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Ann Arbor News

Ann Arbor News
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Quality Score
Emerging

Ann Arbor News

Low confidence
3.5 Google Play rating
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Ann Arbor News is an Android app from MLive.com, currently rated 3.5★ across 14 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 41: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For an app like this, that means early traction worth watching. 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 tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record
idle
0%
Rating
3.5
Reviews
14 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$500
Snapshots tracked
1
since Aug 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$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
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) +$27K
Total estimate $80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value
$5K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 13× 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 3.5-4.0 (mixed) -8%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) -8%
Final multiple 13× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
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
🏷 Category context category
📦 Compact Android bundle → Native Kotlin
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2025-12-23 · 279 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
📅 9 months since last update Concerning gap
Verdict At risk
🔬

How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE
Baseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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 · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signal
RevenueQualityMarketGrowthMoatSafetyFounderMonetiz.
Revenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
2.8
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.0
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 3.54★ across 14 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
  • 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
  • 📈 Growth: last update 279d ago — slow cadence.
  • ⚠️ 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($1K/mo combined) commands premium.
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

MODEL
Revenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE
Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE
Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name
Ann Arbor News
Developer
MLive.com
Bundle ID
com.advancelocal.annarbor
App Store URL
Not found
Category
Not found
Content rating
Not found
Languages
Not found

Company

Website
Not found
Tagline
Not found
Description
Not found
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
$500/mo
Top-grossing rank
Not found
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.
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

Welcome to the Ann Arbor News new Online Newspaper app! Dive into the newspaper anytime, anywhere. Keep up with award-winning local news, daily features, sports updates, entertainment highlights, special sections, and more—all at your fingertips!

Enjoy online-only perks with an enhanced reading experience, including bonus magazines, supplements, interactive puzzles and games, and easy article sharing with friends and family.

Ann Arbor News subscribers receive full access to each edition without any extra cost.… View full description on the official store →
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📝 Description

95
BU Score · Transcendent

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About this analysis
ZCAnalyzed by Zakhar Chumak · founder, Bumetric·Full methodology·Low confidence

Why low confidence: only 14 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.

📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above

Ann Arbor News is a early-stage Android app with weak public traction — only 14 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.

Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

6 answers · auto-generated from this app's public data
How much does Ann Arbor News make per month?▴
Our model estimates Ann Arbor News earns roughly $500/mo, but with only 14 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What is Ann Arbor News built with?▴
Our heuristic places Ann Arbor News on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Ann Arbor News still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Ann Arbor News last updated?▴
Ann Arbor News last shipped a new version on 2025-12-23 — 9 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Ann Arbor News?▴
Ann Arbor News is published by MLive.com on the Google Play 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 Ann Arbor News's BU Score?▴
Ann Arbor News has a BU Score of 41/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.