Out of the Hat
45
Quality Score
Emerging
Out of the Hat
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Out of the Hat is an iOS app from Cidrosoft in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.2★ across 40 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 45: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Utilities app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$1.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.1K – $3.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$975 – $8779
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.1y 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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 10× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
10× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.2K/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
$1.0K – $2.4K
12 months
$1.1K – $3.8K
24 months
$975 – $8.8K
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 · 33/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
3.1
Product Quality
2.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $481 - $3011/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.23★ across 40 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2788d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2788d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $21K-$38K.
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 6 of 6 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (40 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 · v1.3.1
New return to hat function.
General fixes and improvements.
General fixes and improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Out of the Hat
- Developer
- Cidrosoft
- Bundle ID
- com.cidrosoft.outofthehat
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, PL, PT, RU, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.2K/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 growth40 ratings+3900% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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 → $0.99 (+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
Introduction
Have you ever needed to pick random names out of a hat? Pick your random numbers for the lottery? Out of the Hat is designed to do just that.
Groups
Create groups of names, numbers or any other collections. You can create as many different groups as you like.
Items
For each group you can create items, names or numbers.
Hat
Choose a group to be entered into the hat. In order to pick an item either shake your iOS device or tap once on the screen. Your unique name or number will be pulled from the hat.… View full description on the official store →
Have you ever needed to pick random names out of a hat? Pick your random numbers for the lottery? Out of the Hat is designed to do just that.
Groups
Create groups of names, numbers or any other collections. You can create as many different groups as you like.
Items
For each group you can create items, names or numbers.
Hat
Choose a group to be entered into the hat. In order to pick an item either shake your iOS device or tap once on the screen. Your unique name or number will be pulled from the hat.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 6 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v1.3.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, PL +3📂 Utilities💰 Free
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.75 → 2.00 (dropped 0.75★)
2014-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2013-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.00 (improved 0.50★)
2013-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.50 (improved 0.50★)
2012-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — cidrosoft.co.uk
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.225★ | 40 | 3.225★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2★ | 7 | 2★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.33333★ | 3 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.5★ | 4 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Similar apps in Utilities
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 40 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Out of the Hat make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Out of the Hat earns approximately $1.2K/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.
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Who makes Out of the Hat?▴
Out of the Hat is published by Cidrosoft 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 Out of the Hat's BU Score?▴
Out of the Hat has a BU Score of 45/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.