43
Quality Score
Emerging
Calgary Herald
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Calgary Herald is an Android app from Postmedia Network INC. in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 3.0★ across 359 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 43: 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
$200K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $150K – $270K
$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 |
| ⚙14.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$88K |
Total estimate$200K
👥 Estimated audience size
30K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.0K
Daily active
450
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 |
| 📅14.7y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁News & Magazines D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU45% sticky
🛠 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 | News & Magazines |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-05-08 · 17 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
| 📅17 days since last update | Active development |
| 👥Small user base (359 ratings) + 14.7y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictActive
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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)
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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.4
Product Quality
4.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.0★ across 359 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 ($7K/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 (3.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (359 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v7.9.1🔄 updated 2w ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $10.99 per item🚀 Launched 2011 (14y old)
📝 About this app
The Calgary Herald app connects you to the news you need to know. Create your custom feed so you don't miss the latest from your favourite writers.
Features include:
· Stay connected to news from your community and beyond.
· Enjoy the wide variety of comprehensive explainers on issues shaping your community and compelling longreads from our top journalists — plus extensive video coverage.
· Navigate directly to individual publications from across the Postmedia network.… View full description on the official store →
Features include:
· Stay connected to news from your community and beyond.
· Enjoy the wide variety of comprehensive explainers on issues shaping your community and compelling longreads from our top journalists — plus extensive video coverage.
· Navigate directly to individual publications from across the Postmedia network.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — calgaryherald.com
- Tech stack
- Meta (Facebook) Ads · Microsoft 365 · 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
- Calgary Herald
- Developer
- Postmedia Network INC.
- Bundle ID
- com.indusblue.calgaryherald
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- calgaryherald.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
- $308/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $10.99 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 growth359 ratings+27% 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.
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Calgary Herald: 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: 359 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Calgary Herald make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Calgary Herald earns approximately $308/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 Calgary Herald profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $200K and monthly revenue $308, Calgary Herald 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 Calgary Herald have?▴
Estimated audience: ~30K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~450 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 Calgary Herald?▴
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What is Calgary Herald built with?▴
Our heuristic places Calgary Herald 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 Calgary Herald still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 17 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Calgary Herald last updated?▴
Calgary Herald last shipped a new version on 2026-05-08 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Calgary Herald?▴
Calgary Herald is published by Postmedia Network INC. 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 Calgary Herald's BU Score?▴
Calgary Herald has a BU Score of 43/100 (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.