The Little Plane That Could
42
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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The Little Plane That Could is an Android app from Game Studio Abraham Stolk in the Simulation category, currently rated 2.8★ across 53 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 42: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Simulation 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
$2.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.2K – $7.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0K – $18.2K
per month
INDIE 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
1 snapshots on record
Rating
2.8
Reviews
53 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$2.5K
Snapshots tracked
1
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$225K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $170K – $305K
$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 |
| ⚙ Simulation complexity ×2.00 | +$50K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$55K |
| ⚙ 11.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$70K |
Total estimate
$225K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$30K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $40K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 📅 11.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Simulation category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
🛠 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 | Simulation |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2020-01-10 · 2458 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
| 📅 6y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (53 ratings) + 11.8y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 12y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$2.1K – $5.0K
12 months
$2.2K – $7.9K
24 months
$2.0K – $18.2K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 37/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
2.3
Revenue Strength
3.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $6K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.83★ across 53 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2456d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2456d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $45K-$80K.
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:
| Paid app ($5.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.8★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Pre-traction phase (53 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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
- The Little Plane That Could
- Developer
- Game Studio Abraham Stolk
- Bundle ID
- com.steenriver.biplane
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Simulation
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- stolk.org
- 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
- $2.5K/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
Board your biplane for some chivalrous dogfights in the sky.
Partake in aerial battles with up to 60 planes and show them how is ace!
May the best pilot win. And in case you are not the best pilot: don't despair, we have flight school lined up for you as well!
This super smooth biplane simulator comes to you from the author of the hit game 'The Little Crane That Could.'
`The Little Plane That Could' comes with eight challenging missions and supports Google Play Game Services for keeping track of your performance and achievements.… View full description on the official store →
Partake in aerial battles with up to 60 planes and show them how is ace!
May the best pilot win. And in case you are not the best pilot: don't despair, we have flight school lined up for you as well!
This super smooth biplane simulator comes to you from the author of the hit game 'The Little Crane That Could.'
`The Little Plane That Could' comes with eight challenging missions and supports Google Play Game Services for keeping track of your performance and achievements.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.19🔄 updated 6y ago📂 Simulation💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 53 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does The Little Plane That Could make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, The Little Plane That Could earns approximately $2.5K/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 The Little Plane That Could profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $225K and monthly revenue $2.5K, The Little Plane That Could looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like The Little Plane That Could?▴
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What is The Little Plane That Could built with?▴
Our heuristic places The Little Plane That Could 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 The Little Plane That Could still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would The Little Plane That Could sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $30K (marketplace range $25K – $40K). Calculated as 12× 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 The Little Plane That Could last updated?▴
The Little Plane That Could last shipped a new version on 2020-01-10 — more than 6 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes The Little Plane That Could?▴
The Little Plane That Could is published by Game Studio Abraham Stolk 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 The Little Plane That Could's BU Score?▴
The Little Plane That Could has a BU Score of 42/100 (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.