SWListener - radio scanner
21
Quality Score
Niche
SWListener - radio scanner
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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SWListener - radio scanner is an iOS app from md in the Utilities category, currently rated 1.3★ across 40 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 21: Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a Utilities app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage. 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
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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
🔬
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: rating drift may slow acquisition
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
Insufficient data · 31/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
1.1
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.32★ across 40 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Below-average rating (1.3★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (40 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v1.3.0
SWListening is now SWListener - same passion, whole new experience. Completely redesigned interface, faster and more efficient database engine, simplified one-tap updates, and full compatibility with the latest iOS devices.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- SWListener - radio scanner
- Developer
- md
- Bundle ID
- MD2Tech.SWListening
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- MD2 TECH
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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
- Not found
- info@md2tech.it
- Phone
- 01615860523
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth40 ratings+3900% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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
STune into the world. No algorithms. No streaming. Just radio.
SWListener is the ultimate companion for shortwave radio enthusiasts. Explore thousands of broadcast schedules from stations across the globe - updated and always at your fingertips.
What you can do:
- Scan live frequencies and see what's on air right now
- Browse the complete schedule of any station worldwide
- Check language, transmitter location, target region and antenna data
- Navigate by frequency, band or station name
- Log and share reception reports with the SWL community… View full description on the official store →
SWListener is the ultimate companion for shortwave radio enthusiasts. Explore thousands of broadcast schedules from stations across the globe - updated and always at your fingertips.
What you can do:
- Scan live frequencies and see what's on air right now
- Browse the complete schedule of any station worldwide
- Check language, transmitter location, target region and antenna data
- Navigate by frequency, band or station name
- Log and share reception reports with the SWL community… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 44 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.6+🔖 v1.3.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2017-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2016-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.33 (improved 1.33★)
2016-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 40 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does SWListener - radio scanner make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, SWListener - radio scanner earns approximately $86/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 SWListener - radio scanner?▴
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Who makes SWListener - radio scanner?▴
SWListener - radio scanner is published by md 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 SWListener - radio scanner's BU Score?▴
SWListener - radio scanner has a BU Score of 21/100 (Niche). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.