Downpour.com
58
Quality Score
Solid
Downpour.com
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Downpour.com is an iOS app from Blackstone Audio, Inc in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.5★ across 437 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 58: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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📊 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
🤖Also on Android
$555/mo · 1K ratings · 4.0★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (67 MB) | +$6K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$65K
👥 Estimated audience size
43K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
6.0K
Daily active
1.2K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
6.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.46★ across 437 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (437 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.
🆕 What's New · v7.1.6
This release brings Downpour to even more places you love to listen:
• New Apple Watch app — Browse your library and control playback right from your wrist
• New CarPlay app — Enjoy a safer, more seamless listening experience on the road
• Performance improvements and bug fixes
• New Apple Watch app — Browse your library and control playback right from your wrist
• New CarPlay app — Enjoy a safer, more seamless listening experience on the road
• Performance improvements and bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Downpour.com
- Developer
- Blackstone Audio, Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.downpour.audioOnlyApp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Downpour
- 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
- $111/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://dow… · instagram instagram.com/downpour_com · tiktok tiktok.com/@blackstonepublishing · twitter twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Margo's… · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCelRj2dUb6yLawgO…
- mailto:
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- downpour.com/pages/contact-us
- About page
- downpour.com/pages/history
📈Ratings growth437 ratings+386% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
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
Welcome to Downpour—your destination for audiobooks, wherever you go. Discover new stories, build a library you love, and enjoy everyday low prices on downloads.
Explore a catalog of over 425,000 titles, with hundreds of new releases added every month. From today’s best fiction and nonfiction to timeless classics, Downpour features Pulitzer Prize winners, Booker Prize titles, Hugo Award–winning sci-fi and fantasy, and countless New York Times bestsellers.
Features you’ll love:
• Listen anywhere with offline downloads
• New: Apple Watch app for listening and control on your wrist… View full description on the official store →
Explore a catalog of over 425,000 titles, with hundreds of new releases added every month. From today’s best fiction and nonfiction to timeless classics, Downpour features Pulitzer Prize winners, Booker Prize titles, Hugo Award–winning sci-fi and fantasy, and countless New York Times bestsellers.
Features you’ll love:
• Listen anywhere with offline downloads
• New: Apple Watch app for listening and control on your wrist… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 67 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v7.1.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, ES📂 Food & Drink💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.46 (improved 0.96★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2017-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.83 → 3.14 (improved 0.31★)
2012-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.00 (improved 0.50★)
2012-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.50 (improved 0.50★)
2012-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.50 → 2.00 (improved 0.50★)
2012-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.50 (improved 0.50★)
2012-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.86667★ | 15 | 4.86667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.19355★ | 31 | 4.19355★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.4★ | 5 | 4.4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4★ | 8 | 4★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.66667★ | 12 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.25★ | 8 | 4.25★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.46818★ | 440 | 4.46818★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Downpour.com: 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: 437 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Downpour.com make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Downpour.com earns approximately $111/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 Downpour.com?▴
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Who makes Downpour.com?▴
Downpour.com is published by Blackstone Audio, Inc on the Apple App 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 Downpour.com's BU Score?▴
Downpour.com has a BU Score of 58/100 (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.