M4A Audio Compressor
54
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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M4A Audio Compressor is an Android app from btxdev in the Music & Audio category, currently rated 3.9★ across 92 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Music & Audio app, that means established niche player. 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
$2.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.1K – $7.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.9K – $17.4K
per month
INDIE tier
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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
1 snapshots on record
Rating
3.9
Reviews
92 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$2.4K
Snapshots tracked
1
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$160K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $120K – $215K
$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 |
| ⚙ Music & Audio complexity ×1.45 | +$22K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$40K |
| ⚙ 7.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$45K |
Total estimate
$160K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 |
| 📅 7.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× 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 | Music & Audio |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
82%
Last shipped 2025-09-04 · 394 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
| 📅 1y 0mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| 👥 Small user base (92 ratings) + 7.6y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.4K/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
$2.0K – $4.8K
12 months
$2.1K – $7.5K
24 months
$1.9K – $17.4K
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 · 37/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.5
Product Quality
3.1
Revenue Strength
3.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.4
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $957 - $5981/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.93★ across 92 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 391d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (391d since update).
🎯 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 = $43K-$76K.
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:
| Paid app ($2.49)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (92 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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
- M4A Audio Compressor
- Developer
- btxdev
- Bundle ID
- com.btxdev.audiocompressor_paid
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Music & Audio
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- btxdevs.github.io
- 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
- $2.4K/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
With this application you will be able to reduce the size of your sound files UP TO 90% OF YOUR ORIGINAL SIZE.
M4A Audio Compressor will allow you to compress your favorite audio and music files. Freeing space on your device. Or to make it easier to send by mail and social networks.
Sometimes it is not possible to share sound files due to the large file size. Thanks to this application you can share these files much faster by reducing their size up to 90% without compromising the sound quality.
You can compress multiple files at once.… View full description on the official store →
M4A Audio Compressor will allow you to compress your favorite audio and music files. Freeing space on your device. Or to make it easier to send by mail and social networks.
Sometimes it is not possible to share sound files due to the large file size. Thanks to this application you can share these files much faster by reducing their size up to 90% without compromising the sound quality.
You can compress multiple files at once.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.3.0.3🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Music & Audio💰 Free🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 92 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does M4A Audio Compressor make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, M4A Audio Compressor earns approximately $2.4K/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 M4A Audio Compressor profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $2.4K, M4A Audio Compressor 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.
What apps are like M4A Audio Compressor?▴
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What is M4A Audio Compressor built with?▴
Our heuristic places M4A Audio Compressor 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 M4A Audio Compressor still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (82% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would M4A Audio Compressor sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $35K (marketplace range $25K – $45K). Calculated as 15× 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 M4A Audio Compressor last updated?▴
M4A Audio Compressor last shipped a new version on 2025-09-04 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes M4A Audio Compressor?▴
M4A Audio Compressor is published by btxdev 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 M4A Audio Compressor's BU Score?▴
M4A Audio Compressor has a BU Score of 54/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.