Word Search Explorer®
79
Quality Score
Strong
Word Search Explorer®
by PlaySimple Games Pte Ltd
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Word Search Explorer® is an iOS app from PlaySimple Games Pte Ltd in the Games category, currently rated 5.0★ across 795,793 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Games 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
6 snapshots on record
Rating
5.0
Reviews
795,793 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
6
since Mar 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$220K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $165K – $295K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.7y 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 (341 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Games complexity ×2.20 | +$108K |
| ⚙ 3.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$21K |
Total estimate
$220K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| 📅 3.6y proven track record | +18% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Games category multiple | -15% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
104.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.5M
Daily active
2.2M
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
| 📲 Games engagement | ~160 installs / rating |
| 📅 3.6y of rating accumulation | -18% |
| 🔁 Games D30 retention | 8% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🎮
Unity
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Unreal Engine
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 | 341 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Games |
| 📦 Game bundle 100-400 MB | → Unity (typical range) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-08 · 18 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
| 📅 18 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.6
Product Quality
9.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.95★ across 795,793 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (795,793 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Multilingual (29 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| Established app (3y old)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.
🆕 What's New · v1.152
Bug fixes and performance boosts! Enjoy smoother gameplay and faster load times—dive right in!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Word Search Explorer®
- Developer
- PlaySimple Games Pte Ltd
- Bundle ID
- in.playsimple.wordsearch
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Games
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AF, AZ, BG, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, IS, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, SK, ES, SV, TR, UK
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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Games
- 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.
🌍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 Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
With Word Search Explorer embark on a wondrous quest of adventure and wisdom, where the fun never stops!
This FREE TO PLAY word game makes learning new words so easy and much more fun. Flex your brain, connect the letters and swipe your way through hundreds of word puzzles, while steadily growing your vocabulary and confidence for the challenges ahead!
Successfully completing each puzzle will bring you closer to your next destination!
Buckle-up and get ready to go on an endeavour that takes you through breathtaking landscapes while training your brain to become a TRUE champion of the mind!… View full description on the official store →
This FREE TO PLAY word game makes learning new words so easy and much more fun. Flex your brain, connect the letters and swipe your way through hundreds of word puzzles, while steadily growing your vocabulary and confidence for the challenges ahead!
Successfully completing each puzzle will bring you closer to your next destination!
Buckle-up and get ready to go on an endeavour that takes you through breathtaking landscapes while training your brain to become a TRUE champion of the mind!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 341 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v1.152🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 AF, AZ, BG, HR, CS +24📂 Games💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2023 (3y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v1.148 → v1.152
→ 30 days after: reviews +9,709 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v1.144 → v1.148
→ 30 days after: reviews +20,401 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.142 → v1.144
→ 30 days after: revenue −$132/mo · reviews +14,388 high confidence
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +30,009 medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.92788★ | 23,766 | 4.92788★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.93931★ | 46,237 | 4.93931★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.92884★ | 50,435 | 4.92884★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.90481★ | 19,530 | 4.90481★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.90602★ | 33,549 | 4.90602★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.93754★ | 58,008 | 4.93754★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.88149★ | 1,291 | 4.88149★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.86339★ | 1,464 | 4.86339★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.94997★ | 844,575 | 4.94997★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Word Search Explorer®: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 795,793 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Word Search Explorer® make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Word Search Explorer® earns approximately $5.0K/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 Word Search Explorer® profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $220K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Word Search Explorer® looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.7 years 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 Word Search Explorer® have?▴
Estimated audience: ~104.0M lifetime downloads, ~7.5M monthly active users, and ~2.2M 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 Word Search Explorer®?▴
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What is Word Search Explorer® built with?▴
Our heuristic places Word Search Explorer® on the Unity stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Unreal Engine.
Is Word Search Explorer® still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 18 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Word Search Explorer® sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). 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 Word Search Explorer® last updated?▴
Word Search Explorer® last shipped a new version on 2026-09-08 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Word Search Explorer®?▴
Word Search Explorer® is published by PlaySimple Games Pte Ltd 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 Word Search Explorer®'s BU Score?▴
Word Search Explorer® has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.