71
Quality Score
Strong
My Aurora Forecast Pro
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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My Aurora Forecast Pro is an Android app from JRustonApps B.V. in the Weather category, currently rated 4.8★ across 3,987 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Weather app, that means healthy traction. 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
$7.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$7.6K – $15.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$9.4K – $28.1K
per month
MID tier
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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
🍎Also on iOS
$20.5K/mo · 965 ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~1.8y 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 |
| ⚙10.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$61K |
Total estimate$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $350K · 37× MRR multiple
💸~1.8× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅10.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷Weather category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple37× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
555K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
97K
Daily active
48K
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
| 📲Weather engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅10.3y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Weather D30 retention | 35% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.50 |
DAU / MAU50% 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 | Weather |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-13 · 12 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
| 📅12 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$7.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$6.9K – $11.6K
12 months
$7.6K – $15.9K
24 months
$9.4K – $28.1K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Building · 61/100MID TIERcompetitive build-outGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.7
Product Quality
8.6
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
4.0
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $5K - $10K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 3,987 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $131K-$234K. Portfolio play ($142K/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:
| Paid app ($3.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (3,987 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 |
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 →🔖 v26.6.0🔄 updated 1w ago📂 Weather💰 Free💎 IAP $0.99 per item🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
📝 About this app
My Aurora Forecast Pro is the best app for seeing the Northern Lights. Built with a sleek dark design, it appeals to both tourists and serious aurora watchers by telling you what you want to know - whether that is exactly how likely you are to see the aurora borealis or details about the solar winds and high-resolution sun imagery. With this app, you'll be seeing the Northern Lights in no time.
- Find the current KP index and how likely you are to see the Northern Lights.
- View a list of the best locations to view from right now.… View full description on the official store →
- Find the current KP index and how likely you are to see the Northern Lights.
- View a list of the best locations to view from right now.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — jrustonapps.com
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- My Aurora Forecast Pro
- Developer
- JRustonApps B.V.
- Bundle ID
- com.jrustonapps.myauroraforecastpro
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Weather
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.jrustonapps.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
- $7.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 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 growth3,987 ratings+31% 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 My Aurora Forecast Pro: 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: 3,987 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does My Aurora Forecast Pro make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, My Aurora Forecast Pro earns approximately $7.3K/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 My Aurora Forecast Pro profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $7.3K, My Aurora Forecast Pro looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does My Aurora Forecast Pro have?▴
Estimated audience: ~555K lifetime downloads, ~97K monthly active users, and ~48K 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 My Aurora Forecast Pro?▴
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What is My Aurora Forecast Pro built with?▴
Our heuristic places My Aurora Forecast Pro 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 My Aurora Forecast Pro still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 12 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would My Aurora Forecast Pro sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $275K (marketplace range $200K – $350K). Calculated as 37× 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 My Aurora Forecast Pro last updated?▴
My Aurora Forecast Pro last shipped a new version on 2026-05-13 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes My Aurora Forecast Pro?▴
My Aurora Forecast Pro is published by JRustonApps B.V. 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 My Aurora Forecast Pro's BU Score?▴
My Aurora Forecast Pro has a BU Score of 71/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.