How much does Crossword Puzzles make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Crossword Puzzles 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 Crossword Puzzles profitable?

With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Crossword Puzzles looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.7 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Crossword Puzzles have?

Estimated audience: ~25K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~510 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 Crossword Puzzles?

Browse the full Word 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 Crossword Puzzles built with?

Our heuristic places Crossword Puzzles 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 Crossword Puzzles still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (82% 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.

How much would Crossword Puzzles sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $150K). 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.

When was Crossword Puzzles last updated?

Crossword Puzzles last shipped a new version on 2025-09-12 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Crossword Puzzles?

Crossword Puzzles is published by AsyncByte Software 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 Crossword Puzzles's BU Score?

Crossword Puzzles has a BU Score of 47/100 (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.

Crossword Puzzles

Quality Score

Emerging

Crossword Puzzles

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

by AsyncByte Software

Medium confidence

3.5 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Crossword Puzzles is an Android app from AsyncByte Software in the Word category, currently rated 3.5★ across 241 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Word 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

3.5

Reviews

241 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$160K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $120K – $215K

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

📈 Pays back in ~2.7y 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
⚙ Word complexity ×1.30	+$17K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$42K
⚙ 6.8y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$40K

Total estimate $160K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$125K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 24× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.8× 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
📅 6.8y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed)	-8%
🏷 Word category multiple	-15%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 24× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

25K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

1.7K

Daily active

510

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

📲 Word engagement	~150 installs / rating
📅 6.8y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Word D30 retention	10%
📍 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	Word
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

82%

Last shipped 2025-09-12 · 392 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 0mo since last update	Likely deprioritized
👥 Small user base (241 ratings) + 6.8y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

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.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Revenue Strength

3.7

Product Quality

4.9

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

9.2

Operational Safety

7.0

Founder Strength

5.6

Monetization Maturity

5.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.5★ across 241 reviews — below category median.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 392d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (392d 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:

Established app (6y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Early-stage install base (241 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: Crossword Puzzles
Developer: AsyncByte Software
Bundle ID: com.asyncbyte.crossword_en
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Word
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.asyncbyte-software.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: $0.49 - $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

Original crossword puzzle game

what's in this game:

🧩 Crosswords with quality problems

🧩 Problem puzzles we made ourselves with a professional team in the field. Unique crossword puzzle!

🧩 Difficulty? do not give up. that's a puzzle. But if you are already at a dead end, calm down. We provide HINT / Help for you. all problems can be solved.

🧩 Simple game design, we focus on game play that is fun, interesting and challenging. anti stress and senile

🧩 We will always update the Crossword questions regularly.

🧩 Learn English while play this game

🧩 Enjoy!

App Specs

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🔖 v2.0.7🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Word💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.49 - $0.99 per item🚀 Launched 2019 (6y old)

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📝 Description

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Full revenue analysis

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