SoundCloud: Discover New Music
80
Quality Score
Excellent
SoundCloud: Discover New Music
by SoundCloud Global Limited & Co KG
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
$1.6M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7M – $2.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0M – $3.8M
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
44 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
1,962,845 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.6M
Snapshots tracked
44
since Apr 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$220K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $165K – $295K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (366 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 17.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$102K |
Total estimate
$220K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$36.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $27.5M – $47.5M · 23× MRR multiple
💸
~166× 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 |
| 📅 17.0y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
23× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
137.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.2M
Daily active
585K
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
| 📲 Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅 17.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 366 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Shopping |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2012-06-09 · 5265 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 14y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| • 17y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.6M – $2.1M
12 months
$1.7M – $2.6M
24 months
$2.0M – $3.8M
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 · 52/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.1
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.84★ across 1,962,845 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $28.8M-$51.2M.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,962,845 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v8.81.0
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: Discover New Music
- Developer
- SoundCloud Global Limited & Co KG
- Bundle ID
- com.soundcloud.TouchApp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PL, PT, ES, SV
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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $1.6M/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇬🇧#2 /100 🇦🇺#2 /100 🇩🇪#3 /100 🇫🇷#3 /100 🇨🇦#3 /100 🇺🇸#4 /100 🇮🇳#11 /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.
📈Ratings growth2,031,743 ratings+16% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇬🇧GB#2 /100
🇦🇺AU#2 /100
🇩🇪DE#3 /100
🇫🇷FR#3 /100
🇨🇦CA#3 /100
🇺🇸US#4 /100
🇮🇳IN#11 /100
🇧🇷BR#14 /100
🇯🇵JP#31 /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
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter17 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline8 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 →💾 366 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.4+🔖 v8.81.0🔄 updated 14y ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, DE +5📂 Shopping💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (17y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
20 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 →
2026-10
📦
Bundle ↑ 275MB → 384MB — likely major code refresh
2026-10
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 7 of 7 updated
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v8.76.0 → v8.81.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +40,981 low · multiple changes
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v8.71.0 → v8.76.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +83,290 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.70.0 → v8.71.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +67,383 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.69.0 → v8.70.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +32,735 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.68.1 → v8.69.0
→ 30 days after: revenue −$160/mo · reviews +38,226 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.68.0 → v8.68.1
→ 30 days after: revenue −$160/mo · reviews +47,074 low · multiple changes
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.67.1 → v8.68.0
→ 30 days after: revenue −$160/mo · reviews +45,850 low · multiple changes
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.67.0 → v8.67.1
→ 30 days after: revenue −$160/mo · reviews +42,751 low · multiple changes
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v8.66.1 → v8.67.0
→ 30 days after: revenue −$160/mo · reviews +52,024 low · multiple changes
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v8.65.0 → v8.66.1
→ 30 days after: revenue −$160/mo · reviews +47,693 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v8.64.0 → v8.65.0
→ 30 days after: revenue −$160/mo · reviews +53,726 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v8.63.1 → v8.64.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +50,315 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v8.62.1 → v8.63.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +48,865 low · multiple changes
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v8.62.0 → v8.62.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +52,779 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v8.61.0 → v8.62.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +52,779 low · multiple changes
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v8.60.0 → v8.61.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +49,228 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v8.60.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +118,615 low · multiple changes
2026-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +79,026 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
7 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-06
2026-10-07
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-06
2026-10-07
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-06
2026-10-07
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-06
2026-10-07
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-06
2026-10-07
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-06
2026-10-07
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.81975★ | 121,549 | 4.81975★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.89225★ | 294,309 | 4.89225★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.79517★ | 188,194 | 4.79517★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.79438★ | 209,367 | 4.79438★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.80463★ | 188,349 | 4.80463★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.83507★ | 357,438 | 4.83507★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.78927★ | 53,960 | 4.78927★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.79012★ | 93,144 | 4.79012★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84134★ | 2,069,090 | 4.84134★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for SoundCloud: Discover New Music: 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: 1,962,845 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 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 $1.6M/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 SoundCloud profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $220K and monthly revenue $1.6M, SoundCloud 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 SoundCloud have?▴
Estimated audience: ~137.0M lifetime downloads, ~3.2M monthly active users, and ~585K 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 SoundCloud?▴
Browse the full Shopping category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is SoundCloud built with?▴
Our heuristic places SoundCloud on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is SoundCloud still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 14+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would SoundCloud sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $36.5M (marketplace range $27.5M – $47.5M). Calculated as 23× 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.
When was SoundCloud last updated?▴
SoundCloud last shipped a new version on 2012-06-09 — more than 14 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
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.