DRAWNIMAL
62
Quality Score
Solid
DRAWNIMAL
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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DRAWNIMAL is an iOS app from YATATOY in the News category, currently rated 4.2★ across 118 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 62: 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
$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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~6 months 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (58 MB) | +$3K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 13× MRR multiple
💸
~1.9× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
13× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
14K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.1K
Daily active
940
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
45% 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 · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
5.9
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
6.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.19★ across 118 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 337d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($45K/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 6 of 6 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (5 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (118 ratings)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 · v1.5.0
General quality improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- DRAWNIMAL
- Developer
- YATATOY
- Bundle ID
- com.lucaszanotto.drawnimal
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- We make playful tools for kids.
- Description
- We make playful tools for kids.
- 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
- $10.4K/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 growth118 ratings+69% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (29 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
Draw funny animals! Learn the alphabet! Expand your device with pen and paper!
DRAWNIMAL is a unique app where kids draw adorable animals while learning the alphabet. With your phone or tablet placed on paper, kids select an animal face from the alphabet menu and draw around the device. The app then instructs how to draw the rest of the animal body. The digital screen is inventively extended with a simple physical interaction, which encourages kids to think outside the box. Hilarious and delightful animations motivate to keep learning.… View full description on the official store →
DRAWNIMAL is a unique app where kids draw adorable animals while learning the alphabet. With your phone or tablet placed on paper, kids select an animal face from the alphabet menu and draw around the device. The app then instructs how to draw the rest of the animal body. The digital screen is inventively extended with a simple physical interaction, which encourages kids to think outside the box. Hilarious and delightful animations motivate to keep learning.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 58 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v1.5.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, ES📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.70 → 4.19 (improved 0.49★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2014-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 4.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2013-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.00 (improved 0.50★)
2013-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2013-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.2195★ | 123 | 4.2195★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.59259★ | 27 | 3.59259★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.53571★ | 28 | 3.53571★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.33333★ | 9 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.5★ | 10 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.85714★ | 14 | 3.85714★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.46666★ | 15 | 4.46666★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.2★ | 5 | 4.2★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.33333★ | 6 | 2.33333★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for DRAWNIMAL: 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: 118 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does DRAWNIMAL make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, DRAWNIMAL earns approximately $10K/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 DRAWNIMAL?▴
DRAWNIMAL is published by YATATOY 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 DRAWNIMAL's BU Score?▴
DRAWNIMAL has a BU Score of 62/100 (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.