NewsBytes-Short News, News App
50
Quality Score
Solid
NewsBytes-Short News, News App
by NewsBytes
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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NewsBytes-Short News, News App is an Android app from NewsBytes in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 3.2★ across 3,800 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a News & Magazines 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
$792
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$693 – $2498
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$642 – $5779
per month
INDIE 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
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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
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$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 |
| ⚙ News & Magazines complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$33K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 12× 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 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 News & Magazines category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
455K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
68K
Daily active
30K
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
| 📲 News & Magazines engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News & Magazines D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$792/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$675 – $1.6K
12 months
$693 – $2.5K
24 months
$642 – $5.8K
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 · 34/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.7
Product Quality
5.8
Revenue Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $317 - $1982/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.2★ across 3,800 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1064d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (1064d 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 = $14K-$25K.
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:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (3,800 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| 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
- NewsBytes-Short News, News App
- Developer
- NewsBytes
- Bundle ID
- com.elysiumlabs.newsbytes
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.newsbytesapp.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
- $46/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.
📈Ratings growth3,800 ratings+20% 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
Are you struggling to keep up with the latest news due to a shortage of time or difficulty in accessing newspapers? Fear not, because the NewsBytes app is here to change that!
<b>From Business to Tech: Get All Your News in One Place</b>
Business News:
Finance desk covers stories about the world of money, stocks, investments, and economic trends.
It also reports on issues related to national and global financial systems, policies, and regulations.
Sports News:
Sports desk highlights events and records in running, jumping, throwing, and other track and field events.… View full description on the official store →
<b>From Business to Tech: Get All Your News in One Place</b>
Business News:
Finance desk covers stories about the world of money, stocks, investments, and economic trends.
It also reports on issues related to national and global financial systems, policies, and regulations.
Sports News:
Sports desk highlights events and records in running, jumping, throwing, and other track and field events.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v4.4.1🔄 updated 0d ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — newsbytesapp.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · AWS SES
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for NewsBytes-Short News, News App: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 3,800 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does NewsBytes-Short News, News App make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, NewsBytes-Short News, News App earns approximately $792/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.
What apps are like NewsBytes-Short News, News App?▴
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Who makes NewsBytes-Short News, News App?▴
NewsBytes-Short News, News App is published by NewsBytes 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 NewsBytes-Short News, News App's BU Score?▴
NewsBytes-Short News, News App has a BU Score of 50/100 (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.