Forbes Magazine
72
Quality Score
Strong
Forbes Magazine
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Forbes Magazine is an iOS app from Forbes Media LLC in the Business category, currently rated 4.7★ across 9,087 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a Business app, that means healthy traction. 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
$3.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.1K – $11.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.9K – $26.2K
per month
INDIE tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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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
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.5y 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (64 MB) | +$5K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$28K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
590K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
125K
Daily active
37K
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$3.1K – $7.1K
12 months
$3.1K – $11.3K
24 months
$2.9K – $26.2K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 46/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.3
Product Quality
8.4
Revenue Strength
3.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $8K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.68★ across 9,087 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $64K-$115K.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Low install base (9,087 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Single-language (English only)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 · v31.0
This release includes bug fixes and general stability improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Forbes Magazine
- Developer
- Forbes Media LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.magappzine.forbesmagazine
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Forbes
- Description
- Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Jersey City
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $9.2K ($1.7K – $16.7K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $110.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $2.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- B. C. Forbes
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A…
- linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&u…
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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/dialog/feed?app_id=12369… · linkedin linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&u… · twitter twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A…
- mailto:
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- forbes.com/contact
- About page
- forbes.com/sites/forbesliveteam/2026/…
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Forbes Magazine" by Forbes Media LLC is estimated to generate between $1,666.67 and $16,666.67 in monthly revenue, with a midpoint estimate of approximately $9,166.67. Annually, this translates to an estimated range of $20,000 to $200,000, with a midpoint of $110,000. These figures are based on Sensor Tower's last quarter revenue estimate for the app in the United States, which was between $5K and $50K.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Forbes
📈Ratings growth9,087 ratings+3478% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 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
Truly unique among magazine apps, the Forbes app acts as your gateway to the ultimate Forbes experience by combining the power of the dynamic and content-rich Forbes.com with Forbes magazine — all optimized for mobile and enabled for easy saving and sharing. The app offers the freedom to glide between platforms to discover and share what you find interesting, valuable and inspiring: stories about entrepreneurs and executives changing the world; innovative companies that are changing how businesses work; strategic insights to help shape your investment strategies and more.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 64 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v31.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.28 → 4.70 (improved 2.42★)
2014-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.80 → 2.33 (improved 0.53★)
2013-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2013-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Forbes Magazine: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 9,087 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Forbes Magazine make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Forbes Magazine earns approximately $2.0K/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.
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Who makes Forbes Magazine?▴
Forbes Magazine is published by Forbes Media LLC 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 Forbes Magazine's BU Score?▴
Forbes Magazine has a BU Score of 72/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.