How much does Norfolk Daily News make per month?

Our model estimates Norfolk Daily News earns roughly $500/mo, but with only 15 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.

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What is Norfolk Daily News built with?

Our heuristic places Norfolk Daily News 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 Norfolk Daily News still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Norfolk Daily News last updated?

Norfolk Daily News last shipped a new version on 2026-08-14 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Norfolk Daily News?

Norfolk Daily News is published by TourNorfolkNE 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 Norfolk Daily News's BU Score?

Norfolk Daily News has a BU Score of 47/100 (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.

Norfolk Daily News

Quality Score

Emerging

Norfolk Daily News

Name: Norfolk Daily News — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Norfolk Daily News revenue, Norfolk Daily News app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, News & Magazines revenue, Android app revenue

by TourNorfolkNE

Low confidence

4.2 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Norfolk Daily News is an Android app from TourNorfolkNE in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 4.2★ across 15 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News & Magazines 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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.2

Reviews

15 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$500

Snapshots tracked

since Aug 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$160K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $120K – $215K

$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
⚙ News & Magazines complexity ×1.20	+$11K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$39K
⚙ 8.2y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$49K

Total estimate $160K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$15K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 29× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.1× build cost (under-water)

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
📅 8.2y proven track record	+20%
🏷 News & Magazines category multiple	-5%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 29× MRR

🛠 Estimated tech stack

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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

Slowing

25%

Last shipped 2026-08-14 · 75 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

📅 75 days since last update	Healthy release cadence
👥 Small user base (15 ratings) + 8.2y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict Slowing

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

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.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Early-stage solo · 44/100INDIE TIERexpected for tier

Revenue Strength

2.7

Product Quality

3.3

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

6.5

Operational Safety

10.0

Founder Strength

3.0

Monetization Maturity

5.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.15★ across 15 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 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: 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.

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:

Mature app (8y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.2★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Pre-traction phase (15 ratings)METRIC		−$300

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 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.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Norfolk Daily News
Developer: TourNorfolkNE
Bundle ID: com.norfolkdailynews
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: News & Magazines
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: norfolkdailynews.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: $500/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $14.99 - $179.99 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.

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

The Norfolk Daily News is a daily news organization located in downtown Norfolk, Nebraska. It is one of just a handful of daily newspapers in the country owned and managed by an individual family. 

The Huse family, including publisher Bill Huse, has owned and managed the Norfolk Daily News since 1888. Five generations of the Huse family have run the organization. The Norfolk Daily News began as a daily newspaper May 1, 1887, and was bought by the Huse family in 1888 when its circulation was 400.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v222.0🔄 updated 2mo ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $14.99 - $179.99 per item🚀 Launched 2018 (8y old)

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