Candy Balls
56
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Candy Balls is an Android app from Fini Games in the Puzzle category, currently rated 4.4★ across 271 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 56: Solid (established niche player). For a Puzzle app, that means established niche player. 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID 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
1 snapshots on record
Rating
4.4
Reviews
271 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
1
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$180K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $135K – $245K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.0y 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 |
| ⚙ Puzzle complexity ×1.60 | +$35K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$52K |
| ⚙ 5.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$31K |
Total estimate
$180K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 27× MRR multiple
💸
~0.7× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| 📅 5.3y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Puzzle category multiple | -12% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
27× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
31K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.5K
Daily active
800
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
| 📲 Puzzle engagement | ~160 installs / rating |
| 📅 5.3y of rating accumulation | -27% |
| 🔁 Puzzle D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.32 |
DAU / MAU
32% 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 | Puzzle |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2025-10-12 · 348 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
| 📅 11 months since last update | Concerning gap |
| 👥 Small user base (271 ratings) + 5.3y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
6.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
7.3
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.36★ across 271 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 343d 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (271 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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
- Candy Balls
- Developer
- Fini Games
- Bundle ID
- com.fini.candyballs
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Puzzle
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- guillemdomenech.netlify.app
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $47.99 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.
📝 About this app
CANDY BALLS - A SATISFYING PUZZLE EXPERIENCE
Experience the satisfying feeling of digging sand with your finger and direct the candy balls to the finish line in order to feed your own little creature pet.
But be careful cause there will be a variety of crazy obstacles along the way.
Will you be able to complete the levels and unlock all the items for your pet?
If you take good care of it you’ll be able to watch it grow and personalize it however you want.
The following items will be available in a future update:
TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN PET… View full description on the official store →
Experience the satisfying feeling of digging sand with your finger and direct the candy balls to the finish line in order to feed your own little creature pet.
But be careful cause there will be a variety of crazy obstacles along the way.
Will you be able to complete the levels and unlock all the items for your pet?
If you take good care of it you’ll be able to watch it grow and personalize it however you want.
The following items will be available in a future update:
TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN PET… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v0.82🔄 updated 11mo ago📂 Puzzle💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $47.99 per item🚀 Launched 2021 (5y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Candy Balls: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 271 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Candy Balls make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Candy Balls earns approximately $5.0K/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.
Is Candy Balls profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $180K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Candy Balls looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 3.0 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Candy Balls have?▴
Estimated audience: ~31K lifetime downloads, ~2K monthly active users, and ~800 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 Candy Balls?▴
Browse the full Puzzle category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Candy Balls built with?▴
Our heuristic places Candy Balls 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 Candy Balls still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Candy Balls sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $175K). Calculated as 27× 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 Candy Balls last updated?▴
Candy Balls last shipped a new version on 2025-10-12 — 11 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Candy Balls?▴
Candy Balls is published by Fini Games 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 Candy Balls's BU Score?▴
Candy Balls has a BU Score of 56/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.