Copa Airlines
45
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Copa Airlines is an iOS app from Copa Airlines in the Travel category, currently rated 3.1★ across 601 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 45: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Travel app, that means early traction worth watching. 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 tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
131 snapshots on record
Rating
3.1
Reviews
601 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
131
since Aug 2012
🤖Also on Android
—/mo · 9K ratings · 3.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$205K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $155K – $275K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.4y 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 (175 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 14.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$85K |
Total estimate
$205K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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 |
| 📅 14.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
46K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.2K
Daily active
180
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 |
| 📅 14.2y 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 · 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 | 175 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Travel |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-10 · 22 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
| 📅 22 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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
Stalled · 35/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
2.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
4.7
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.07★ across 601 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — rating drift -1.75 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (601 ratings)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 · v17.3.33
Our latest update makes your journey smoother from start to finish
- General enhancements and bug fixes
- General enhancements and bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Copa Airlines
- Developer
- Copa Airlines
- Bundle ID
- com.ncr.copasub
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, PT, ES
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
- $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 growth642 ratings+435% 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 Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
The Copa Airlines app, your travel companion.
Welcome to our mobile app, where we provide you with an enhanced and streamlined travel experience, with quick access to your flight details.
Here are some of the features you can enjoy:
BOOKING
Easily search for and book your next trip through our redesigned booking flow. Once your reservation is completed, your trip will automatically be added to the My Trips section.
MY TRIPS
Keep track of your upcoming trips, view all flight details and updates, and access useful features at the right time, such as:
• Seat selection and purchase… View full description on the official store →
Welcome to our mobile app, where we provide you with an enhanced and streamlined travel experience, with quick access to your flight details.
Here are some of the features you can enjoy:
BOOKING
Easily search for and book your next trip through our redesigned booking flow. Once your reservation is completed, your trip will automatically be added to the My Trips section.
MY TRIPS
Keep track of your upcoming trips, view all flight details and updates, and access useful features at the right time, such as:
• Seat selection and purchase… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 175 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v17.3.33🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN, FR, PT, ES📂 Travel💰 Free🚀 Launched 2012 (14y 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
🔧
Shipped update — v17.2.19 → v17.3.33
→ 30 days after: reviews +16 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v17.1.31 → v17.2.19
→ 30 days after: reviews +25 high confidence
2026-07
📦
Bundle ↑ 136MB → 182MB — likely major code refresh
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v17.0.18 → v17.1.31
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-06
📦
Bundle ↑ 99MB → 136MB — likely major code refresh
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v16.8.30 → v17.0.18
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.60 → 3.10 (improved 1.50★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.10★ medium · co-occurring
2013-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.50 → 2.17 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ high confidence
2012-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2012-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.00 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.00★ low · multiple changes
2012-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −1.00★ high confidence
2012-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.00★ high confidence
2012-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 125 reviews across 3 markets● 21% positive · ● 35% neutral · ● 44% negative · Rating drift: -1.75★ (declining — recent 50: 1.32★ vs lifetime: 3.07★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇧🇷 BR
-0.08
🇺🇸 US
-0.17
🇬🇧 GB
-0.32
Top praise themes
boarding pass ×3 siempre ×3 que ×3 airline ×3
Top complaint themes
não funciona ×16 não consigo ×12 boarding pass ×7 doesn work ×5 boarding passes ×4 able book ×3 passbook integration ×3 péssima experiência ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.8% Bug mentions: 3%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2★ | 4 | 2★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.46702★ | 182 | 2.46702★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.66667★ | 42 | 2.66667★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 1.91667★ | 12 | 1.91667★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.08333★ | 12 | 2.08333★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1★ | 6 | 1★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.04348★ | 644 | 3.04348★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Copa Airlines: 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 medium confidence: 601 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Copa Airlines make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Copa Airlines 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 Copa Airlines profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $205K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Copa Airlines looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.4 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 Copa Airlines have?▴
Estimated audience: ~46K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~180 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 Copa Airlines?▴
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What is Copa Airlines built with?▴
Our heuristic places Copa Airlines on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) 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 Copa Airlines still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 22 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Copa Airlines sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 14× 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 Copa Airlines last updated?▴
Copa Airlines last shipped a new version on 2026-09-10 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Copa Airlines?▴
Copa Airlines is published by Copa Airlines 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 Copa Airlines's BU Score?▴
Copa Airlines has a BU Score of 45/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.