64
BU Score
Solid
TheJournal.ie News
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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TheJournal.ie News is an iOS app from Journal Media, currently rated 4.7★ across 2,542 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet — judgment based on metadata only.
Our BU Score puts it at 64 — Solid (established niche player). For a app app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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Reviews
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💰 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:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (2,542 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 52 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v3.38.0🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)
📝 About this app
#1 Free News App in Ireland
The Journal is Ireland’s most popular online news source. Our multi-award winning team delivers breaking news, hard-hitting investigations and smart commentary on the issues that matter to you. We explain, we factcheck, we listen through interactive and multimedia storytelling, all in a user-friendly format.
You can choose to use The Journal for free or you can support our independent journalism with a subscription. As a subscriber you also get The Journal ad-free. Check out our Terms of Use for all details on using The Journal (https://www.thejournal.ie/terms/).
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Awards for our journalism:
Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize 2024
The Mary Raftery Prize for outstanding social affairs journalism 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Media Literacy Ireland, Media Champion 2023
The Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Journalism Award 2022, 2021, 2020
New York Festival of Radio, Gold medallist, Best Documentary Podcast 2020
Celtic Media Festival, Best Radio Documentary 2020
Justice Media Awards, multiple, 2016-2025
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“Really impressed by The Journal …and its focus on citizen storytelling” - Mark Little, founder of Storyful, Kinzen
"Best Addition to Irish Media" - Ian Dempsey
“A valuable public service” - John FitzGerald, ESRI
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> Download now for Free
FEATURES:
- Trustworthy breaking news and opinion from Ireland and beyond
- Get only the most important news alerts straight to your phone
- Clear-sighted analysis and explainers to guide you through hot topics
- Submit photos, video and tips directly to our journalists from your device
- Listen to award-winning podcasts such as The Explainer, Stardust and The Candidate in-app
- Vote in our daily topical polls
- Send a question to Ireland’s only verified FactCheck team
- Submit story ideas to The Journal Investigates
- Hear the diverse stories of a modern Ireland in our Voices opinion section
- Contribute to and read our popular Money Diaries, Sitdown Sunday and other weekly features
- Test out our fun and informative news quizzes
- Join our comments community
- Share articles directly from the app to your social networks, to email and your messaging apps
- Sign up for our behind-the-scenes newsletters on the climate crisis, public health, misinformation and more
- Find brilliant sports storytelling from our sister publication The42
Follow us on instagram.com/thejournal_ie, facebook.com/thejournal.ie, tiktok.com/@thejournal_ie, X.com/thejournal_ie, for latest updates
The Journal is Ireland’s most popular online news source. Our multi-award winning team delivers breaking news, hard-hitting investigations and smart commentary on the issues that matter to you. We explain, we factcheck, we listen through interactive and multimedia storytelling, all in a user-friendly format.
You can choose to use The Journal for free or you can support our independent journalism with a subscription. As a subscriber you also get The Journal ad-free. Check out our Terms of Use for all details on using The Journal (https://www.thejournal.ie/terms/).
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Awards for our journalism:
Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize 2024
The Mary Raftery Prize for outstanding social affairs journalism 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Media Literacy Ireland, Media Champion 2023
The Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Journalism Award 2022, 2021, 2020
New York Festival of Radio, Gold medallist, Best Documentary Podcast 2020
Celtic Media Festival, Best Radio Documentary 2020
Justice Media Awards, multiple, 2016-2025
***********
“Really impressed by The Journal …and its focus on citizen storytelling” - Mark Little, founder of Storyful, Kinzen
"Best Addition to Irish Media" - Ian Dempsey
“A valuable public service” - John FitzGerald, ESRI
**********
> Download now for Free
FEATURES:
- Trustworthy breaking news and opinion from Ireland and beyond
- Get only the most important news alerts straight to your phone
- Clear-sighted analysis and explainers to guide you through hot topics
- Submit photos, video and tips directly to our journalists from your device
- Listen to award-winning podcasts such as The Explainer, Stardust and The Candidate in-app
- Vote in our daily topical polls
- Send a question to Ireland’s only verified FactCheck team
- Submit story ideas to The Journal Investigates
- Hear the diverse stories of a modern Ireland in our Voices opinion section
- Contribute to and read our popular Money Diaries, Sitdown Sunday and other weekly features
- Test out our fun and informative news quizzes
- Join our comments community
- Share articles directly from the app to your social networks, to email and your messaging apps
- Sign up for our behind-the-scenes newsletters on the climate crisis, public health, misinformation and more
- Find brilliant sports storytelling from our sister publication The42
Follow us on instagram.com/thejournal_ie, facebook.com/thejournal.ie, tiktok.com/@thejournal_ie, X.com/thejournal_ie, for latest updates
🆕 What's New · v3.38.0
- Bug fixes and improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- TheJournal.ie News
- Developer
- Journal Media
- Bundle ID
- ie.thejournal.TheJournal
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Not found
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- TheJournal.ie
- Description
- Read, share and shape the news on TheJournal.ie - Breaking Irish and International News
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $316/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://twitter.com/thejournal_ie
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- https://www.thejournal.ie/factcheck/news/
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook · instagram · tiktok · twitter
- info@presscouncil.ie
- Phone
- 1800 208 080
- Contact page
- https://www.thejournal.ie/waterford-fire-business-supports-7036716-May2026/
- About page
- http://www.thejournal.ie/about-us/
📈Ratings growth2,542 ratings+17% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (2 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
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.
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