59
Quality Score
Solid
FAAwait
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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FAAwait is an iOS app from Bryan Figler in the Travel category, currently rated 4.1★ across 34 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 59: Solid (established niche player). For a Travel app, that means established niche player. 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
$2.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.0K – $7.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.8K – $16.5K
per month
INDIE tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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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
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~6 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 |
| ⚙7.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$43K |
Total estimate$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 17× MRR multiple
💸~3.0× 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 |
| 📅7.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple17× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric 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
| 📦App bundle size | 13 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Travel |
| 📦Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2025-09-09 · 257 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅8 months since last update | Concerning gap |
| 👥Small user base (34 ratings) + 7.3y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictAt risk
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$1.9K – $4.5K
12 months
$2.0K – $7.2K
24 months
$1.8K – $16.5K
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 · 28/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
1.8
Revenue Strength
3.4
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
3.8
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
2.3
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $907 - $5673/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.09★ across 34 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 257d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -0.68 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $27K-$49K. Portfolio play ($19K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 7 of 7 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 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.1★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (34 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 13 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.6+🔖 v3.2.4🔄 updated 8mo ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📝 About this app
FAAwait provides real-time access to current air traffic delays at all U.S. airports. It utilizes a data feed maintained by the FAA that tracks departure and arrival delays, ground stops, and ground delays. To access this information, an active internet connection (WiFi or cellular) is required.
FAAwait does NOT provide status information for specific flights. But by monitoring airport traffic conditions, you can often anticipate delays that may impact your travel, sometimes before the airlines themselves officially update their schedules.… View full description on the official store →
FAAwait does NOT provide status information for specific flights. But by monitoring airport traffic conditions, you can often anticipate delays that may impact your travel, sometimes before the airlines themselves officially update their schedules.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v3.2.4
* Corrected issue with map display on iPads
* Updated airport information
* Corrected decoding of weather maps
* Other corrections and updates for new systems/devices
* Updated airport information
* Corrected decoding of weather maps
* Other corrections and updates for new systems/devices
📅
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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.40 → 4.10 (improved 0.70★)
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2008-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2008-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2008-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 46 reviews across 1 markets● 61% positive · ● 13% neutral · ● 26% negative · Rating drift: -0.68★ (declining — recent 50: 3.41★ vs lifetime: 4.09★)
Top praise themes
airport delay ×3 ground delay ×3 delay programs ×3 delays ×12 airports ×10 information ×9 faa ×9 travel ×8
Top complaint themes
connection error ×3 update ×6 map ×5 airport ×5 after ×4 lga ×3 now ×3 ipados ×3
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 13%
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — taclogic.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5★ | 2 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.08824★ | 34 | 4.08824★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FAAwait
- Developer
- Bryan Figler
- Bundle ID
- com.taclogic.FAAwait
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Tactical Logic
- 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
- $20.0K/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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews45 latest · avg 3.4★ · 37.8% 5★ · 20.0% 1★
5★17 (38%)
4★8 (18%)
3★5 (11%)
2★6 (13%)
1★9 (20%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×11 love ×4 best ×3 excellent ×3 perfect ×2Complaints: crash ×3 broken ×2
Top positive
★★★★★ Best Airport info
This has been the best .99 I have spent. If you want to know why airports are delayed, this is your app. 100% love!…
★★★★★ Life saver
Life saving app if your in the 121 world…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Bogus Info
Used to enjoy this App . . . Lately shows several airport closed until late Summer/Fall including LGA, BOS, LAS, CHO, ROC, and others . . . Bummer! Delta is departing OMA for LGA right now, 8/3/24, . . . Guess they don’t know LGA is CLOSED!…
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t work
All I get is an error message indicating that the app cannot communicate with the FAA servers.…
📈Ratings growth34 ratings+1600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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 analysis
Why low confidence: only 34 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FAAwait make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, FAAwait earns approximately $19K/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.
Is FAAwait profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $110K and monthly revenue $19K, FAAwait looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 6 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like FAAwait?▴
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What is FAAwait built with?▴
Our heuristic places FAAwait on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is FAAwait still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would FAAwait sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $325K (marketplace range $250K – $425K). Calculated as 17× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was FAAwait last updated?▴
FAAwait last shipped a new version on 2025-09-09 — 8 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes FAAwait?▴
FAAwait is published by Bryan Figler 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 FAAwait's BU Score?▴
FAAwait has a BU Score of 59/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.