TV Towers USA
71
Quality Score
Strong
TV Towers USA
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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TV Towers USA is an iOS app from Generally Helpful Software in the Travel category, currently rated 4.7★ across 785 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Travel 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
$6.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.7K – $20.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$5.3K – $47.9K
per month
INDIE 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
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 ~2 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 |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$450K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $350K – $600K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~6.9× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
86K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
8.6K
Daily active
1.2K
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
| 📲 Travel engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
14% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$6.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$5.6K – $13.0K
12 months
$5.7K – $20.7K
24 months
$5.3K – $47.9K
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 · 45/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.8
Product Quality
6.5
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
6.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $2K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.65★ across 785 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 553d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (553d since update).
🎯 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 = $118K-$210K. Portfolio play ($80K/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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Early-stage install base (785 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 · v1.15
• User reported that some Low Power Translators were not showing up on map. This build includes more low power stations that are registered translators of other stations.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- TV Towers USA
- Developer
- Generally Helpful Software
- Bundle ID
- com.genhelp.TVTowers
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Generally Helpful Software
- 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
- $30.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- 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 growth785 ratings+5938% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 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
TV Towers USA is a map of digital TV broadcasting towers in the United States and its territories plus a select number of Canadian stations. The database includes over 2000 stations and over 1000 repeaters. My users include avid RVers who roam from region to region and need to locate available TV networks, and homeowners setting up a new antenna system.
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App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 15 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.15🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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 $1.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.21 → 4.60 (improved 0.39★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.75 → 4.33 (dropped 0.42★)
2011-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2010-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for TV Towers USA: 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: 785 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does TV Towers USA make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, TV Towers USA earns approximately $30K/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 TV Towers USA?▴
TV Towers USA is published by Generally Helpful Software 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 TV Towers USA's BU Score?▴
TV Towers USA has a BU Score of 71/100 (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.