网易新闻
54
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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网易新闻 is an Android app from 网易(www.163.com) in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 2.9★ across 12,878 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a News & Magazines 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID 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
2.9
Reviews
12,878 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
5
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$185K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $250K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.1y 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 |
| ⚙ News & Magazines complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$33K |
| ⚙ 15.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$93K |
Total estimate
$185K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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 base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 15.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 News & Magazines category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.1M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
31K
Daily active
14K
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 |
| 📅 15.6y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 News & Magazines D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% 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 | News & Magazines |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
77%
Last shipped 2024-09-29 · 729 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 12mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| • 16y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 38/100MID TIERno growth momentumRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
5.7
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.87★ across 12,878 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 729d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (729d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 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
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (12,878 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.9★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| 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
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
- 网易新闻
- Developer
- 网易(www.163.com)
- Bundle ID
- com.netease.newsreader.activity
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- m.163.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
- $5.0K/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.
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
Netease news, their own attitudes.
No goods can be profound, sharp commentary to keep abreast wonderful;
Can be serious and lively, complicated world touch up.
The best news client, not just in the news.
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No goods can be profound, sharp commentary to keep abreast wonderful;
Can be serious and lively, complicated world touch up.
The best news client, not just in the news.
[Recommended] Precision
Xiao-meng old drivers or new? Winner in life Luther fat or house? Either people set up, we can always pick out the best match your tastes good content. Wind, rain, and we know you!
[Exclusive Original]
Human tide surging, spectators own attitude. Slot value burst table to speak out, decent funny relaxed moment.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v106.1.6🔄 updated 1y ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 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
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 5 of 5 updated
→ 30 days after: rating −0.07★ · reviews −41 high confidence
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews −29 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
5 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.
2026-05-09
2026-07-13
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-09
2026-07-13
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-09
2026-07-13
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-09
2026-07-13
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-09
2026-07-13
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for 网易新闻: 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: 12,878 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does 网易新闻 make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, 网易新闻 earns approximately $5.0K/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 网易新闻 profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $185K and monthly revenue $5.0K, 网易新闻 looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.1 years 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 网易新闻 have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.1M lifetime downloads, ~31K monthly active users, and ~14K 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 网易新闻?▴
Browse the full News & Magazines 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 网易新闻 built with?▴
Our heuristic places 网易新闻 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 网易新闻 still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (77% 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.
How much would 网易新闻 sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 14× 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 网易新闻 last updated?▴
网易新闻 last shipped a new version on 2024-09-29 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes 网易新闻?▴
网易新闻 is published by 网易(www.163.com) 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 网易新闻's BU Score?▴
网易新闻 has a BU Score of 54/100 (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.