81
Quality Score
Excellent
Water Sort Puzzle
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Water Sort Puzzle is an Android app from IEC Global Pty Ltd in the Puzzle category, currently rated 4.6★ across 1,339,020 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 81: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Puzzle app, that means strong product-market fit. 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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- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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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
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~1.9y 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 |
| ⚙Puzzle complexity ×1.60 | +$30K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$44K |
Total estimate$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 15× MRR multiple
💸~0.6× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + 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
| 📺Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷Puzzle category multiple | -12% |
| ⭐Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
214.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
21.0M
Daily active
6.7M
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 |
| 🔁Puzzle D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.32 |
DAU / MAU32% 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
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-03-30 · 56 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
| 📅56 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 53/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.8
Product Quality
9.1
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.56★ across 1,339,020 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $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
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 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,339,020 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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.
App Specs
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📝 About this app
Water Sort Puzzle is a fun and relaxing water sort puzzle on mobile. Try to sort the watercolor in the glasses until all colors in the same happy glass. A challenging yet relaxing game to exercise your brain!
Designed for fans of puzzle games and sorting games, this colorful logic experience will test your brain while keeping you calm. If you enjoy solving tricky levels, separating colors, and watching every glass fill perfectly, then Water Sort Puzzle is the ultimate game for you.
Your goal is simple yet satisfying: pour and sort the water color into their correct glasses.… View full description on the official store →
Designed for fans of puzzle games and sorting games, this colorful logic experience will test your brain while keeping you calm. If you enjoy solving tricky levels, separating colors, and watching every glass fill perfectly, then Water Sort Puzzle is the ultimate game for you.
Your goal is simple yet satisfying: pour and sort the water color into their correct glasses.… 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
- Water Sort Puzzle
- Developer
- IEC Global Pty Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.gma.water.sort.puzzle
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Puzzle
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $2.5K ($100 – $5.0K)AI low
- AI annual estimate
- $30.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $5.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
The Android app "Water Sort Puzzle" by IEC Global Pty Ltd is estimated to generate less than $5,000 in monthly revenue, with a midpoint estimate of $2,500. This estimate is based on recent public data from Sensor Tower. The game primarily monetizes through advertisements and in-app purchases.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, AppstoreSpy.com, Mintegral (AppLovin), SocialPeta
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 Water Sort Puzzle: 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: 1,339,020 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Water Sort Puzzle make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Water Sort Puzzle earns approximately $5.4K/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 Water Sort Puzzle profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $5.4K, Water Sort Puzzle looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.9 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Water Sort Puzzle have?▴
Estimated audience: ~214.0M lifetime downloads, ~21.0M monthly active users, and ~6.7M 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 Water Sort Puzzle?▴
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What is Water Sort Puzzle built with?▴
Our heuristic places Water Sort Puzzle 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 Water Sort Puzzle still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Water Sort Puzzle sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 15× 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 Water Sort Puzzle last updated?▴
Water Sort Puzzle last shipped a new version on 2026-03-30 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Water Sort Puzzle?▴
Water Sort Puzzle is published by IEC Global Pty Ltd 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 Water Sort Puzzle's BU Score?▴
Water Sort Puzzle has a BU Score of 81/100 (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.