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City Island 5: Building Sim earns about
$9.0K/month
range $4.9K – $13.0K · $107.5K/year
Live data · refreshed every hour
Per Day
$299
$164 – $433
Per Week
$2.1K
$1.1K – $3.0K
Per Month
$9.0K
$4.9K – $13.0K
Per Year
$107.5K
$59.1K – $155.9K
Lifetime
$268.8K
$147.9K – $389.8K
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Auto-generated from this app's real revenue ($9.0K/month · $107.5K/year), monetization model, rating signals and category. Every line is calibrated to this app, not generic advice.
18/100
Opportunity
60/100
Cloneability
$0
Revenue / install
✓ Features to copy
- subscription paywall (~$21.68/mo) - proven monetization
- in-app purchase tier ladder for upsells
⚡ Improve / fix
- subscription is $21.68/mo - undercut by 30-50% to win price-sensitive users
🛠 MVP scope
- core feature loop
- subscription gating
- free-tier limits
- trial period
- analytics
💰 Pricing recommendation
City Island 5: Building Sim charges ~$21.68/mo. Competitive entry: $13.01/mo or annual at $78/year (50% off annual is the standard hook).
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- "I tried City Island 5: Building Sim for 30 days - here's what I'd do differently"
- "Why City Island 5: Building Sim costs $21.68/mo when ours costs $13.01"
- "The games app City Island 5: Building Sim won't tell you these 3 things"
Monetization
Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU)Revenue mix (estimated)
- Subscriptions ~72%
- One-time IAP ~22%
- Ads ~6%
Paying users (est.)
1.1M installs · 19.9% active · 0.1% pay
In-App Purchases 10
- Weeklyest. 2,500,000 cash $4.99 /week ~$21.68/mo
- Weeklyest. 5,000,000 cash (SALE) $4.99 /week ~$21.68/mo
- One-time Silver Chest $1.99 one-time
- One-timeest. 50 gold $4.99 one-time
- One-timeest. 100 gold (SALE) $4.99 one-time
- One-time Silver Chest $4.99 one-time
- One-time Pack of 2 Cranes $4.99 one-time
- One-time Gold Chest $8.99 one-time
10 tiers scraped live from the App Store.
App Details
Pulled from the App Store- Current Version
- 5.5.1
- Released
- Dec 16, 2018
- Last Updated
- May 6, 2026
- File Size
- 339.3 MB
- Required OS
- 13.0
- Content Rating
- 4+
- Category
- Games
- Price
- Free
- Currency
- USD
- Languages
- Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, NB, FA, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Developer
- Sparkling Society Games B.V.
What's new in v5.5.1
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Fun Numbers - share these
$0
every second
$0
every minute
$12
every hour
$299
every day
- ☕ Buys 60 $5 coffees every day
- 👨💻 Pays for 1 senior engineer salaries per year
- 🚗 Earns enough for 3 Tesla Model 3s annually
- ⏱️ Earns the price of a coffee in 1,446 seconds
12-Month Revenue Trajectory
Modeled from grossing rank, app score, and update cadence. Hover any point to see the value. Real growth depends on retention, marketing, and seasonality.
Estimated Installs
1.1M
estimated from 10,183 ratings
Active Users (MAU est.)
223K
19.9% of installs · GAMES category benchmark
Rating
4.66 ★
10K reviews
Monetization
Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU)
Rating Distribution
5★
8K
4★
1K
3★
363
2★
163
1★
227
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How much money does City Island 5: Building Sim make on the App Store? ⌄
City Island 5: Building Sim has an estimated App Store revenue of $9.0K per month (~$107.5K per year, $299 per day) with a likely range of $4.9K to $13.0K. This includes earnings from in-app purchases, subscription revenue, ads and any paid downloads - all directional estimates from public App Store signals, not private Apple financial data.
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Apple does not publish exact App Store download counts. Using public ratings (10K reviews), grossing rank, category position and the standard 1:75 ratings-to-downloads ratio, Rev.now estimates about 1.1M total iOS downloads for City Island 5: Building Sim - and roughly 223K monthly active users on iPhone and iPad.
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