Gummy Bear Studios

What Gummy Bear Studios does

Gummy Bear Studios is a privately held, bootstrapped creative studio based in Italy, founded in 2010, that develops and publishes a portfolio of consumer-facing mobile and desktop applications. The studio operates with 1-10 employees and positions itself as a group of developers, artists, and game designers focused on shipping standalone apps rather than a unified platform.

The studio's product portfolio spans roughly twenty applications across utility, productivity, creative, entertainment, lifestyle, music, and developer tool categories, including titles such as Invoices, Checklist, Image Cutter, Perfect Scanner, FTP Drive + HTTP Server, SnipCode, Whiteboard Plus, Sketchpad Pro HD, Doodle Colors 2, My TV Shows!, Piano Reference, and Odometer. Development is conducted across iOS, OS X, Android, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone, indicating a deliberately multi-platform engineering footprint for a small team.

Revenue is generated primarily through one-time app sales on the Apple App Store, with individual app pricing set per product. Distribution is global via Apple's marketplace, and the studio's customer base consists of individual consumers and small businesses acquiring discrete apps rather than enterprise contracts or subscriptions. There is no disclosed enterprise customer base, no partnerships, no external funding, and no visible marketing motion beyond the company website and App Store listings.

Name

Gummy Bear Studios

Legal name

Gummy Bear Studios

Website

https://gummybearstudios.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Gummy Bear Studios is a privately held Italian indie studio, founded in 2010, that develops and publishes a portfolio of roughly twenty standalone consumer utility, productivity, creative, and entertainment applications across iOS, OS X, Android, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone via the Apple App Store.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Consumer Mobile Applications

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Games, Toys & Children's Vehicles (No Dolls & Bicycles) (3944)

akta.pro primary industry

Mobile App Stores (General) (MPAFACAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

PC/Desktop Software Stores (BPAMADAB), Custom Application Development (Web/Mobile/Desktop) (BPAEAFAA)

Keywords

• Mobile app development
• Utility applications
• Productivity software
• Creative drawing apps
• Indie game studio

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. App Sales: The company generates revenue through selling mobile and desktop applications via the Apple App Store. Their portfolio includes various utility and productivity apps across multiple platforms.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Gummy Bear Studios designs, develops, and publishes consumer mobile and desktop applications sold through digital app stores. The studio's portfolio spans utility apps, productivity tools, creative drawing applications, developer utilities, and entertainment games, each released as a standalone product across iOS, OS X, Android, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone platforms.

Product overview

Gummy Bear Studios is a creative group of developers, artists, and game designers based in Italy that develops a portfolio of consumer-focused mobile and desktop applications. Their product portfolio consists of standalone apps across multiple categories including creative tools (Sketchpad Pro HD, Whiteboard Plus, Doodle Colors 2), productivity utilities (Invoices, Checklist, My Secret Notes, Pictures 2 PDF), developer tools (SnipCode, FTP Drive + HTTP Server), entertainment apps (My TV Shows!, Piano Reference, Write Your Future, Delicious Delivery), and general utilities (Image Cutter, Image To Data, Perfect Scanner, Special Symbols, Odometer, Flip Rotate Mirror text, Connectix). The company develops for iOS, OS X, Android, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone platforms. Their offerings represent individual, independent applications rather than a unified platform architecture, with each app serving distinct user needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Odometer - Check your Mouse Mileage!
• Image Cutter
• Image To Data
• SnipCode
• Invoices
• Write Your Future
• Whiteboard Plus
• My Secret Notes
• Doodle Colors 2
• Sketchpad Pro HD
• Special Symbols
• Perfect Scanner
• Delicious Delivery
• Pictures 2 PDF
• FTP Drive + HTTP Server
• Checklist
• Flip Rotate Mirror text
• My TV Shows!
• Piano Reference
• Connectix

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Ketchapp: Ketchapp is a mobile game publisher known for a high-volume portfolio of casual apps on the App Store. Both studios operate a broad-portfolio mobile publishing strategy with diverse small apps distributed via Apple.
• Toca Boca: Toca Boca is an indie mobile studio producing creative/drawing and lifestyle apps targeted at consumers across iOS. Both studios operate as design-led mobile app publishers shipping creative and utility apps to global app store audiences.
• Halfbrick Studios: Halfbrick is an independent mobile game and app studio with a portfolio of casual/creative titles on the Apple App Store. Comparable as a small-to-mid indie publisher spanning mobile platforms with utility and entertainment apps.
• Imangi Studios: Imangi Studios is a small independent mobile game/app studio that publishes a portfolio of titles on iOS and other app stores. Comparable to Gummy Bear Studios as a similarly sized indie publisher monetizing through App Store distribution.

Emerging players

• Sago Mini: Sago Mini is a small studio producing creative/kids apps for iOS App Store, intersecting with Gummy Bear Studios' creative and drawing apps (Doodle Colors, Sketchpad Pro HD). Both target family/creative consumer segments.
• Tinybop: Tinybop is an indie mobile studio focused on creative/educational apps distributed via the App Store. Comparable as a small design-led studio shipping standalone creative utility apps to consumer audiences.

Broad incumbents

• Voodoo: Voodoo is a large mobile game publisher with a portfolio of hyper-casual apps on iOS App Store. Operates in the same mobile app publishing ecosystem as Gummy Bear Studios, though at significantly greater scale.
• Rovio Entertainment: Rovio is a major mobile games publisher (Angry Birds franchise) operating at scale on the App Store. Operates in the same mobile app publishing ecosystem as Gummy Bear Studios, though as a significantly larger incumbent.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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