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WRAL News App

4.5 ✍️ Editor
✍️ bumetric analysis

WRAL News App is an Android app from Capitol Broadcasting Company in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 4.5★ across 15,195 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 News & Magazines 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.

💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$5.0K/mo
In 12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
In 24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
MID tier
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Rating
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Forecast Revenue / mo
Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
💰 Estimated build cost
$190K
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
News & Magazines complexity ×1.20+$10K
🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)+$33K
16.0y maintenance × ~1-person team+$95K
Total estimate$190K
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
Marketplace range $15K – $30K · 18× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + 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
📺Ad-supported base15× MRR
📅16.0y proven track record+20%
★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)+8%
🏷News & Magazines category multiple-5%
Final multiple18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
37K
Daily active
16K

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
📲News & Magazines engagement~120 installs / rating
📅16.0y of rating accumulation-30%
🔁News & Magazines D30 retention15%
📍DAU / MAU stickiness0.45
DAU / MAU44% 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 contextNews & Magazines
📦Compact Android bundle→ Native Kotlin
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2025-09-04 · 261 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
📅8 months since last updateConcerning gap
VerdictAt risk
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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE
Baseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peers
GrowthFounderQualityRevenueMonetiz.MoatMarketSafety
Growth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
9.0
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
9.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 4.51★ across 15,195 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
  • 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
  • 📈 Growth: last update 260d ago — slow cadence.
  • ⚠️ Risk: Low — 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 = $90K-$160K.
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

MODEL
Revenue 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:
Mid install base (15,195 ratings)METRIC
+$5,500
Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC
+$2,200
Mature app (15y old)METRIC
+$1,500
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC
+$600
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE
Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE
Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
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🔖 v8.531🔄 updated 8mo ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)

📝 About this app

The new WRAL News App delivers coverage you can count on in Raleigh, Durham and Fayetteville, NC. Follow breaking news from North Carolina's largest news team and most experienced severe weather team.

Stay connected with our app:
• Watch WRAL News+ live 24/7 and continue to watch as you multitask while using other apps on your device.
• Tap the weather icon and temperature on the top right to access current conditions, the 7-day forecast, interactive radar and more.
• Enable notifications to follow breaking news.
• Customize your home screen to show the news you care about the most.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — wral.com

Tech stack
Microsoft 365 · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · AWS SES
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
WRAL News App
Developer
Capitol Broadcasting Company
Bundle ID
com.mylocaltv.wral
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
News & Magazines
Content rating
Not found
Languages
Not found

Company

Website
www.wral.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
$1.2K/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.
📈Ratings growth15,195 ratings+32% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾Jun 2023Dec 2024May 2026
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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