How much does Shifter make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Shifter earns approximately $5.0K/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 Shifter profitable?

With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Shifter looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Shifter have?

Estimated audience: ~15K lifetime downloads, ~790 monthly active users, and ~150 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 Shifter?

Browse the full Comics 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 Shifter built with?

Our heuristic places Shifter 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 Shifter still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Shifter sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $150K (marketplace range $125K – $200K). Calculated as 31× 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 Shifter last updated?

Shifter last shipped a new version on 2015-01-30 — more than 11 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Shifter is published by Anomaly Productions, Inc. 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 Shifter's BU Score?

Shifter has a BU Score of 51/100 (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.

Shifter

Quality Score

Solid

Shifter

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

by Anomaly Productions, Inc.

Medium confidence

4.0 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Shifter is an Android app from Anomaly Productions, Inc. in the Comics category, currently rated 4.0★ across 144 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 51: Solid (established niche player). For a Comics 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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.0

Reviews

144 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since Jun 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$170K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $130K – $230K

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

📈 Pays back in ~2.8y 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
💎 In-app purchase plumbing	+$9K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$32K
⚙ 12.8y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$76K

Total estimate $170K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$150K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $125K – $200K · 31× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.9× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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

💎 IAP / freemium model base	28× MRR
📅 12.8y proven track record	+20%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 31× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

15K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

790

Daily active

150

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

📲 Comics engagement	~150 installs / rating
📅 12.8y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Comics D30 retention	15%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 19% sticky

🛠 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	Comics
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

95%

Last shipped 2015-01-30 · 4284 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

📅 11y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
👥 Small user base (144 ratings) + 12.8y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)
• 13y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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 peers

Revenue Strength

3.7

Product Quality

5.6

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

10.0

Operational Safety

7.0

Founder Strength

4.8

Monetization Maturity

4.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.0★ across 144 reviews — below category median.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 4284d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (4284d 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 = $90K-$160K.

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 6 of 6 triggers

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

worth every pennyREVIEW		+$2,000
Mature app (12y old)METRIC		+$1,500
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
Good rating (4.0★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Early-stage install base (144 ratings)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.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: Shifter
Developer: Anomaly Productions, Inc.
Bundle ID: com.anomalyproductions.ShifterInteractiveGraphicNovel
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Comics
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: experienceanomaly.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: $5.0K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $0.99 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.

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

SHIFTER the Interactive Graphic Novel has arrived! Innovative use of animation and interactivity is masterfully woven together to create a multimedia experience of unparalleled scope, featuring the amazing voice talents of **WIL WHEATON**! 

What if you could soar with the birds – not in a man-made contraption or by using virtual reality, but as an actual bird? What if you could literally be a fly on the wall in a top-secret meeting? What if you could become any animal in the world or, better yet, anybody in the world? What if you could become any creature that has ever existed (and some… View full description on the official store →

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🔖 v1.2.0🔄 updated 11y ago📂 Comics💰 Free💎 IAP $0.99 per item🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)

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📝 Description

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Full revenue analysis

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