ScotRail Train Times & Tickets
67
Quality Score
Solid
ScotRail Train Times & Tickets
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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ScotRail Train Times & Tickets is an iOS app from ScotRail Trains Limited in the Travel category, currently rated 4.9★ across 413 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 67: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Pays back in ~8 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
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 16× MRR multiple
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~1.9× build cost (break-even+)
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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
45K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.5K
Daily active
670
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
15% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 40/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
5.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
3.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
6.7
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.88★ across 413 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 2.3% refund mentions, rating drift -0.45 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($8K/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:
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (413 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 · v4.4.9
In this release, we have made essential bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- ScotRail Train Times & Tickets
- Developer
- ScotRail Trains Limited
- Bundle ID
- uk.co.scotrail.railtickets
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- 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
- $8.2K/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 growth413 ratings+41200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (43 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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
Book your train tickets quickly and easily with the ScotRail app. And just so you know, when buying tickets with us we don’t charge any booking or payment card fees.
Where’s my train?
• Save your favourite routes for easy access with Live Times
• Get a snapshot of any disruptions on your journey with up to the minute live times
• Get detailed progress updates on your specific train with our Journey Tracker
Buy tickets
• Buy your train ticket in just a few taps, including Flexipass & seasons!
• We’ll make sure it’s the cheapest ticket for your journey
• Pay with Apple Pay or by card… View full description on the official store →
Where’s my train?
• Save your favourite routes for easy access with Live Times
• Get a snapshot of any disruptions on your journey with up to the minute live times
• Get detailed progress updates on your specific train with our Journey Tracker
Buy tickets
• Buy your train ticket in just a few taps, including Flexipass & seasons!
• We’ll make sure it’s the cheapest ticket for your journey
• Pay with Apple Pay or by card… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 43 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v4.4.9🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
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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 →
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.20 (dropped 0.80★)
2022-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 44 reviews across 1 markets● 89% positive · ● 0% neutral · ● 11% negative · Rating drift: -0.45★ (declining — recent 50: 4.43★ vs lifetime: 4.88★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Top praise themes
easy book ×4 super easy ×3 done easy ×3 ticket ×11 scotland ×8 travel ×7 experience ×6 booking ×5
Top complaint themes
problem ×3 apple ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.3%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.82927★ | 41 | 4.82927★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 10 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.92208★ | 77 | 4.92208★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.97436★ | 78 | 4.97436★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.89286★ | 28 | 4.89286★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.64707★ | 4,542 | 4.64707★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.97368★ | 38 | 4.97368★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4★ | 4 | 4★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.88208★ | 424 | 4.88208★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for ScotRail Train Times & Tickets: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 413 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does ScotRail Train Times & Tickets make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, ScotRail Train Times & Tickets earns approximately $8.2K/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 ScotRail Train Times & Tickets?▴
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Who makes ScotRail Train Times & Tickets?▴
ScotRail Train Times & Tickets is published by ScotRail Trains Limited 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 ScotRail Train Times & Tickets's BU Score?▴
ScotRail Train Times & Tickets has a BU Score of 67/100 (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.