How much does Jax is here - Jacksonville now make per month?

Our model estimates Jax is here - Jacksonville now earns roughly $5.0K/mo, but with only 20 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 Jax is here - Jacksonville now?

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What is Jax is here - Jacksonville now built with?

Our heuristic places Jax is here - Jacksonville now 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 Jax is here - Jacksonville now still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Jax is here - Jacksonville now last updated?

Jax is here - Jacksonville now last shipped a new version on 2024-06-26 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Jax is here - Jacksonville now?

Jax is here - Jacksonville now 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 Jax is here - Jacksonville now's BU Score?

Jax is here - Jacksonville now has a BU Score of 48/100 (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.

Jax is here - Jacksonville now

Quality Score

Emerging

Jax is here - Jacksonville now

Name: Jax is here - Jacksonville now — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Jax is here - Jacksonville now revenue, Jax is here - Jacksonville now app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, News & Magazines revenue, Android app revenue

by City Beetles

Low confidence

4.1 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Jax is here - Jacksonville now is an Android app from City Beetles in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 4.1★ across 20 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 48: 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

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.1

Reviews

20 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since Jun 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$180K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $135K – $245K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~3.0y 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
⚙ News & Magazines complexity ×1.20	+$11K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$39K
⚙ 11.7y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$70K

Total estimate $180K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$150K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $100K – $200K · 29× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.8× build cost (under-water)

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
📅 11.7y proven track record	+20%
🏷 News & Magazines category multiple	-5%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 29× MRR

🛠 Estimated tech stack

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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	News & Magazines
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

95%

Last shipped 2024-06-26 · 845 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

📅 2y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
👥 Small user base (20 ratings) + 11.7y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)
• 12y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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.

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BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.6

Product Quality

3.3

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

5.0

Defensibility

10.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

7.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.13★ across 20 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 839d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (839d 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 = $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

MODEL

Revenue 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:

Mature app (11y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.1★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Pre-traction phase (20 ratings)METRIC		−$300

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 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.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: Jax is here - Jacksonville now
Developer: City Beetles
Bundle ID: com.citybeetles.newsjacksonville
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

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: 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.

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

Find local news sources and read your local news from Jacksonville, Florida. 

Read your Jax news in a personalized Jacksonville app and be up to date non stop. Jax is Here is a news feed reader directed at Jacksonville area, configured to search the web for reliable local RSS feeds that you may choose to add and read. Our app will always give you the best recommendations for news sources. It is up to you what you add and choose to read. Jax is Here is not a news station, it does not produce news, but it is a reading tool. 

We offer two reading modes, List mode and Live mode.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v25.1🔄 updated 2y ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 per item🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)

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