Web Video Cast | Browser to TV
83
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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This app carves out a specific niche within video casting, focusing on browser-to-TV streaming from diverse web sources, including live content, and local media. Its direct competitors are other universal casting apps and the native casting features within individual streaming services. The substantial number of ratings, combined with a strong average, indicates significant user traction and a mature product. This isn't an early-stage app; it’s a well-established player with a large, active user base, suggesting it’s in a sustained growth or maintenance phase. For apps in the video player and editor category, a common monetization strategy, especially for free offerings, is a premium subscription model for advanced features like ad removal, higher resolution casting, or expanded subtitle options, rather than relying solely on display ads.
BU Score 83 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG 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
5 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
2,397,525 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
5
since May 2026
🍎Also on iOS
$19.7K/mo · 69K ratings · 4.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$170K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $230K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$32K |
| ⚙ 12.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$75K |
Total estimate
$170K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$27.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $20.5M – $35.5M · 39× MRR multiple
💸
~162× return on build cost
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 |
| 📅 12.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
39× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
251.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
13.5M
Daily active
2.7M
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 |
| 📅 12.6y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Video Players & Editors D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% 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 | Video Players & Editors |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-27 · 38 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
| 📅 38 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 62/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
9.2
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
8.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.62★ across 2,397,525 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (2,397,525 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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
- Web Video Cast | Browser to TV
- Developer
- InstantBits Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.instantbits.cast.webvideo
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Video Players & Editors
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.webvideocaster.app
- 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
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $1.49 - $6.99 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 releases tracked
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
Web Video Caster® allows you to watch on your TV videos from your favorite websites including movies, TV shows, live streams of news, sports. It also lets you cast local videos stored on your phone. Photos and audio files are also supported. Subtitles are detected on the web page, you can also use your own subtitles, or you can use the integrated search of OpenSubtitles.org.
<h3><b>SUPPORTED STREAMING DEVICES</b></h3>
Web Video Caster® supports the most popular streaming devices, allowing your TV to stream videos directly from the web.
• Chromecast.
• Roku.
• DLNA receivers.… View full description on the official store →
<h3><b>SUPPORTED STREAMING DEVICES</b></h3>
Web Video Caster® supports the most popular streaming devices, allowing your TV to stream videos directly from the web.
• Chromecast.
• Roku.
• DLNA receivers.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v6.0.1🔄 updated 1mo ago📂 Video Players & Editors💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.49 - $6.99 per item🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v6.0.1 → v6.0.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +7,096 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.12.13 → v6.0.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +9,878 high confidence
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 7 of 7 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +9,878 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.12.12 → v5.12.13
→ 30 days after: reviews +20,613 low · multiple changes
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +10,735 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
7 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
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Slot 7
2 ver.
2 ver.
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Web Video Cast | Browser to TV: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 2,397,525 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Web Video Cast | Browser to TV make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Web Video Cast | Browser to TV earns approximately $700K/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 Web Video Cast | Browser to TV profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $700K, Web Video Cast | Browser to TV looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Web Video Cast | Browser to TV have?▴
Estimated audience: ~251.5M lifetime downloads, ~13.5M monthly active users, and ~2.7M 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 Web Video Cast | Browser to TV?▴
Browse the full Video Players & Editors category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Web Video Cast | Browser to TV built with?▴
Our heuristic places Web Video Cast | Browser to TV 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 Web Video Cast | Browser to TV still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Web Video Cast | Browser to TV sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $27.5M (marketplace range $20.5M – $35.5M). Calculated as 39× 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 Web Video Cast | Browser to TV last updated?▴
Web Video Cast | Browser to TV last shipped a new version on 2026-08-27 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Web Video Cast | Browser to TV?▴
Web Video Cast | Browser to TV is published by InstantBits 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 Web Video Cast | Browser to TV's BU Score?▴
Web Video Cast | Browser to TV has a BU Score of 83/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.