Reuters - Breaking World News
72
Quality Score
Strong
Reuters - Breaking World News
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Reuters - Breaking World News is an Android app from Thomson Reuters in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 4.6★ across 21,786 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a News & Magazines app, that means healthy traction. 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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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
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $30K – $50K · 29× MRR multiple
💸~0.3× 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 |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷News & Magazines category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple29× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
390K
Daily active
175K
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 / MAU45% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 64/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
9.1
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
10.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.57★ across 21,786 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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: 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (21,786 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (12y 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v7.37.0🔄 updated 0d ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $209.99 per item
📝 About this app
Welcome to the New Reuters News App! 🚀
We’re thrilled to announce a major update to the Reuters News app, rebuilt to help you keep up with global news and personalize your experience. Your feedback has guided our efforts, and we can’t wait to hear what you think!
<b>Fresh New Design</b>
- Enjoy a sleek, modern interface with improved readability and user experience, featuring “Today,” our new home for news.
<b>Enhanced Article Experience</b>
- Dive into news stories with a visually engaging layout, interactive graphics, and related content.
<b>My News</b>… View full description on the official store →
We’re thrilled to announce a major update to the Reuters News app, rebuilt to help you keep up with global news and personalize your experience. Your feedback has guided our efforts, and we can’t wait to hear what you think!
<b>Fresh New Design</b>
- Enjoy a sleek, modern interface with improved readability and user experience, featuring “Today,” our new home for news.
<b>Enhanced Article Experience</b>
- Dive into news stories with a visually engaging layout, interactive graphics, and related content.
<b>My News</b>… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — reuters.com
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · OpenAI
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Reuters - Breaking World News
- Developer
- Thomson Reuters
- Bundle ID
- com.thomsonreuters.reuters
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.reuters.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
- $1.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $209.99 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 growth21,786 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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Read the article-style breakdown for Reuters - Breaking World News: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 21,786 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Reuters - Breaking World News make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Reuters - Breaking World News earns approximately $1.3K/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 Reuters - Breaking World News profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $110K and monthly revenue $1.3K, Reuters - Breaking World News looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Reuters - Breaking World News have?▴
Estimated audience: ~2.6M lifetime downloads, ~390K monthly active users, and ~175K 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 Reuters - Breaking World News?▴
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How much would Reuters - Breaking World News sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $35K (marketplace range $30K – $50K). Calculated as 29× 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.
Who makes Reuters - Breaking World News?▴
Reuters - Breaking World News is published by Thomson Reuters 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 Reuters - Breaking World News's BU Score?▴
Reuters - Breaking World News has a BU Score of 72/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.