How much does Caustic make per month?

Low-confidence model estimate. Caustic has only 0 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$500/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.

What apps are like Caustic?

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What is Caustic built with?

Our heuristic places Caustic on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.

Is Caustic still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Caustic last updated?

Caustic last shipped a new version on 2017-02-01 — more than 9 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Caustic is published by Rejean Poirier 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.

Caustic

Quality Score

Niche

Caustic

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

by Rejean Poirier

Low confidence

— App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Caustic is an iOS app from Rejean Poirier in the Travel category, currently rated — across few ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 0: Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a Travel app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage. 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

$500

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$437 – $1575

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$405 – $3644

per month

INDIE tier

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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

—

Reviews

0 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$500

Snapshots tracked

since Oct 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$145K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $110K – $195K

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

📈 Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost

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 (52 MB)	+$785
⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30	+$15K
⚙ 12.9y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$77K

Total estimate $145K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$10K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 18× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.1× 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
📅 12.9y proven track record	+20%

Final multiple 18× MRR

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

Medium confidence · 70%

Also possible

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	52 MB
🏷 Category context	Travel
📦 Small-mid iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

93%

Last shipped 2017-02-01 · 3563 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

📅 9y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
• 13y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

Verdict Likely abandoned

🔬

How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$500/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

$426 – $993

12 months

$437 – $1.6K

24 months

$405 – $3.6K

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 · 31/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

3.0

Product Quality

0.0

Revenue Strength

2.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

4.5

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

7.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: None★ across 0 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3561d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (3561d 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 = $9K-$16K.

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 3 of 3 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Paid app ($9.99)METRIC		+$2,800
Mature app (12y old)METRIC		+$1,500
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 · v3.2.0

New machine: SawSynth (Polyphonic supersaw-type synth)

New "melody helper" to lock keyboards to scales
Support for more time signatures (3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4) from the song page and in pattern editors
Tool to create new PCMSynth instruments by merging your rack.
Keyable BPM… Full release notes →

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: Caustic
Developer: Rejean Poirier
Bundle ID: Not found
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Travel
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: $500/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.

🌍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

Caustic 3 is a music creation tool inspired by rack-mount synthesizer/sampler rigs. 
Everything is real-time and optimized for mobile devices.

Create your rack by adding up to 14 machines from a choice of:

* Subsynth - Virtual analog subtractive synthesizer
* PCMSynth - Multi-sample wave synthesizer 
* BassLine - 303-like monosynth
* BeatBox - 8-channel sampling drum machine
* PadSynth - Harmonic table pad synthesizer
* 8BitSynth - 8bit equation solver synthesizer
* Modular - Fully configurable and routable synthesizer
* Organ - Tonewheel organ with rotary speaker… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 52 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 7.0+🔖 v3.2.0🔄 updated 9y ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Free🚀 Launched 2013 (12y old)

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Multi-Country Performance

Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.27273★	11	4.27273★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	4★	4	4★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	3.3913★	23	3.3913★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	3.91176★	34	3.91176★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	4.5★	8	4.5★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.23529★	17	4.23529★ this version
🇺🇸 US	3.56425★	179	3.56425★ this version