The Dallas Morning News
34
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ bumetric analysis
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The Dallas Morning News is an Android app from Hearst Newspapers - LLC in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 2.1★ across 306 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 34: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$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 |
Total estimate
$110K
👥 Estimated audience size
36K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.4K
Daily active
2.4K
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 |
| 🔁 News & Magazines D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
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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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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
Below median · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
3.0
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
9.7
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.15★ across 306 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 = $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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (306 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- The Dallas Morning News
- Developer
- Hearst Newspapers - LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.pagesuite.DallasMorningNews
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.dallasnews.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
- $201/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $12.99 - $64.99 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 growth306 ratings+55% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
📝 About this app
"Know more about North Texas with the app. Stay informed with trusted journalism wherever you are.
- Get news alerts and notifications, customized by preferred topics
- Catch high school football, college sports, and Cowboys, Mavericks, Rangers, Stars, Wings coverage from SportsDay and SportsDayHS
- Stay on top of Texas news, politics, business, food and development stories
- Tune in to the to the food podcast ‘Eat Drink D-FW’ and sports podcast ‘SportsDay Insider’ for expert analysis
- Page through the e-Edition, a digital replica of the newspaper… View full description on the official store →
- Get news alerts and notifications, customized by preferred topics
- Catch high school football, college sports, and Cowboys, Mavericks, Rangers, Stars, Wings coverage from SportsDay and SportsDayHS
- Stay on top of Texas news, politics, business, food and development stories
- Tune in to the to the food podcast ‘Eat Drink D-FW’ and sports podcast ‘SportsDay Insider’ for expert analysis
- Page through the e-Edition, a digital replica of the newspaper… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for The Dallas Morning News: 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 medium confidence: 306 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does The Dallas Morning News make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, The Dallas Morning News earns approximately $234/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.
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Who makes The Dallas Morning News?▴
The Dallas Morning News is published by Hearst Newspapers - 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 The Dallas Morning News's BU Score?▴
The Dallas Morning News has a BU Score of 34/100 (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.