Stationhead
74
Quality Score
Strong
Stationhead
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Stationhead is an iOS app from Stationhead, Inc in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.7★ across 26,172 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 74: Strong (healthy traction). For a Social Networking 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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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
$1.3K/mo · 22K ratings · 2.5★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.0y 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 (152 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$63K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
585K
Daily active
320K
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
| 📲 Social Networking engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% 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)
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 · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.8
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.4
Market Position
1.8
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.74★ across 26,172 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K.
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:
| Mid install base (26,172 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v2.3.16
this version includes a number of bug fixes and improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Stationhead
- Developer
- Stationhead, Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.stationhead.STATIONHEAD
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 9+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- stationhead.com
- Tagline
- The heart of the action.
- Description
- Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
- 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
- $6.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- 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/stationheadON · instagram instagram.com/stationhead · twitter x.com/STATIONHEAD
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- stationhead.com/kpsupport
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth26,172 ratings+60% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (30 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
Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
Find your community:
- Listen to your favorite artists and drive streams with a community of fans from around the world
- Chat, request, and call-in live from anywhere on the planet
- Join live moments with your favorite artists
Host the party:
- Start a global station in seconds
- Take the mic, play what you want, and reach anyone
- Build your community
Assemble, listen, connect, party, talk, and play – on Stationhead. Download the free app today from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod
---… View full description on the official store →
Find your community:
- Listen to your favorite artists and drive streams with a community of fans from around the world
- Chat, request, and call-in live from anywhere on the planet
- Join live moments with your favorite artists
Host the party:
- Start a global station in seconds
- Take the mic, play what you want, and reach anyone
- Build your community
Assemble, listen, connect, party, talk, and play – on Stationhead. Download the free app today from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod
---… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 152 MB🔞 9+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v2.3.16🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 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 →
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v2.3.15
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.12 → 4.74 (improved 2.62★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.80 (dropped 0.70★)
2023-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2023-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — stationhead.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · SendGrid
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 6 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.79891★ | 1,835 | 4.79891★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.81986★ | 705 | 4.81986★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.74817★ | 1,926 | 4.74817★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.79441★ | 895 | 4.79441★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.6872★ | 16,899 | 4.6872★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.74064★ | 26,303 | 4.74064★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Stationhead: 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 high confidence: 26,172 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Stationhead make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Stationhead earns approximately $6.4K/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 Stationhead?▴
Stationhead is published by Stationhead, Inc 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 Stationhead's BU Score?▴
Stationhead has a BU Score of 74/100 (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.