65
Quality Score
Solid
KptnCook: Recipes & Cooking
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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KptnCook: Recipes & Cooking is an Android app from KptnCook GmbH in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 3.8★ across 27,706 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink app, 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
$1.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.2K – $4.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.2K – $10.4K
per month
INDIE tier
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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
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~5.0y 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 |
| ⚙Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$30K |
Total estimate$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 14× MRR multiple
💸~0.2× 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 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
Final multiple14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.8M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
385K
Daily active
77K
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
| 📲Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% 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 | Food & Drink |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-04-24 · 30 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
| 📅30 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.4K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$1.2K – $2.8K
12 months
$1.2K – $4.5K
24 months
$1.2K – $10.4K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.2
Product Quality
7.6
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $568 - $3553/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.79★ across 27,706 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: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $25K-$45K.
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.
📈 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
<b>“What can I eat?”</b>
With KptnCook, that question becomes easy to answer. Every day, you get 3 handpicked recipes included, carefully curated so you don’t have to scroll through hundreds of food options or feel stuck deciding what to cook. KptnCook helps you focus on cooking real food that fits your lifestyle, tastes good, and feels manageable.
<b>Download the app and start cooking with confidence.</b>
Trusted by millions worldwide
⭐️ 4.8 stars from thousands of reviews
⭐️ 8M+ users
What’s included with the app… View full description on the official store →
With KptnCook, that question becomes easy to answer. Every day, you get 3 handpicked recipes included, carefully curated so you don’t have to scroll through hundreds of food options or feel stuck deciding what to cook. KptnCook helps you focus on cooking real food that fits your lifestyle, tastes good, and feels manageable.
<b>Download the app and start cooking with confidence.</b>
Trusted by millions worldwide
⭐️ 4.8 stars from thousands of reviews
⭐️ 8M+ users
What’s included with the app… 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
- KptnCook: Recipes & Cooking
- Developer
- KptnCook GmbH
- Bundle ID
- com.kptncook.app.kptncook
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- 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
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.4K/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.
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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for KptnCook: Recipes & Cooking: 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: 27,706 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does KptnCook make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, KptnCook earns approximately $1.4K/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 KptnCook profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $85K and monthly revenue $1.4K, KptnCook looks slow ROI — payback period is around 5.0 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does KptnCook have?▴
Estimated audience: ~2.8M lifetime downloads, ~385K monthly active users, and ~77K 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 KptnCook?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is KptnCook built with?▴
Our heuristic places KptnCook 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 KptnCook still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% 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 KptnCook sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $20K (marketplace range $15K – $25K). Calculated as 14× 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 KptnCook last updated?▴
KptnCook last shipped a new version on 2026-04-24 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes KptnCook?▴
KptnCook is published by KptnCook GmbH 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 KptnCook's BU Score?▴
KptnCook has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.