How much does JS8 ham radio make per month?

Our model estimates JS8 ham radio earns roughly $101/mo, but with only 25 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.

What apps are like JS8 ham radio?

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What is JS8 ham radio built with?

Our heuristic places JS8 ham radio 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 JS8 ham radio still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was JS8 ham radio last updated?

JS8 ham radio last shipped a new version on 2020-08-20 — more than 6 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes JS8 ham radio?

JS8 ham radio is published by Team8 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 JS8 ham radio's BU Score?

JS8 ham radio has a BU Score of 38/100 (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.

JS8 ham radio: js8remote for j

Quality Score

Emerging

JS8 ham radio: js8remote for j

Name: JS8 ham radio: js8remote for j — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: JS8 ham radio: js8remote for j revenue, JS8 ham radio: js8remote for j app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Communication revenue, Android app revenue

by Team8

Low confidence

3.1 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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JS8 ham radio: js8remote for j is an Android app from Team8 in the Communication category, currently rated 3.1★ across 25 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 38: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Communication 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

$101

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$51 – $472

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$51 – $1413

per month

MICRO tier

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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

3.1

Reviews

25 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$101

Snapshots tracked

since Sep 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$165K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $125K – $225K

$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
⚙ Communication complexity ×1.65	+$32K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$45K
⚙ 6.1y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$36K

Total estimate $165K

🛠 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	Communication
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

95%

Last shipped 2020-08-20 · 2235 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

📅 6y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
👥 Small user base (25 ratings) + 6.1y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$101/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

6 months

$64 – $257

12 months

$51 – $472

24 months

$51 – $1.4K

Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Insufficient data · 28/100MICRO TIERtoo early to score

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

3.0

Product Quality

2.5

Revenue Strength

2.0

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

3.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

5.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.15★ across 25 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2230d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2230d since update).

🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $1K-$3K.

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:

Below-average rating (3.1★)METRIC		−$1,500
Established app (6y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Pre-traction phase (25 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: JS8 ham radio: js8remote for j
Developer: Team8
Bundle ID: hr.slsolucije.js8remote
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Communication
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: blackoutcomms.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: $101/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.

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

JS8Call remote control, with automatic Maidenhead grid locator calculator. Receiving and sending to JS8Call. Play with JS8 everywhere. Enjoy ham amateur radio.

Before using this app you need to setup JS8Call in Settings -> Reporting: 

- UDP server to IP address of your phone/tablet or broadcast IP address of your subnet. If you would like to use multicast, please set UDP server IP in JS8call to 224.0.0.1. Multicast IP is hardcoded at this moment.

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App Specs

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🔖 v1.0.0🔄 updated 6y ago📂 Communication💰 Free🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)

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