How much does RTÉ Listen make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, RTÉ Listen 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 RTÉ Listen profitable?

With estimated build cost $205K and monthly revenue $5.0K, RTÉ Listen looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.4 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 RTÉ Listen have?

Estimated audience: ~370K lifetime downloads, ~15K monthly active users, and ~7K 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 RTÉ Listen?

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What is RTÉ Listen built with?

Our heuristic places RTÉ Listen 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 RTÉ Listen still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would RTÉ Listen sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 18× 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 RTÉ Listen last updated?

RTÉ Listen last shipped a new version on 2026-10-05 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes RTÉ Listen?

RTÉ Listen is published by RTÉ 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 RTÉ Listen's BU Score?

RTÉ Listen 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.

RTÉ Listen

Quality Score

Solid

RTÉ Listen

Name: RTÉ Listen — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: RTÉ Listen revenue, RTÉ Listen app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Music & Audio revenue, Android app revenue

by RTÉ

Medium confidence

4.4 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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RTÉ Listen is an Android app from RTÉ in the Music & Audio category, currently rated 4.4★ across 4,115 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.

Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Music & Audio 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

2 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.4

Reviews

4,115 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$205K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $155K – $275K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~3.4y 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
⚙ Music & Audio complexity ×1.45	+$22K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$40K
⚙ 15.1y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$90K

Total estimate $205K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$100K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 18× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.5× 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
📅 15.1y proven track record	+20%

Final multiple 18× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

370K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

15K

Daily active

7.7K

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

📲 Music & Audio engagement	~130 installs / rating
📅 15.1y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Music & Audio D30 retention	20%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.50

DAU / MAU 50% 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	Music & Audio
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Active

15%

Last shipped 2026-10-05 · 39 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

📅 39 days since last update

Healthy release cadence

Verdict Active

🔬

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

Below median · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.2

Product Quality

7.9

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

7.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.38★ across 4,115 reviews — strong (top 10%).
📍 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 = $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 6 of 6 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

frequent crashesREVIEW		−$2,000
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Low install base (4,115 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Mature app (15y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.4★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

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: RTÉ Listen
Developer: RTÉ
Bundle ID: com.thisisaim.rteradio
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Music & Audio
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.rte.ie
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.

🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked

🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked

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

Whatever you need to hear, whenever you need to hear it. It’s here.

From breaking news to great music and brilliant storytelling, RTÉ Listen lets you play live radio or hear the latest podcasts and on-demand audio from RTÉ. 

LIVE RADIO PLAYER: Tune in to RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2FM, RTÉ lyric fm, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and RTÉ Gold. 

ON-DEMAND RADIO: Pick up where you left off or play full episodes of your favourite shows, like Brendan O'Connor, Marty in the Morning, Morning Ireland and 2FM Drive with Laura and Katja.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v30.26.0🔄 updated 1mo ago📂 Music & Audio💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)

📅

What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

3 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 →

2026-10

📸

Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated

2026-10

🔧

Shipped update — v27.9.295.1 → v30.26.0

→ 30 days after: reviews +25 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

📸

Store Page History

8 SCREENSHOT CHANGES

Every 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.

2026-05-22

Now

2026-10-24

Slot 2
2 ver.

2026-05-22

Now

2026-10-24

Slot 3
2 ver.

2026-05-22

Now

2026-10-24

Slot 4
2 ver.

2026-05-22

Now

2026-10-24

Slot 5
2 ver.

2026-05-22

Now

2026-10-24

Slot 6
2 ver.

2026-05-22

Now

2026-10-24

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Tech & Domain Intel — rte.ie

Tech stack: Google Workspace · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence)

Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for RTÉ Listen: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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