Cross Stitch: Color by Number
70
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Cross Stitch: Color by Number is an iOS app from Eyewind in the Entertainment category, currently rated 4.3★ across 195,107 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 70: Strong (healthy traction). For a Entertainment 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
$25.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$25.7M – $34.1M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$28.6M – $42.9M
per month
MEGA tier
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- 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
🤖Also on Android
$218/mo · 195K ratings · 4.4★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (157 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Entertainment complexity ×1.30 | +$29K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 28× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| 🏷 Entertainment category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
28× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
29.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.5M
Daily active
1.4M
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
39% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$25.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$24.6M – $30.1M
12 months
$25.7M – $34.1M
24 months
$28.6M – $42.9M
Compound growth at +1.5% MoM (tier baseline for MEGA). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±10% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 67/100MEGA TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
7.4
Product Quality
8.7
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
9.8
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.9
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Strong — $10.0M - $50.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.35★ across 195,107 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 32-48× monthly = $800.0M-$1200.0M.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (195,107 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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
- Cross Stitch: Color by Number
- Developer
- Eyewind
- Bundle ID
- com.inapp.cross.stitch
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Entertainment
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, ZH, ZH
Company
- Website
- eyewind.com
- Tagline
- 深圳市风眼科技有限公司 | EyeWind
- Description
- EYEWIND为创意而生，坚持
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $511/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Entertainment
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $1.99 - $59.99 per item
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
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- eyewind.com/contact
- About page
- eyewind.com/about
📈Ratings growth195,107 ratings+30% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (4 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
A cool application for children and adults to have fun.
Cross Stitch helps practice concentration and also have a great time! Cross-stitching on your device comes true.
Drop all the colored cross stitches in the correct place and watch your embroidery
There’re many beautiful pictures inside of the app.
It’s really easy, choose suitable color and click to right place.
That you will make a fantastic works.
★ Import any pictures if you like !
★ New patterns released weekly!
★ 6 categories of pictures: Animals, Art, Flowers, Landscape, People, Pets.
★ Exquisite Tools for you .… View full description on the official store →
Cross Stitch helps practice concentration and also have a great time! Cross-stitching on your device comes true.
Drop all the colored cross stitches in the correct place and watch your embroidery
There’re many beautiful pictures inside of the app.
It’s really easy, choose suitable color and click to right place.
That you will make a fantastic works.
★ Import any pictures if you like !
★ New patterns released weekly!
★ 6 categories of pictures: Animals, Art, Flowers, Landscape, People, Pets.
★ Exquisite Tools for you .… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 157 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15+🔖 v2.14.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, ZH, ZH📂 Entertainment💰 Paid📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.99 - $59.99 per item
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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 →
2026-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.65 → 4.35 (dropped 0.30★)
2026-07
📈
Crossed 50,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-07
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2.0 → v2.14.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +28 high confidence
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
8 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
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Slot 2
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2 ver.
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2 ver.
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Slot 5
2 ver.
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Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.65248★ | 15,795 | 4.65248★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.64878★ | 2,460 | 4.64878★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.50973★ | 514 | 4.50973★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.50992★ | 504 | 4.50992★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.49925★ | 665 | 4.49925★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.58939★ | 1,885 | 4.58939★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.6326★ | 1,086 | 4.6326★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.82203★ | 118 | 4.82203★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.60417★ | 48 | 4.60417★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Cross Stitch: Color by Number: 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 high confidence: 195,107 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Cross Stitch make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Cross Stitch earns approximately $510/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 Cross Stitch?▴
Cross Stitch is published by Eyewind 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 Cross Stitch's BU Score?▴
Cross Stitch has a BU Score of 70/100 (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.