How much does Whack a Mole make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Whack a Mole earns approximately $500/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 Whack a Mole profitable?

With estimated build cost $215K and monthly revenue $500, Whack a Mole 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.

What apps are like Whack a Mole?

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What is Whack a Mole built with?

Our heuristic places Whack a Mole 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 Whack a Mole still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 10 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Whack a Mole sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $5.0K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 13× 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 Whack a Mole last updated?

Whack a Mole last shipped a new version on 2025-12-07 — 10 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Whack a Mole?

Whack a Mole is published by GamerHBGT 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 Whack a Mole's BU Score?

Whack a Mole has a BU Score of 49/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Whack a Mole

Quality Score

Emerging

Whack a Mole

Name: Whack a Mole — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Whack a Mole revenue, Whack a Mole app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Arcade revenue, Android app revenue

by GamerHBGT

Low confidence

4.0 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Whack a Mole is an Android app from GamerHBGT in the Arcade category, currently rated 4.0★ across 51 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 49: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Arcade app, that means early traction worth watching. 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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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.0

Reviews

51 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$500

Snapshots tracked

since Oct 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$215K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $160K – $290K

$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
⚙ Arcade complexity ×1.90	+$45K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$52K
⚙ 10.9y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$65K

Total estimate $215K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$5K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 13× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.0× 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
📅 10.9y proven track record	+20%
🏷 Arcade category multiple	-20%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 13× MRR

🛠 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	Arcade
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

60%

Last shipped 2025-12-07 · 311 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

📅 10 months since last update	Concerning gap
👥 Small user base (51 ratings) + 10.9y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

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

Pre-traction · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

3.9

Product Quality

3.2

Revenue Strength

2.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

6.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

9.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.0★ across 51 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 304d 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 = $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

MODEL

Revenue 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:

Mature app (10y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.0★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Pre-traction phase (51 ratings)METRIC		−$300

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Whack a Mole
Developer: GamerHBGT
Bundle ID: com.desHBGT.Whackamole0001
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Arcade
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: desarrollohbgt.esy.es
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: $500/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

Traditional fun game "Whack a Mole", make the largest tap

10000 points to reach the option to place an image from your gallery rather Mole is enabled.

For the 14000 and 18000 points are enabled options to change the hammer by a camera and cake respectively. Enjoy crashing cakes!

App Specs

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🔖 v1.3🔄 updated 10mo ago📂 Arcade💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)

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