59
Quality Score
Solid
Gumball Ghoststory!
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Gumball Ghoststory! is an Android app from GlobalFun Games in the Arcade category, currently rated 3.9★ across 10,582 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 59: Solid (established niche player). For a Arcade 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
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$175K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $235K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙Arcade complexity ×1.90 | +$53K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$62K |
Total estimate$175K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 21× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× 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 |
| ⭐★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷Arcade category multiple | -20% |
Final multiple21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.1M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
105K
Daily active
26K
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
| 📲Arcade engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁Arcade D30 retention | 5% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.25 |
DAU / MAU25% 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 | Arcade |
| 📦Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
88%
Last shipped 2022-10-26 · 1307 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅3y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.8
Product Quality
7.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.85★ across 10,582 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1301d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (1301d since update).
🎯 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 ($21K/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
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
📈 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.09🔄 updated 3y ago📂 Arcade💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $9.99 per item
📝 About this app
Ghosts have invaded Elmore!
GHOST STORY
After Gumball, Darwin and Anais read a ghost story, ghosts appeared and kidnapped all their family and friends!
GUMBALL TO THE RESCUE
Gumball and Darwin grab their ghost cleaners and use them to capture the ghosts.
MANY GHOSTS
Face ghosts of all shapes and sizes and coming from all directions!
MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
Travel all over Elmore including the school, Gumball’s home, the park and more!
POWERUPS
Collect coins to buy power ups, gadgets and special moves.
Can you rid the town of ghosts and save your friends?… View full description on the official store →
GHOST STORY
After Gumball, Darwin and Anais read a ghost story, ghosts appeared and kidnapped all their family and friends!
GUMBALL TO THE RESCUE
Gumball and Darwin grab their ghost cleaners and use them to capture the ghosts.
MANY GHOSTS
Face ghosts of all shapes and sizes and coming from all directions!
MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
Travel all over Elmore including the school, Gumball’s home, the park and more!
POWERUPS
Collect coins to buy power ups, gadgets and special moves.
Can you rid the town of ghosts and save your friends?… View full description on the official store →
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Gumball Ghoststory!
- Developer
- GlobalFun Games
- Bundle ID
- com.globalfun.gumghost.google
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Arcade
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.globalfun.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
- $916/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $9.99 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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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Gumball Ghoststory!: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 10,582 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Gumball Ghoststory! make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Gumball Ghoststory! earns approximately $916/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 Gumball Ghoststory! profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $175K and monthly revenue $916, Gumball Ghoststory! looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Gumball Ghoststory! have?▴
Estimated audience: ~2.1M lifetime downloads, ~105K monthly active users, and ~26K 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 Gumball Ghoststory!?▴
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What is Gumball Ghoststory! built with?▴
Our heuristic places Gumball Ghoststory! 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 Gumball Ghoststory! still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (88% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Gumball Ghoststory! sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $20K (marketplace range $15K – $25K). Calculated as 21× 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 Gumball Ghoststory! last updated?▴
Gumball Ghoststory! last shipped a new version on 2022-10-26 — more than 3 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Gumball Ghoststory!?▴
Gumball Ghoststory! is published by GlobalFun 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 Gumball Ghoststory!'s BU Score?▴
Gumball Ghoststory! has a BU Score of 59/100 (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.