How much does Cats HQ make per month?

Our model estimates Cats HQ earns roughly $5.0K/mo, but with only 10 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.

What apps are like Cats HQ?

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What is Cats HQ built with?

Our heuristic places Cats HQ 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 Cats HQ still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (40% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Cats HQ last updated?

Cats HQ last shipped a new version on 2026-05-18 — 4 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Cats HQ is published by USA TODAY Co. 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 Cats HQ's BU Score?

Cats HQ has a BU Score of 40/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Cats HQ

Quality Score

Emerging

Cats HQ

Name: Cats HQ — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Cats HQ revenue, Cats HQ app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Sports revenue, Android app revenue

by USA TODAY Co.

Low confidence

3.5 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Cats HQ is an Android app from USA TODAY Co. in the Sports category, currently rated 3.5★ across 10 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 40: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Sports app, that means early traction worth watching. 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

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

3.5

Reviews

10 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since Jul 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$245K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $185K – $330K

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

📈 Pays back in ~4.1y 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
⚙ Sports complexity ×1.90	+$53K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$62K
⚙ 11.4y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$68K

Total estimate $245K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$125K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 24× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.5× 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
📅 11.4y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed)	-8%
🏷 Sports category multiple	-15%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 24× MRR

🛠 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	Sports
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

40%

Last shipped 2026-05-18 · 129 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

📅 4 months since last update	Slowing cadence
👥 Small user base (10 ratings) + 11.4y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

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 · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

7.0

Product Quality

2.8

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

5.0

Defensibility

10.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.5★ across 10 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 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: 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. Portfolio play ($30K/mo combined) commands premium.

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:

subscriptionREVIEW		+$2,500
Mature app (11y old)METRIC		+$1,500
priceyREVIEW		−$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Pre-traction phase (10 ratings)METRIC		−$300

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: Cats HQ
Developer: USA TODAY Co.
Bundle ID: com.gannett.dolly.Wildcats
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Sports
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.myusatodaynetwork.com
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: $9.99 - $39.99 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

Coverage of the University of Kentucky Wildcats has never been better. Catch all the latest sports news, opinions, photos, videos and scores for the Kentucky Wildcats — all in one place, brought to you by the authoritative source of the best local coverage, The Louisville Courier-Journal.

With exclusive commentary, insider analysis and award-winning photos and videos from The Louisville Courier-Journal's team, the Cats HQ app is your one stop for all coverage of the UK Wildcats.

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App Specs

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🔖 v8.9.1🔄 updated 4mo ago📂 Sports💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $9.99 - $39.99 per item🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)

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