myWGU Mobile
69
Quality Score
Solid
myWGU Mobile
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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myWGU Mobile is an iOS app from Western Governors University in the News category, currently rated 4.4★ across 1,178 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 69: 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
$553
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$484 – $1743
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$448 – $4033
per month
INDIE 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
🤖Also on Android
$821/mo · 5K ratings · 3.2★
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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
📈
Pays back in ~4 months 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 (55 MB) | +$2K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~3.5× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
140K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
21K
Daily active
9.4K
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
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$553/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$471 – $1.1K
12 months
$484 – $1.7K
24 months
$448 – $4.0K
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 · 48/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
7.9
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $221 - $1383/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.4★ across 1,178 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 = $9K-$17K. Portfolio play ($15K/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 11 of 11 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 (1,178 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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.
🆕 What's New · v6.1.2
Security enhancements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- myWGU Mobile
- Developer
- Western Governors University
- Bundle ID
- edu.wgu.myWGU
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- The University of You
- Description
- Western Governors University is an online university where you can earn an affordable, accredited, career-focused college degree at an accelerated pace.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $15.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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/wgu.edu · instagram instagram.com/westerngovernorsu · linkedin linkedin.com/edu/western-governors-un… · tiktok tiktok.com/@wgu · youtube youtube.com/watch?v=mNZ8dCtZQsc
- Not found
- Phone
- 866-225-5948
- Contact page
- wgu.edu/financial-aid-tuition/fafsa-h…
- About page
- wgu.edu/about.html
📈Ratings growth1,179 ratings+18% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (45 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
Get ready to take your education on-the-go with the official WGU Mobile app! Designed for active students enrolled at Western Governors University, this app provides a seamless learning experience that's tailored to fit your busy schedule.
With WGU Mobile, you can easily access your courses, receive timely push notifications for important updates and assessment statuses, and stay connected with your faculty and peers.… View full description on the official store →
With WGU Mobile, you can easily access your courses, receive timely push notifications for important updates and assessment statuses, and stay connected with your faculty and peers.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 55 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v6.1.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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 ↑ 2.57 → 4.40 (improved 1.83★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 2.57 (dropped 1.83★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.57 → 4.40 (improved 1.83★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for myWGU Mobile: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 95% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,178 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does myWGU Mobile make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, myWGU Mobile earns approximately $15K/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 myWGU Mobile?▴
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Who makes myWGU Mobile?▴
myWGU Mobile is published by Western Governors University 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 myWGU Mobile's BU Score?▴
myWGU Mobile has a BU Score of 69/100 (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.