61
BU Score
Solid
Flight Buddy: Calm Down & Fly
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Flight Buddy: Calm Down & Fly is an iOS app from Sergey Laptenok in the Travel category, currently rated 4.6★ across 115 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 61: Solid (established niche player). For a Travel app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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💰 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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (115 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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 238 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.5.36🔄 updated 10mo ago🌐 EN, RU📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (6y old)
📝 About this app
Experience a strong sense of fear and panic when you fly, or anticipate flying? Does a tiny thought of getting onboard make your hands cold and shaking? Bad news is that you probably have an aerophobia. GOOD NEWS is that you can be cured once and forever! Flight Buddy app is what you need when it’s high time to say NO to your fear of flying.
We know that crowded space, turbulence, taking off and landing can certainly be unpleasant. That’s why Flight Buddy app is developed by professional pilots and mental health professionals to help you manage alarm symptoms before and during a flight.
HOW THE APP WORKS:
Flight Buddy can become your personal assistant, a real friend, who is always there when you need him. It's like sitting next to a pilot with access to complete flight data! Flight Buddy is an expert. He knows everything about flight stages, aircraft details, turbulence, as well as the root of your fear and the ways to overcome it!
Flight Buddy gives you more than you can expect:
- FULL ASSESSMENT TEST.
Take the first step towards knowing yourself and your triggers with the help of a detailed professional test with 30+ questions. Be honest and remember that phobias affect many people, so you are not alone. Find out more about yourself and the reasons of your aerophobia. Remember, that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- ANSWERS TO “WHAT IF” QUESTIONS.
Step onto the airplane with knowledge. Turbulence, panic attack, something will go wrong, malfunction and other common “what if’s” will be explained to you in details. Tune into audio guide or start reading while you are onboard. Knowledge is a power when it comes to conquering your fear of flying. Thus, eventually all you will get is confidence, calm and a great deal of knowledge.
- FLIGHT INFORMATION.
Make sure, that everything goes according to plan. Flight stages, turbulence tracker, weather conditions, aircraft details, aviation facts, flight speed and altitude, departure and arrival … all this information will help you challenge any irrational fears.
- FEAR OF FLYING VIDEO COURSE.
Take a real action towards conquering your fear of flying. Flight Buddy video course offers an easy-to-understand video explanations of how planes stay in the air, what causes turbulence, and what’s behind those scary sounds during takeoff and landing. Understanding how a plane can continue to fly even if an engine fails can help you feel less concerned about aircraft malfunctioning. Learning about safety regulations and pilot training can also present you with facts that challenge irrational fears.
Aerophobia is nothing to be embarrassed about, but it is something to be honest about. Flying is essential to the modern lifestyle. Do not deprive yourself of the joy of traveling, meeting friends and family, discovering new places and career building. Download the Flight Buddy and let big changes come to your life right away!
IN-APP PURCHASES:
You can be a premium user through an auto-renewing subscription:
1 Year: $34.99 without trial period. Access to Audio, Exercise,Turbulence Forecast
1 Year: $95.00 without trial period. Full Access to All features
- Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal.
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during an active subscription period.
LEGAL:
Terms of Service: https://phobia.aero/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://phobia.aero/privacy/
We know that crowded space, turbulence, taking off and landing can certainly be unpleasant. That’s why Flight Buddy app is developed by professional pilots and mental health professionals to help you manage alarm symptoms before and during a flight.
HOW THE APP WORKS:
Flight Buddy can become your personal assistant, a real friend, who is always there when you need him. It's like sitting next to a pilot with access to complete flight data! Flight Buddy is an expert. He knows everything about flight stages, aircraft details, turbulence, as well as the root of your fear and the ways to overcome it!
Flight Buddy gives you more than you can expect:
- FULL ASSESSMENT TEST.
Take the first step towards knowing yourself and your triggers with the help of a detailed professional test with 30+ questions. Be honest and remember that phobias affect many people, so you are not alone. Find out more about yourself and the reasons of your aerophobia. Remember, that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- ANSWERS TO “WHAT IF” QUESTIONS.
Step onto the airplane with knowledge. Turbulence, panic attack, something will go wrong, malfunction and other common “what if’s” will be explained to you in details. Tune into audio guide or start reading while you are onboard. Knowledge is a power when it comes to conquering your fear of flying. Thus, eventually all you will get is confidence, calm and a great deal of knowledge.
- FLIGHT INFORMATION.
Make sure, that everything goes according to plan. Flight stages, turbulence tracker, weather conditions, aircraft details, aviation facts, flight speed and altitude, departure and arrival … all this information will help you challenge any irrational fears.
- FEAR OF FLYING VIDEO COURSE.
Take a real action towards conquering your fear of flying. Flight Buddy video course offers an easy-to-understand video explanations of how planes stay in the air, what causes turbulence, and what’s behind those scary sounds during takeoff and landing. Understanding how a plane can continue to fly even if an engine fails can help you feel less concerned about aircraft malfunctioning. Learning about safety regulations and pilot training can also present you with facts that challenge irrational fears.
Aerophobia is nothing to be embarrassed about, but it is something to be honest about. Flying is essential to the modern lifestyle. Do not deprive yourself of the joy of traveling, meeting friends and family, discovering new places and career building. Download the Flight Buddy and let big changes come to your life right away!
IN-APP PURCHASES:
You can be a premium user through an auto-renewing subscription:
1 Year: $34.99 without trial period. Access to Audio, Exercise,Turbulence Forecast
1 Year: $95.00 without trial period. Full Access to All features
- Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal.
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during an active subscription period.
LEGAL:
Terms of Service: https://phobia.aero/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://phobia.aero/privacy/
🆕 What's New · v1.5.36
Our latest app update brings you a better user experience and improved stability.
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Flight Buddy: Calm Down & Fly
- Developer
- Sergey Laptenok
- Bundle ID
- com.calmflight.fwf
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, RU
Company
- Website
- flightbuddyapp.tilda.ws
- Tagline
- Flight Buddy App - #1 for anxious fliers
- Description
- Experience a strong sense of fear and panic when you fly, or anticipate flying? Does a tiny thought of getting onboard make your hands cold and shaking? Flight Buddy is what you need when it’s high time to say NO to your fear of flying.
- Founded
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- HQ / Address
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- Employees
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Revenue
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $8.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
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- Pricing
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Founder
- Name
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Funding
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Contacts & Socials
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📈Ratings growth115 ratings+11400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (15 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Flight Buddy: Calm Down & Fly: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
