55
BU Score
Solid
National Rail
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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National Rail is an iOS app from National Rail in the Travel category, currently rated 4.6★ across 53 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 55 — 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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (53 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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
Jul 24
Aug 24
Nov 24
Apr 26
⭐ 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 →💾 5 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v10.4.0🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Free🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)
📝 About this app
Your journey, simplified. Get live train times, plan routes, buy tickets, and receive real-time updates—all in one app. Travel smarter with National Rail.
Travel with confidence across the British rail network. The National Rail app is your essential companion for stress-free train travel.
Plan your journey with our intelligent route planner. Find the fastest connections, compare train times, and get live departure boards for any station.
Buy tickets, access Railcard discounts and find the best value Season Tickets all in one place.
Stay informed with real-time updates on delays, platform changes, and disruptions. Receive email, SMS, or WhatsApp notifications so you're always in the know during your commute.
My Travel. Save our favourite stations and journeys in Live Trains and Journey Planner for quicker results and less clicking.
Status and Disruptions. Find out about anything that might impact your journey.
Travel with confidence across the British rail network. The National Rail app is your essential companion for stress-free train travel.
Plan your journey with our intelligent route planner. Find the fastest connections, compare train times, and get live departure boards for any station.
Buy tickets, access Railcard discounts and find the best value Season Tickets all in one place.
Stay informed with real-time updates on delays, platform changes, and disruptions. Receive email, SMS, or WhatsApp notifications so you're always in the know during your commute.
My Travel. Save our favourite stations and journeys in Live Trains and Journey Planner for quicker results and less clicking.
Status and Disruptions. Find out about anything that might impact your journey.
🆕 What's New · v10.4.0
Bug fixes and enhancements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- National Rail
- Developer
- National Rail
- Bundle ID
- uk.co.nationalrail.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- nationalrail.co.uk
- Tagline
- Plan Your Journey
- Description
- The gateway to Britain's national rail network. The portal to rail travel, including train times, information, fares enquiries, promotions and tickets
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $619/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://twitter.com/nationalrailenq/
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook · instagram · twitter
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- http://nationalrail.co.uk/help-and-assistance/
- About page
- http://nationalrail.co.uk/travel-information/find-a-train-company/
⭐Recent App Store Reviews33 latest · avg 1.88★ · 12.1% 5★ · 63.6% 1★
5★4 (12%)
4★2 (6%)
3★1 (3%)
2★5 (15%)
1★21 (64%)
+31 ratings/week
Praise: great ×3 perfect ×1Complaints: worst ×2 hate ×1 bug ×1 scam ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Fooding day
Buenisima nos salvo el dia de las inundaciones en Escocia !
Graciassss…
★★★★★ Why duplicate?
This app looks very nice, slick modern interface. But apart from the new wake up feature and moving everything around, how is this different than the existing Train Times app the National Rail already put out? They seem to have the same fun…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Ad placements prevent ticket purchases
banner ads at the bottom of the page with unresponsive buttons to close them out prevent the user from actually being able to search train times and commit to purchasing tickets. If you have banner ads, don’t make them immovable over the on…
★☆☆☆☆ Poor interface
This has to be considered a downgrade. It’s clumsily. It’s not intuitively designed like the old version. Please discard this version and maintain the older version.…
📈Ratings growth53 ratings+2550% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (32 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
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