069★ | 87 | 4.62069★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.47058★ | 68 | 4.47058★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.84615★ | 39 | 4.84615★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.5★ | 10 | 4.5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for CHOMP by Christoph Niemann: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 755 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does CHOMP by Christoph Niemann make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, CHOMP by Christoph Niemann earns approximately $7.0K/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 CHOMP by Christoph Niemann profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $7.0K, CHOMP by Christoph Niemann looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does CHOMP by Christoph Niemann have?▴
Estimated audience: ~52K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~700 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 CHOMP by Christoph Niemann?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is CHOMP by Christoph Niemann built with?▴
Our heuristic places CHOMP by Christoph Niemann on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) 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 CHOMP by Christoph Niemann still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would CHOMP by Christoph Niemann sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $150K). Calculated as 18× 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 CHOMP by Christoph Niemann last updated?▴
CHOMP by Christoph Niemann last shipped a new version on 2018-07-24 — more than 8 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes CHOMP by Christoph Niemann?▴
CHOMP by Christoph Niemann is published by Fox and Sheep GmbH 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 CHOMP by Christoph Niemann's BU Score?▴
CHOMP by Christoph Niemann has a BU Score of 71/100 (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.