How much does Need for Speed Most Wanted make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Need for Speed Most Wanted earns approximately $700K/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 Need for Speed Most Wanted profitable?

With estimated build cost $275K and monthly revenue $700K, Need for Speed Most Wanted looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 Need for Speed Most Wanted have?

Estimated audience: ~5.5M lifetime downloads, ~125K monthly active users, and ~31K 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 Need for Speed Most Wanted?

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What is Need for Speed Most Wanted built with?

Our heuristic places Need for Speed Most Wanted 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 Need for Speed Most Wanted still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Need for Speed Most Wanted sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $18.5M (marketplace range $14.0M – $24.0M). Calculated as 26× 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 Need for Speed Most Wanted last updated?

Need for Speed Most Wanted last shipped a new version on 2018-12-20 — more than 7 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Need for Speed Most Wanted?

Need for Speed Most Wanted 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 Need for Speed Most Wanted's BU Score?

Need for Speed Most Wanted has a BU Score of 71/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Need for Speed Most Wanted

Quality Score

Strong

Need for Speed Most Wanted

Name: Need for Speed Most Wanted — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Need for Speed Most Wanted revenue, Need for Speed Most Wanted app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Racing revenue, Android app revenue

by ELECTRONIC ARTS

High confidence

3.7 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Need for Speed Most Wanted is an Android app from ELECTRONIC ARTS in the Racing category, currently rated 3.7★ across 46,568 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Racing app, that means healthy traction. 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

$700K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$741K – $1141K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$886K – $1645K

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

5 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

3.7

Reviews

46,568 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$700K

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$275K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $205K – $370K

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

📈 Pays back in under a month 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
⚙ Racing complexity ×2.10	+$65K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$68K
⚙ 13.9y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$83K

Total estimate $275K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$18.5M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $14.0M – $24.0M · 26× MRR multiple

💸 ~67× 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
📅 13.9y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed)	-8%
🏷 Racing category multiple	-15%

Final multiple 26× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

5.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

125K

Daily active

31K

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

📲 Racing engagement	~170 installs / rating
📅 13.9y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Racing D30 retention	8%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.25

DAU / MAU 25% 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	Racing
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

93%

Last shipped 2018-12-20 · 2834 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

📅 7y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
• 14y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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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 · 57/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

6.0

Product Quality

7.5

Revenue Strength

5.8

Monetization Maturity

4.0

Defensibility

10.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

7.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.74★ across 46,568 reviews — solid.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2833d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2833d since update).

🎯 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:

Mid install base (46,568 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
Paid app ($4.99)METRIC		+$2,800
Mature app (13y old)METRIC		+$1,500
too expensiveREVIEW		−$1,000

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: Need for Speed Most Wanted
Developer: ELECTRONIC ARTS
Bundle ID: com.ea.games.nfs13_na
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Racing
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.firemonkeys.com.au
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: $700K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $2.99 - $24.99 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.

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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App Specs

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🔖 v1.3.128🔄 updated 7y ago📂 Racing💰 Free💎 IAP $2.99 - $24.99 per item🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)

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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 →

2026-06

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Refreshed store screenshots — 7 of 7 updated

2026-05

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews −10 high confidence

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Store Page History

7 SCREENSHOT CHANGES

Every 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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📝 Description

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