Bacteria Evolution: Idle Merge
64
Quality Score
Solid
Bacteria Evolution: Idle Merge
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Bacteria Evolution: Idle Merge is an Android app from Tapps Games in the Simulation category, currently rated 4.5★ across 5,718 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 64: Solid (established niche player). For a Simulation 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
💡 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
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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
$185K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $250K
$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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Simulation complexity ×2.00 | +$59K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$65K |
Total estimate
$185K
👥 Estimated audience size
800K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
120K
Daily active
36K
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
| 📲 Simulation engagement | ~140 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Simulation D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% 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 | Simulation |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
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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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Building · 61/100MID TIERcompetitive build-outGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.8
Product Quality
8.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
9.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.5★ across 5,718 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($201K/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:
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (5,718 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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
- Bacteria Evolution: Idle Merge
- Developer
- Tapps Games
- Bundle ID
- br.com.tapps.bacteriumevolution
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Simulation
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- tappsgames.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
- $489/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $1.99 - $54.99 per item
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 growth5,718 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
📝 About this app
Behind the scenes, Earth has always been controlled by mysterious, invisible beings: the bacteria!
Merge many different mutant bacteria species until you create the most unbeatable superbug in the universe!
Why worry about a little germ or plague virus when you can join them in wiping humans from the planet and recolonizing the world?
It’s already begun, and there’s no resisting this infection. Spread the origin story of today’s super bacteria and help them evolve!
BACTERIAL FEATURES
👾Pantheon: a new place for supreme beings to look down on us mortals and laugh at our misery… View full description on the official store →
Merge many different mutant bacteria species until you create the most unbeatable superbug in the universe!
Why worry about a little germ or plague virus when you can join them in wiping humans from the planet and recolonizing the world?
It’s already begun, and there’s no resisting this infection. Spread the origin story of today’s super bacteria and help them evolve!
BACTERIAL FEATURES
👾Pantheon: a new place for supreme beings to look down on us mortals and laugh at our misery… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.0.53🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Simulation💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.99 - $54.99 per item
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Bacteria Evolution: Idle Merge: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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View all →📦 Portfolio summaryMID studio
199apps·$201K/mocombined
✓ Diversified — top app contributes 3%; risk spread across portfolio
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 5,718 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Bacteria Evolution make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Bacteria Evolution earns approximately $488/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 Bacteria Evolution?▴
Bacteria Evolution is published by Tapps Games 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 Bacteria Evolution's BU Score?▴
Bacteria Evolution 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.