RadioMail
72
Quality Score
Strong
RadioMail
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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RadioMail is an iOS app from Island Magic Co. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 761 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO 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
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~3.9× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
150K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
30K
Daily active
6.0K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 42/100MICRO TIERminimal traction yetRevenue Strength
2.3
Product Quality
6.7
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.9
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.8★ across 761 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($11K/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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($14.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (761 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 · v1.5.3
• Fixed CAT control support for the DB50-B radio.
• Increased maximum length of tactical addresses to 24 characters.
• Increased maximum length of tactical addresses to 24 characters.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- RadioMail
- Developer
- Island Magic Co.
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $11.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth761 ratings+7510% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 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
RadioMail provides access to the Winlink amateur radio email system. Compose, read, and reply to messages from anywhere. A valid amateur radio license is required to use this app.
NETWORK ACCESS
Send and receive messages via telnet using the main Winlink server or through the Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN).
RADIO ACCESS
Pair your device with a VARA or KISS TNC modems using WiFi or Bluetooth. Packet mode on VHF/UHF supports the following radios and devices:
Radios with Built-in TNCs (Auto-sets and restores frequency on those radios)
· BTECH UV-PRO, UV-50PRO… View full description on the official store →
NETWORK ACCESS
Send and receive messages via telnet using the main Winlink server or through the Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN).
RADIO ACCESS
Pair your device with a VARA or KISS TNC modems using WiFi or Bluetooth. Packet mode on VHF/UHF supports the following radios and devices:
Radios with Built-in TNCs (Auto-sets and restores frequency on those radios)
· BTECH UV-PRO, UV-50PRO… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 38 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.4+🔖 v1.5.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 ↑ 4.49 → 4.82 (improved 0.33★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $14.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 4.49 (dropped 0.31★)
2026-03
💲
Went free — dropped $14.99 price point
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $14.99 price point
2024-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.56 → 4.20 (dropped 0.36★)
2023-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.86 → 4.50 (dropped 0.36★)
2022-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for RadioMail: 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: 761 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does RadioMail make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, RadioMail earns approximately $11K/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 RadioMail?▴
RadioMail is published by Island Magic Co. 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 RadioMail's BU Score?▴
RadioMail 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.