Futureproof Watch Face
36
Quality Score
Emerging
Futureproof Watch Face
by ARC Advancements
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Futureproof Watch Face is an Android app from ARC Advancements in the Personalization category, currently rated 2.8★ across 39 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 36: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Personalization 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
$188
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$94 – $875
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$94 – $2623
per month
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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
2.8
Reviews
39 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$188
Snapshots tracked
1
since Aug 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$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 |
| ⚙ Personalization complexity ×0.90 | $-5049 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$24K |
| ⚙ 10.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$60K |
Total estimate
$130K
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
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 | Personalization |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2016-11-07 · 3633 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 |
| 👥 Small user base (39 ratings) + 10.0y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 10y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$188/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$119 – $477
12 months
$94 – $875
24 months
$94 – $2.6K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 28/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreRevenue Strength
2.3
Product Quality
2.2
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
2.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.8★ across 39 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3633d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (3633d 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 = $3K-$6K.
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:
| Below-average rating (2.8★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (39 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Futureproof Watch Face
- Developer
- ARC Advancements
- Bundle ID
- arcdesign.wmwatch.futureproof.moto.watchface
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Personalization
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $188/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
<b>You will need to install WatchMaker Premium in order to use this watch face</b>
Don't let that put you off though, Watchmaker is one of the greatest apps for an Android Smartwatch. There are thousands of free watch faces available for Watchmaker. You won't regret it. Download it here: http://goo.gl/FMxUfY
Futureproof is a fully animated simple digital watch face with easy to read big digits; the colors really set the mood as to how you're feeling or to what your wearing.
This watch face which looks great as a live wallpaper, too. To set as lwp, use "WatchMaker Live Wallpaper.… View full description on the official store →
Don't let that put you off though, Watchmaker is one of the greatest apps for an Android Smartwatch. There are thousands of free watch faces available for Watchmaker. You won't regret it. Download it here: http://goo.gl/FMxUfY
Futureproof is a fully animated simple digital watch face with easy to read big digits; the colors really set the mood as to how you're feeling or to what your wearing.
This watch face which looks great as a live wallpaper, too. To set as lwp, use "WatchMaker Live Wallpaper.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.2🔄 updated 9y ago📂 Personalization💰 Free🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 39 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Futureproof Watch Face make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Futureproof Watch Face earns approximately $188/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 Futureproof Watch Face profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $130K and monthly revenue $188, Futureproof Watch Face looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Futureproof Watch Face?▴
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What is Futureproof Watch Face built with?▴
Our heuristic places Futureproof Watch Face on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Futureproof Watch Face still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% 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 Futureproof Watch Face last updated?▴
Futureproof Watch Face last shipped a new version on 2016-11-07 — more than 9 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Futureproof Watch Face?▴
Futureproof Watch Face is published by ARC Advancements 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 Futureproof Watch Face's BU Score?▴
Futureproof Watch Face has a BU Score of 36/100 (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.