truTV
43
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ GetAppValue analysis
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truTV is an Android app from truTVnetwork in the Video Players & Editors category, currently rated 2.3★ across 9,121 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 43: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Video Players & Editors app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$963
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$842 – $3035
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$780 – $7021
per month
INDIE 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
📈
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 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$27K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
200K
Daily active
40K
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
| 📲 Video Players & Editors engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Video Players & Editors D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$963/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$820 – $1.9K
12 months
$842 – $3.0K
24 months
$780 – $7.0K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 34/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.2
Product Quality
4.2
Revenue Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $385 - $2408/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.32★ across 9,125 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 385d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (385d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $17K-$30K.
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:
| Low install base (9,121 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.3★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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
- truTV
- Developer
- truTVnetwork
- Bundle ID
- com.turner.trutv
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Video Players & Editors
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.trutv.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
- $46/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
ALWAYS HERE FOR A GOOD LAUGH
The truTV app makes watching full episodes of your favorite shows easy! Sign in with your TV Provider to watch all the truTV originals you love: Impractical Jokers, Tacoma FD, Fast Foodies, Adam Ruins Everything, and more. Watch anytime, anywhere with the truTV app. You can also catch the live stream -- on any screen.
The truTV app supports most TV Providers, including AT&T, Spectrum (incl. Time Warner Cable, Charter & Bright House), Comcast XFINITY, Cox, DIRECTV, Dish, Optimum, Suddenlink, Verizon, and many more.
The truTV app makes watching full episodes of your favorite shows easy! Sign in with your TV Provider to watch all the truTV originals you love: Impractical Jokers, Tacoma FD, Fast Foodies, Adam Ruins Everything, and more. Watch anytime, anywhere with the truTV app. You can also catch the live stream -- on any screen.
The truTV app supports most TV Providers, including AT&T, Spectrum (incl. Time Warner Cable, Charter & Bright House), Comcast XFINITY, Cox, DIRECTV, Dish, Optimum, Suddenlink, Verizon, and many more.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v8.12.0🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Video Players & Editors💰 Free📺 Ad-supported
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Tech & Domain Intel — trutv.com
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Microsoft 365
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 truTV: 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: 9,121 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does truTV make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, truTV earns approximately $963/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 truTV?▴
truTV is published by truTVnetwork 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 truTV's BU Score?▴
truTV has a BU Score of 43/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.