KidControl. Family GPS locator
58
Quality Score
Solid
KidControl. Family GPS locator
by HardService
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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KidControl. Family GPS locator is an Android app from HardService in the Social category, currently rated 2.9★ across 58,557 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 58: Solid (established niche player). For a Social 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
$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
5 snapshots on record
Rating
2.9
Reviews
58,557 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
5
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
📈
Pays back in ~3.8y 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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Social complexity ×1.70 | +$41K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$55K |
| ⚙ 11.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$68K |
Total estimate
$225K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $200K · 29× MRR multiple
💸
~0.7× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| 📅 11.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Social category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
29× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
3.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
400K
Daily active
220K
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
| 📲 Social engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 📅 11.3y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Social D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% 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 | Social |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
77%
Last shipped 2025-08-06 · 422 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
| 📅 1y 1mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| • 11y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
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)
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 · 44/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Product Quality
5.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
7.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.93★ across 58,557 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 421d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (421d 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
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (58,557 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.9★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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
- KidControl. Family GPS locator
- Developer
- HardService
- Bundle ID
- ru.kidcontrol.gpstracker
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- kid-control.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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.49 - $23.99 per item
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
Personal safety app keeps track of where your family members are. It's free!
Family GPS tracker KidControl Circles - an app for the safety of your children and family.
Your family can share their location, for example you can know where your child is when he left school. You can receive automatic notification when he arrives on its place.
In GPS locator you can create separate circles for family. You will see them in your private account, on a separate map.
Access to each circle is possible only by special invitation.
In GPS locator you can:… View full description on the official store →
Family GPS tracker KidControl Circles - an app for the safety of your children and family.
Your family can share their location, for example you can know where your child is when he left school. You can receive automatic notification when he arrives on its place.
In GPS locator you can create separate circles for family. You will see them in your private account, on a separate map.
Access to each circle is possible only by special invitation.
In GPS locator you can:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v6.1.26🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Social💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.49 - $23.99 per item🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for KidControl. Family GPS locator: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 58,557 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does KidControl. Family GPS locator make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, KidControl. Family GPS locator 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 KidControl. Family GPS locator profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $225K and monthly revenue $5.0K, KidControl. Family GPS locator looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.8 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 KidControl. Family GPS locator have?▴
Estimated audience: ~3.6M lifetime downloads, ~400K monthly active users, and ~220K 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 KidControl. Family GPS locator?▴
Browse the full Social 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 KidControl. Family GPS locator built with?▴
Our heuristic places KidControl. Family GPS locator 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 KidControl. Family GPS locator still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (77% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would KidControl. Family GPS locator sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $150K (marketplace range $100K – $200K). Calculated as 29× 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 KidControl. Family GPS locator last updated?▴
KidControl. Family GPS locator last shipped a new version on 2025-08-06 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes KidControl. Family GPS locator?▴
KidControl. Family GPS locator is published by HardService 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 KidControl. Family GPS locator's BU Score?▴
KidControl. Family GPS locator has a BU Score of 58/100 (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.