How much does SimCity BuildIt make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, SimCity BuildIt earns approximately $7.5K/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 SimCity BuildIt?

SimCity BuildIt is published by ELECTRONIC ARTS 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 SimCity BuildIt's BU Score?

SimCity BuildIt has a BU Score of 80/100 (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.

SimCity BuildIt

Quality Score

Excellent

SimCity BuildIt

Name: SimCity BuildIt — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: SimCity BuildIt revenue, SimCity BuildIt app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Simulation revenue, Android app revenue

High confidence

4.1 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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This simulation title from ELECTRONIC ARTS targets the casual city-builder demographic, directly competing with established players like City Mania and Township. Its robust user rating, backed by millions of individual reviews, clearly signals significant, sustained traction, indicating a mature product with a well-established user base, likely past its hyper-growth phase but maintaining strong engagement. The free-to-play model, common in this genre, relies heavily on in-app purchases for virtual currency and items, including randomized selections. For simulation games like this, a key monetization observation is the effectiveness of tiered progression systems where players are incentivized to purchase currency packs to accelerate builds, unlock premium content, or overcome resource bottlenecks, often with a focus on cosmetic upgrades and time-saving boosts rather than pay-to-win mechanics.

BU Score 80 · 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

$700K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$741K – $1141K

per month

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24-mo forecast

$886K – $1645K

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$185K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $140K – $250K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~2.1y 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
⚙ Simulation complexity ×2.00	+$59K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$65K

Total estimate $185K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$200K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $150K – $275K · 27× MRR multiple

💸 ~1.1× build cost (break-even+)

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
🏷 Simulation category multiple	-10%
⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple 27× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

779.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

116.5M

Daily active

34.5M

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

📲 Simulation engagement	~140 installs / rating
🔁 Simulation D30 retention	15%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.30

DAU / MAU 30% 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	Simulation
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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.

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BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 65/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

7.7

Product Quality

8.3

Revenue Strength

5.8

Monetization Maturity

5.0

Defensibility

10.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.13★ across 5,569,020 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

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:

High install base (5,569,020 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Mature app (11y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.1★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

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: SimCity BuildIt
Developer: ELECTRONIC ARTS
Bundle ID: com.ea.game.simcitymobile_row
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Simulation
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: help.ea.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: $7.5K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $0.49 - $99.99 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 growth5,569,020 ratings+10% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (2 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

🚀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

Includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items, including a random selection of virtual in-game items.

Welcome, Mayor, to the city builder and simulator! Be the hero of your very own city metropolis. This is the city-building game to design and create a beautiful, bustling town or metropolis. Every decision is yours as your city simulation grows larger and more intricate. You need to make smart building choices as a city builder to keep your citizens happy and your skyline growing.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v1.78.1.13772656🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Simulation💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.49 - $99.99 per item

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

2 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 →

2026-05

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Shipped update — v1.77.2.13454363 → v1.78.1.13772656

→ 30 days after: reviews +1,577 high confidence

2026-05

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +1,577 high confidence

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📝 Description

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