Architecture of Radio
50
Quality Score
Solid
Architecture of Radio
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Architecture of Radio is an iOS app from Richard Vijgen in the News category, currently rated 3.5★ across 78 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a News app, that means established niche player. 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
$2.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.0K – $7.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.9K – $16.9K
per month
INDIE 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
$4.0K/mo · 438 ratings · 3.1★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$30K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $20K – $35K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$2.0K – $4.6K
12 months
$2.0K – $7.3K
24 months
$1.9K – $16.9K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 40/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
3.4
Product Quality
2.8
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $929 - $5807/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.53★ across 78 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $41K-$74K.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (78 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v1.1
bug fixes, data updates, iOS 26 compatibility
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Architecture of Radio
- Developer
- Richard Vijgen
- Bundle ID
- nl.richardvijgen.architecture
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $2.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.94★ · 32.7% 5★ · 34.7% 1★
5★16 (33%)
4★4 (8%)
3★7 (14%)
2★5 (10%)
1★17 (35%)
+4 ratings/week
Praise: great ×6 amazing ×4 love ×3 best ×3 awesome ×2Complaints: worst ×2 hate ×1 bug ×1 refund ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ This app idea has tremendous potential
As it stands, this app is a solid foundation for great things to come. Great job Richard for breaking ground ! You beat me to it, mine is still conceptual and linked to other potential concepts.…
★★★★★ Does nothing useful - beautifully.
No, this app doesn't really "help" in any way. It's a fun app to geek out with for a while. I give it five stars because it doesn't claim to do anything other than what it does. And it does it in a fun, visually eng…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Not an active reader...pointless
This is a app to visualize public knowledge and open to public coordinates... Better use Google to see most of this info and a visual of the location. This app is useless for if you are looking for active signals and is misleading in descr…
★☆☆☆☆ Buy 1/2 of a gallon of gas with the $2.99
You’d be better off buying a half gallon of gas than buy this. You could also buy some X-ray specs from a comic book. Just as useful.…
📈Ratings growth78 ratings+-20% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $2.99 (+0%)
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
The infosphere, Visualized.
Every time we use our phones, tablets or laptops we are entering an invisible world of wireless digital signals. It is a world that we cannot see but that is literally all around us.
The Architecture of Radio is a 360 degree data visualization of what this world might look like. It shows the cell towers, GPS satellites and Wi-Fi routers around you that allow us to live our digital lives.
New: support for Iphone X, XR, XS and XS Max Screens
New: Cardboard support!
Immerse yourself in the Infosphere in Virtual Reality using a cardboard or compatible headset*… View full description on the official store →
Every time we use our phones, tablets or laptops we are entering an invisible world of wireless digital signals. It is a world that we cannot see but that is literally all around us.
The Architecture of Radio is a 360 degree data visualization of what this world might look like. It shows the cell towers, GPS satellites and Wi-Fi routers around you that allow us to live our digital lives.
New: support for Iphone X, XR, XS and XS Max Screens
New: Cardboard support!
Immerse yourself in the Infosphere in Virtual Reality using a cardboard or compatible headset*… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 2 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.45 → 3.60 (improved 1.15★)
2015-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.25 (dropped 0.75★)
2015-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2015-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.52564★ | 78 | 3.52564★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.75★ | 8 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.62857★ | 35 | 3.62857★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.16667★ | 12 | 3.16667★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.66667★ | 3 | 2.66667★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.26667★ | 15 | 3.26667★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.375★ | 8 | 2.375★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.33333★ | 6 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.14286★ | 7 | 2.14286★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 78 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Architecture of Radio make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Architecture of Radio earns approximately $2.3K/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 Architecture of Radio?▴
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Who makes Architecture of Radio?▴
Architecture of Radio is published by Richard Vijgen 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 Architecture of Radio's BU Score?▴
Architecture of Radio has a BU Score of 50/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.