Weather Elite by WeatherBug
79
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ GetAppValue analysis
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Weather Elite by WeatherBug is an Android app from WeatherBug in the Weather category, currently rated 4.4★ across 75,488 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Weather 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
$31.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$32.7K – $68.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$40.5K – $121.5K
per month
MID 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
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3 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 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$27K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$475K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $375K – $600K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~5.9× 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% |
| 🏷 Weather category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
15.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.2M
Daily active
2.6M
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
| 📲 Weather engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Weather D30 retention | 35% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.50 |
DAU / MAU
50% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. GetAppValue does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷 Category context | Weather |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$31.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$30.0K – $50.0K
12 months
$32.7K – $68.5K
24 months
$40.5K – $121K
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 · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.5
Product Quality
8.8
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.5
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
4.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $22K - $47K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.42★ across 75,488 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 240d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $568K-$1.0M.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (75,488 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($49.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Weather Elite by WeatherBug
- Developer
- WeatherBug
- Bundle ID
- com.aws.android.elite
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Weather
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.weatherbug.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $126/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.
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
<b>Download advertisement free WeatherBug®, winner of the 2019 “Best Weather App” by Appy Awards.</b>
Get the most accurate weather app that provides environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives, free! This live weather app provides the fastest weather alerts, real-time weather conditions, accurate hourly & 10-day forecasts & more.
Explore 20 weather maps, including Doppler radar, UV index, satellite map, lightning alerts, precipitation, local temperature, wind chill, and more! From heat index to pollen count, WeatherBug gives you everything you need to know.… View full description on the official store →
Get the most accurate weather app that provides environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives, free! This live weather app provides the fastest weather alerts, real-time weather conditions, accurate hourly & 10-day forecasts & more.
Explore 20 weather maps, including Doppler radar, UV index, satellite map, lightning alerts, precipitation, local temperature, wind chill, and more! From heat index to pollen count, WeatherBug gives you everything you need to know.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v5.118.1-26🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Weather💰 Free
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Tech & Domain Intel — weatherbug.com
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Google Workspace · Zoho
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Weather Elite by WeatherBug: 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: 75,488 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Weather Elite by WeatherBug make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Weather Elite by WeatherBug earns approximately $31K/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 Weather Elite by WeatherBug?▴
Weather Elite by WeatherBug is published by WeatherBug on the Google Play 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 Weather Elite by WeatherBug's BU Score?▴
Weather Elite by WeatherBug has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.