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Vancouver Sun
Vancouver Sun is an Android app from Postmedia Network INC. in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 3.6★ across 366 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 49: 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.
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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.
| 🧱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 |
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.
| 📲News & Magazines engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅14.7y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁News & Magazines D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
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.
| 🏷Category context | News & Magazines |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
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.
| 📅14 days since last update | Active development |
| 👥Small user base (366 ratings) + 14.7y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBU Investment Matrix
Building · 56/100MID TIERcompetitive build-out- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.63★ across 366 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODEL| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (366 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVE⭐ Rating Trend
LIVE📝 About this app
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 →
Tech & Domain Intel — vancouversun.com
- Tech stack
- AWS SES · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · Microsoft 365
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FREEProfile & Insights
Identification
- App name
- Vancouver Sun
- Developer
- Postmedia Network INC.
- Bundle ID
- com.indusblue.vancouversun
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- vancouversun.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
- $306/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $10.99 per item
