How much does Candy Crush Soda Saga make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Candy Crush Soda Saga earns approximately $9.2K/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.

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Who makes Candy Crush Soda Saga?

Candy Crush Soda Saga is published by King 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 Candy Crush Soda Saga's BU Score?

Candy Crush Soda Saga has a BU Score of 85/100 (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.

Candy Crush Soda Saga

Quality Score

Excellent

Candy Crush Soda Saga

Name: Candy Crush Soda Saga — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Candy Crush Soda Saga revenue, Candy Crush Soda Saga app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Casual revenue, Android app revenue

4.5 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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This King title targets the casual match-three puzzle niche, directly competing with other Candy Crush iterations and similar games like Gardenscapes or Toon Blast. Its high rating from millions of users signals established, sustained traction, indicating a mature product in its growth cycle rather than an emerging one. The immense user base suggests robust engagement and brand loyalty. For this free-to-play casual puzzle category, a common monetization observation is the reliance on in-app purchases for power-ups, extra lives, or cosmetic items, often employing a "pay-to-progress" model where IAPs accelerate gameplay. Ad revenue, while present, typically plays a secondary role to IAP, often integrated as opt-in rewards for players seeking free boosts, rather than forced interstitials which can hurt retention in this segment.

BU Score 85 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$700K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$741K – $1141K

per month

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24-mo forecast

$886K – $1645K

per month

BIG tier

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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$115K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $85K – $155K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~12 months 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
⚙ Casual complexity ×1.50	+$25K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$41K

Total estimate $115K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$125K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 14× MRR multiple

💸 ~1.1× build cost (break-even+)

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%
🏷 Casual category multiple	-22%
⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple 14× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

1779.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

106.5M

Daily active

37.0M

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

📲 Casual engagement	~220 installs / rating
🔁 Casual D30 retention	6%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.35

DAU / MAU 35% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

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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	Casual
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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.

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BU Investment Matrix

Concerning · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarks

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

7.5

Product Quality

9.0

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: 4.5★ across 8,089,669 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

MODEL

Revenue 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 (8,089,669 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC		+$2,200
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Candy Crush Soda Saga
Developer: King
Bundle ID: com.king.candycrushsodasaga
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Casual
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: $7.0M ($7.0M – $24.5M)AI medium
AI annual estimate: $84.0M/yr
ML model estimate / mo: $9.2K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: Not found

Founder

Founder data not yet collected for this app.

Funding

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Press & Links

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Contacts & Socials

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✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM

Candy Crush Soda Saga is estimated to generate approximately $7 million in monthly revenue as of April/May 2026, based on Sensor Tower data. Older estimates from 2019-2022 suggest monthly revenues were in the range of $24.5 million to $28.3 million. The game surpassed $2 billion in lifetime revenue by November 2019.

Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Reddit, GameDaily.biz, PocketGamer.biz, Bleeding Cool, GamesIndustry.biz, Apptica

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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