Hotels.com: Hotels & mehr
85
Quality Score
Excellent
Hotels.com: Hotels & mehr
by Hotels.com
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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This iOS Travel app directly serves the global hotel booking market, competing with major players like Booking.com and Expedia. Its strong user rating, backed by millions of reviews, signals significant traction and a mature product at a late growth or established stage. The consistent updates, even years after its initial release, further support its active user base and ongoing development. For a freemium app in this category, a common monetization observation is the emphasis on loyalty programs and exclusive member discounts, driving repeat bookings and higher lifetime value through in-app benefits rather than direct IAP for features. The core revenue driver remains commission on bookings, with premium tiers or "VIP Access" properties serving as an upgrade path to unlock additional perks and potentially higher-margin bookings.
BU Score 85 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 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
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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
541 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
2,240,550 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.6M
Snapshots tracked
541
since Nov 2025
🤖Also on Android
$137/mo · 272 ratings · 4.2★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$165K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $125K – $225K
$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 (475 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 7.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$45K |
Total estimate
$165K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$36.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $27.0M – $46.5M · 22× MRR multiple
💸
~218× 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 |
| 📅 7.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
22× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
172.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
11.0M
Daily active
1.6M
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 |
| 📅 7.6y 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 · 55%
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 | 475 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Travel |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-08-31 · 24 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
| 📅 24 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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
Concerning · 51/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 2,240,550 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (2,240,550 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (23 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v2026.35
This update includes performance improvements and bug fixes to keep things running smoothly — so booking stays and earning rewards remains quick, easy, and totally hassle‑free. Because travel should be simple. Hotels.com — It’s all in the name.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hotels.com: Hotels & mehr
- Developer
- Hotels.com
- Bundle ID
- com.hotels.HotelsNearMe
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, IS, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PT, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
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 growth2,286,612 ratings+474301% 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 Quarter15 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline8 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
Hotels.com is a hotel booking app for finding and reserving hotels worldwide — from city-center rooms and beach resorts to budget motels and luxury stays. Search, compare, and reserve your stay in a few taps, then earn rewards on every booking.
FIND THE RIGHT ROOM, ANYWHERE
Browse over 500,000 hotels and places to stay worldwide and find the right room for your trip. Filter by price, location, guest rating, and amenities to compare places side by side and pick the one that fits. Whether you want a last-minute place tonight, a weekend getaway, or an extended trip, we help you find it fast.… View full description on the official store →
FIND THE RIGHT ROOM, ANYWHERE
Browse over 500,000 hotels and places to stay worldwide and find the right room for your trip. Filter by price, location, guest rating, and amenities to compare places side by side and pick the one that fits. Whether you want a last-minute place tonight, a weekend getaway, or an extended trip, we help you find it fast.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 475 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2026.35🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FI, FR +18📂 Travel💰 Free🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
23 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
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.31 → v2026.35
→ 30 days after: reviews +13,014 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.30 → v2026.31
→ 30 days after: reviews +18,141 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.29 → v2026.30
→ 30 days after: reviews +20,415 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.28 → v2026.29
→ 30 days after: reviews +12,619 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.27 → v2026.28
→ 30 days after: reviews +14,863 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.26.912 → v2026.27
→ 30 days after: reviews +17,852 low · multiple changes
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.26 → v2026.26.912
→ 30 days after: reviews +17,724 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.25 → v2026.26
→ 30 days after: reviews +18,817 low · multiple changes
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.24.912 → v2026.25
→ 30 days after: reviews +17,172 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.23 → v2026.24.912
→ 30 days after: reviews +15,593 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.22 → v2026.23
→ 30 days after: reviews +14,635 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.21 → v2026.22
→ 30 days after: reviews +14,754 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.20 → v2026.21
→ 30 days after: reviews +15,246 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.19 → v2026.20
→ 30 days after: reviews +12,738 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +11,813 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +1.83★ · reviews +2,212,832 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.77 → 4.60 (improved 1.83★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.83★ · reviews +2,212,832 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +1.81★ · reviews +2,212,838 medium · co-occurring
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.14★ · reviews +164 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.14★ · reviews +149 high confidence
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #9Ranked for 3 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
hotel deals·#9🇺🇸travel planner·#35🇺🇸trip planner·#36🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.72949★ | 58,112 | 4.72949★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.87845★ | 324,018 | 4.87845★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.70977★ | 185,621 | 4.70977★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.62603★ | 31,431 | 4.62603★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.65459★ | 132,981 | 4.65459★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.72431★ | 277,969 | 4.72431★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.73034★ | 15,105 | 4.73034★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.4986★ | 115,466 | 4.4986★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78956★ | 2,291,507 | 4.78956★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Hotels.com: Hotels & mehr: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 2,240,550 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Hotels.com make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hotels.com 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 Hotels.com profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $165K and monthly revenue $1.6M, Hotels.com 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 Hotels.com have?▴
Estimated audience: ~172.5M lifetime downloads, ~11.0M monthly active users, and ~1.6M 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 Hotels.com?▴
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 Hotels.com built with?▴
Our heuristic places Hotels.com on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Hotels.com still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 24 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Hotels.com sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $36.0M (marketplace range $27.0M – $46.5M). Calculated as 22× 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 Hotels.com last updated?▴
Hotels.com last shipped a new version on 2026-08-31 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Hotels.com?▴
Hotels.com is published by Hotels.com 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 Hotels.com's BU Score?▴
Hotels.com has a BU Score of 85/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.