Is this app idea worth building?
Type the search people would use to find the app. We look at who ranks today and how beatable they are.
That was your last free search for this tool.
Mixed signals. Look for a sharper angle or a niche within this search.
A research starting point built from public store data, not a forecast of downloads or revenue.
How the score is built
Every component is shown — no black box.
Search popularity 80/100 (estimated from autocomplete).
Difficulty 84/100 from the strength of the top 10.
1 of the top 10 are poorly rated, stale (no update in a year) or have under 1,000 ratings.
5 of the 5 top apps checked charge or sell in-app purchases.
3 of the top 10 launched in the last two years and already have 1,000+ ratings.
Recurring complaints: excessive ads, ad frequency, ad close button not working.
Who ranks today
Top results in US
- 14.0 · 75
- 24.8 · 101,937
- 3Tripledot Studios Limited · Free + ads + in-app purchases · updated this month4.8 · 568,653
- 44.8 · 137,436
- 54.6 · 628,756
- 64.8 · 624,494
- 74.7 · 772,596
- 84.9 · 1,003,336
- 94.5 · 43,222
- 104.7 · 225,064
“Could be a really good game. But the fact that they make it super hard as you need fish that are hardly in the bubbles you see so frequently, that you have to watch ads to get an extra bowl every time, plus an ad when…” — review of Fish Sort Puzzle
“Fun game but frequent long ads (over a minute) made me uninstall it. Played the same ad for Gossip Harbor incessantly. I'll now never download Gossip Harbor. Total marketing fail.” — review of Fish Sort Puzzle
No repeated feature requests in recent reviews.
How the top apps make money
From the top 5 apps' Google Play pages in US, in that store's prices. Ads come from the store's labels and purchases that remove ads.
| App | How it makes money | Prices | Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coin Sort Puzzle - Color Game | Free + ads + in-app purchases | $0.99–$99.99 | Google Play label |
| Fish Sort Puzzle | Free + ads + in-app purchases | $1.99–$99.99 | Google Play label |
| Get Color - Water Sort Puzzle | Free + ads + in-app purchases | $0.99–$119.99 | Google Play label |
| Screw Sort Puzzle: Pin Jam 3D | Free + ads + in-app purchases | $0.99–$99.99 | Google Play label |
| Magic Sort! | Free + ads + in-app purchases | $0.99–$199.99 | Google Play label |
- 5 of 5 top apps show ads: Coin Sort Puzzle - Color Game, Fish Sort Puzzle, Get Color - Water Sort Puzzle, Screw Sort Puzzle: Pin Jam 3D and Magic Sort! (Google Play label), so they earn even from people who never pay.
- 5 of 5 top apps sell in-app purchases that don't say if they renew: Coin Sort Puzzle - Color Game $0.99–$99.99, Fish Sort Puzzle $1.99–$99.99, Get Color - Water Sort Puzzle $0.99–$119.99, Screw Sort Puzzle: Pin Jam 3D $0.99–$99.99, Magic Sort! $0.99–$199.99.
If you built this today
What a new app should do better than today's top apps, based on their reviews, update history, ratings and prices.
- 1Fix what users complain about“excessive ads” comes up in 11 low-rated reviews of today's top apps.Solve this from your first version, and show that you have in your first screenshots.
“Could be a really good game. But the fact that they make it super hard as you need fish that are hardly in the bubbles you see so frequently, that you have to watch ads to get an extra bowl every time, plus an ad when…” — review of Fish Sort Puzzle
- 2Fix what users complain about“ad frequency” comes up in 4 low-rated reviews of today's top apps.Solve this from your first version, and show that you have in your first screenshots.
“Fun game but frequent long ads (over a minute) made me uninstall it. Played the same ad for Gossip Harbor incessantly. I'll now never download Gossip Harbor. Total marketing fail.” — review of Fish Sort Puzzle
- 3Fix what users complain about“ad close button not working” comes up in 3 low-rated reviews of today's top apps.Solve this from your first version, and show that you have in your first screenshots.
“I like the game but when ads for new games pop up, you can't x them out no matter how long you let it run. very annoying.” — review of Get Color - Water Sort Puzzle
- 4Pick a sharper angleUsers are mostly happy with today's apps (4.8★ on average).Copying them won't be enough. Aim at a specific group or use case they serve badly.
- 5Move earlyEven the #1 app has fewer than 1,000 ratings.The search is young: a good listing and early ratings can get a new app to the top quickly.
- 6Price it like the market expects5 of the top 5 apps are free to download and sell in-app purchases (median 0.99 in local currency).Plan a free download with a clear paid tier from the start, and make the first paid moment feel worth it.
- 7Go ad-free5 of the top 5 apps show ads (Coin Sort Puzzle - Color Game, Fish Sort Puzzle, Get Color - Water Sort Puzzle, Screw Sort Puzzle: Pin Jam 3D, Magic Sort!).No ads, or a cheap one-time way to remove them, is an easy difference to show in your screenshots.
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