PBS KIDS Games
76
Quality Score
Strong
PBS KIDS Games
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PBS KIDS Games is an iOS app from PBS KIDS in the Education category, currently rated 4.3★ across 369,476 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 76: Strong (healthy traction). For a Education 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
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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
$1.9K/mo · 55K ratings · 4.3★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.2y 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 (98 MB) | +$19K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$13K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
31.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.5M
Daily active
1.6M
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$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 · 57/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
8.7
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
7.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.35★ across 369,476 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $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
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:
| High install base (369,476 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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 · v6.6.0
Squashing bugs and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PBS KIDS Games
- Developer
- PBS KIDS
- Bundle ID
- org.pbskids.gamesapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- 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
- $3.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The iOS app "PBS KIDS Games" by PBS KIDS operates on an indirect revenue model and is completely free for users, featuring no in-app purchases or advertisements. Its sustainability is derived from the broader PBS ecosystem, including public funding, educational grants, and licensing/merchandising of PBS KIDS characters, rather than direct app monetization.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty, Reddit, Idea Usher, Pixalate, Current.org, Screenwise
📈Ratings growth369,476 ratings+48% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (26 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
PBS KIDS Games makes learning fun and safe with 280+ educational games from your child's favorite shows.
Play hundreds of free educational games that are kid tested and designed for your child. Watch as they learn with their favorite PBS characters like Daniel Tiger, Wild Kratts, Lyla in the Loop, Weather Hunters, Carl the Collector, and more!
Your child can play and learn with PBS KIDS in English and Spanish thanks to familiar faces like Alma, Rosie, and more. Quickly play games from the safety of your home and keep playing anywhere you take your device to keep the fun going.… View full description on the official store →
Play hundreds of free educational games that are kid tested and designed for your child. Watch as they learn with their favorite PBS characters like Daniel Tiger, Wild Kratts, Lyla in the Loop, Weather Hunters, Carl the Collector, and more!
Your child can play and learn with PBS KIDS in English and Spanish thanks to familiar faces like Alma, Rosie, and more. Quickly play games from the safety of your home and keep playing anywhere you take your device to keep the fun going.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 98 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v6.6.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Free
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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 ↑ 3.43 → 4.35 (improved 0.92★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.43 → 4.40 (improved 0.97★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2025-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #3Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
kids learning·#3🇺🇸preschool games·#3🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PBS KIDS Games: 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: 369,476 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PBS KIDS Games make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PBS KIDS Games earns approximately $3.2K/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 PBS KIDS Games?▴
PBS KIDS Games 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 PBS KIDS Games's BU Score?▴
PBS KIDS Games has a BU Score of 76/100 (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.