Akinator
85
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This Entertainment app carves out a distinct niche in interactive guessing games, competing with other AI-driven trivia or quiz apps, though its core mechanic of mind-reading a chosen character is fairly unique. The app’s high user satisfaction, evidenced by its strong rating across millions of reviews, signals significant and sustained traction. This volume of engagement, combined with its free monetization model, suggests a mature product with a very large, active user base, likely in a late growth or sustained phase. For this category, a common monetization strategy for free apps with high engagement is a hybrid approach combining non-intrusive rewarded video ads for hints or extra turns, alongside IAPs for ad removal or cosmetic customization. Given its core mechanic, a premium "expert mode" offering more obscure categories or faster guessing could also drive IAP revenue.
BU Score 85 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$3.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.2M – $4.9M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$3.8M – $7.1M
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
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.2y 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 |
| ⚙ Entertainment complexity ×1.30 | +$17K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$42K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$250K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $325K · 31× MRR multiple
💸
~2.1× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Entertainment category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
31× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
743.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
89.0M
Daily active
35.5M
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
| 📲 Entertainment engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Entertainment D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
40% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$3.0M – $4.0M
12 months
$3.2M – $4.9M
24 months
$3.8M – $7.1M
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 · 61/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.7
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
6.5
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
8.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.2M - $6.6M/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.65★ across 4,959,476 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $54.0M-$96.0M.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (4,959,476 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| 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
- Akinator
- Developer
- Elokence SAS
- Bundle ID
- com.digidust.elokence.akinator.freemium
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Entertainment
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.elokence.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
- $482/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $9.99 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.
📈Ratings growth4,959,476 ratings+22% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (3 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Akinator can read your mind just like magic and tell you what character you are thinking of, just by asking a few questions. Think of a real or fictional character and Akinator will try to guess who it is.
Will you dare challenge the genie? And what about other themes like movies, animals…?
###NEW###
ENJOY A NEW EXPERIENCE!
Discover a redesigned genie with new emotions and fully animated, equipped with a voice mode that lets the youngest understand the Akinator questions.
3 ADDITIONAL THEMES BESIDES THE CHARACTERS
Akinator is getting stronger and stronger...… View full description on the official store →
Will you dare challenge the genie? And what about other themes like movies, animals…?
###NEW###
ENJOY A NEW EXPERIENCE!
Discover a redesigned genie with new emotions and fully animated, equipped with a voice mode that lets the youngest understand the Akinator questions.
3 ADDITIONAL THEMES BESIDES THE CHARACTERS
Akinator is getting stronger and stronger...… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v9.0.21🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Entertainment💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $9.99 per item
📅
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
🔧
Shipped update — v9.0.19 → v9.0.21
→ 30 days after: reviews +18,291 high confidence
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +24,434 high confidence
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Akinator: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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Why high confidence: 4,959,476 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Akinator make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Akinator earns approximately $8.0K/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.
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Who makes Akinator?▴
Akinator is published by Elokence SAS 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 Akinator's BU Score?▴
Akinator has a BU Score of 85/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.