Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story
58
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story is an Android app from Bigcool Games, currently rated 4.3★ across 931 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 58: Solid (established niche player). For an app like this, 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
1 snapshots on record
Rating
4.3
Reviews
931 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
—
Snapshots tracked
1
since Oct 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$27K |
Total estimate
$80K
👥 Estimated audience size
135K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
20K
Daily active
4.0K
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
| 📲 category engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 🔁 category D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% 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 | category |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-14 · 17 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
| 📅 17 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 44/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.28★ across 931 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 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: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K.
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 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (931 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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
- Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story
- Developer
- Bigcool Games
- Bundle ID
- com.bigcool.puzzle.merge.kitchen
- App Store URL
- Not found
- Category
- Not found
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- Not found
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
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
<b>Welcome to Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story: Your Global Cooking & Travel Adventure!</b>
Step into a forgotten town full of mystery that was once the top food capital of the world. The bustling streets have fallen into ruins, but the passion for tasty food and cooking remains!
As a master chef, your adventure is to merge ingredients, cook the best tasty meals, and renovate the town from scratch. Uncover the story, unlock recipes, and travel the globe in this free offline puzzle game. Grab your bags to travel, and let the tasty cooking journey begin!… View full description on the official store →
Step into a forgotten town full of mystery that was once the top food capital of the world. The bustling streets have fallen into ruins, but the passion for tasty food and cooking remains!
As a master chef, your adventure is to merge ingredients, cook the best tasty meals, and renovate the town from scratch. Uncover the story, unlock recipes, and travel the globe in this free offline puzzle game. Grab your bags to travel, and let the tasty cooking journey begin!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story: 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: 931 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
6 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow many users does Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story have?▴
Estimated audience: ~135K lifetime downloads, ~20K monthly active users, and ~4K 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 is Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story built with?▴
Our heuristic places Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story 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 Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 17 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story last updated?▴
Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story last shipped a new version on 2026-10-14 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story?▴
Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story is published by Bigcool Games 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 Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story's BU Score?▴
Merge Kitchen - Cook & Story has a BU Score of 58/100 (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.