SparkChess Pro
62
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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SparkChess Pro is an Android app from Media Division SRL in the Strategy category, currently rated 4.4★ across 411 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Strategy 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
$5.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$4.5K – $16.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.2K – $37.5K
per month
INDIE tier
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Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
1 snapshots on record
Rating
4.4
Reviews
411 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.1K
Snapshots tracked
1
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$245K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $185K – $330K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4.0y 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 |
| ⚙ Strategy complexity ×2.10 | +$55K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$58K |
| ⚙ 13.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$79K |
Total estimate
$245K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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 |
| 📅 13.3y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Strategy category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
37K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.1K
Daily active
730
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
| 📲 Strategy engagement | ~130 installs / rating |
| 📅 13.3y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Strategy D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
35% 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 | Strategy |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2026-02-21 · 237 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
| 📅 7 months since last update | Concerning gap |
| 👥 Small user base (411 ratings) + 13.3y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.4K – $10.2K
12 months
$4.5K – $16.2K
24 months
$4.2K – $37.5K
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
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.1
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
3.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $2K - $12K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.36★ across 411 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 237d 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 = $92K-$164K.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($21.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (411 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- SparkChess Pro
- Developer
- Media Division SRL
- Bundle ID
- air.com.mediadivision.sparkchessphone
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Strategy
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.sparkchess.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.1K/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.
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
SparkChess is the only chess game that puts fun first. With a choice of boards, computer opponents and online play, it delivers a first-class experience that is as accessible to experts as it is to beginners, kids and anyone else who wants to discover how entertaining this ancient strategy game really is.
The chess game that everyone can enjoy!
Too many chess apps are impossible for anyone but the experts and masters. The real test of a truly intelligent chess game isn’t how hard it is to beat, but how well it can adapt to players of all skill levels.… View full description on the official store →
The chess game that everyone can enjoy!
Too many chess apps are impossible for anyone but the experts and masters. The real test of a truly intelligent chess game isn’t how hard it is to beat, but how well it can adapt to players of all skill levels.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v20.0.0🔄 updated 7mo ago📂 Strategy💰 Free🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — sparkchess.com
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · Zoho
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for SparkChess Pro: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 411 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does SparkChess Pro make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, SparkChess Pro earns approximately $5.1K/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 SparkChess Pro profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $245K and monthly revenue $5.1K, SparkChess Pro looks slow ROI — payback period is around 4.0 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 SparkChess Pro have?▴
Estimated audience: ~37K lifetime downloads, ~2K monthly active users, and ~730 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 SparkChess Pro?▴
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What is SparkChess Pro built with?▴
Our heuristic places SparkChess Pro 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 SparkChess Pro still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would SparkChess Pro sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 16× 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 SparkChess Pro last updated?▴
SparkChess Pro last shipped a new version on 2026-02-21 — 7 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes SparkChess Pro?▴
SparkChess Pro is published by Media Division SRL 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 SparkChess Pro's BU Score?▴
SparkChess Pro 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.