DB Navigator
77
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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DB Navigator is an iOS app from Deutsche Bahn in the News category, currently rated 4.6★ across 14,727 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 77: Strong (healthy traction). For a News 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tierFREE
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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
228 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
14,727 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
228
since Dec 2009
🤖Also on Android
—/mo · 341K ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$210K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $160K – $285K
$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 (269 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 16.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$100K |
Total estimate
$210K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$13.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $9.5M – $17.0M · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~62× 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 |
| 📅 16.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
36K
Daily active
16K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅 16.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% 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 | 269 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-15 · 11 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 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
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 TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
7.8
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
5.4
Founder Strength
6.8
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.63★ across 14,727 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -2.41 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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:
| Mid install base (14,727 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y 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 · v26.17.0
While you plan your journeys, we take care of the details.
With this update, we've continued to refine, optimise and fine-tune things behind the scenes, so the app can keep supporting you reliably wherever you travel.
Update now!… Full release notes →
With this update, we've continued to refine, optimise and fine-tune things behind the scenes, so the app can keep supporting you reliably wherever you travel.
Update now!… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- DB Navigator
- Developer
- Deutsche Bahn
- Bundle ID
- com.deutschebahn.navigator
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, DE
Company
- Website
- int.bahn.de
- Tagline
- Deutsche Bahn: Discover Germany and Europe by train!
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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 growth14,052 ratings+3608% 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 Quarter9 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
DB Navigator – your smart travel companion for Germany and beyond.
With DB Navigator, you can plan your route, find the right connections and book tickets for local and long-distance travel directly in the app. Whether you're using the Deutschland-Ticket, commuting by bus and train, or travelling on ICE, IC and regional services, real-time travel information, up-to-date timetables and bookable e-scooters and bikes help you stay flexible wherever you go.
YOUR BENEFITS AT A GLANCE
• Subscribe to and manage your Deutschland-Ticket
• Book tickets for local and long-distance travel… View full description on the official store →
With DB Navigator, you can plan your route, find the right connections and book tickets for local and long-distance travel directly in the app. Whether you're using the Deutschland-Ticket, commuting by bus and train, or travelling on ICE, IC and regional services, real-time travel information, up-to-date timetables and bookable e-scooters and bikes help you stay flexible wherever you go.
YOUR BENEFITS AT A GLANCE
• Subscribe to and manage your Deutschland-Ticket
• Book tickets for local and long-distance travel… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 269 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v26.17.0🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN, DE📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (16y 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 →
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 6 of 8 updated
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v26.14.0 → v26.16.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,065 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v26.13.0 → v26.14.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,451 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v26.12.1 → v26.13.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +833 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v26.11.2 → v26.12.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,393 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v26.11.1 → v26.11.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,570 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v26.10.1 → v26.11.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,481 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
📈
Crossed 10,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,260 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v26.8.0 → v26.10.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,026 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v26.7.0 → v26.8.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,215 high confidence
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v26.7.0
→ 30 days after: rating +0.31★ · reviews −334,763 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.30★ · reviews −335,169 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.41 → 4.30 (improved 1.89★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.30★ · reviews −335,169 high confidence
2015-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ medium · co-occurring
2010-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.77 → 4.27 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ high confidence
2010-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.07★ medium · co-occurring
2010-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.20★ high confidence
2009-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.20★ high confidence
📸
Store Page History
6 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.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 831 reviews across 9 markets● 37% positive · ● 19% neutral · ● 44% negative · Rating drift: -2.41★ (declining — recent 50: 2.22★ vs lifetime: 4.63★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.20
🇬🇧 GB
+0.00
🇺🇸 US
-0.02
🇨🇦 CA
-0.02
🇫🇷 FR
-0.04
🇦🇺 AU
-0.06
🇧🇷 BR
-0.11
🇯🇵 JP
-0.11
🇩🇪 DE
-0.35
Top praise themes
traveling germany ×6 easy navigate ×5 travel germany ×5 new update ×5 one stop ×4 plan trips ×4 purchase tickets ×4 ist nicht ×4
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×24 buy ticket ×24 credit card ×22 apple pay ×15 new update ×12 please fix ×11 wenn man ×10 nicht mehr ×10
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.1% Bug mentions: 10% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.8%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.62815★ | 15,006 | 4.62815★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.5362★ | 4,116 | 4.5362★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.38★ | 555,767 | 4.38★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.47468★ | 3,160 | 4.47468★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.46509★ | 1,647 | 4.46509★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.59625★ | 1,652 | 4.59625★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.55802★ | 1,310 | 4.55802★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.83361★ | 1,196 | 4.83361★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.81152★ | 2,483 | 4.81152★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for DB Navigator: 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 high confidence: 14,727 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does DB Navigator make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, DB Navigator earns approximately $700K/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 DB Navigator profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $210K and monthly revenue $700K, DB Navigator 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 DB Navigator have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.2M lifetime downloads, ~36K monthly active users, and ~16K 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 DB Navigator?▴
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What is DB Navigator built with?▴
Our heuristic places DB Navigator 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 DB Navigator still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would DB Navigator sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $13.0M (marketplace range $9.5M – $17.0M). Calculated as 18× 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 DB Navigator last updated?▴
DB Navigator last shipped a new version on 2026-09-15 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes DB Navigator?▴
DB Navigator is published by Deutsche Bahn 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 DB Navigator's BU Score?▴
DB Navigator has a BU Score of 77/100 (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.