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Punjabi Tribune Newspaper

62
Quality Score
Solid

Punjabi Tribune Newspaper

Medium confidence
4.6 Google Play rating
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Punjabi Tribune Newspaper is an Android app from Readwhere.com in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 4.6★ across 1,606 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 62: 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
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record
idle
0%
Rating
4.6
Reviews
1,606 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
1
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost
$190K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $255K
$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build
📈 Pays back in ~3.2y 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
⚙ News & Magazines complexity ×1.20 +$11K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) +$39K
⚙ 13.1y maintenance × ~1-person team +$78K
Total estimate $190K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 34× MRR multiple
💸 ~0.9× 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
📅 13.1y proven track record +20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) +8%
🏷 News & Magazines category multiple -5%
Final multiple 34× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
130K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
6.5K
Daily active
2.9K

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
📅 13.1y of rating accumulation -30%
🔁 News & Magazines D30 retention 15%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness 0.45
DAU / MAU 45% 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
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2025-10-24 · 361 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
📅 12 months since last update Concerning gap
Verdict At 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.
📊

BU Investment Matrix

Building · 58/100MID TIERcompetitive build-out
GrowthFounderQualityRevenueMonetiz.MoatMarketSafety
Growth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.8
Product Quality
8.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
9.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 4.57★ across 1,606 reviews — strong (top 10%).
  • 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
  • 📈 Growth: last update 354d ago — slow cadence.
  • ⚠️ 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 = $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:
Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC
+$2,200
Low install base (1,606 ratings)METRIC
+$1,500
Mature app (13y 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.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name
Punjabi Tribune Newspaper
Developer
Readwhere.com
Bundle ID
com.readwhere.whitelabel.punjabitribune
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
News & Magazines
Content rating
Not found
Languages
Not found

Company

Website
www.readwhere.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
$2.99 - $24.99 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 Tribune is an Indian daily newspaper published from Chandigarh, New Delhi, Jalandhar, Dehradun and Bathinda. It was founded on 2 February 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five persons as trustees. It is a major Indian newspaper with a worldwide circulation.

Punjabi Tribune is its National Daily in Punjabi.

Now read Punjabi Tribune e-papers in punjabi (powered by readwhere) on your android mobile & tablet which automatically gets refreshed daily.

Top features include:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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🔖 v5.1🔄 updated 12mo ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $2.99 - $24.99 per item🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
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📝 Description

95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Punjabi Tribune Newspaper: 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
ZCAnalyzed by Zakhar Chumak · founder, Bumetric·Full methodology·Medium confidence

Why medium confidence: 1,606 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public data
How much does Punjabi Tribune Newspaper make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Punjabi Tribune Newspaper 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 Punjabi Tribune Newspaper profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $190K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Punjabi Tribune Newspaper looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.2 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 Punjabi Tribune Newspaper have?▴
Estimated audience: ~130K lifetime downloads, ~6K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 Punjabi Tribune Newspaper?▴
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 Punjabi Tribune Newspaper built with?▴
Our heuristic places Punjabi Tribune Newspaper 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 Punjabi Tribune Newspaper still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 12 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Punjabi Tribune Newspaper sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $175K (marketplace range $125K – $225K). Calculated as 34× 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 Punjabi Tribune Newspaper last updated?▴
Punjabi Tribune Newspaper last shipped a new version on 2025-10-24 — 12 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Punjabi Tribune Newspaper?▴
Punjabi Tribune Newspaper is published by Readwhere.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 Punjabi Tribune Newspaper's BU Score?▴
Punjabi Tribune Newspaper has a BU Score of 62/100 (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.