Gardenscapes
78
Quality Score
Strong
Gardenscapes
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This iOS title from Playrix targets the casual puzzle and garden-decoration niche, directly competing with other "scapes" games like Homescapes and Royal Match. Its impressive volume of user ratings, coupled with a high average score, clearly signals strong, sustained user engagement and a well-established, mature product with significant market traction. The estimated monthly revenue, while appearing modest at first glance, reflects a robust, long-tail monetization strategy typical for free-to-play match-3 games. In this category, the primary monetization driver is in-app purchases for power-ups, extra moves, and cosmetic items, rather than a high average revenue per paying user. The long update history further indicates consistent content delivery and ongoing player retention efforts, which are critical for maintaining revenue in this highly competitive, IAP-driven segment.
BU Score 78 · Strong — healthy traction. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$2.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.6M – $4.1M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$3.2M – $5.9M
per month
BIG tier
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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
$11.0K/mo · 13.3M ratings · 4.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$200K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $150K – $270K
$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 (285 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Games complexity ×2.20 | +$108K |
Total estimate
$200K
👥 Estimated audience size
268.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
21.0M
Daily active
6.3M
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
| 📲 Games engagement | ~160 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Games D30 retention | 8% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🎮
Unity
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Unreal Engine
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
| 📦 App bundle size | 285 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Games |
| 📦 Game bundle 100-400 MB | → Unity (typical range) |
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$2.5M – $3.3M
12 months
$2.6M – $4.1M
24 months
$3.2M – $5.9M
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 cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.2
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
6.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.0M - $5.5M/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.69★ across 1,679,432 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $45.0M-$80.0M.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,679,432 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (13 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| 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.
🆕 What's New · v9.7.0
A summer Gardenscapes update!
NEW EVENTS
Deadly Detour: Help the characters survive deadly trials and escape the mansion!
Prisoners of Bear Mountain: Find Scotty and Chloe and rescue them from a collapsed mine!
STORYLINE… Full release notes →
NEW EVENTS
Deadly Detour: Help the characters survive deadly trials and escape the mansion!
Prisoners of Bear Mountain: Find Scotty and Chloe and rescue them from a collapsed mine!
STORYLINE… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Gardenscapes
- Developer
- Playrix
- Bundle ID
- com.playrix.gardenscapes-m3-ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Games
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $172/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#8 /100 🇧🇷#9 /100 🇫🇷#10 /100 🇦🇺#11 /100 🇨🇦#12 /100 🇮🇳#12 /100 🇬🇧#14 /100
- 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 growth1,682,294 ratings+31% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (27 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇩🇪DE#8 /100
🇧🇷BR#9 /100
🇫🇷FR#10 /100
🇦🇺AU#11 /100
🇨🇦CA#12 /100
🇮🇳IN#12 /100
🇬🇧GB#14 /100
🇺🇸US#17 /100
🇯🇵JP#20 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#8 now · best #8 · worst #8
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline4 releases tracked
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
Welcome to Gardenscapes, the first game from the Playrix Scapes™ series! Make match-3 combinations and bring coziness and beauty to every corner of your garden.
Solve fun puzzles, restore and explore new areas of the garden, and meet new friends in every chapter of the exciting storyline. Austin the butler is ready to welcome you to a world of incredible adventures!
Game Features:
● Gameplay loved by millions of players! Make match-3 combinations and decorate your garden while enjoying an entertaining story!… View full description on the official store →
Solve fun puzzles, restore and explore new areas of the garden, and meet new friends in every chapter of the exciting storyline. Austin the butler is ready to welcome you to a world of incredible adventures!
Game Features:
● Gameplay loved by millions of players! Make match-3 combinations and decorate your garden while enjoying an entertaining story!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 285 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v9.7.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +8📂 Games💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v9.6.7 → v9.7.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +945 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
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Shipped update — v9.6.5 → v9.6.7
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,852 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
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Shipped update — v9.6.0 → v9.6.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +4,317 high confidence
2026-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +4,186 high confidence
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Gardenscapes: 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 high confidence: 1,679,432 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Gardenscapes make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Gardenscapes earns approximately $172/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 Gardenscapes?▴
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Who makes Gardenscapes?▴
Gardenscapes is published by Playrix 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 Gardenscapes's BU Score?▴
Gardenscapes has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.