Life 90.5
55
Quality Score
Solid
Life 90.5
by Carolina Christian Radio
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Life 90.5 is an Android app from Carolina Christian Radio in the Music & Audio category, currently rated 4.6★ across 45 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Music & Audio 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
$154
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$77 – $718
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$77 – $2151
per month
MICRO 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
1 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
45 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$154
Snapshots tracked
1
since Jun 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$190K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $255K
$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 |
| ⚙ Music & Audio complexity ×1.45 | +$22K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$40K |
| ⚙ 12.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$76K |
Total estimate
$190K
🛠 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 | Music & Audio |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
87%
Last shipped 2025-09-22 · 370 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
| 📅 1y 0mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| 👥 Small user base (45 ratings) + 12.7y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 13y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$154/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$98 – $391
12 months
$77 – $718
24 months
$77 – $2.2K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 33/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreRevenue Strength
2.2
Product Quality
3.7
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.63★ across 45 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 370d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (370d since update).
🎯 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 = $2K-$4K.
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:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (45 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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
- Life 90.5
- Developer
- Carolina Christian Radio
- Bundle ID
- com.invubu.ccradio
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Music & Audio
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.invubu.com
- 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
- $154/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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The Android app "Life 90.5" is a free application developed by Carolina Christian Radio, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The app serves as a streaming platform for contemporary Christian music and podcasts and does not appear to have any direct monetization features such as in-app purchases, subscriptions, or advertising. Therefore, the app itself is not a direct revenue-generating product. Carolina Christian Radio, the parent organization, reported total revenues of $1,492,543 in 2025, primarily from grants and listener contributions, but this figure represents the entire organization's funding, not revenue generated directly by the app.
Sources mentioned: Cause IQ, ProPublica, Carolina Christian Radio website, App Store, AppBrain, Google Play
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
Life 90.5 - Wilmington's Home for Contemporary Christian Music and Podcasts
Life 90.5 is your premier source for uplifting and upcouraging contemporary Christian music, and inspiring podcasts, broadcasting straight from the heart of Wilmington, NC. Our app brings you a seamless listening experience, featuring a curated selection of the latest and greatest in Christian music to brighten your day and nourish your spirit. Plus, you'll find live, fun and local hosts that'll feel like your new best friends.
Whether you're at home, at work, or on the go, Life 90.… View full description on the official store →
Life 90.5 is your premier source for uplifting and upcouraging contemporary Christian music, and inspiring podcasts, broadcasting straight from the heart of Wilmington, NC. Our app brings you a seamless listening experience, featuring a curated selection of the latest and greatest in Christian music to brighten your day and nourish your spirit. Plus, you'll find live, fun and local hosts that'll feel like your new best friends.
Whether you're at home, at work, or on the go, Life 90.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v7.0.2🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Music & Audio💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — invubu.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 45 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Life 90.5 make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Life 90.5 earns approximately $154/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 Life 90.5 profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $190K and monthly revenue $154, Life 90.5 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.
What apps are like Life 90.5?▴
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What is Life 90.5 built with?▴
Our heuristic places Life 90.5 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 Life 90.5 still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (87% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Life 90.5 last updated?▴
Life 90.5 last shipped a new version on 2025-09-22 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Life 90.5?▴
Life 90.5 is published by Carolina Christian Radio 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 Life 90.5's BU Score?▴
Life 90.5 has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.