49
Quality Score
Emerging
Yonhap News
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Yonhap News is an Android app from 연합뉴스 in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 4.1★ across 41 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 49: 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$500/mo
In 12 months
$437 – $1575
In 24 months
$405 – $3644
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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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
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$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 |
| ⚙News & Magazines complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$33K |
| ⚙7.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$42K |
Total estimate$135K
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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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
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-05-22 · 1 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅1 day since last update | Active development |
| 👥Small user base (41 ratings) + 7.2y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.8
Product Quality
3.3
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.8
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.13★ across 41 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($1K/mo combined) commands premium.
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:
| Good rating (4.1★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (41 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 →🔖 v1.0.11🔄 updated 1d ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📝 About this app
This is the English version of Yonhap News app provided by Korea's leading news wire outlet.
Yonhap offers 24/7 news service to both domestic and overseas audiences and is
dedicated to offering fast and precise information on newsworthy events taking
place around the world.
Yonhap provides the latest news on politics, economics, social affairs, culture and arts, hallyu and sports.
By enabling Yonhap's notification function, you can receive all the latest breaking news and top stories on the hour.… View full description on the official store →
Yonhap offers 24/7 news service to both domestic and overseas audiences and is
dedicated to offering fast and precise information on newsworthy events taking
place around the world.
Yonhap provides the latest news on politics, economics, social affairs, culture and arts, hallyu and sports.
By enabling Yonhap's notification function, you can receive all the latest breaking news and top stories on the hour.… View full description on the official store →
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Yonhap News
- Developer
- 연합뉴스
- Bundle ID
- kr.co.yna.YonhapNewsEnglish
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- en.yna.co.kr
- 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
- $148/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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available data does not provide specific revenue estimates for the 'Yonhap News' Android app. Yonhap News Agency, the parent organization, reported an overall income of approximately KRW 182.8 billion (about USD 168 million) in 2019, primarily from government grants, a government-established fund, and the sale of news content to other media outlets. The app itself focuses on delivering news and enhancing reader engagement, without clear indications of direct in-app monetization like subscriptions or significant in-app purchases.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Google Play Store, Apple App Store
📈Ratings growth41 ratings+32% 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.
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Yonhap News make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Yonhap News earns approximately $148/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 Yonhap News profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $148, Yonhap 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.
What apps are like Yonhap News?▾
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What is Yonhap News built with?▾
Our heuristic places Yonhap News 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 Yonhap News still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Yonhap News last updated?▾
Yonhap News last shipped a new version on 2026-05-22 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Yonhap News?▾
Yonhap News is published by 연합뉴스 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 Yonhap News's BU Score?▾
Yonhap News has a BU Score of 49/100 (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.