62
Quality Score
Solid
Chess tactics - Ideatactics
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Chess tactics - Ideatactics is an Android app from Gianluca Cisana in the Board category, currently rated 4.3★ across 4,361 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Board 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$5.0K/mo
In 12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
In 24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
MID tier
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$200K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $150K – $270K
$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 |
| ⚙Board complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$41K |
| ⚙14.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$84K |
Total estimate$200K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 16× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + 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
| 📺Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅14.1y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷Board category multiple | -12% |
Final multiple16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
425K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
11K
Daily active
2.8K
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
| 📲Board engagement | ~140 installs / rating |
| 📅14.1y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Board D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.25 |
DAU / MAU24% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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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 | Board |
| 📦Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-04-11 · 42 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅42 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
VerdictActive
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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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.8
Product Quality
7.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.35★ across 4,361 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: 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. Portfolio play ($18K/mo combined) commands premium.
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:
| Low install base (4,361 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v2.0🔄 updated 1mo ago📂 Board💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)
📝 About this app
Looking to improve your chess skills or keep your brain sharp? Look no further than our free chess tactics app, featuring over 20,000 puzzles taken from the most prestigious tournaments worldwide.
Our puzzles are suitable for players of all levels, with 7 difficulty levels available to challenge beginners and experts alike. With our app, you can learn new strategies and techniques, track your progress, and have fun with this timeless game.
Download now to become a chess master!
And now available IdeaTactics NoAds without commercials.
Our puzzles are suitable for players of all levels, with 7 difficulty levels available to challenge beginners and experts alike. With our app, you can learn new strategies and techniques, track your progress, and have fun with this timeless game.
Download now to become a chess master!
And now available IdeaTactics NoAds without commercials.
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Chess tactics - Ideatactics
- Developer
- Gianluca Cisana
- Bundle ID
- com.cisana.ideatactics
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Board
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.ideachess.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
- $840/mo
- 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.
📈Ratings growth4,361 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
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Read the article-style breakdown for Chess tactics - Ideatactics: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Chess tactics - Ideatactics make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Chess tactics - Ideatactics earns approximately $840/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 Chess tactics - Ideatactics profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $200K and monthly revenue $840, Chess tactics - Ideatactics looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Chess tactics - Ideatactics have?▾
Estimated audience: ~425K lifetime downloads, ~11K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 Chess tactics - Ideatactics?▾
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What is Chess tactics - Ideatactics built with?▾
Our heuristic places Chess tactics - Ideatactics 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 Chess tactics - Ideatactics 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 Chess tactics - Ideatactics sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $15K (marketplace range $10K – $15K). Calculated as 16× 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 Chess tactics - Ideatactics last updated?▾
Chess tactics - Ideatactics last shipped a new version on 2026-04-11 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Chess tactics - Ideatactics?▾
Chess tactics - Ideatactics is published by Gianluca Cisana 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 Chess tactics - Ideatactics's BU Score?▾
Chess tactics - Ideatactics has a BU Score of 62/100 (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.