Flight Tracker & Radar
74
Quality Score
Strong
Flight Tracker & Radar
by ISLAND STORM LABS LIMITED
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Flight Tracker & Radar is an iOS app from ISLAND STORM LABS LIMITED in the Travel category, currently rated 4.7★ across 1,721 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 74: Strong (healthy traction). For a Travel app, that means healthy traction. 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
$8.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$8.8K – $18.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$10.9K – $32.7K
per month
MID tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
22 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
1,721 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$8.5K
Snapshots tracked
22
since May 2022
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.2y 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 (102 MB) | +$20K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$21K |
| ⚙ 4.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$26K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~1.5× 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 |
| 📅 4.5y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
145K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
12K
Daily active
1.8K
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 |
| 📅 4.5y of rating accumulation | -22% |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 102 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Travel |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2026-01-15 · 253 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
| 📅 8 months since last update | Concerning gap |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$8.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.1K – $13.4K
12 months
$8.8K – $18.4K
24 months
$10.9K – $32.7K
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 · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
8.5
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.1
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $5K - $12K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.74★ across 1,721 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 249d 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 = $153K-$272K. Portfolio play ($35K/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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (1,721 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| freemiumREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v1.4.2
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Flight Tracker & Radar
- Developer
- ISLAND STORM LABS LIMITED
- Bundle ID
- com.applace.flight
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $8.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇧🇷#26 /100
- 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 growth1,735 ratings+86650% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (22 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇧🇷
BR
Top-grossing rank: #26 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#26 now · best #26 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Flight Tracker – follow planes routes around the world in real-time. Tap on the plane and see where it’s going and it's destination. No matter it's just your hobby or you'd like to follow your friends and family members – the app does it's job!
Free features:
- Limited number of planes around (free unlimited usage)
- See Route (free unlimited usage)
- Map Design (free unlimited usage)
- Compass (free unlimited usage)
Features with limited usage:
- Add to “My Flights” (limited usage, unlimited available for premium users only)… View full description on the official store →
Free features:
- Limited number of planes around (free unlimited usage)
- See Route (free unlimited usage)
- Map Design (free unlimited usage)
- Compass (free unlimited usage)
Features with limited usage:
- Add to “My Flights” (limited usage, unlimited available for premium users only)… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 102 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.4.2🔄 updated 8mo ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (4y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.96 → 4.71 (improved 0.75★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.13★ high confidence
2023-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.33★ · reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2022-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.40 → 3.71 (improved 0.31★)
2022-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.40 (improved 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.31★ high confidence
2022-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 3.00 (improved 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.07★ high confidence
2022-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.33 (improved 1.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.07★ high confidence
2022-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2022-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #12Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
flight tracker·#12🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — islandstormlabs.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.83333★ | 228 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.79487★ | 195 | 4.79487★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5771★ | 655 | 4.5771★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.58246★ | 285 | 4.58246★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.64959★ | 488 | 4.64959★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.70443★ | 1,174 | 4.70443★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.7191★ | 89 | 4.7191★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.52542★ | 59 | 4.52542★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.7366★ | 1,735 | 4.7366★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Flight Tracker & Radar: 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: 1,721 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Flight Tracker & Radar make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Flight Tracker & Radar earns approximately $8.5K/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 Flight Tracker & Radar profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $8.5K, Flight Tracker & Radar looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Flight Tracker & Radar have?▴
Estimated audience: ~145K lifetime downloads, ~12K 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 Flight Tracker & Radar?▴
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 Flight Tracker & Radar built with?▴
Our heuristic places Flight Tracker & Radar on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 Flight Tracker & Radar still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% 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 Flight Tracker & Radar sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $175K (marketplace range $125K – $225K). Calculated as 21× 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 Flight Tracker & Radar last updated?▴
Flight Tracker & Radar last shipped a new version on 2026-01-15 — 8 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Flight Tracker & Radar?▴
Flight Tracker & Radar is published by ISLAND STORM LABS 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 Flight Tracker & Radar's BU Score?▴
Flight Tracker & Radar has a BU Score of 74/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.