LiveATC Air Radio
60
Quality Score
Solid
LiveATC Air Radio
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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LiveATC Air Radio is an iOS app from Dave Pascoe in the News category, currently rated 3.6★ across 634 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 60: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$6.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$6.9K – $14.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$8.5K – $25.5K
per month
MID tier
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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
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in <1 month 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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$700K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $500K – $900K · 12× MRR multiple
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~12× return on build cost
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 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
76K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
11K
Daily active
4.9K
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 engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$6.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$6.3K – $10.5K
12 months
$6.9K – $14.4K
24 months
$8.5K – $25.5K
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 peersRevenue Strength
3.8
Product Quality
5.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $9K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.6★ across 634 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 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 = $119K-$212K. Portfolio play ($55K/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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (634 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| 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 · v2.4.4
Dark mode enhancements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- LiveATC Air Radio
- Developer
- Dave Pascoe
- Bundle ID
- net.liveatc.LiveATC
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.liveatc.net
- 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
- $55.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇯🇵#28 /100 🇦🇺#73 /100 🇺🇸#76 /100 🇮🇳#83 /100 🇨🇦#91 /100
- 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 growth634 ratings+14% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank5 countries
🇯🇵JP#28 /100
🇦🇺AU#73 /100
🇺🇸US#76 /100
🇮🇳IN#83 /100
🇨🇦CA#91 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#28 now · best #25 · worst #32
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+0%)
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
LiveATC Air Radio is brought to you by LiveATC.net LLC
PLEASE READ IMPORTANT NOTICE BELOW **BEFORE PURCHASING** (this relates to countries not covered by the LiveATC.net system)
Do you want to know why your flight might be delayed? Live near an airport or enjoy planespotting and want to tune in to the pilots? Have you always wondered what pilots talk to air traffic controllers about? Now you can stop wondering and tune in live!
LiveATC Air Radio provides a quick and easy way to listen in on live conversations between pilots and air traffic controllers near many airports around the world.… View full description on the official store →
PLEASE READ IMPORTANT NOTICE BELOW **BEFORE PURCHASING** (this relates to countries not covered by the LiveATC.net system)
Do you want to know why your flight might be delayed? Live near an airport or enjoy planespotting and want to tune in to the pilots? Have you always wondered what pilots talk to air traffic controllers about? Now you can stop wondering and tune in live!
LiveATC Air Radio provides a quick and easy way to listen in on live conversations between pilots and air traffic controllers near many airports around the world.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 5 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2.4.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 ↓ 4.00 → 3.60 (dropped 0.40★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.45 → 4.00 (improved 0.55★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v2.4.4
2013-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.00 (improved 0.50★)
2013-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
2013-04
🚀
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.59558★ | 633 | 3.59558★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.67059★ | 85 | 2.67059★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.04762★ | 42 | 4.04762★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.14★ | 50 | 3.14★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.75248★ | 101 | 3.75248★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.8★ | 60 | 3.8★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.41667★ | 60 | 3.41667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.39394★ | 33 | 2.39394★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.33333★ | 3 | 3.33333★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for LiveATC Air Radio: 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: 634 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does LiveATC Air Radio make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, LiveATC Air Radio earns approximately $55K/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 LiveATC Air Radio?▴
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Who makes LiveATC Air Radio?▴
LiveATC Air Radio is published by Dave Pascoe 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 LiveATC Air Radio's BU Score?▴
LiveATC Air Radio has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.