64
Quality Score
Solid
Where is cat?
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Where is cat? is an Android app from Bart Bonte in the Puzzle category, currently rated 4.7★ across 279 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 64: Solid (established niche player). For a Puzzle 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 tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 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
$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 ~3.5y 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 |
| ⚙Puzzle complexity ×1.60 | +$30K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$44K |
| ⚙10.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$62K |
Total estimate$190K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $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 |
| 📅10.5y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷Puzzle category multiple | -12% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
31K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.5K
Daily active
480
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
| 📲Puzzle engagement | ~160 installs / rating |
| 📅10.5y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Puzzle D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.32 |
DAU / MAU32% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
Medium confidence · 55%
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
| 🏷Category context | Puzzle |
| 📦Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2025-09-03 · 264 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅8 months since last update | Concerning gap |
| 👥Small user base (279 ratings) + 10.5y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictAt risk
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.1
Product Quality
6.6
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 279 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 258d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 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. Portfolio play ($43K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($2.49)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Early-stage install base (279 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v3.9🔄 updated 8mo ago📂 Puzzle💰 Free🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
📝 About this app
The collection of adventures of the Bonte cat who likes to play hide-and-seek:
- Where is cat?
Find and tap on the black cat hidden in each room of the house and then find all the different items the cat wants for a little surprise at the end...
A game suitable for children from 5 years to people aged 105 but young at heart.
The game plays and feels like an interactive child's storybook, and a lot of the artwork is drawn by kids.
- Christmas cat
The Bonte cat jumps on top of the Christmas tree and sends the 20 red balls all around the house.… View full description on the official store →
- Where is cat?
Find and tap on the black cat hidden in each room of the house and then find all the different items the cat wants for a little surprise at the end...
A game suitable for children from 5 years to people aged 105 but young at heart.
The game plays and feels like an interactive child's storybook, and a lot of the artwork is drawn by kids.
- Christmas cat
The Bonte cat jumps on top of the Christmas tree and sends the 20 red balls all around the house.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — bartbonte.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Where is cat?
- Developer
- Bart Bonte
- Bundle ID
- air.com.bartbonte.whereiscat
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Puzzle
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- bartbonte.com
- 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
- $4.5K/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 growth279 ratings+29% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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.
More by Bart Bonte
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
17apps·$43K/mocombined
✓ Diversified — top app contributes 21%; risk spread across portfolio
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Where is cat?: 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: 279 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Where is cat? make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Where is cat? earns approximately $4.5K/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 Where is cat? profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $190K and monthly revenue $4.5K, Where is cat? looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.5 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Where is cat? have?▴
Estimated audience: ~31K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~480 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 Where is cat??▴
Browse the full Puzzle 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 Where is cat? built with?▴
Our heuristic places Where is cat? on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Where is cat? still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Where is cat? sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $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 Where is cat? last updated?▴
Where is cat? last shipped a new version on 2025-09-03 — 8 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Where is cat??▴
Where is cat? is published by Bart Bonte on the Google Play 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 Where is cat?'s BU Score?▴
Where is cat? has a BU Score of 64/100 (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.