Puffin Cloud Browser
51
Quality Score
Solid
Puffin Cloud Browser
by CloudMosa, Inc.
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Puffin Cloud Browser is an iOS app from CloudMosa, Inc. in the Utilities category, currently rated 2.5★ across 1,431 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 51: 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
$6.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$7.1K – $14.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$8.7K – $26.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
74 snapshots on record
Rating
2.5
Reviews
1,431 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$6.8K
Snapshots tracked
74
since Mar 2018
🤖Also on Android
$258/mo · 873K ratings · 1.4★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$150K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $200K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.8y 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 (85 MB) | +$13K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-9673 |
| ⚙ 15.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$94K |
Total estimate
$150K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 13× MRR multiple
💸
~0.7× 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 |
| 📅 15.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
13× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
200K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
8.0K
Daily active
1.6K
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 |
| 📅 15.8y 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 | 85 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2023-08-29 · 1121 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
| 📅 3y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| • 16y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$6.8K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$6.5K – $10.8K
12 months
$7.1K – $14.8K
24 months
$8.7K – $26.2K
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
Stalled · 30/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumRevenue Strength
3.8
Product Quality
3.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
0.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $10K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.5★ across 1,431 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1121d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 5.6% refund mentions, scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm.
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $81K-$149K. Portfolio play ($14K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 10 of 10 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 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,431 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.5★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (28 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 |
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 · v5.3.0
1. Fix bugs.
2. Support the latest iOS devices.
3. Apply the features of Puffin Cloud Browser.
2. Support the latest iOS devices.
3. Apply the features of Puffin Cloud Browser.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Puffin Cloud Browser
- Developer
- CloudMosa, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- BN, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, MR, NB, NN, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TA, TE, 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
- $6.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth1,431 ratings+968% 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+0%)
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
Puffin Cloud Browser is the client app that accesses the cloud server which runs the web browser. The Puffin client app and the Puffin cloud server do not communicate in HTTP protocol and the data exchange is not in HTML format. The Puffin client app is like the remote desktop client and the Puffin cloud server is like the remote desktop server. Puffin Cloud Browser gives the audience the illusion of a web browser but it is not, in reality, a web browser.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 85 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v5.3.0🔄 updated 3y ago🌐 BN, DA, NL, EN, FR +23📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
17 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 ↑ 2.50 → 2.91 (improved 0.41★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-10
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$53/mo · rating −0.05★ · reviews +6 high confidence
2019-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$184/mo · rating −0.06★ · reviews +19 high confidence
2018-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$56/mo · reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2018-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$113/mo · rating −0.08★ · reviews +12 low · multiple changes
2018-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.79 → 2.47 (dropped 0.32★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$110/mo · reviews +11 high confidence
2018-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.13 → 2.79 (dropped 0.34★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$123/mo · rating −0.32★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2018-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$123/mo · rating −0.32★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2018-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$111/mo · rating −0.34★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2018-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$111/mo · rating −0.34★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2018-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.50 → 2.86 (improved 0.36★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$111/mo · rating −0.34★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2018-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.75 → 2.40 (improved 0.65★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$111/mo · rating −0.34★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2018-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.67 (improved 0.67★)
2018-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 750 reviews across 9 markets● 44% positive · ● 25% neutral · ● 32% negative · Rating drift: -0.46★ (declining — recent 50: 2.04★ vs lifetime: 2.5★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.41
🇦🇺 AU
+0.21
🇺🇸 US
+0.13
🇬🇧 GB
+0.10
🇨🇦 CA
+0.05
🇯🇵 JP
+0.04
🇧🇷 BR
+0.02
🇫🇷 FR
+0.00
🇩🇪 DE
-0.20
Top praise themes
flash player ×13 please update ×10 ipad pro ×8 flash games ×7 free version ×6 animal jam ×6 update please ×6 iphone ipad ×6
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×31 waste money ×30 nicht mehr ×19 flash player ×17 ipad pro ×16 free version ×13 work anymore ×11 play flash ×11
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 5.6% Bug mentions: 9% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.9%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.90852★ | 1,432 | 2.90852★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.50725★ | 138 | 2.50725★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.51825★ | 137 | 2.51825★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.38983★ | 59 | 2.38983★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.75584★ | 471 | 2.75584★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.71094★ | 128 | 2.71094★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.75758★ | 66 | 2.75758★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.12245★ | 98 | 2.12245★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.95238★ | 21 | 2.95238★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Puffin Cloud Browser: 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: 1,431 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Puffin Cloud Browser make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Puffin Cloud Browser earns approximately $6.8K/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 Puffin Cloud Browser profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $150K and monthly revenue $6.8K, Puffin Cloud Browser looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Puffin Cloud Browser have?▴
Estimated audience: ~200K lifetime downloads, ~8K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Puffin Cloud Browser?▴
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What is Puffin Cloud Browser built with?▴
Our heuristic places Puffin Cloud Browser 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 Puffin Cloud Browser still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Puffin Cloud Browser sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 13× 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 Puffin Cloud Browser last updated?▴
Puffin Cloud Browser last shipped a new version on 2023-08-29 — more than 3 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Puffin Cloud Browser?▴
Puffin Cloud Browser is published by CloudMosa, 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 Puffin Cloud Browser's BU Score?▴
Puffin Cloud Browser has a BU Score of 51/100 (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.