Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home
46
Quality Score
Emerging
Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home is an iOS app from PBS KIDS in the News category, currently rated 3.4★ across 332 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 46: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News 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
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (90 MB) | +$16K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$13K |
Total estimate
$80K
👥 Estimated audience size
39K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.9K
Daily active
2.6K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
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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 · 43/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.3
Product Quality
4.7
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: 3.35★ across 332 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 461d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (461d 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. Portfolio play ($60K/mo combined) commands premium.
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:
| Paid app ($2.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.4★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Early-stage install base (332 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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.
🆕 What's New · v3.0.2
Minor Updates. Enjoy Playing with Daniel!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home
- Developer
- PBS KIDS
- Bundle ID
- org.pbskids.dtigplayhomeuni
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- PBS KIDS
- Description
- Educational games and videos from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Wild Kratts and other PBS KIDS shows!
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $459/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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.
📈Ratings growth332 ratings+84% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
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
Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home helps children explore the world around them through pretend play. Learn Daniel’s everyday routines like bedtime, bath time, and brushing teeth! Play games with your children, help them explore their feelings, and learn healthy habits together in the safety of your own home.
Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home invites children into a world of make-believe from the PBS KIDS show “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.” The app is packed with mini games and learning activities, complete with songs about daily routines like washing hands and potty time.… View full description on the official store →
Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home invites children into a world of make-believe from the PBS KIDS show “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.” The app is packed with mini games and learning activities, complete with songs about daily routines like washing hands and potty time.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 90 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v3.0.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.35 → 3.30 (improved 0.95★)
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2013-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.75 (improved 0.75★)
2012-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
2012-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 332 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home earns approximately $459/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.
What apps are like Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home?▴
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Who makes Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home?▴
Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home is published by PBS KIDS on the Apple App 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 Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home's BU Score?▴
Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home has a BU Score of 46/100 (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.