How much does Banana Kong make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Banana Kong earns approximately $8.1K/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 Banana Kong?

Banana Kong is published by FDG Entertainment GmbH & Co.KG 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 Banana Kong's BU Score?

Banana Kong 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.

Banana Kong

Quality Score

Excellent

Banana Kong

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

by FDG Entertainment GmbH & Co.KG

High confidence

4.7 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Banana Kong occupies the endless runner niche, directly competing with established titles like Temple Run and Subway Surfers. Its substantial user rating, reflecting over five million reviews, indicates strong user acquisition and retention, signaling a mature product with a significant, engaged player base. This level of sustained positive feedback suggests the app has moved beyond early growth stages and maintains consistent traction. For free-to-play action runners, a common monetization strategy involves a balanced ad-IAP split, where rewarded video ads offer in-game currency or power-ups, complementing IAPs for cosmetic items, character unlocks, or ad removal. The high volume of ratings on a free model implies a strong opportunity to optimize ad placements and IAP offerings to convert a portion of the active user base into paying customers, driving further revenue growth within this highly competitive category.

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

$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

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$205K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $155K – $275K

$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
⚙ Action complexity ×2.20	+$71K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$71K

Total estimate $205K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$225K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 28× 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
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷 Action category multiple	-15%
⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple 28× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

769.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

76.5M

Daily active

26.5M

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

📲 Action engagement	~150 installs / rating
🔁 Action D30 retention	10%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.35

DAU / MAU 35% 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	Action
📦 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 · 63/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Revenue Strength

5.8

Product Quality

9.4

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

10.0

Operational Safety

9.0

Founder Strength

6.0

Monetization Maturity

5.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.68★ across 5,131,972 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 195d ago — slow cadence.
⚠️ 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 5 of 5 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

High install base (5,131,972 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC		+$2,200
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
Mature app (12y old)METRIC		+$1,500
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: Banana Kong
Developer: FDG Entertainment GmbH & Co.KG
Bundle ID: com.fdgentertainment.bananakong
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Action
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.fdg-entertainment.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: $276/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $0.99 - $30.99 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 growth5,131,972 ratings+33% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (3 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

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

A thrilling ride through jungle, caves and treetops. 

Play as Kong! Banana Kong!

Run, jump, bounce and swing on vines as you help Banana Kong to outrun a huge banana avalanche! Keep full control with highly responsive single-finger tap and swipe controls.

Ride the boar or fly with the toucan to overcome dangerous obstacles like massive boulders, crocodiles, piranhas and boiling lava. Nature can be a cruel enemy… 

While you dash through the jungle you'll be able to outrun your friends! Thanks to full Game Services integration you can see your friends best distance right in the game.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v1.9.17.03🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Action💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $30.99 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 →

2026-06

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Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated

→ 30 days after: reviews −7,446 high confidence

2026-05

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews −1,149 high confidence

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Store Page History

8 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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Slot 6
2 ver.

2026-05-06

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Banana Kong: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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