How much does VLC Streamer Lite make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, VLC Streamer Lite earns approximately $707/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 VLC Streamer Lite profitable?

With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $707, VLC Streamer Lite 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.

How many users does VLC Streamer Lite have?

Estimated audience: ~320K lifetime downloads, ~15K monthly active users, and ~3K 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 VLC Streamer Lite?

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What is VLC Streamer Lite built with?

Our heuristic places VLC Streamer Lite 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 VLC Streamer Lite still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 10 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would VLC Streamer Lite sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $10K – $15K). Calculated as 17× 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 VLC Streamer Lite last updated?

VLC Streamer Lite last shipped a new version on 2025-07-05 — 10 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes VLC Streamer Lite?

VLC Streamer Lite is published by Hobbyist Software Ltd 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 VLC Streamer Lite's BU Score?

VLC Streamer Lite has a BU Score of 57/100 (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.

Quality Score

Solid

VLC Streamer Lite

Name: VLC Streamer Lite — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Medium confidence

4.0 ✍️ Editor

Video Players & Editors

✍️ bumetric analysis

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VLC Streamer Lite is an Android app from Hobbyist Software Ltd in the Video Players & Editors category, currently rated 4.0★ across 3,083 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For a Video Players & Editors 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

$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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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
🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$27K
⚙13.4y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$80K

Total estimate$160K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value

$10K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 17× 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
📅13.4y proven track record	+20%
⭐★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed)	-8%

Final multiple17× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

320K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

15K

Daily active

3.0K

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

📲Video Players & Editors engagement	~150 installs / rating
📅13.4y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁Video Players & Editors D30 retention	15%
📍DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU20% sticky

🛠 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	Video Players & Editors
📦Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

50%

Last shipped 2025-07-05 · 323 days ago

0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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

📅10 months since last update

Concerning gap

VerdictAt risk

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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)

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 · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.8

Product Quality

7.1

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

6.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

9.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.97★ across 3,083 reviews — solid.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 319d ago — slow cadence.
⚠️ 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 = $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

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 3 of 3 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Low install base (3,083 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Mature app (13y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

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.

App Specs

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🔖 v2.56 (3790)🔄 updated 10mo ago📂 Video Players & Editors💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)

📝 About this app

VLC Streamer lets you sit anywhere in your house and watch movies or TV shows on your Android.

VLC Streamer streams movies from your computer (Mac or PC) over your wifi to your Android.

You can watch anything from your movie collection.

No need for complex conversion processes.

No need to manually transfer movies to your device.

The free version is ad-supported - we hope you'll like it enough to get the full one.

Features include

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* Free helper app gets you streaming quickly and allows you to browse local drives, and Windows network shares… View full description on the official store →

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Tech & Domain Intel — hobbyistsoftware.com

Mail provider: Google Workspace
Tech stack: Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Google Workspace

Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).

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Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: VLC Streamer Lite
Developer: Hobbyist Software Ltd
Bundle ID: com.hobbyistsoftware.android.vlcrstreamer_free
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Video Players & Editors
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.HobbyistSoftware.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: $708/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: Not found

Founder

Founder data not yet collected for this app.

Funding

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Press & Links

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Contacts & Socials

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📈Ratings growth3,083 ratings+23% 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.