How much does Karuah Chess make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Karuah Chess 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 Karuah Chess profitable?

With estimated build cost $165K and monthly revenue $500, Karuah Chess 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 Karuah Chess have?

Estimated audience: ~10K lifetime downloads, ~690 monthly active users, and ~170 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 Karuah Chess?

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What is Karuah Chess built with?

Our heuristic places Karuah Chess 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 Karuah Chess still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (40% 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 Karuah Chess sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $5.0K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 13× 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 Karuah Chess last updated?

Karuah Chess last shipped a new version on 2026-07-10 — 3 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Karuah Chess?

Karuah Chess is published by Karuah Software 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 Karuah Chess's BU Score?

Karuah Chess has a BU Score of 47/100 (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.

Karuah Chess

Quality Score

Emerging

Karuah Chess

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

by Karuah Software

Medium confidence

3.7 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Karuah Chess is an Android app from Karuah Software in the Board category, currently rated 3.7★ across 108 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Board 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

$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

2 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

3.7

Reviews

108 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$500

Snapshots tracked

since May 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
⚙ Board complexity ×1.50	+$25K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$41K
⚙ 7.7y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$46K

Total estimate $165K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$5K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 13× 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
📅 7.7y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed)	-8%
🏷 Board category multiple	-12%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 13× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

10K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

690

Daily active

170

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

📲 Board engagement	~140 installs / rating
📅 7.7y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Board D30 retention	10%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.25

DAU / MAU 25% 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	Board
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

40%

Last shipped 2026-07-10 · 110 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
👥 Small user base (108 ratings) + 7.7y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict At risk

🔬

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 · 40/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

2.5

Product Quality

5.2

Revenue Strength

2.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

5.4

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.71★ across 108 reviews — below category median.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
⚠️ 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 (7y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Early-stage install base (108 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: Karuah Chess
Developer: Karuah Software
Bundle ID: purpletreesoftware.karuahchess
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Board
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.facebook.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: $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

There are more games possible with chess than atoms in the observable universe.

This is a simple to use chess playing app that is good for both beginners and more experienced players with multiple levels of playing strength.

The app allows you to adjust the computer playing strength, save and load games, import PGN (Portable Game Notation) text, and adjust the board colour.

The app is simply a free chess program that was created out of interest in app development and chess. It does not contain any advertising.

We hope you like it.

App Specs

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🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 3mo ago📂 Board💰 Free🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

3 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 →

2026-09

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device

→ 30 days after: reviews +39 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

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📝 Description

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Full revenue analysis

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