How much does Orborous make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Orborous earns approximately $700K/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 Orborous profitable?

With estimated build cost $265K and monthly revenue $700K, Orborous looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 Orborous have?

Estimated audience: ~5.2M lifetime downloads, ~260K monthly active users, and ~91K 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 Orborous?

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What is Orborous built with?

Our heuristic places Orborous 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 Orborous still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Orborous sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $20.0M (marketplace range $15.0M – $26.0M). 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 Orborous last updated?

Orborous last shipped a new version on 2024-08-26 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Orborous is published by Simplicial Software, LLC 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 Orborous's BU Score?

Orborous has a BU Score of 71/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Orborous

Quality Score

Strong

Orborous

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

by Simplicial Software, LLC

High confidence

4.3 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Orborous is an Android app from Simplicial Software, LLC in the Action category, currently rated 4.3★ across 50,424 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Action app, that means healthy traction. 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

$700K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$741K – $1141K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$886K – $1645K

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

5 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.3

Reviews

50,424 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$700K

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$265K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $200K – $360K

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

📈 Pays back in under a month 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
⚙ Action complexity ×2.20	+$71K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$71K
⚙ 10.3y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$61K

Total estimate $265K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$20.0M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $15.0M – $26.0M · 29× MRR multiple

💸 ~75× return on build cost

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
📅 10.3y proven track record	+20%
🏷 Action category multiple	-15%

Final multiple 29× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

5.2M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

260K

Daily active

91K

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

📲 Action engagement	~150 installs / rating
📅 10.3y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Action D30 retention	10%
📍 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	Action
📦 Tiny game bundle	→ Native 2D engine

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

93%

Last shipped 2024-08-26 · 758 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

📅 2y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
• 10y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$690K – $933K

12 months

$741K – $1.1M

24 months

$886K – $1.6M

Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 58/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Revenue Strength

5.8

Product Quality

8.5

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

10.0

Operational Safety

7.0

Founder Strength

5.3

Monetization Maturity

5.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.26★ across 50,424 reviews — strong (top 10%).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 758d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (758d since update).

🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12.6M-$22.4M.

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:

Mid install base (50,424 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
Mature app (10y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.3★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

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: Orborous
Developer: Simplicial Software, LLC
Bundle ID: software.simplicial.orborous
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Action
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.simplicialsoftware.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: $700K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $0.99 - $49.99 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

Grow your snake by slithering around space collecting dots placed throughout the game or intercepting and devouring other snakes. Avoid other players attempting to do the same. Compete with other players to become the longest snake in the universe!

Features:

☆ Find Groups, Play With Friends, and Join a Clan!

☆ Over 325 skins with unique ways to unlock them and more coming!

☆ Online Multiplayer

☆ Offline Single-player

☆ FFA, Timed FFA, FFA Classic, Teams, Timed Teams, Capture the Flag, Survival, Soccer and Domination Modes!

☆ XP, Achievements, and Stats!… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v2.0.1.0🔄 updated 2y ago📂 Action💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $49.99 per item🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

2 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 →

2026-06

📸

Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated

→ 30 days after: reviews −50 high confidence

2026-05

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: rating +0.11★ · reviews −36 high confidence

📸

Store Page History

8 SCREENSHOT CHANGES

Every time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.

iPhone screenshots

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2 ver.

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📝 Description

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Full revenue analysis

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