Transit GO Ticket
64
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Transit GO Ticket is an iOS app from Bytemark, Inc. in the Travel category, currently rated 3.7★ across 2,250 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 64: 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
$1.6M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7M – $2.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0M – $3.8M
per month
BIG 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
146 snapshots on record
Rating
3.7
Reviews
2,250 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.6M
Snapshots tracked
146
since Oct 2019
🤖Also on Android
$57/mo · 2K ratings · 3.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 (110 MB) | +$24K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$22K |
| ⚙ 9.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$58K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$26.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $20.0M – $34.5M · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~171× 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 |
| 📅 9.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
170K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
9.0K
Daily active
1.3K
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 |
| 📅 9.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
14% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
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 | 110 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Travel |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2025-10-07 · 354 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
| 📅 11 months since last update | Concerning gap |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.6M – $2.1M
12 months
$1.7M – $2.6M
24 months
$2.0M – $3.8M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 55/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.8
Product Quality
6.7
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.72★ across 2,250 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 354d 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 = $28.8M-$51.2M.
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 9 of 9 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 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,250 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| 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.
🆕 What's New · v4.150
Deeplink update
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Transit GO Ticket
- Developer
- Bytemark, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- co.bytemark.tgt
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, ZH, ES, ZH
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
- $1.6M/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 growth23,042 ratings+5066% 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
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 Transit Go Ticket App allows riders to buy bus, rail and water taxi tickets using their mobile device. No more worries about carrying cash for transit fare, Transit Go Ticket is good on King County Metro Buses, Sound Transit Express Bus, Light Rail and Sounder, King County Water Taxi, Seattle Streetcar and Kitsap Transit routed buses and fast ferry.
Learn more at: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/fares-orca/transit-go-ticket.aspx
Learn more at: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/fares-orca/transit-go-ticket.aspx
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 110 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v4.150🔄 updated 11mo ago🌐 EN, ZH, ES, ZH📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2016 (9y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
19 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 →
2026-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.72 → 4.53 (improved 0.81★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +406 high confidence
2026-08
📈
Crossed 5,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +406 high confidence
2026-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.53 → 3.72 (dropped 0.81★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$19.0K/mo · rating +0.81★ · reviews +20,386 high confidence
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 5 of 6 updated
→ 30 days after: revenue +$19.0K/mo · rating +0.81★ · reviews +20,386 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: revenue −$9.8K/mo · rating −0.81★ · reviews −19,194 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.6K/mo · rating +2.49★ · reviews +20,257 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.01 → 4.50 (improved 2.49★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.6K/mo · rating +2.49★ · reviews +20,257 medium · co-occurring
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.6K/mo · rating +2.49★ · reviews +20,258 medium · co-occurring
2021-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.10★ · reviews +11 high confidence
2021-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.35 → 2.70 (improved 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.23★ · reviews +10 high confidence
2021-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.23★ · reviews +10 high confidence
2021-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.91 → 2.35 (improved 0.44★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.35★ · reviews +10 high confidence
2019-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 1.88 (dropped 1.12★)
2019-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −1.12★ · reviews +14 high confidence
2019-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.12★ · reviews +14 medium · co-occurring
2019-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −1.12★ · reviews +14 medium · co-occurring
2019-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.12★ · reviews +14 low · multiple changes
2019-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −1.12★ · reviews +14 medium · co-occurring
📸
Store Page History
5 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-06-30
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-06-30
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-06-30
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-06-30
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-06-30
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.21978★ | 91 | 4.21978★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.73332★ | 30 | 4.73332★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.45055★ | 455 | 4.45055★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.1265★ | 166 | 4.1265★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.03125★ | 32 | 4.03125★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.30985★ | 142 | 4.30985★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.79385★ | 228 | 4.79385★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.49693★ | 163 | 4.49693★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.5325★ | 23,290 | 4.5325★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Transit GO Ticket: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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14apps·$1.7M/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 97% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 2,250 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Transit GO Ticket make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Transit GO Ticket earns approximately $1.6M/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 Transit GO Ticket profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $1.6M, Transit GO Ticket looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Transit GO Ticket have?▴
Estimated audience: ~170K lifetime downloads, ~9K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Transit GO Ticket?▴
Browse the full Travel category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Transit GO Ticket built with?▴
Our heuristic places Transit GO Ticket on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Transit GO Ticket still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Transit GO Ticket sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $26.5M (marketplace range $20.0M – $34.5M). 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 Transit GO Ticket last updated?▴
Transit GO Ticket last shipped a new version on 2025-10-07 — 11 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Transit GO Ticket?▴
Transit GO Ticket is published by Bytemark, Inc. 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 Transit GO Ticket's BU Score?▴
Transit GO Ticket has a BU Score of 64/100 (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.