How much does Guardians make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Guardians earns approximately $500/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 Guardians profitable?

With estimated build cost $205K and monthly revenue $500, Guardians 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.

How many users does Guardians have?

Estimated audience: ~15K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~660 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 Guardians?

Browse the full Strategy 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 Guardians built with?

Our heuristic places Guardians 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 Guardians still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Guardians sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $5.0K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). 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 Guardians last updated?

Guardians last shipped a new version on 2025-10-08 — 11 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Guardians is published by The Guardians 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 Guardians's BU Score?

Guardians has a BU Score of 50/100 (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.

Guardians: Unite the Realms

Quality Score

Solid

Guardians: Unite the Realms

Name: Guardians: Unite the Realms — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Guardians: Unite the Realms revenue, Guardians: Unite the Realms app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Strategy revenue, Android app revenue

by The Guardians

Medium confidence

3.9 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Guardians: Unite the Realms is an Android app from The Guardians in the Strategy category, currently rated 3.9★ across 167 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a Strategy 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

$500

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$437 – $1575

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$405 – $3644

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

3.9

Reviews

167 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$500

Snapshots tracked

since Aug 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$205K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $155K – $275K

$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
⚙ Strategy complexity ×2.10	+$55K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$58K
⚙ 6.4y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$38K

Total estimate $205K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$5K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 14× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.0× 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
📅 6.4y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed)	-8%
🏷 Strategy category multiple	-5%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 14× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

15K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

1.9K

Daily active

660

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

📲 Strategy engagement	~130 installs / rating
📅 6.4y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Strategy D30 retention	18%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.35

DAU / MAU 35% 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	Strategy
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

60%

Last shipped 2025-10-08 · 353 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

📅 11 months since last update	Concerning gap
👥 Small user base (167 ratings) + 6.4y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$426 – $993

12 months

$437 – $1.6K

24 months

$405 – $3.6K

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 · 36/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

2.5

Product Quality

5.4

Revenue Strength

2.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

3.6

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

9.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.85★ across 167 reviews — below category median.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 348d 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 = $9K-$16K.

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:

Established app (6y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Early-stage install base (167 ratings)METRIC		+$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 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: Guardians: Unite the Realms
Developer: The Guardians
Bundle ID: edu.mit.media.affect.lightbringers
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Strategy
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: guardians.media.mit.edu
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: $500/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

Can you save the Guardians and their Realms?

There are many Realms other than ours, each with its own Guardian which has protected it for millenia. But now, evil Scorians have begun to trap the Guardians and have sent the creatures of these Realms into hiding. It's up to you to inspire the creatures to return and fight back against the villainous invaders! Unlike other games, the only way to collect pets is to do real life activities that are meaningful for you in order to inspire them to join you! Once you've inspired pets to join you, it's up to you to send them on missions to train them… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v1.2.9🔄 updated 11mo ago📂 Strategy💰 Free🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)

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📝 Description

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Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Guardians: Unite the Realms: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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