How much does Troll Defense make per month?

Our model estimates Troll Defense earns roughly $5.0K/mo, but with only 11 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.

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What is Troll Defense built with?

Our heuristic places Troll Defense 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 Troll Defense still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (87% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Troll Defense last updated?

Troll Defense last shipped a new version on 2025-08-07 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Troll Defense?

Troll Defense is published by Brandon Stecklein 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 Troll Defense's BU Score?

Troll Defense has a BU Score of 42/100 (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.

Troll Defense

Quality Score

Emerging

Troll Defense

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

by Brandon Stecklein

Low confidence

3.7 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Troll Defense is an Android app from Brandon Stecklein in the Strategy category, currently rated 3.7★ across 11 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 42: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Strategy 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

$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

3.7

Reviews

11 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$255K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $190K – $345K

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

📈 Pays back in ~4.2y 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
⚙ Strategy complexity ×2.10	+$65K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$68K
⚙ 10.3y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$61K

Total estimate $255K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$125K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 27× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.5× 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
📅 10.3y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed)	-8%
🏷 Strategy category multiple	-5%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 27× MRR

🛠 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

Likely abandoned

87%

Last shipped 2025-08-07 · 424 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

📅 1y 1mo since last update	Likely deprioritized
👥 Small user base (11 ratings) + 10.3y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)
• 10y 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)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

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

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

6.0

Product Quality

2.9

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

5.0

Defensibility

10.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

7.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.67★ across 11 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 419d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (419d 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 3 of 3 triggers

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

Mature app (10y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Pre-traction phase (11 ratings)METRIC		−$300

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: Troll Defense
Developer: Brandon Stecklein
Bundle ID: com.ape.games.troll.defense
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Strategy
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: apps.ape-apps.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: $1.99 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

The evil trolls of Mt. Golash have risen and are threatening to invade the middle kingdom! Will mankind fall? Not on your watch. Build towers and destroy the evil trolls who are trying to escape in this epic tower defense game! 

Troll Defense is an epic mobile TD game featuring the evil trolls of Mt. Golash.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v2.0.0🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Strategy💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.99 per item🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)

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