SoundHound - Music Discovery
71
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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SoundHound - Music Discovery is an Android app from SoundHound Inc. in the Music & Audio category, currently rated 3.6★ across 915,361 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Music & Audio 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
$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
3.6
Reviews
915,361 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
5
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$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 |
| ⚙ Music & Audio complexity ×1.45 | +$26K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$47K |
Total estimate
$135K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$19.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $14.0M – $24.5M · 27× MRR multiple
💸
~141× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
27× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
118.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
23.5M
Daily active
11.5M
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
| 📲 Music & Audio engagement | ~130 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Music & Audio D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.50 |
DAU / MAU
49% sticky
🔬
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 · 58/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.7
Product Quality
7.2
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: 3.59★ across 915,361 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (915,361 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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
- SoundHound - Music Discovery
- Developer
- SoundHound Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.melodis.midomiMusicIdentifier.freemium
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Music & Audio
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.soundhound.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
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $5.99 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 Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
HEY, WHAT SONG IS THAT?
SoundHound makes it simple to discover music playing around you. It doesn’t matter if you’re at home, in your car, or anywhere else. Just open the app, hit the big orange button, and we’ll tell you exactly what song is playing!
SAVE YOUR MUSIC JOURNEY
All the songs and lyrics you discover will be kept in your own personal history, and you’ll have a Music Map to look up exactly where you heard that song you loved so much. You can also connect your Spotify account to build playlists, explore music across genres, and find new favorites—all with real-time lyrics.… View full description on the official store →
SoundHound makes it simple to discover music playing around you. It doesn’t matter if you’re at home, in your car, or anywhere else. Just open the app, hit the big orange button, and we’ll tell you exactly what song is playing!
SAVE YOUR MUSIC JOURNEY
All the songs and lyrics you discover will be kept in your own personal history, and you’ll have a Music Map to look up exactly where you heard that song you loved so much. You can also connect your Spotify account to build playlists, explore music across genres, and find new favorites—all with real-time lyrics.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v10.5.8🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Music & Audio💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $5.99 per item
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v10.5.6 → v10.5.8
→ 30 days after: reviews −1,121 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
📸
Updated 2 store screenshots
→ 30 days after: reviews −1,121 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v10.5.6 → v10.5.6
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews −946 high confidence
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews −946 high confidence
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Store Page History
2 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
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-06
2026-07-12
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-06
2026-07-12
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for SoundHound - Music Discovery: 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: 915,361 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does SoundHound - Music Discovery make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, SoundHound - Music Discovery 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 SoundHound - Music Discovery profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $700K, SoundHound - Music Discovery 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 SoundHound - Music Discovery have?▴
Estimated audience: ~118.5M lifetime downloads, ~23.5M monthly active users, and ~11.5M 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 SoundHound - Music Discovery?▴
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How much would SoundHound - Music Discovery sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $19.0M (marketplace range $14.0M – $24.5M). Calculated as 27× 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.
Who makes SoundHound - Music Discovery?▴
SoundHound - Music Discovery is published by SoundHound 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 SoundHound - Music Discovery's BU Score?▴
SoundHound - Music Discovery 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.