How much does Dead Ahead make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Dead Ahead earns approximately $700K/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 Dead Ahead profitable?

With estimated build cost $250K and monthly revenue $700K, Dead Ahead looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 Dead Ahead have?

Estimated audience: ~80.0M lifetime downloads, ~8.1M monthly active users, and ~2.8M 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 Dead Ahead?

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What is Dead Ahead built with?

Our heuristic places Dead Ahead on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.

Is Dead Ahead still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (15% 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 Dead Ahead sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $25.5M (marketplace range $19.0M – $33.0M). Calculated as 36× 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 Dead Ahead last updated?

Dead Ahead last shipped a new version on 2026-08-05 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Dead Ahead?

Dead Ahead is published by Mobirate 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 Dead Ahead's BU Score?

Dead Ahead has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.

Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare

Quality Score

Strong

Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare

Name: Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare revenue, Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Strategy revenue, Android app revenue

by Mobirate

High confidence

4.5 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare is an Android app from Mobirate in the Strategy category, currently rated 4.5★ across 882,632 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Strategy 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

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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

5 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.5

Reviews

882,632 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$700K

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$250K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $190K – $340K

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

📈 Pays back in under a month 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
💎 In-app purchase plumbing	+$9K
⚙ Strategy complexity ×2.10	+$65K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$68K
⚙ 9.3y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$55K

Total estimate $250K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$25.5M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $19.0M – $33.0M · 36× MRR multiple

💸 ~102× return on build cost

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
📅 9.3y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷 Strategy category multiple	-5%
⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings)	+5%

Final multiple 36× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

80.0M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

8.1M

Daily active

2.8M

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

📲 Strategy engagement	~130 installs / rating
📅 9.3y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Strategy D30 retention	18%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.35

DAU / MAU 35% 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	Strategy
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

Active

15%

Last shipped 2026-08-05 · 52 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

📅 52 days since last update

Healthy release cadence

Verdict Active

🔬

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.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 63/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.5

Product Quality

8.9

Revenue Strength

5.8

Monetization Maturity

5.0

Defensibility

9.8

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.47★ across 882,632 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

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:

High install base (882,632 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Mature app (9y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.5★)METRIC		+$800
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: Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare
Developer: Mobirate
Bundle ID: com.mobirate.DeadAheadTactics
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Strategy
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.mobirate.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: $700K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $0.99 - $104.99 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.

🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked

🚀Version Release Timeline4 releases tracked

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

DEAD AHEAD: ZOMBIE WARFARE

Resist and defy the evil undead in this new tactical survival sequel of Dead Ahead!

Fight for freedom and become a fearless slayer of the undead in one of the funny survival

games of the year! Kill raid after raid of zombies, collect supplies, look for survivors and

most importantly... create your own legacy!

ZOMBIE INVASION

Defend your bus and endure opponents scarier than any devil or demon! Break through

barricades while you slaughter the corrupt corpses. Gather your team of gladiators and send… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v4.4.2🔄 updated 1mo ago📂 Strategy💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $104.99 per item🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

4 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →

2026-08

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Shipped update — v4.4.0 → v4.4.2

→ 30 days after: reviews +4,417 high confidence

2026-06

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Shipped update — v4.3.9 → v4.4.0

→ 30 days after: reviews +5,531 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

🔧

Shipped update — v4.3.7 → v4.3.9

→ 30 days after: reviews +3,549 high confidence

2026-05

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +3,549 high confidence

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