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Shimeji Friends

Shimeji Friends
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70
Quality Score
Strong

Shimeji Friends

High confidence
4.2 ✍️ Editor
Personalization
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Personalization
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Shimeji Friends is an Android app from Potato Frontier in the Personalization category, currently rated 4.2★ across 33,132 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 70: Strong (healthy traction). For a Personalization 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
$1.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.5K – $5.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.4K – $12.5K
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~3.4y 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+$22K
⚙Personalization complexity ×0.90$-5049
🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)+$24K
Total estimate$70K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $30K · 13× MRR multiple
💸~0.3× 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 base15× MRR
🏷Personalization category multiple-15%
Final multiple13× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
7.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
725K
Daily active
72K

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
📲Personalization engagement~220 installs / rating
🔁Personalization D30 retention10%
📍DAU / MAU stickiness0.10
DAU / MAU10% 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 contextPersonalization
📦Compact Android bundle→ Native Kotlin
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
72%
Last shipped 2025-01-19 · 492 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
📅1y 4mo since last updateLikely deprioritized
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE
Baseline
$1.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$1.5K – $3.4K
12 months
$1.5K – $5.4K
24 months
$1.4K – $12.5K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix

Pre-traction · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signal
RevenueQualityMarketGrowthMoatSafetyFounderMonetiz.
Revenue Strength
3.2
Product Quality
8.4
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Modest — $685 - $4283/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 4.19★ across 33,132 reviews — strong (top 10%).
  • 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
  • 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 492d ago — possibly dormant.
  • ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (492d since update).
🎯 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 = $30K-$54K.
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:
Mid install base (33,132 ratings)METRIC
+$5,500
Good rating (4.2★)METRIC
+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC
+$600
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📈 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.
App Specs
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🔖 v1.5.2🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Personalization💰 Free

📝 About this app

Shimejis are animated characters that play on your mobile screen and other apps. You can keep your current background and simply add a Shimeji on top.

More than 400 pets available.

If you want cute game and anime characters keeping you company, then this app is for you. With over 150 to choose from, these shimejis will never let you down. You can place up to 12 shimejis in the app. Each shimejis has new animations added that other apps don't have.

All shimejis are available for free downloads. Try them out, now. More characters and animations will come so please keep supporting us.… 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
Shimeji Friends
Developer
Potato Frontier
Bundle ID
com.potatofrontier.shimejifun
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Personalization
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
$1.7K/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.

📝 Description

95
BU Score · Transcendent

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Shimeji Friends: 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
ZCAnalyzed by Zakhar Chumak · founder, bumetric·Full methodology·High confidence

Why high confidence: 33,132 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public data
How much does Shimeji Friends make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Shimeji Friends earns approximately $1.7K/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 Shimeji Friends profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $70K and monthly revenue $1.7K, Shimeji Friends looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.4 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 Shimeji Friends have?▴
Estimated audience: ~7.2M lifetime downloads, ~725K monthly active users, and ~72K 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 Shimeji Friends?▴
Browse the full Personalization 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 Shimeji Friends built with?▴
Our heuristic places Shimeji Friends 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 Shimeji Friends still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (72% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Shimeji Friends sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $20K (marketplace range $15K – $30K). Calculated as 13× 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 Shimeji Friends last updated?▴
Shimeji Friends last shipped a new version on 2025-01-19 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Shimeji Friends?▴
Shimeji Friends is published by Potato Frontier 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 Shimeji Friends's BU Score?▴
Shimeji Friends has a BU Score of 70/100 (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.