Piece of Cake: Merge Cooking
58
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Piece of Cake: Merge Cooking is an Android app from HG POINT LIMITED, currently rated 4.1★ across 2,230 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 58: Solid (established niche player). For an app like this, 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
4.1
Reviews
2,230 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
1
since Oct 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.3y 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 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$27K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.9× 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 |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
330K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
49K
Daily active
9.9K
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
| 📲 category engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 🔁 category D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
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 | category |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-09-14 · 54 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
| 📅 54 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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 · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
7.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.09★ across 2,230 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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.
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:
| Low install base (2,230 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.1★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Piece of Cake: Merge Cooking
- Developer
- HG POINT LIMITED
- Bundle ID
- com.happygames.mergecafe
- App Store URL
- Not found
- Category
- Not found
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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
Piece of Cake is a relaxing merge game where cooking, baking, and café renovation come together in one cozy adventure. Merge ingredients, discover delicious recipes, solve satisfying merge puzzles, and restore a charming coffee shop one step at a time.
Merge identical items to create upgraded ingredients, desserts, pastries, and coffee. Every successful merge unlocks new recipes, expands your café, and brings new life to a forgotten coffee house. Whether you enjoy merge games, cooking games, or cozy puzzle adventures, Piece of Cake offers a rewarding and relaxing experience.… View full description on the official store →
Merge identical items to create upgraded ingredients, desserts, pastries, and coffee. Every successful merge unlocks new recipes, expands your café, and brings new life to a forgotten coffee house. Whether you enjoy merge games, cooking games, or cozy puzzle adventures, Piece of Cake offers a rewarding and relaxing experience.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Piece of Cake: Merge Cooking: 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: 2,230 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Piece of Cake make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Piece of Cake 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 Piece of Cake profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $80K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Piece of Cake looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.3 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Piece of Cake have?▴
Estimated audience: ~330K lifetime downloads, ~49K monthly active users, and ~9K 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 is Piece of Cake built with?▴
Our heuristic places Piece of Cake on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Piece of Cake 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 Piece of Cake 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 Piece of Cake last updated?▴
Piece of Cake last shipped a new version on 2026-09-14 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Piece of Cake?▴
Piece of Cake is published by HG POINT LIMITED 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 Piece of Cake's BU Score?▴
Piece of Cake has a BU Score of 58/100 (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.