Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play!
51
Quality Score
Solid
Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play!
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play! is an iOS app from Universis Technology in the News category, currently rated 3.8★ across 38 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 51: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO 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
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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
🤖Also on Android
$2.6K/mo · 39 ratings · 3.9★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4.1y 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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 12× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 34/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreRevenue Strength
2.3
Product Quality
3.0
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.79★ across 38 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3554d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (3554d since update).
🎯 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($1K/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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (38 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v2.51
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
Added audio help message. Minor graphics changes.
Added audio help message. Minor graphics changes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play!
- Developer
- Universis Technology
- Bundle ID
- com.dinosaurchess.dinosaurchess
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.2K/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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.35★ · 42.9% 5★ · 26.5% 1★
5★21 (43%)
4★6 (12%)
3★4 (8%)
2★5 (10%)
1★13 (27%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×19 love ×16 recommend ×5 fantastic ×4 awesome ×2Complaints: crash ×7 broken ×4 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Love it
My 6 years old kid love it. I love it too.…
★★★★★ Great!
My 4.5 year old has been wanting to learn chess and it has been a bit frustrating to teach him. We got this app and He LOVES it! It makes it very fun to learn and complete the learning games before he can actually play the game. I know he w…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ No audio
Audio stop working a while ago…
★☆☆☆☆ Sound does not work!!
Sound works on all other aps, but not on this app.…
📈Ratings growth38 ratings+3700% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+0%)
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
** Appysmarts.com: 97/100 EDITOR'S FAVORITE!
** Previously nominated for a BAFTA (Best Interactive Media)! **
** Featured by Apple in it's "New & Noteworthy" section! **
** No Ads. No In-App-Purchases **
** Universal App optimized for iPad, iPhone. Retina Graphics.
Dinosaur Chess is the fun way to learn and play chess. Designed to be non-intimidating:
-- Learn how to play chess with 11 bite-sized interactive lessons.
-- Over 20 mini games and puzzles.
-- Play simplified and full chess against 6 beautifully animated dinosaurs.
-- Entertaining and challenging.… View full description on the official store →
** Previously nominated for a BAFTA (Best Interactive Media)! **
** Featured by Apple in it's "New & Noteworthy" section! **
** No Ads. No In-App-Purchases **
** Universal App optimized for iPad, iPhone. Retina Graphics.
Dinosaur Chess is the fun way to learn and play chess. Designed to be non-intimidating:
-- Learn how to play chess with 11 bite-sized interactive lessons.
-- Over 20 mini games and puzzles.
-- Play simplified and full chess against 6 beautifully animated dinosaurs.
-- Entertaining and challenging.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 34 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v2.51🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.44 → 3.80 (improved 0.36★)
2016-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2010-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 38 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Dinosaur Chess make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Dinosaur Chess earns approximately $1.2K/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.
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Who makes Dinosaur Chess?▴
Dinosaur Chess is published by Universis Technology 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 Dinosaur Chess's BU Score?▴
Dinosaur Chess has a BU Score of 51/100 (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.