FOX One: Live News, Sports, TV
72
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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FOX One: Live News, Sports, TV is an iOS app from Fox Digital Services, LLC in the News category, currently rated 4.7★ across 99,695 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a News app, that means healthy traction. 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tierFREE
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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
4 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
99,695 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$500
Snapshots tracked
4
since Jun 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
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 (209 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
11.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.7M
Daily active
765K
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
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 30/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
7.9
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.8
Operational Safety
0.0
Founder Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 99,695 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 2.5% refund mentions, 11% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected.
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $6K-$11K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (99,695 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (1y old)METRIC | +$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 · v1.29.1
We've been busy making your discovery and watch experience even smoother. This release brings app performance, reliability improvements and some bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FOX One: Live News, Sports, TV
- Developer
- Fox Digital Services, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.fox.foxone
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 12+
- 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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $500/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#17 /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.
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #17 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
FOX One is the app for everything FOX. Stream the year’s biggest moments in sports, from the Big Ten Championship and the NFL playoffs to the 2026 MLS Cup and the 2026 World Series. Stay informed with trusted voices on FOX News. Watch your favorite FOX shows anytime, anywhere. If it’s on FOX, it’s here.
LIVE, LOUD AND UNFILTERED. FOX One has a robust collection of live sports, news and entertainment for your viewing pleasure. From iconic series to exclusive live events — you won’t miss a beat.
FOX NEWS LIVE on FOX One.… View full description on the official store →
LIVE, LOUD AND UNFILTERED. FOX One has a robust collection of live sports, news and entertainment for your viewing pleasure. From iconic series to exclusive live events — you won’t miss a beat.
FOX NEWS LIVE on FOX One.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 209 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v1.29.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
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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 →
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 13 of 13 updated
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v1.27.0 → v1.29.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,304 high confidence
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 7 of 13 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,304 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v1.24.1 → v1.27.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +8,488 high confidence
2026-07
📈
Crossed 50,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5,184 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v1.22.2 → v1.24.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$172/mo · reviews +50,646 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$172/mo · reviews +45,462 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
20 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
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Voice of Customer
Based on 200 reviews across 1 markets● 36% positive · ● 8% neutral · ● 56% negative · Rating drift: -2.66★ (declining — recent 50: 2.04★ vs lifetime: 4.7★)
Top praise themes
world cup ×10 watch world ×3 games ×5 platform ×4 subscription ×4 experience ×4 soccer ×4 state ×3
Top complaint themes
world cup ×61 watch world ×13 trying watch ×6 something went ×5 went wrong ×5 cup games ×5 cup matches ×4 start game ×4
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.5% Subscription complaints: 11% Bug mentions: 7% Fraud / scam mentions: 1.0%
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for FOX One: Live News, Sports, TV: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 91% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 99,695 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FOX One make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, FOX One earns approximately $500/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 FOX One profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $110K and monthly revenue $500, FOX One looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does FOX One have?▴
Estimated audience: ~11.5M lifetime downloads, ~1.7M monthly active users, and ~765K 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 FOX One?▴
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How much would FOX One sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). 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 FOX One?▴
FOX One is published by Fox Digital Services, LLC 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 FOX One's BU Score?▴
FOX One has a BU Score of 72/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.