How much does Motel One make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Motel One earns approximately $5.0K/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 Motel One profitable?

With estimated build cost $215K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Motel One looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.6 years 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 Motel One have?

Estimated audience: ~47K lifetime downloads, ~940 monthly active users, and ~140 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 Motel One?

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 Motel One built with?

Our heuristic places Motel One 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 Motel One still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Motel One sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 19× 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 Motel One last updated?

Motel One last shipped a new version on 2026-07-30 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Motel One is published by One Hotels & Resorts AG 2010 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 Motel One's BU Score?

Motel One has a BU Score of 67/100 (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.

Motel One

Quality Score

Solid

Motel One

Name: Motel One — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Motel One revenue, Motel One app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Travel revenue, iOS app revenue

by One Hotels & Resorts AG 2010

Medium confidence

4.8 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Motel One is an iOS app from One Hotels & Resorts AG 2010 in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 614 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 67: 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

$5.0K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$5.2K – $10.8K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$6.4K – $19.2K

per month

MID tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

16 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.8

Reviews

614 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since Apr 2011

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$215K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $160K – $290K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~3.6y 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 (246 MB)	+$40K
⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30	+$27K
⚙ 16.1y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$96K

Total estimate $215K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$100K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.5× build cost (under-water)

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
📅 16.1y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 19× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

47K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

940

Daily active

140

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
📅 16.1y 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	246 MB
🏷 Category context	Travel
📦 Large iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets

💀 Maintenance status

Active

15%

Last shipped 2026-07-30 · 65 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

📅 65 days since last update

Healthy release cadence

Verdict Active

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$4.7K – $7.9K

12 months

$5.2K – $10.8K

24 months

$6.4K – $19.2K

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 · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

3.0

Product Quality

6.7

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

4.5

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 614 reviews — solid.
📍 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 = $90K-$160K.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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:

Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC		+$2,200
Mature app (16y old)METRIC		+$1,500
too expensiveREVIEW		−$1,000
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Early-stage install base (614 ratings)METRIC		+$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v8.1.1

With this app update, guests can now use their phone as their room key via NFC after a successful online check-in. This feature is currently available exclusively at Motel One Munich East-Side, with more hotels following soon.… Full release notes →

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Motel One
Developer: One Hotels & Resorts AG 2010
Bundle ID: com.motelone.motelone
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Travel
Content rating: 4+
Languages: EN, DE

Company

Website: Not found
Tagline: Not found
Description: Not found
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Reported revenue signal / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
Model estimate / mo: $5.0K/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 growth683 ratings+68200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (16 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

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App Specs

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💾 246 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v8.1.1🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN, DE📂 Travel💰 Free🚀 Launched 2010 (16y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

11 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 →

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v8.1 → v8.1.1

→ 30 days after: reviews +23 medium · co-occurring

2026-07

📦

Bundle ↑ 172MB → 258MB — likely major code refresh

→ 30 days after: reviews +23 medium · co-occurring

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v8.0.1 → v8.1

→ 30 days after: reviews +19 high confidence

2026-05

🔄

Monetization changed: freemium → free

→ 30 days after: reviews +17 high confidence

2026-03

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 3.40 → 4.80 (improved 1.40★)

2024-05

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2023-05

⭐

Rating ↓ 3.86 → 3.50 (dropped 0.36★)

→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ high confidence

2023-01

⭐

Rating ↓ 4.17 → 3.86 (dropped 0.31★)

2022-11

⭐

Rating ↓ 4.80 → 4.17 (dropped 0.63★)

→ 30 days after: rating −0.31★ medium · co-occurring

2011-04

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

🌍

Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.67188★	64	4.67188★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	4.94444★	72	4.94444★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.81897★	116	4.81897★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.821★	42,096	4.821★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.78205★	390	4.78205★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.8765★	1,749	4.8765★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	4.59375★	32	4.59375★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.5★	24	4.5★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.81871★	684	4.81871★ this version

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