Medscape
57
Quality Score
Solid
Medscape
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Medscape is an iOS app from WebMD in the Education category, currently rated 3.6★ across 1,385 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For a Education 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 tierFREE
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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
$1.8K/mo · 63K ratings · 3.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.6y 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 (268 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
115K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
20K
Daily active
6.1K
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% 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)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
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 · 41/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.6
Product Quality
5.0
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
3.8
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.63★ across 1,385 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.25 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($86K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,385 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Medscape
- Developer
- WebMD
- Bundle ID
- com.medscape.mobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today on Medscape
- Description
- Today on Medscape : Get the latest medical news, clinical trial coverage, drug updates, journal articles, CME activities & more on Medscape. A free resource for physicians.
- 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
- $3.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- x.com/medscape
- linkedin.com/company/24356
- 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/medscape · instagram instagram.com/medscape · linkedin linkedin.com/company/24356 · twitter x.com/medscape · youtube youtube.com/user/medscape
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- medscape.com/viewarticle/infographic-…
- About page
- medscape.com/public/about
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.39★ · 14.3% 5★ · 34.7% 1★
5★7 (14%)
4★3 (6%)
3★9 (18%)
2★13 (27%)
1★17 (35%)
+1 ratings/week
Praise: great ×6 recommend ×3 love ×2 favorite ×1 best ×1Complaints: crash ×9 bug ×2 broken ×2
Top positive
★★★★★ User non friendliness
The new interface does not allow viewing of the topics that we click upon in the e mail. Instead ,a fixed rhetoric page appears that does not contain the article I have clicked to read. The older version was far more effective in reading a…
★★★★★ The best!
I have been using this app for over a decade! Very convenient, very accurate, and the offline availability is a big plus!…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Poor function
Always issues with CME and education. The education programs don’t load most of the time. A lot of expired CME on there and it’s not stated clearly that it’s expired.…
★☆☆☆☆ Dont download
Complicated and bad app design.
One out of ten…
📈Ratings growth1,385 ratings+29% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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
Your Go-To Medical Resource for Immediate Clinical Answers
With Medscape, you get free access to the latest medical news, expert commentary, clinical tools, drug and disease information, CME/CE activities, and more—all in one place.
AI-Driven Solutions to Transform Your Practice
Scribe: Real-time transcription and summarization of patient visits.
Dialer: Call patients using your office number from anywhere.
AI Search: Get instant, expert answers to complex medical questions.
Essential Clinical Tools
450+ medical calculators organized by specialty.… View full description on the official store →
With Medscape, you get free access to the latest medical news, expert commentary, clinical tools, drug and disease information, CME/CE activities, and more—all in one place.
AI-Driven Solutions to Transform Your Practice
Scribe: Real-time transcription and summarization of patient visits.
Dialer: Call patients using your office number from anywhere.
AI Search: Get instant, expert answers to complex medical questions.
Essential Clinical Tools
450+ medical calculators organized by specialty.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 268 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v12.40🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid
📅
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
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.56 → 4.20 (dropped 0.36★)
2014-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.86 → 4.50 (dropped 0.36★)
2014-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 823 reviews across 9 markets● 65% positive · ● 15% neutral · ● 21% negative · Rating drift: -1.25★ (declining — recent 50: 2.38★ vs lifetime: 3.63★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.68
🇬🇧 GB
+0.60
🇨🇦 CA
+0.57
🇯🇵 JP
+0.48
🇮🇳 IN
+0.42
🇺🇸 US
+0.31
🇩🇪 DE
+0.30
🇫🇷 FR
+0.26
🇧🇷 BR
+0.09
Top praise themes
it's free ×12 please fix ×11 medical information ×11 medical students ×11 highly recommend ×9 excellent resource ×8 muito bom ×8 side effects ×7
Top complaint themes
internet connection ×26 keeps crashing ×20 please fix ×14 last update ×12 connection required ×11 latest update ×10 new update ×7 update crashes ×5
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 13%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.09524★ | 42 | 4.09524★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.2195★ | 82 | 4.2195★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.0098★ | 102 | 4.0098★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.35★ | 20 | 3.35★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.05882★ | 17 | 4.05882★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.16883★ | 77 | 4.16883★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.34459★ | 148 | 4.34459★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.85714★ | 7 | 4.85714★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.62987★ | 1,386 | 3.62987★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Medscape: 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: 1,385 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Medscape make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Medscape earns approximately $3.5K/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 Medscape?▴
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Who makes Medscape?▴
Medscape is published by WebMD 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 Medscape's BU Score?▴
Medscape has a BU Score of 57/100 (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.