Tap Away
73
Quality Score
Strong
Tap Away
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Tap Away is an Android app from Popcore Games in the Puzzle category, currently rated 4.2★ across 1,164,313 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Puzzle 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.
💰 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
💡 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
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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
$150K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $200K
$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 |
| ⚙ Puzzle complexity ×1.60 | +$35K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$52K |
Total estimate
$150K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $30K · 27× 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 |
| 🏷 Puzzle category multiple | -12% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
27× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
186.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
18.5M
Daily active
5.9M
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 / MAU
32% 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 |
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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
Mixed signals · 62/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
8.5
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
8.8
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
6.6
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.25★ across 1,164,313 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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: 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 = $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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,164,313 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)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
- Tap Away
- Developer
- Popcore Games
- Bundle ID
- com.jctswbglsm.SwipeAway
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Puzzle
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- rollicgames.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
- $2.5K ($1 – $5.0K)AI low
- AI annual estimate
- $30.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $812/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $99.99 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
The Android app "Tap Away" by Popcore Games is estimated to generate less than $5,000 in monthly revenue. Based on Sensor Tower data, the worldwide monthly revenue for the app is estimated to be between $1 and $4,999, leading to an annual estimate of approximately $30,000.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower
📈Ratings growth1,164,313 ratings+87% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
📝 About this app
Do you have what it takes to solve all the swiping levels? Connect all your braincells and put your skills to the test! Tap Away all the blocks in this exciting puzzle.
Tap Away is brought to you by Popcore, makers of hit puzzle games with more than 250 million combined installs!
Tap Away is a fun and addictive 3D puzzle game, but it’s more than just that - it’s a brain teaser that will take you to the next level!
Tap the blocks to make them fly away and clear the screen.… View full description on the official store →
Tap Away is brought to you by Popcore, makers of hit puzzle games with more than 250 million combined installs!
Tap Away is a fun and addictive 3D puzzle game, but it’s more than just that - it’s a brain teaser that will take you to the next level!
Tap the blocks to make them fly away and clear the screen.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v167.0.13🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Puzzle💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $99.99 per item
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Tech & Domain Intel — rollicgames.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Anthropic · Stripe
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Tap Away: 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 high confidence: 1,164,313 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Tap Away make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Tap Away earns approximately $812/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.
What apps are like Tap Away?▴
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Who makes Tap Away?▴
Tap Away is published by Popcore 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 Tap Away's BU Score?▴
Tap Away has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.