44
Quality Score
Emerging
Light DJ Entertainment Effects
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Light DJ Entertainment Effects is an Android app from NRTHRNLIGHTS, LLC in the Lifestyle category, currently rated 3.1★ across 418 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 44: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Lifestyle 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
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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
📈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 |
| ⚙Lifestyle complexity ×1.05 | +$2K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$34K |
| ⚙9.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$58K |
Total estimate$155K
👥 Estimated audience size
32K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.2K
Daily active
440
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
| 📲Lifestyle engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 📅9.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Lifestyle D30 retention | 13% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% 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 | Lifestyle |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
25%
Last shipped 2026-04-04 · 51 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
| 📅51 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
| 👥Small user base (418 ratings) + 9.8y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictSlowing
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 46/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
4.3
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
8.4
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
4.5
Monetization Maturity
4.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.1★ across 418 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($3K/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 (3.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (418 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 →🔖 v5.2.2-demo🔄 updated 1mo ago📂 Lifestyle💰 Free💎 IAP $4.99 - $49.99 per item🚀 Launched 2016 (9y old)
📝 About this app
Connect to Philips Hue Entertainment, LIFX, and Nanoleaf Light Panels and take command of your music & entertainment lighting needs. Customize one of over 100+ professionally-designed lighting effects using the app's 3 unique lighting controllers. Light DJ has been used in lots of creative applications, including special effects for home DJs, house parties, stage & video productions, holiday decorations, mood lighting for bars & restaurants, haunted houses, or just to create the ultimate music listening experience in your living room.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — lightdjapp.com
- Tech stack
- 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
- Light DJ Entertainment Effects
- Developer
- NRTHRNLIGHTS, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.lightdjapp.lightdj.demo
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.lightdjapp.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
- $338/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $4.99 - $49.99 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 growth418 ratings+43% 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 Light DJ Entertainment Effects: 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: 418 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Light DJ Entertainment Effects make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Light DJ Entertainment Effects earns approximately $337/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 Light DJ Entertainment Effects profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $337, Light DJ Entertainment Effects 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 Light DJ Entertainment Effects have?▴
Estimated audience: ~32K lifetime downloads, ~2K monthly active users, and ~440 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 Light DJ Entertainment Effects?▴
Browse the full Lifestyle 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 Light DJ Entertainment Effects built with?▴
Our heuristic places Light DJ Entertainment Effects 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 Light DJ Entertainment Effects still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (25% 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.
When was Light DJ Entertainment Effects last updated?▴
Light DJ Entertainment Effects last shipped a new version on 2026-04-04 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Light DJ Entertainment Effects?▴
Light DJ Entertainment Effects is published by NRTHRNLIGHTS, LLC 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 Light DJ Entertainment Effects's BU Score?▴
Light DJ Entertainment Effects has a BU Score of 44/100 (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.