The Catapult: Stickman Pirates
73
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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The Catapult: Stickman Pirates is an Android app from BYV in the Action category, currently rated 4.4★ across 62,149 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Action app, that means healthy traction. 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
6 snapshots on record
Rating
4.4
Reviews
62,149 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
6
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$245K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $185K – $330K
$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 |
| ⚙ Action complexity ×2.20 | +$71K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$71K |
| ⚙ 7.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$44K |
Total estimate
$245K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$21.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $16.0M – $28.0M · 31× MRR multiple
💸
~88× 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 |
| 📅 7.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Action category multiple | -15% |
Final multiple
31× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
6.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
440K
Daily active
150K
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
| 📲 Action engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 📅 7.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Action D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
34% 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 | Action |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-26 · 49 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
| 📅 49 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
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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 cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
8.8
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
9.3
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.41★ across 62,116 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (62,149 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y 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
- The Catapult: Stickman Pirates
- Developer
- BYV
- Bundle ID
- com.byv.theships
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Action
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- byvgames.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
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.49 - $13.99 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 Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Do you love casual games? The Catapult - the best among of casual games. "The Catapult: Clash with Stickman Pirates" is an additional version of the free casual game with realistic physics “The Catapult”. If you enjoyed the original castle game, you should definitely give this one a go. And if you see yourself in a role of a mighty pirate stickman then come aboard!
This peaceful landscape has been invaded by a group of stickman warriors and the castle clash is about to start…Are you ready to show off your skills in casual games?
Here is how this casual game works.… View full description on the official store →
This peaceful landscape has been invaded by a group of stickman warriors and the castle clash is about to start…Are you ready to show off your skills in casual games?
Here is how this casual game works.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.9.2🔄 updated 1mo ago📂 Action💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.49 - $13.99 per item🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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 — v1.9.0 → v1.9.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +55 high confidence
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +58 high confidence
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +73 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
8 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
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2 ver.
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Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for The Catapult: Stickman Pirates: 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: 62,149 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does The Catapult make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, The Catapult 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 The Catapult profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $245K and monthly revenue $700K, The Catapult 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 The Catapult have?▴
Estimated audience: ~6.5M lifetime downloads, ~440K monthly active users, and ~150K 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 The Catapult?▴
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What is The Catapult built with?▴
Our heuristic places The Catapult 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 The Catapult still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would The Catapult sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $21.5M (marketplace range $16.0M – $28.0M). Calculated as 31× 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 The Catapult last updated?▴
The Catapult last shipped a new version on 2026-08-26 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes The Catapult?▴
The Catapult is published by BYV 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 The Catapult's BU Score?▴
The Catapult has a BU Score of 73/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.