How much does Paper-Planes make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Paper-Planes 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 Paper-Planes profitable?

With estimated build cost $200K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Paper-Planes looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.3 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 Paper-Planes have?

Estimated audience: ~85K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~490 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 Paper-Planes?

Browse the full Casual 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 Paper-Planes built with?

Our heuristic places Paper-Planes 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 Paper-Planes still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 10+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Paper-Planes sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $50K (marketplace range $40K – $75K). Calculated as 11× 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 Paper-Planes last updated?

Paper-Planes last shipped a new version on 2016-07-07 — more than 10 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Paper-Planes?

Paper-Planes is published by marge 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 Paper-Planes's BU Score?

Paper-Planes has a BU Score of 37/100 (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.

Paper-Planes

Quality Score

Emerging

Paper-Planes

Name: Paper-Planes — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Paper-Planes revenue, Paper-Planes app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Casual revenue, Android app revenue

by marge

Medium confidence

2.3 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Paper-Planes is an Android app from marge in the Casual category, currently rated 2.3★ across 557 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 37: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Casual 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

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

2.3

Reviews

557 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$200K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $150K – $270K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~3.3y 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
⚙ Casual complexity ×1.50	+$25K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$41K
⚙ 13.9y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$83K

Total estimate $200K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$50K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 11× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.2× 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
📅 13.9y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak)	-18%
🏷 Casual category multiple	-22%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 11× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

85K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

1.4K

Daily active

490

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

📲 Casual engagement	~220 installs / rating
📅 13.9y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Casual D30 retention	6%
📍 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	Casual
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

93%

Last shipped 2016-07-07 · 3734 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

📅 10y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
• 14y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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

Stalled · 40/100MID TIERno growth momentum

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

6.3

Product Quality

3.3

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

7.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

5.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 2.33★ across 557 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3734d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (3734d 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 = $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

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 5 of 5 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
Below-average rating (2.3★)METRIC		−$1,500
Mature app (13y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Early-stage install base (557 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: Paper-Planes
Developer: marge
Bundle ID: jp.marge.android.paperplane
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Casual
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.maru.jp
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.

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

Who best paper plane fly far, to compete with your friends. 

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ How to play 

1)You will swipe from left to right of the screen, as soon as possible, long, parallel. 

2)The air plane does not fly too fast swipe. 

4)Please look forward to the distance. 

Try unable to locate the point where paper planes fly well.

App Specs

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🔖 v1.5🔄 updated 10y ago📂 Casual💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)

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Tech & Domain Intel — maru.jp

Mail provider: Google Workspace

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

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