Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star
68
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star is an Android app from AppOn Innovate in the Casual category, currently rated 4.7★ across 15,155 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a Casual 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG 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
5 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
15,155 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
5
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 |
| ⚙ Casual complexity ×1.50 | +$29K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$49K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$16.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $12.5M – $21.5M · 24× MRR multiple
💸
~118× return on build cost
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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Casual category multiple | -22% |
Final multiple
24× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
3.3M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
195K
Daily active
68K
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
| 📲 Casual engagement | ~220 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Casual D30 retention | 6% |
| 📍 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 | Casual |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 62/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
9.3
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
9.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.67★ across 15,155 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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:
| Mid install base (15,155 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (5y 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
- Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star
- Developer
- AppOn Innovate
- Bundle ID
- com.appon.cookingcafe
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Casual
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.appon.co.in
- 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
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $29.99 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
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
Cooking Cafe is a beautiful kitchen cooking & restaurant simulation game that tests your resource & time management skills. Cook & serve delicious hot food & expand restaurant business.
Become the ultimate master chef you have always wanted to be! Prepare, Cook & Serve tasty recipes from all over the world in Cooking Cafe! An addictive bakery & restaurant story game where you set off to help chef master to open a classy cafe & serve her guests delicious foods & baked goods.… View full description on the official store →
Become the ultimate master chef you have always wanted to be! Prepare, Cook & Serve tasty recipes from all over the world in Cooking Cafe! An addictive bakery & restaurant story game where you set off to help chef master to open a classy cafe & serve her guests delicious foods & baked goods.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v6.7🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Casual💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $29.99 per item
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v6.6 → v6.7
2026-07
📸
Updated 2 store screenshots
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v6.5 → v6.6
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
2 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-11
2026-07-14
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-11
2026-07-14
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — appon.co.in
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
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 Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star: 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 high confidence: 15,155 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star earns approximately $700K/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 Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $700K, Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star have?▴
Estimated audience: ~3.3M lifetime downloads, ~195K monthly active users, and ~68K 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 Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star?▴
Browse the full Casual 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 Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star built with?▴
Our heuristic places Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star 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.
How much would Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $16.5M (marketplace range $12.5M – $21.5M). Calculated as 24× 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.
Who makes Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star?▴
Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star is published by AppOn Innovate 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 Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star's BU Score?▴
Cooking Cafe – Restaurant Star has a BU Score of 68/100 (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.