CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News
35
Quality Score
Emerging
CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News is an Android app from City Beetles in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 2.9★ across 19 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 35: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News & Magazines app, 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ News & Magazines complexity ×1.20 | +$11K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$39K |
Total estimate
$110K
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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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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 · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.6
Product Quality
2.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.86★ across 19 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 799d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (799d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($13K/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
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Below-average rating (2.9★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (19 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
- CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News
- Developer
- City Beetles
- Bundle ID
- com.citybeetles.newscleveland
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- citybeetles.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $128/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 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.
📈Ratings growth19 ratings+36% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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
Stay up to date with the latest news from Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Read your local news or even blogs in a personalized Cleveland app. CLE 24 will always give you the best recommendations for news sources. It is up to you what you add and choose to read. CLE 24 is not a news station, it does not produce news, but it is a reading tool. Our app is a news feed reader directed at Cleveland area, configured to search the web for reliable local RSS feeds that you may choose to add and read.… View full description on the official store →
Read your local news or even blogs in a personalized Cleveland app. CLE 24 will always give you the best recommendations for news sources. It is up to you what you add and choose to read. CLE 24 is not a news station, it does not produce news, but it is a reading tool. Our app is a news feed reader directed at Cleveland area, configured to search the web for reliable local RSS feeds that you may choose to add and read.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v23.7🔄 updated 0d ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 per item
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 19 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News is a small / niche Android app in the news & magazines space with weak public traction — only 19 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
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News make per month?▴
Our model estimates CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News earns roughly $127/mo, but with only 19 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 apps are like CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News?▴
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Who makes CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News?▴
CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News is published by City Beetles 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 CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News's BU Score?▴
CLE 24 - Cleveland Local News has a BU Score of 35/100 (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.