How much does Journal Club make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Journal Club earns approximately $4.8K/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 Journal Club?

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Who makes Journal Club?

Journal Club is published by Peripheral Brain, LLC 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 Journal Club's BU Score?

Journal Club has a BU Score of 61/100 (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.

Journal Club: Medicine

Quality Score

Solid

Journal Club: Medicine

Name: Journal Club: Medicine — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Journal Club: Medicine revenue, Journal Club: Medicine app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Medical revenue, Android app revenue

Medium confidence

4.4 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Journal Club: Medicine is an Android app from Peripheral Brain, LLC in the Medical category, currently rated 4.4★ across 290 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 61: Solid (established niche player). For a Medical 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

$4.8K

per month

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12-mo forecast

$4.2K – $15.2K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$3.9K – $35.2K

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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🍎Also on iOS

Journal Club: Medicine

$26.3K/mo · 166 ratings · 4.3★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost

$120K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $90K – $160K

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

📈Pays back in ~2.1y 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
⚙Medical complexity ×1.55	+$27K
🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$43K

Total estimate$120K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value

$75K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 17× MRR multiple

💸~0.6× 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
⭐★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷Medical category multiple	+12%
⭐Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple17× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

15K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

3.8K

Daily active

760

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

📲Medical engagement	~55 installs / rating
🔁Medical D30 retention	25%
📍DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU20% sticky

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$4.8K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$4.1K – $9.6K

12 months

$4.2K – $15.2K

24 months

$3.9K – $35.2K

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 tier

Revenue Strength

3.7

Product Quality

6.2

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

6.0

Operational Safety

7.0

Founder Strength

5.5

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $12K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.4★ across 290 reviews — solid.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 746d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (746d since update).

🎯 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 = $86K-$154K. Portfolio play ($31K/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

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:

Paid app ($6.99)METRIC		+$2,800
Mature app (13y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.4★)METRIC		+$800
Early-stage install base (290 ratings)METRIC		+$400

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: Journal Club: Medicine
Developer: Peripheral Brain, LLC
Bundle ID: org.wikijournalclub
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Medical
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: journalclubapp.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: $4.8K/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 growth290 ratings+27% 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

We added the word 'Medicine' to our app's name but kept its heart and soul (and content) the same. We still put internal medicine literature at your fingertips and are still continuing to deliver 3+ new reviews of classic and contemporary landmark publications every month.

Powered by Wiki Journal Club, Journal Club for Android focuses on the top articles in internal medicine and puts landmark trials at your fingertips. Written by physicians, these article summaries are distilled into bite-size morsels that clinicians can digest quickly. Think of it as CliffsNotes for medical research.… View full description on the official store →

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