How much does Hot Air make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hot Air 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 Hot Air profitable?

With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Hot Air looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Hot Air have?

Estimated audience: ~80K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~640 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 Hot Air?

Browse the full Utilities 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 Hot Air built with?

Our heuristic places Hot Air 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 Hot Air still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Hot Air sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $75K – $100K). 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 Hot Air last updated?

Hot Air last shipped a new version on 2026-09-22 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Hot Air is published by Cato Technologies LLC 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 Hot Air's BU Score?

Hot Air has a BU Score of 62/100 (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.

Hot Air

Quality Score

Solid

Hot Air

Name: Hot Air — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Hot Air revenue, Hot Air app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

by Cato Technologies LLC

Medium confidence

4.9 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Hot Air is an iOS app from Cato Technologies LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.9★ across 575 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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

$5.0K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$5.2K – $10.8K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$6.4K – $19.2K

per month

MID tierFREE

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

44 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.9

Reviews

575 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since Sep 2010

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$170K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $130K – $230K

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

📈 Pays back in ~2.8y 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 (128 MB)	+$31K
⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85	$-12250
⚙ 16.6y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$99K

Total estimate $170K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$75K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $75K – $100K · 17× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.4× 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
📅 16.6y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%
🏷 Utilities category multiple	-10%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 17× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

80K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

3.2K

Daily active

640

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

📲 Utilities engagement	~200 installs / rating
📅 16.6y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Utilities D30 retention	20%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% 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	128 MB
🏷 Category context	Utilities
📦 Mid-large iOS bundle	→ Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Active

Last shipped 2026-09-22 · 1 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

📅 1 day since last update

Active development

Verdict Active

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

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 · 42/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peers

Revenue Strength

3.7

Product Quality

6.3

Market Position

2.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

4.5

Operational Safety

7.9

Founder Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

0.5

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.86★ across 575 reviews — solid.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — bug mentions above category norm.

🎯 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

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 7 of 7 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 (4.9★)METRIC		+$2,200
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Mature app (16y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Early-stage install base (575 ratings)METRIC		+$400
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 · v15.16

Minor bug fixes for the Real-Time Screen.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: Hot Air
Developer: Cato Technologies LLC
Bundle ID: name.gano.hotair
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
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: $5.0K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Outside top 100 in US Utilities
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 growth578 ratings+28800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (44 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 → $9.99 (+0%)

🚀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

Hot Air is a complete balloon flight companion, built by balloon pilots for balloon pilots. From preflight planning to postflight review, it delivers live tracking, flight recording, waypoint navigation, wind profiling, and more — all designed specifically for the unique needs of hot air ballooning.

Whether you’re a student pilot, a commercial operator, or flying for fun, Hot Air helps you stay organized, informed, and connected.

Features include:
	•	Live tracking on street or satellite maps
	•	Wind profiling by altitude during climb and descent… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 128 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.5+🔖 v15.16🔄 updated 1d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (16y old)

📅

What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

12 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 →

2026-08

🔧

Shipped update — v15.11 → v15.14

2026-06

🔧

Shipped update — v15.07 → v15.11

→ 30 days after: revenue +$172/mo high confidence

2026-05

💲

Went paid — introduced $9.99 price point

2026-05

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-05

🔧

Shipped update — v? → v15.07

→ 30 days after: reviews +576 low · multiple changes

2012-12

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2012-08

⭐

Rating ↑ 3.75 → 4.17 (improved 0.42★)

→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ high confidence

2012-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 3.33 → 3.75 (improved 0.42★)

2011-06

⭐

Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.33 (improved 0.83★)

2010-09

⭐

Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)

2010-09

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

2010-09

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

🗣

Voice of Customer

Based on 85 reviews across 7 markets

● 79% positive · ● 13% neutral · ● 8% negative · Rating drift: -0.20★ (declining — recent 50: 4.66★ vs lifetime: 4.86★)

VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.

Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)

🇨🇦 CA

+0.84

🇺🇸 US

+0.79

🇦🇺 AU

+0.68

🇬🇧 GB

+0.66

🇯🇵 JP

+0.02

🇩🇪 DE

-0.01

🇫🇷 FR

-0.14

Top praise themes

balloon pilot ×6 google earth ×5 flying balloons ×4 flight track ×4 flight log ×3 flight path ×3 record flight ×3 ballooning ×16

Top complaint themes

— no recurring complaint themes

Risk signals

Bug mentions: 6%

🌍

Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇺🇸 US	4.85961★	577	4.85961★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.77381★	84	4.77381★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.70833★	48	4.70833★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.77273★	44	4.77273★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.54348★	46	4.54348★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.86364★	44	4.86364★ this version
🇦🇺 AU	4.83784★	37	4.83784★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	4.38462★	13	4.38462★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	4.75★	4	4.75★ this version

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Hot Air: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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