How much does Happy Color® make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Happy Color® earns approximately $7.3K/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 Happy Color®?

Happy Color® is published by X-FLOW 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 Happy Color®'s BU Score?

Happy Color® has a BU Score of 84/100 (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.

Happy Color®: Color by Number

Quality Score

Excellent

Happy Color®: Color by Number

Name: Happy Color®: Color by Number — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Happy Color®: Color by Number revenue, Happy Color®: Color by Number app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Board revenue, Android app revenue

High confidence

4.6 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Happy Color® occupies the highly competitive digital coloring book niche, directly competing with other "color by number" apps like Pixel Art and Colorfy, aiming for users seeking relaxation and creative expression. The substantial user rating, backed by millions of individual reviews, signals strong, sustained traction and indicates this app is firmly in a mature growth stage, having achieved significant market penetration. As a free app, its revenue model likely relies heavily on in-app purchases for premium content (e.g., exclusive art packs, ad removal) and a robust ad monetization strategy. In this category, the typical upgrade path involves offering a subscription or one-time purchase to unlock an ad-free experience and access to a wider, higher-quality art library, with a common IAP split favoring subscriptions for recurring revenue over individual content unlocks.

BU Score 84 · 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

$7.3K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$7.6K – $15.9K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$9.4K – $28.2K

per month

MID tier

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📊 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 ~1.3y 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
⚙Board 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 $75K – $150K · 15× 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%
🏷Board category multiple	-12%
⭐Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple15× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

535.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

53.5M

Daily active

13.0M

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

📲Board engagement	~140 installs / rating
🔁Board D30 retention	10%
📍DAU / MAU stickiness	0.25

DAU / MAU24% 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	Board
📦Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$7.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$7.0K – $11.6K

12 months

$7.6K – $15.9K

24 months

$9.4K – $28.2K

Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.0

Product Quality

9.2

Revenue Strength

3.9

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

3.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $5K - $10K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.59★ across 3,825,250 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 = $131K-$234K. Portfolio play ($11K/mo combined) commands premium.

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 (3,825,250 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Excellent rating (4.6★)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: Happy Color®: Color by Number
Developer: X-FLOW
Bundle ID: com.pixel.art.coloring.color.number
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Board
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: $7.3K/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

Happy Color® is the ultimate color by number zen experience, loved by millions of users worldwide! Discover over 40,000 FREE high‑quality coloring pages in one app. From nature, animals, and mandalas to unique Disney scenes and original art coloring, there’s something for everyone.

Whether you’re looking for zen and relaxation, stress relief, or art therapy, adult coloring with Happy Color® is the perfect way to unwind. Just tap to paint by numbers and watch your drawings come to life – anytime, anywhere.

Reasons to download Happy Color®

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📝 Description

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Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Happy Color®: Color by Number: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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