Comikey - Manga & Webcomics
54
Quality Score
Solid
Comikey - Manga & Webcomics
by Comikey Media Inc.
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Comikey - Manga & Webcomics is an iOS app from Comikey Media Inc. in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.3★ across 153 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 54: 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE 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
27 snapshots on record
Rating
4.3
Reviews
153 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$500
Snapshots tracked
27
since May 2022
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$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 (50 MB) | +$12 |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙ 4.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$27K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 📅 4.5y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
11K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.3K
Daily active
260
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 |
| 📅 4.5y of rating accumulation | -23% |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 50 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2026-03-27 · 191 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
| 📅 6 months since last update | Concerning gap |
| 👥 Small user base (153 ratings) + 4.5y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 40/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
6.1
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.1
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.33★ across 153 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 188d 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 = $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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| ad freeREVIEW | +$1,300 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (153 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)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 · v26.02.25
- UI Improvements
- Bug fixes & tweaks
- Bug fixes & tweaks
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Comikey - Manga & Webcomics
- Developer
- Comikey Media Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.comikey.banagher
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- 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
- $500/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇧🇷#21 /100
- 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 growth177 ratings+5800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (27 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇧🇷
BR
Top-grossing rank: #21 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#21 now · best #21 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Manga, Manhua, Manhwa, and Webtoons! Unlock a whole new world of comics with Comikey! Comikey is a free app for reading all of your favorite comics in English. Read Simulpub chapters of officially licensed comics, support creators and publishers by reading your favorite series on Comikey. Don’t want to pay? No worries! Read nearly our entire catalog for FREE by watching ads!
Discover new free stories to binge every day, with every genre from action, romance to isekai!
- Read free by watching ads, daily
- Exclusive manga and webtoons you won’t find anywhere else… View full description on the official store →
Discover new free stories to binge every day, with every genre from action, romance to isekai!
- Read free by watching ads, daily
- Exclusive manga and webtoons you won’t find anywhere else… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 50 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v26.02.25🔄 updated 6mo ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2022 (4y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.04 → 4.33 (improved 2.29★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 1.96 (dropped 2.04★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.33★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −1.96★ · reviews −117 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 4.00 (improved 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.96★ · reviews −117 high confidence
2023-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.26★ high confidence
2022-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.67 → 2.50 (improved 0.83★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.30★ high confidence
2022-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.83★ medium · co-occurring
2022-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.83★ medium · co-occurring
2022-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.83★ low · multiple changes
2022-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.83★ low · multiple changes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.8★ | 5 | 4.8★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.60543★ | 479 | 4.60543★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.05★ | 20 | 4.05★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.4★ | 5 | 3.4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.07143★ | 14 | 4.07143★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.5★ | 2 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.41303★ | 184 | 4.41303★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Comikey - Manga & Webcomics: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 153 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Comikey - Manga & Webcomics make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Comikey - Manga & Webcomics earns approximately $500/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 Comikey - Manga & Webcomics profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $85K and monthly revenue $500, Comikey - Manga & Webcomics looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Comikey - Manga & Webcomics have?▴
Estimated audience: ~11K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~260 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 Comikey - Manga & Webcomics?▴
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 Comikey - Manga & Webcomics built with?▴
Our heuristic places Comikey - Manga & Webcomics on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 Comikey - Manga & Webcomics still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Comikey - Manga & Webcomics sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 17× 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 Comikey - Manga & Webcomics last updated?▴
Comikey - Manga & Webcomics last shipped a new version on 2026-03-27 — 6 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Comikey - Manga & Webcomics?▴
Comikey - Manga & Webcomics is published by Comikey Media Inc. 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 Comikey - Manga & Webcomics's BU Score?▴
Comikey - Manga & Webcomics has a BU Score of 54/100 (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.