How much does Detective Droid make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Detective Droid earns approximately $200/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 Detective Droid profitable?

With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $200, Detective Droid 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.

What apps are like Detective Droid?

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What is Detective Droid built with?

Our heuristic places Detective Droid 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 Detective Droid still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Detective Droid last updated?

Detective Droid last shipped a new version on 2025-10-13 — 11 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Detective Droid?

Detective Droid is published by michaelcarrano 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 Detective Droid's BU Score?

Detective Droid has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.

Detective Droid

Quality Score

Solid

Detective Droid

Name: Detective Droid — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Detective Droid revenue, Detective Droid app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Tools revenue, Android app revenue

by michaelcarrano

Low confidence

4.5 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Detective Droid is an Android app from michaelcarrano in the Tools category, currently rated 4.5★ across 90 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Tools 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

$200

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$100 – $931

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$100 – $2790

per month

MICRO tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.5

Reviews

90 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$200

Snapshots tracked

since Aug 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$145K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $110K – $195K

$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
⚙ Tools complexity ×0.90	$-5049
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$24K
⚙ 12.1y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$72K

Total estimate $145K

🛠 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	Tools
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

60%

Last shipped 2025-10-13 · 354 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

📅 11 months since last update	Concerning gap
👥 Small user base (90 ratings) + 12.1y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

6 months

$127 – $508

12 months

$100 – $931

24 months

$100 – $2.8K

Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Insufficient data · 38/100MICRO TIERtoo early to score

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

3.3

Product Quality

3.6

Revenue Strength

2.3

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

6.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

9.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.5★ across 90 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 350d ago — slow cadence.
⚠️ 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 = $3K-$6K.

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 4 of 4 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC		+$2,200
Mature app (12y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Pre-traction phase (90 ratings)METRIC		−$300

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: Detective Droid
Developer: michaelcarrano
Bundle ID: com.michaelcarrano.detectivedroid
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Tools
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: michaelcarrano.com
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: $200/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

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Detective Droid requires no permissions and works on Android API 21 (Android 5.0 Lollipop) and newer.

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App Specs

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🔖 v2025-10-13🔄 updated 11mo ago📂 Tools💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)

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