Metrolink
38
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Metrolink is an iOS app from Southern California Regional Rail Authority in the Travel category, currently rated 2.5★ across 342 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 38: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Travel 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
91 snapshots on record
Rating
2.5
Reviews
342 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
91
since Mar 2016
🤖Also on Android
$114/mo · 1K ratings · 3.5★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.3y 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (73 MB) | +$9K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$17K |
| ⚙ 10.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$63K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| 📅 10.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
26K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.2K
Daily active
180
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 |
| 📅 10.6y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
Flutter
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 | 73 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Travel |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
40%
Last shipped 2026-04-21 · 160 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · 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
| 📅 5 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
| 👥 Small user base (342 ratings) + 10.6y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 40/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
3.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
3.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.54★ across 342 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.5★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (342 ratings)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 · v7.9.4
FAQs page update
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Metrolink
- Developer
- Southern California Regional Rail Authority
- Bundle ID
- com.justride.metrolink
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CA, NL, EN, FR, DE, EL, IT, JA, RO, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/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.
📈Ratings growth356 ratings+242% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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
The official Metrolink App is like having a ticket machine in your pocket. Your device is your ticket! Buy a ticket anywhere, anytime - in seconds.
With the Metrolink App, you can securely purchase Metrolink One-Way, Round-Trip tickets, 7-Day, Monthly and Weekend Day Passes in seconds. Purchasing a ticket is easy: select your trip & ticket type, enter your payment card information, activate your ticket prior to boarding and your device is your ticket.
Never lose your ticket again! Once you purchase your ticket, it will always be in your ticket wallet.… View full description on the official store →
With the Metrolink App, you can securely purchase Metrolink One-Way, Round-Trip tickets, 7-Day, Monthly and Weekend Day Passes in seconds. Purchasing a ticket is easy: select your trip & ticket type, enter your payment card information, activate your ticket prior to boarding and your device is your ticket.
Never lose your ticket again! Once you purchase your ticket, it will always be in your ticket wallet.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 73 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v7.9.4🔄 updated 5mo ago🌐 CA, NL, EN, FR, DE +5📂 Travel💰 Free🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.97 → 2.54 (improved 0.57★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.60 → 1.98 (dropped 0.62★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.63★ · reviews −143 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.98 → 2.60 (improved 0.62★)
2019-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2016-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ · reviews +12 high confidence
2016-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.29 → 2.63 (improved 0.34★)
2016-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.25 → 2.80 (dropped 0.45★)
2016-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
2016-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2016-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.55435★ | 368 | 2.55435★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1★ | 3 | 1★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Metrolink: 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: 342 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Metrolink make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Metrolink earns approximately $5.0K/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 Metrolink profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Metrolink looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.3 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Metrolink have?▴
Estimated audience: ~26K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~180 daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Metrolink?▴
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What is Metrolink built with?▴
Our heuristic places Metrolink on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Metrolink still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (40% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Metrolink sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 14× 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 Metrolink last updated?▴
Metrolink last shipped a new version on 2026-04-21 — 5 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Metrolink?▴
Metrolink is published by Southern California Regional Rail Authority 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 Metrolink's BU Score?▴
Metrolink has a BU Score of 38/100 (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.