My Lightning Tracker Pro
67
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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My Lightning Tracker Pro is an iOS app from JRustonApps B.V. in the News category, currently rated 4.8★ across 5,968 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 67: 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
111 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
5,968 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
111
since Apr 2017
🤖Also on Android
$453/mo · 8K ratings · 4.7★
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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 under a month 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
$11.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $8.5M – $15.0M · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~192× return on build cost
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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
715K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
105K
Daily active
47K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
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
Mixed signals · 59/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.5
Product Quality
8.7
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
1.8
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.81★ across 5,968 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (5,968 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 |
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 · v26.2.7
Important bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- My Lightning Tracker Pro
- Developer
- JRustonApps B.V.
- Bundle ID
- com.jrustonapps.My-Lightning-Tracker-Pro
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, IT, NB, PL, ES, SV
Company
- Website
- www.jrustonapps.com
- Tagline
- jRustonApps
- Description
- Welcome to jRustonApps, the site for great iOS and Android apps. Here you'll find all of our apps, including My Lightning Tracker and My Hurricane Tracker.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#46 /100 🇺🇸#100 /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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/jRustonApps
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- jrustonapps.com/contact
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth5,966 ratings+3309% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇨🇦CA#46 /100
🇺🇸US#100 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#46 now · best #46 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
My Lightning Tracker Pro is the best app for monitoring lightning strikes all around the world in close to real-time. With a sleek modern design, you can watch thunderstorms as they occur. You can also receive notifications whenever strikes are detected in your area.
- Detects and displays lightning strikes all around the world!
- See a history of hotspots where lightning strikes occur most often!
- View more detailed information about where the thunderstorm is occurring on a map.
- Receive a lightning alarm when a storm is nearby so that you can monitor it live.… View full description on the official store →
- Detects and displays lightning strikes all around the world!
- See a history of hotspots where lightning strikes occur most often!
- View more detailed information about where the thunderstorm is occurring on a map.
- Receive a lightning alarm when a storm is nearby so that you can monitor it live.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 9 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v26.2.7🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FI, FR +7📂 News💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
15 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v26.2.4 → v26.2.7
→ 30 days after: revenue +$172/mo · reviews +103 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v26.1.0 → v26.2.4
→ 30 days after: revenue +$172/mo · reviews +135 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +83 high confidence
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +83 high confidence
2026-03
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v26.1.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$407/mo · reviews −262 medium · co-occurring
2020-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +9 high confidence
2020-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +15 high confidence
2018-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ high confidence
2018-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.10★ · reviews +8 high confidence
2017-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.07★ medium · co-occurring
2017-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.13★ medium · co-occurring
2017-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.44 → 4.10 (dropped 0.34★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.13★ medium · co-occurring
2017-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.12★ high confidence
2017-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.50★ high confidence
2017-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −1.00★ medium · co-occurring
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 6 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.75359★ | 1,806 | 4.75359★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.71899★ | 790 | 4.71899★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.73945★ | 545 | 4.73945★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.81818★ | 231 | 4.81818★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.77881★ | 1,596 | 4.77881★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.80693★ | 6,003 | 4.80693★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for My Lightning Tracker Pro: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 5,968 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does My Lightning Tracker Pro make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, My Lightning Tracker Pro earns approximately $700K/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.
Is My Lightning Tracker Pro profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $60K and monthly revenue $700K, My Lightning Tracker Pro looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does My Lightning Tracker Pro have?▴
Estimated audience: ~715K lifetime downloads, ~105K monthly active users, and ~47K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like My Lightning Tracker Pro?▴
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How much would My Lightning Tracker Pro sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $11.5M (marketplace range $8.5M – $15.0M). Calculated as 16× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
Who makes My Lightning Tracker Pro?▴
My Lightning Tracker Pro is published by JRustonApps B.V. 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 My Lightning Tracker Pro's BU Score?▴
My Lightning Tracker Pro has a BU Score of 67/100 (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.