Donut Maker
58
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Donut Maker is an Android app from Crazy Cats in the Casual category, currently rated 3.3★ across 12,302 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 58: Solid (established niche player). For a Casual 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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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
5 snapshots on record
Rating
3.3
Reviews
12,302 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
5
since May 2026
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
📈
Pays back in ~3.3y 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 |
| ⚙ Casual complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$41K |
| ⚙ 13.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$83K |
Total estimate
$200K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $45K – $75K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 |
| 📅 13.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Casual category multiple | -22% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.9M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
31K
Daily active
11K
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
| 📲 Casual engagement | ~220 installs / rating |
| 📅 13.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Casual D30 retention | 6% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
35% 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 | Casual |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2017-03-02 · 3493 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
| 📅 9y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| • 14y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
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 · 43/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
6.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.26★ across 12,302 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3489d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (3489d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 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:
| Mid install base (12,302 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.3★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| 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
- Donut Maker
- Developer
- Crazy Cats
- Bundle ID
- com.crazycatsmedia.android_make_donut
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Casual
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.crazycatsmedia.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
- 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
Walking in the donut bakery is a sweet assault on your senses. The smell of tasty donuts. The beautiful colors and designs. The sweet taste as you take your first bite. Read to make your own?
The only thing as good as eating donuts is making them! Are you ready to get cooking some sweet donuts? In this app, you get the chance to bake up some tasty donuts. Then, you get to decorate and design the donut to your liking. These donuts will look so realistic that you can practically taste the sweet cakiness of the donut and the yummy icing.… View full description on the official store →
The only thing as good as eating donuts is making them! Are you ready to get cooking some sweet donuts? In this app, you get the chance to bake up some tasty donuts. Then, you get to decorate and design the donut to your liking. These donuts will look so realistic that you can practically taste the sweet cakiness of the donut and the yummy icing.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v2.0.9.0🔄 updated 9y ago📂 Casual💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 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 →
2026-07
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews −35 high confidence
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews −28 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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🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — crazycatsmedia.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- 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 Donut Maker: 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: 12,302 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Donut Maker make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Donut Maker 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 Donut Maker profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $200K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Donut Maker looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.3 years 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 Donut Maker have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.9M lifetime downloads, ~31K monthly active users, and ~11K 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 Donut Maker?▴
Browse the full Casual 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 Donut Maker built with?▴
Our heuristic places Donut Maker 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 Donut Maker still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Donut Maker sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $50K (marketplace range $45K – $75K). Calculated as 12× 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 Donut Maker last updated?▴
Donut Maker last shipped a new version on 2017-03-02 — more than 9 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Donut Maker?▴
Donut Maker is published by Crazy Cats 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 Donut Maker's BU Score?▴
Donut Maker 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.