How much does Light the Candle make per month?

Low-confidence model estimate. Light the Candle has only 0 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$126/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.

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What is Light the Candle built with?

Our heuristic places Light the Candle 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 Light the Candle still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Light the Candle last updated?

Light the Candle last shipped a new version on 2025-12-20 — 9 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Light the Candle?

Light the Candle is published by Self Expression Arts 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.

Light the Candle: Physics Draw

Quality Score

Niche

Light the Candle: Physics Draw

Name: Light the Candle: Physics Draw — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Light the Candle: Physics Draw revenue, Light the Candle: Physics Draw app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Puzzle revenue, Android app revenue

by Self Expression Arts

Low confidence

— Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Light the Candle: Physics Draw is an Android app from Self Expression Arts in the Puzzle category, currently rated — across few ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 0: Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a Puzzle app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage. 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

$126

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$63 – $588

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$63 – $1761

per month

MICRO tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

—

Reviews

0 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$126

Snapshots tracked

since Aug 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$165K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $125K – $225K

$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
⚙ Puzzle complexity ×1.60	+$30K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$44K
⚙ 6.4y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$38K

Total estimate $165K

🛠 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	Puzzle
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

50%

Last shipped 2025-12-20 · 287 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

📅 9 months since last update

Concerning gap

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$126/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

$80 – $321

12 months

$63 – $588

24 months

$63 – $1.8K

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.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Insufficient data · 31/100MICRO TIERtoo early to score

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

2.8

Product Quality

0.0

Revenue Strength

2.1

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

5.1

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

9.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: None★ across 0 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 282d 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 = $2K-$4K.

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.

📥 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: Light the Candle: Physics Draw
Developer: Self Expression Arts
Bundle ID: com.searts.BurningUp
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Puzzle
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: selfexpressionarts.blogspot.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: $126/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

Looking for brain-teasing puzzle games? Ready to solve creative puzzles? Try Brain Teasers: Candle Puzzle now!

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Challenge your brain with 60+ physics-based levels designed to test your logic and creativity. Use fire, gravity, and your imagination to solve fun puzzles in this unique brain teaser game.

🌟 Why You’ll Love It:

Fun Physics Puzzles: Tap, draw, and interact with objects to light the candle.

Creative Challenges: Use hammers, glass blocks, bombs, and pencils in a realistic physics world.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v1.1.1🔄 updated 9mo ago📂 Puzzle💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)

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