PA Lottery Official App
36
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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PA Lottery Official App is an Android app from Scientific Games Corporation in the Entertainment category, currently rated 1.6★ across 8,715 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 36: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Entertainment app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
2 snapshots on record
Rating
1.6
Reviews
8,715 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
2
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$175K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $235K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.9y 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 |
| ⚙ Entertainment complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$36K |
| ⚙ 12.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$73K |
Total estimate
$175K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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 base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 12.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Entertainment category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
915K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
42K
Daily active
16K
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
| 📲 Entertainment engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 📅 12.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Entertainment D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
39% 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 context | Entertainment |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
30%
Last shipped 2026-08-12 · 94 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
| 📅 3 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 42/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
3.0
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.65★ across 8,715 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Low install base (8,715 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (1.6★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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
- PA Lottery Official App
- Developer
- Scientific Games Corporation
- Bundle ID
- com.sgi.palottery
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Entertainment
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.palottery.state.pa.us
- 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
- $5.0K/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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
The official app of the Pennsylvania Lottery offers fun, convenience and information to players on the go.
Features include:
● Buy, play, and win on-the-go anywhere in Pennsylvania with the latest Online Games and available Draw Games.
● Use Ticket Scanner to scan Scratch-Offs, Draw Games, Fast Play, Keno, and Derby Cash tickets to see if you won and to enter current Second-Chance Drawings.
● Get Daily & Past Winning Numbers.
● Stay up to date with current Jackpots.
● Explore the latest on Scratch-Offs and Prizes Remaining.
● Find current Fast Play Progressive Top Prizes.… View full description on the official store →
Features include:
● Buy, play, and win on-the-go anywhere in Pennsylvania with the latest Online Games and available Draw Games.
● Use Ticket Scanner to scan Scratch-Offs, Draw Games, Fast Play, Keno, and Derby Cash tickets to see if you won and to enter current Second-Chance Drawings.
● Get Daily & Past Winning Numbers.
● Stay up to date with current Jackpots.
● Explore the latest on Scratch-Offs and Prizes Remaining.
● Find current Fast Play Progressive Top Prizes.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v5.0.0🔄 updated 3mo ago📂 Entertainment💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected 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 →
2026-10
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 6 of 8 updated
2026-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.65 (dropped 0.35★)
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v2.1.5 → v5.0.0
→ 30 days after: rating −0.35★ · reviews +987 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
6 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
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2026-10-31
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-26
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Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-26
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Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-26
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Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-26
2026-10-31
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-26
2026-10-31
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PA Lottery Official App: 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: 8,715 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PA Lottery Official App make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PA Lottery Official App earns approximately $5.0K/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 PA Lottery Official App profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $175K and monthly revenue $5.0K, PA Lottery Official App looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.9 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does PA Lottery Official App have?▴
Estimated audience: ~915K lifetime downloads, ~42K monthly active users, and ~16K 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 PA Lottery Official App?▴
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What is PA Lottery Official App built with?▴
Our heuristic places PA Lottery Official App 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 PA Lottery Official App still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would PA Lottery Official App sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 14× 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 PA Lottery Official App last updated?▴
PA Lottery Official App last shipped a new version on 2026-08-12 — 3 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes PA Lottery Official App?▴
PA Lottery Official App is published by Scientific Games Corporation 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 PA Lottery Official App's BU Score?▴
PA Lottery Official App has a BU Score of 36/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.