Weather Forecast by WeatherBug
82
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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WeatherBug targets users needing granular, real-time weather data, directly competing with hyper-local forecast apps like AccuWeather and The Weather Channel. Its strong user rating and substantial review count, approaching two million, indicate significant, sustained traction and a mature product with a large, engaged user base. This isn't an early-stage app; it’s a well-established player. As a free app, its revenue model likely relies heavily on in-app advertising, potentially including premium ad-free subscriptions or advanced map layer unlocks as common upgrade paths in the weather category. The category often sees a strong ad-versus-IAP split favoring ads for broad reach, with IAPs for power users.
BU Score 82 · 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
$300K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$317K – $489K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$379K – $705K
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
6 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
1,927,938 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$300K
Snapshots tracked
6
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$90K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $120K
$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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$32K |
Total estimate
$90K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$9.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $7.0M – $12.0M · 31× MRR multiple
💸
~106× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Weather category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
31× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
385.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
134.5M
Daily active
67.0M
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
| 📲 Weather engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Weather D30 retention | 35% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.50 |
DAU / MAU
50% sticky
🛠 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 | Weather |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-10-08 · 33 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
| 📅 33 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$300K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$295K – $400K
12 months
$317K – $489K
24 months
$379K – $705K
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
Mixed signals · 56/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.4
Product Quality
9.2
Revenue Strength
5.5
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $120K - $660K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.6★ across 1,927,938 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 = $5.4M-$9.6M.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,927,938 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Weather Forecast by WeatherBug
- Developer
- WeatherBug
- Bundle ID
- com.aws.android
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Weather
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.weatherbug.com
- 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
- $300K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $1.99 - $399.99 per item
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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter6 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline6 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
A brand-new WeatherBug is here!
Meet our new design, improved experience, and more ways to stay ahead of the weather.
Whether you’re planning your day, tracking a storm, checking UV exposure, or wondering when the rain will start, WeatherBug gives you the local forecast you need.
Explore new and improved features, including UV, Spark Lightning, Tropical Center for hurricane tracking, Precipitation Outlook and more.
Plan ahead with 10-Day and over 140 hours of Hourly Forecasts, track storms with interactive radar maps, and get timely weather alerts as conditions change.… View full description on the official store →
Meet our new design, improved experience, and more ways to stay ahead of the weather.
Whether you’re planning your day, tracking a storm, checking UV exposure, or wondering when the rain will start, WeatherBug gives you the local forecast you need.
Explore new and improved features, including UV, Spark Lightning, Tropical Center for hurricane tracking, Precipitation Outlook and more.
Plan ahead with 10-Day and over 140 hours of Hourly Forecasts, track storms with interactive radar maps, and get timely weather alerts as conditions change.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v6.9.2-6🔄 updated 1mo ago📂 Weather💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.99 - $399.99 per item
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
🔧
Shipped update — v6.7.0-2 → v6.8.1-2
→ 30 days after: reviews +878 high confidence
2026-09
📸
Replaced 1 store screenshot
→ 30 days after: reviews +878 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v6.5.1-3 → v6.7.0-2
→ 30 days after: reviews +901 high confidence
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +901 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v6.3.1-1 → v6.5.1-3
→ 30 days after: reviews +5,146 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v6.2.0-97 → v6.3.1-1
→ 30 days after: reviews +4,178 high confidence
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews −67 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.122.1-20 → v6.2.0-97
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,215 low · multiple changes
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,282 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
17 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
4 ver.
4 ver.
2026-05-06
2026-06-11
2026-08-11
2026-09-10
Slot 2
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-06
2026-06-11
2026-08-11
Slot 3
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-06
2026-06-11
2026-08-11
Slot 4
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-06
2026-06-11
2026-08-11
Slot 5
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-06
2026-06-11
2026-08-11
Slot 6
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-06
2026-06-11
2026-08-11
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Weather Forecast by WeatherBug: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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3apps·$336K/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 89% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 1,927,938 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Weather Forecast by WeatherBug make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Weather Forecast by WeatherBug earns approximately $300K/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 Weather Forecast by WeatherBug profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $90K and monthly revenue $300K, Weather Forecast by WeatherBug 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 Weather Forecast by WeatherBug have?▴
Estimated audience: ~385.5M lifetime downloads, ~134.5M monthly active users, and ~67.0M 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 Weather Forecast by WeatherBug?▴
Browse the full Weather 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 Weather Forecast by WeatherBug built with?▴
Our heuristic places Weather Forecast by WeatherBug 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 Weather Forecast by WeatherBug 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 Weather Forecast by WeatherBug sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $9.5M (marketplace range $7.0M – $12.0M). Calculated as 31× 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 Weather Forecast by WeatherBug last updated?▴
Weather Forecast by WeatherBug last shipped a new version on 2026-10-08 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Weather Forecast by WeatherBug?▴
Weather Forecast by WeatherBug is published by WeatherBug 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 Weather Forecast by WeatherBug's BU Score?▴
Weather Forecast by WeatherBug has a BU Score of 82/100 (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.