SoundCloud: The Music You Love
80
Quality Score
Excellent
SoundCloud: The Music You Love
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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SoundCloud targets the music discovery and independent artist promotion niche, competing directly with platforms like Bandcamp and indirectly with major streaming services for emerging talent. The extremely high volume of positive ratings, despite the modest estimated revenue, signals robust user engagement and a deeply established community, suggesting a mature product with strong retention rather than rapid growth. This indicates significant traction within its specific user base. For music apps in this category, a common monetization path involves premium subscriptions offering ad-free listening, offline downloads, and enhanced artist tools. Given SoundCloud’s free model, there’s potential to explore a tiered subscription for power users or artists, or to integrate more direct fan-to-artist support features with a revenue share model, as typical per-download pricing isn't common here; the value lies in discovery and community access.
BU Score 80 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. 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
$1.8M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.9M – $2.9M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.3M – $4.2M
per month
BIG tierFREE
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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
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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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 (254 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Music complexity ×1.45 | +$40K |
Total estimate
$130K
👥 Estimated audience size
243.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
48.5M
Daily active
24.0M
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
| 📲 Music engagement | ~130 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Music D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.50 |
DAU / MAU
49% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.8M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.8M – $2.4M
12 months
$1.9M – $2.9M
24 months
$2.3M – $4.2M
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
Concerning · 47/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.5
Product Quality
8.2
Revenue Strength
6.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.8
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $720K - $3960K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.84★ across 1,847,146 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -0.50 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $32.4M-$57.6M.
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,869,653 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 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 · v8.63.1
We constantly update SoundCloud to keep the tunes flowing and beats bumping. In this version:
- We improved performance and fixed bugs.
Loving the app? Rate us to make it official. Have questions or suggestions? Find us on Twitter @SoundCloud or the SoundCloud Help Center.… Full release notes →
- We improved performance and fixed bugs.
Loving the app? Rate us to make it official. Have questions or suggestions? Find us on Twitter @SoundCloud or the SoundCloud Help Center.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- SoundCloud: The Music You Love
- Developer
- SoundCloud Global Limited & Co KG
- Bundle ID
- com.soundcloud.TouchApp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Music
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PL, PT, ES, SV
Company
- Website
- soundcloud.com
- Tagline
- Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud
- Description
- Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $8.0M ($7.0M – $9.0M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $96.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $298/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇬🇧#2 /100 🇩🇪#2 /100 🇦🇺#2 /100 🇫🇷#3 /99 🇨🇦#3 /100 🇺🇸#4 /100 🇮🇳#12 /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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "SoundCloud: The Music You Love" is estimated to generate between $7 million and $9 million in monthly revenue, with a central estimate of $8 million. This translates to an estimated annual revenue of $96 million.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.51★ · 81.6% 5★ · 6.1% 1★
5★40 (82%)
4★3 (6%)
3★0 (0%)
2★3 (6%)
1★3 (6%)
+11,787 ratings/week
Praise: love ×10 great ×7 best ×7 awesome ×2 amazing ×1Complaints: subscription ×2 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ VIEWS
thank you for bringing back the leaderboard!!! i missed it. however, now i would like to humbly request you bring back a feature that has been gone for a while. please make it so the amount of views a track has is visible right by the run t…
★★★★★ Review
From sound cloud…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Dont use soundcloud
Horrible app. Many different ways to upgrade your account, no way to sign out…
★☆☆☆☆ Bad-Logo-color
I think your logo change wasn't successful, especially regarding the colors. Orange with black is very bad; at least choose orange with white if you insist on dark orange.…
📈Ratings growth1,869,653 ratings+30% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (13 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇬🇧GB#2 /100
🇩🇪DE#2 /100
🇦🇺AU#2 /100
🇫🇷FR#3 /99
🇨🇦CA#3 /100
🇺🇸US#4 /100
🇮🇳IN#12 /100
🇧🇷BR#14 /100
🇯🇵JP#37 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#2 now · best #2 · worst #2
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
What’s next in music is first on SoundCloud.
Be the first to discover, play and share your favorite tracks from emerging artists
Access the world’s largest music discovery platform
- That’s 300M+ tracks from 30M+ artists in 193 countries
Discover new music, picked just for you
- Play curated mixes and playlists based on the music you love
Listen to exclusive music on SoundCloud
- Hear tracks you can’t find anywhere else
Find and connect with your music community
- Share tracks, reach a global audience, and connect with your favorite artists and fans directly on SoundCloud… View full description on the official store →
Be the first to discover, play and share your favorite tracks from emerging artists
Access the world’s largest music discovery platform
- That’s 300M+ tracks from 30M+ artists in 193 countries
Discover new music, picked just for you
- Play curated mixes and playlists based on the music you love
Listen to exclusive music on SoundCloud
- Hear tracks you can’t find anywhere else
Find and connect with your music community
- Share tracks, reach a global audience, and connect with your favorite artists and fans directly on SoundCloud… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 254 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.4+🔖 v8.63.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, DE +5📂 Music💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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
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Shipped update — v8.60.0 → v8.61.0
2026-05
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Shipped update — v? → v8.60.0
2026-04
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 900 reviews across 9 markets● 61% positive · ● 26% neutral · ● 13% negative · Rating drift: -0.50★ (declining — recent 50: 4.34★ vs lifetime: 4.84★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.56
🇦🇺 AU
+0.45
🇺🇸 US
+0.42
🇨🇦 CA
+0.41
🇬🇧 GB
+0.41
🇫🇷 FR
+0.16
🇧🇷 BR
+0.12
🇯🇵 JP
+0.10
🇩🇪 DE
-0.11
Top praise themes
sound cloud ×27 better spotify ×19 sound quality ×6 being able ×5 ads ads ×5 unreleased songs ×5 spotify apple ×4 streaming platform ×4
Top complaint themes
over over ×5 liked songs ×4 ads ads ×4 customer service ×4 login broken ×4 mise jour ×4 please fix ×3 new phone ×3
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.82006★ | 109,334 | 4.82006★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.89761★ | 262,029 | 4.89761★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.79419★ | 170,950 | 4.79419★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.79439★ | 184,431 | 4.79439★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.80762★ | 169,843 | 4.80762★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.83552★ | 320,876 | 4.83552★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.79208★ | 50,010 | 4.79208★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.79398★ | 83,523 | 4.79398★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84103★ | 1,861,842 | 4.84103★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for SoundCloud: The Music You Love: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 1,869,653 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does SoundCloud make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, SoundCloud earns approximately $298/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 SoundCloud?▴
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Who makes SoundCloud?▴
SoundCloud is published by SoundCloud Global Limited & Co KG 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 SoundCloud's BU Score?▴
SoundCloud has a BU Score of 80/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.