74
Quality Score
Strong
Japanese Keyboard
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Japanese Keyboard is an Android app from Desh Global in the Tools category, currently rated 4.7★ across 27,890 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 74: Strong (healthy traction). For a Tools app, that means healthy traction. 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$5.0K/mo
In 12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
In 24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
MID tier
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📊 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
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$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 |
| ⚙Tools complexity ×0.90 | $-5949 |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$29K |
| ⚙8.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$50K |
Total estimate$135K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$40K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $30K – $50K · 33× MRR multiple
💸~0.3× 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 |
| 📅8.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷Tools category multiple | -8% |
Final multiple33× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
3.7M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
500K
Daily active
90K
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
| 📲Tools engagement | ~190 installs / rating |
| 📅8.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Tools D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU18% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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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 | Tools |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-06 · 17 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
| 📅17 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Building · 58/100MID TIERcompetitive build-outGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
8.1
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.66★ across 27,890 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (27,890 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| 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
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v17.2.6🔄 updated 2w ago📂 Tools💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.49 per item🚀 Launched 2017 (8y old)
📝 About this app
Japanese Keyboard is an English to Japanese keyboard app that makes typing Japanese faster than ever before. This works as a Romaji to Japanese Transliterator or translator.
- Type in English to get Japanese letters
- Works inside all apps on your phone - a Japanese typing keyboard app for all social media and messaging apps
- Saves time compared to handwriting input or other Japanese input tools.
- Chat with your friends and family with this Japanese Keyboard English to Japanese… View full description on the official store →
- Type in English to get Japanese letters
- Works inside all apps on your phone - a Japanese typing keyboard app for all social media and messaging apps
- Saves time compared to handwriting input or other Japanese input tools.
- Chat with your friends and family with this Japanese Keyboard English to Japanese… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — desh.app
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Japanese Keyboard
- Developer
- Desh Global
- Bundle ID
- com.japanese.keyboard.for.android
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Tools
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- desh.app
- 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
- $1.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $1.49 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.
📈Ratings growth27,890 ratings+19% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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 Japanese Keyboard: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Japanese Keyboard make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Japanese Keyboard earns approximately $1K/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 Japanese Keyboard profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $1K, Japanese Keyboard 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 Japanese Keyboard have?▾
Estimated audience: ~3.7M lifetime downloads, ~500K monthly active users, and ~90K 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 Japanese Keyboard?▾
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What is Japanese Keyboard built with?▾
Our heuristic places Japanese Keyboard 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 Japanese Keyboard still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 17 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Japanese Keyboard sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $40K (marketplace range $30K – $50K). Calculated as 33× 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 Japanese Keyboard last updated?▾
Japanese Keyboard last shipped a new version on 2026-05-06 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Japanese Keyboard?▾
Japanese Keyboard is published by Desh Global 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 Japanese Keyboard's BU Score?▾
Japanese Keyboard has a BU Score of 74/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.