Big Finish Audiobook Player
70
Quality Score
Strong
Big Finish Audiobook Player
by Hughes Media
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Big Finish Audiobook Player is an iOS app from Hughes Media in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 2,598 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 70: Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
90 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
2,598 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
90
since Jan 2015
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.1y 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 |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙ 11.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$70K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| 📅 11.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
180K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
10K
Daily active
2.0K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅 11.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 30 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-25 · 42 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
| 📅 42 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 41/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
7.2
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
5.4
Founder Strength
4.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.84★ across 2,598 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.64 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,598 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| 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.
🆕 What's New · v2.7.3
Bonus media updates
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Big Finish Audiobook Player
- Developer
- Hughes Media
- Bundle ID
- com.hughesmedia.big-finish
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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 growth2,636 ratings+2484% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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.
🚀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
Official Big Finish - Audiobook and Audio Drama Player
The best way to listen to your Big Finish audio books on your iOS device.
Download and store your library of Big Finish audio files on your Apple device. Listen to great stories from the following ranges wherever your are: Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, Blake's 7, Dark Shadows, 2000 AD (Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog), Terrahawks, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Torchwood, Survivors, The Omega Factor and more.
Features
Download audio files direct to your Apple device.
View a list of all your available audiobooks.… View full description on the official store →
The best way to listen to your Big Finish audio books on your iOS device.
Download and store your library of Big Finish audio files on your Apple device. Listen to great stories from the following ranges wherever your are: Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, Blake's 7, Dark Shadows, 2000 AD (Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog), Terrahawks, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Torchwood, Survivors, The Omega Factor and more.
Features
Download audio files direct to your Apple device.
View a list of all your available audiobooks.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 30 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v2.7.3🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 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
📦
Bundle ↓ 48MB → 32MB — likely major code refresh
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v2.7.2 → v2.7.3
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.7.1 → v2.7.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +24 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.20 → 4.80 (improved 0.60★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2018-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +10 high confidence
2016-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ high confidence
2016-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.11 → 3.54 (improved 0.43★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.27★ · reviews +8 high confidence
2016-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.18 → 3.11 (improved 0.93★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.43★ · reviews +10 high confidence
2015-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.75 → 2.40 (improved 0.65★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.07★ high confidence
2015-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.25★ high confidence
2015-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.00★ medium · co-occurring
2015-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −1.00★ medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 295 reviews across 6 markets● 85% positive · ● 4% neutral · ● 11% negative · Rating drift: -1.64★ (declining — recent 50: 3.2★ vs lifetime: 4.84★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇫🇷 FR
+0.75
🇺🇸 US
+0.67
🇨🇦 CA
+0.59
🇦🇺 AU
+0.59
🇩🇪 DE
+0.53
🇬🇧 GB
+0.36
Top praise themes
audio dramas ×18 being able ×9 audio plays ×7 listen audio ×6 audio adventures ×6 listen audios ×6 easy listen ×5 new version ×5
Top complaint themes
please fix ×5 downloaded listened ×3 customer service ×3 left off ×3 download purchases ×3 new ×16 now ×16 update ×14
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 9%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.82859★ | 2,637 | 4.82859★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.78822★ | 3,768 | 4.78822★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.73438★ | 64 | 4.73438★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.90909★ | 22 | 4.90909★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.85714★ | 14 | 4.85714★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.70711★ | 239 | 4.70711★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.79371★ | 572 | 4.79371★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 6 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Big Finish Audiobook Player: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 2,598 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Big Finish Audiobook Player make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Big Finish Audiobook Player earns approximately $5.0K/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 Big Finish Audiobook Player profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Big Finish Audiobook Player looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.1 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Big Finish Audiobook Player have?▴
Estimated audience: ~180K lifetime downloads, ~10K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 Big Finish Audiobook Player?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink 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 Big Finish Audiobook Player built with?▴
Our heuristic places Big Finish Audiobook Player on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Big Finish Audiobook Player still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Big Finish Audiobook Player sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 21× 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 Big Finish Audiobook Player last updated?▴
Big Finish Audiobook Player last shipped a new version on 2026-08-25 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Big Finish Audiobook Player?▴
Big Finish Audiobook Player is published by Hughes Media 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 Big Finish Audiobook Player's BU Score?▴
Big Finish Audiobook Player has a BU Score of 70/100 (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.