KQED: Bay Area Culture & News
62
Quality Score
Solid
KQED: Bay Area Culture & News
by KQED
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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KQED: Bay Area Culture & News is an Android app from KQED in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 4.8★ across 815 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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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
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$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 |
Total estimate
$95K
👥 Estimated audience size
97K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
14K
Daily active
6.5K
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 / MAU
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
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 · 42/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
6.7
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 815 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $9K-$16K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (815 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- KQED: Bay Area Culture & News
- Developer
- KQED
- Bundle ID
- org.kqed.android
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News & Magazines
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.kqed.org
- 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
- $276/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.
📈Ratings growth815 ratings+7% 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.
📝 About this app
From KQED, your Bay Area public media source, our free-to-use app brings you the stories you care about and connects you with your community.
Personalize your experience with the topics that interest you most. Stream live TV and radio, follow original podcasts and video series, and get notified when your favorite shows air — all in one simple-to-use app.
It’s all free, thanks to the generous support of our members.
Trustworthy Local News
At one of California’s largest newsrooms, our mission is to cut through the noise and be your source for quality, trustworthy local news coverage.… View full description on the official store →
Personalize your experience with the topics that interest you most. Stream live TV and radio, follow original podcasts and video series, and get notified when your favorite shows air — all in one simple-to-use app.
It’s all free, thanks to the generous support of our members.
Trustworthy Local News
At one of California’s largest newsrooms, our mission is to cut through the noise and be your source for quality, trustworthy local news coverage.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v9.21.2🔄 updated 0d ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — kqed.org
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Google Workspace · Stripe
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for KQED: Bay Area Culture & 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 medium confidence: 815 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does KQED make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, KQED earns approximately $326/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.
What apps are like KQED?▴
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.
Who makes KQED?▴
KQED is published by KQED 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 KQED's BU Score?▴
KQED 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.