Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket
52
Quality Score
Solid
Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket
by Ben ODwyer
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket is an iOS app from Ben ODwyer in the News category, currently rated 4.2★ across 95 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 52: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$3.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.2K – $11.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$3.0K – $27.0K
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
80 snapshots on record
Rating
4.2
Reviews
95 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$3.7K
Snapshots tracked
80
since Aug 2010
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$190K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $255K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4.2y 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 (101 MB) | +$20K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$14K |
| ⚙ 17.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$104K |
Total estimate
$190K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $45K – $75K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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 |
| 📅 17.5y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
🛠 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 | 101 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2015-01-08 · 4284 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
| 📅 11y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (95 ratings) + 17.5y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 17y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$3.2K – $7.4K
12 months
$3.2K – $11.7K
24 months
$3.0K – $27.0K
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 · 38/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Product Quality
3.4
Revenue Strength
3.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $9K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.23★ across 95 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 4283d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (4283d 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 = $66K-$118K.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (31 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (95 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v3.1.2
In this update we have fixed an issue with recording that was causing really bad distortion when run on iOS 8.
Also we have made some other minor tweaks to give better iOS 8 compatibility.
Thanks a lot for your continued support.
The Cinnamon Jelly Team
Also we have made some other minor tweaks to give better iOS 8 compatibility.
Thanks a lot for your continued support.
The Cinnamon Jelly Team
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket
- Developer
- Ben ODwyer
- Bundle ID
- com.iFantastic.vDrummer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
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
- $3.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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 growth95 ratings+-65% 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.
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
Hands down the best drumming app on the App Store. Nobody can come close to the quality of our sounds or our lightning fast response times. Drums! is the next best thing to owning a real drum kit. Drum along to your favourite tunes or jam away for hours the choice is yours!
All these features for one insanely low price:
- Three amazing drum kits that come as standard with two other kits available via In App Purchase.
- Play along to songs in your music library using the built in music player.
- Record your drumming either alone or along to music.… View full description on the official store →
All these features for one insanely low price:
- Three amazing drum kits that come as standard with two other kits available via In App Purchase.
- Play along to songs in your music library using the built in music player.
- Record your drumming either alone or along to music.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 101 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 7.1+🔖 v3.1.2🔄 updated 11y ago🌐 AR, CA, CS, DA, NL +26📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (17y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 →
2026-04
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2025-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2011-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2011-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$74/mo · reviews +20 high confidence
2011-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.13★ · reviews +11 high confidence
2010-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$70/mo · rating +0.23★ · reviews +19 medium · co-occurring
2010-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$92/mo · rating +0.14★ · reviews +25 low · multiple changes
2010-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.60 → 3.86 (dropped 0.74★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ · reviews +6 high confidence
2010-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.60 → 4.00 (dropped 0.60★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.74★ high confidence
2010-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.74★ medium · co-occurring
2010-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.33 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.74★ medium · co-occurring
2010-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.74★ medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.13333★ | 30 | 4.13333★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.92308★ | 26 | 3.92308★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5★ | 18 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4★ | 5 | 4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 13 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.22499★ | 40 | 4.22499★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.8★ | 5 | 4.8★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.14286★ | 14 | 4.14286★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.18947★ | 95 | 4.18947★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 95 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket earns approximately $3.7K/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 Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $190K and monthly revenue $3.7K, Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket looks slow ROI — payback period is around 4.2 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket?▴
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What is Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket built with?▴
Our heuristic places Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket 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 Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $50K (marketplace range $45K – $75K). Calculated as 16× 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 Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket last updated?▴
Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket last shipped a new version on 2015-01-08 — more than 11 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket?▴
Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket is published by Ben ODwyer 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 Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket's BU Score?▴
Drums! - A studio quality drum kit in your pocket has a BU Score of 52/100 (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.