How much does Horton Hears a Who! make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Horton Hears a Who! earns approximately $2.2M/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 Horton Hears a Who! profitable?

With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $2.2M, Horton Hears a Who! looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Horton Hears a Who! have?

Estimated audience: ~72K lifetime downloads, ~5K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Horton Hears a Who!?

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What is Horton Hears a Who! built with?

Our heuristic places Horton Hears a Who! on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.

Is Horton Hears a Who! still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Horton Hears a Who! sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $45.5M (marketplace range $34.0M – $59.0M). 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 Horton Hears a Who! last updated?

Horton Hears a Who! last shipped a new version on 2025-12-23 — 9 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Horton Hears a Who!?

Horton Hears a Who! is published by Oceanhouse Media 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 Horton Hears a Who!'s BU Score?

Horton Hears a Who! 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.

Horton Hears a Who!

Quality Score

Solid

Horton Hears a Who!

Name: Horton Hears a Who! — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Horton Hears a Who! revenue, Horton Hears a Who! app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Food & Drink revenue, iOS app revenue

by Oceanhouse Media

Medium confidence

5.0 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Horton Hears a Who! is an iOS app from Oceanhouse Media in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 5.0★ across 1,031 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink 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

$2.2M

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$2.3M – $3.6M

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$2.8M – $5.2M

per month

BIG tier

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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

10 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

5.0

Reviews

1,031 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$2.2M

Snapshots tracked

since Oct 2016

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$135K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $100K – $180K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in under a month 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
📦 Asset bundle (94 MB)	+$17K
⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10	+$6K
⚙ 10.0y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$59K

Total estimate $135K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$45.5M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $34.0M – $59.0M · 21× MRR multiple

💸 ~337× return on build cost

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
📅 10.0y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%

Final multiple 21× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

72K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

5.2K

Daily active

1.0K

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

📲 Food & Drink engagement	~100 installs / rating
📅 10.0y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention	14%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 19% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

Medium confidence · 60%

Also possible

React Native 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	94 MB
🏷 Category context	Food & Drink
📦 Mid-large iOS bundle	→ Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

50%

Last shipped 2025-12-23 · 279 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

📅 9 months since last update

Concerning gap

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$2.2M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$2.2M – $2.9M

12 months

$2.3M – $3.6M

24 months

$2.8M – $5.2M

Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 60/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Revenue Strength

6.3

Product Quality

9.0

Market Position

2.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

7.5

Operational Safety

9.0

Founder Strength

7.9

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $880K - $4840K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 5.0★ across 1,031 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 279d 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 = $39.6M-$70.4M.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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
Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC		+$2,200
Low install base (1,031 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Mature app (9y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Single-language (English only)METRIC		−$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v4.1.4

- We fixed a glitch without a hitch!

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Horton Hears a Who!
Developer: Oceanhouse Media
Bundle ID: Not found
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Food & Drink
Content rating: 4+
Languages: EN

Company

Website: Not found
Tagline: Today
Description: Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
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: $2.2M/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 growth1,052 ratings+105100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (10 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

The best-selling Dr. Seuss classic “Horton Hears a Who!” comes to life with playful interactivity, delightful animations and fun activities!

Horton is back! After his first appearance in “Horton Hatches the Egg”, everyone’s favorite elephant returns in this timeless, moving, and comical classic in which we discover that “a person’s a person, no matter how small.” Thanks to the irrepressible rhymes and eye-catching illustrations, young readers will learn kindness and perseverance (as well as the importance of a good “Yopp”) from the very determined—and very endearing—Horton the elephant.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 94 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v4.1.4🔄 updated 9mo ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2016 (9y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

5 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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

→ 30 days after: reviews +9 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

⭐

Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.48 (dropped 0.52★)

→ 30 days after: reviews +9 medium · co-occurring

2026-03

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2020-10

⭐

Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)

2016-10

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

🌍

Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇺🇸 US	4.48289★	1,052	4.48289★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.39286★	28	4.39286★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	5★	2	5★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	3.66667★	3	3.66667★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.5★	8	4.5★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.46512★	43	4.46512★ this version
🇦🇺 AU	4.11765★	34	4.11765★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	0★	0	—
🇮🇳 IN	4★	1	4★ this version

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📝 Description

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