MTG Life Counter: LifeElk
67
Quality Score
Solid
MTG Life Counter: LifeElk
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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MTG Life Counter: LifeElk is an Android app from CardElk in the Entertainment category, currently rated 4.8★ across 6,886 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 67: Solid (established niche player). For a Entertainment 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
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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
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$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 |
| ⚙ Entertainment complexity ×1.30 | +$17K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$42K |
Total estimate
$120K
👥 Estimated audience size
1.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
120K
Daily active
48K
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
| 📲 Entertainment engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Entertainment D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
40% sticky
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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
Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
8.6
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
3.5
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.77★ across 6,886 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 222d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 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
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 (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (6,886 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (6y 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
- MTG Life Counter: LifeElk
- Developer
- CardElk
- Bundle ID
- com.bartollesina.lifetap
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Entertainment
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- cardelk.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
- $345/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $3.49 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 growth6,886 ratings+69% 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
LifeElk features:
✓ Track life total of up to 6 players
✓ Special commander counter
✓ Up to three counters EDH, Infect and/or Energy for each player
✓ Optional counters can be hidden
✓ Dice roll
✓ Coin flip
✓ Change background of every player
✓ Choose custom life
✓ Add or subtract Life with a tap, or hold down to auto tap
✓ Autosaves your game
✓ For every phone and tablet
Suitable for Commander/EDH and all formats!
Made by Magic player!
✓ Track life total of up to 6 players
✓ Special commander counter
✓ Up to three counters EDH, Infect and/or Energy for each player
✓ Optional counters can be hidden
✓ Dice roll
✓ Coin flip
✓ Change background of every player
✓ Choose custom life
✓ Add or subtract Life with a tap, or hold down to auto tap
✓ Autosaves your game
✓ For every phone and tablet
Suitable for Commander/EDH and all formats!
Made by Magic player!
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v2.6.2🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Entertainment💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $3.49 per item
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — cardelk.com
- 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 MTG Life Counter: LifeElk: 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 medium confidence: 6,886 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does MTG Life Counter make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, MTG Life Counter earns approximately $345/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 MTG Life Counter?▴
MTG Life Counter is published by CardElk 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 MTG Life Counter's BU Score?▴
MTG Life Counter has a BU Score of 67/100 (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.