Chinese Chess - Xiangqi
58
Quality Score
Solid
Chinese Chess - Xiangqi
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Chinese Chess - Xiangqi is an Android app from Popoko VM Games in the Board category, currently rated 4.3★ across 1,050 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 58: Solid (established niche player). For a Board 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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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
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Board complexity ×1.50 | +$29K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$49K |
Total estimate
$140K
👥 Estimated audience size
145K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
14K
Daily active
3.6K
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 / MAU
25% 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 CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
Building · 59/100MID TIERcompetitive build-outGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.1
Product Quality
7.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
9.6
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.33★ across 1,050 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 = $90K-$160K.
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.
🔬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:
| Low install base (1,050 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Chinese Chess - Xiangqi
- Developer
- Popoko VM Games
- Bundle ID
- com.popoko.xiangqivn
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Board
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- popoko.live
- 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
- $247/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $1.99 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.
📈Ratings growth1,050 ratings+46% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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
Chinese Chess: Unleash the Grandmaster Within!
Discover the age-old art of strategy with Chinese Chess, your gateway to the elegant world of Xiangqi (象棋), an esteemed gem in the treasure trove of Chinese and Vietnamese culture. With an interface designed for modern kings and queens of strategy, this app is your portal to the majesty of this ancient two-player board game.
Engage in Timeless Battles
A symphony of intelligence, strategy, and skill, Chinese Chess unfurls a battlefield where two armies clash with the ambition of capturing the adversary’s general.… View full description on the official store →
Discover the age-old art of strategy with Chinese Chess, your gateway to the elegant world of Xiangqi (象棋), an esteemed gem in the treasure trove of Chinese and Vietnamese culture. With an interface designed for modern kings and queens of strategy, this app is your portal to the majesty of this ancient two-player board game.
Engage in Timeless Battles
A symphony of intelligence, strategy, and skill, Chinese Chess unfurls a battlefield where two armies clash with the ambition of capturing the adversary’s general.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Chinese Chess - Xiangqi: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,050 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Chinese Chess - Xiangqi make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Chinese Chess - Xiangqi earns approximately $246/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.
What apps are like Chinese Chess - Xiangqi?▴
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Who makes Chinese Chess - Xiangqi?▴
Chinese Chess - Xiangqi is published by Popoko VM Games 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 Chinese Chess - Xiangqi's BU Score?▴
Chinese Chess - Xiangqi has a BU Score of 58/100 (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.