82
BU Score
Excellent
MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking
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MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking is an iOS app from MarineTraffic Applications LTD in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 64,833 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Travel app, that means strong product-market fit.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (64,833 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Single-language (English only)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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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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 →💾 130 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v5.4.0🔄 updated 2d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)
📝 About this app
Welcome to MarineTraffic.
You spoke, we listened. Based on feedback from our customers, the MarineTraffic app has been updated to deliver a faster, clearer, and more reliable way to track vessels and monitor maritime activity worldwide.
MarineTraffic is used by maritime professionals, shipping companies, port authorities, and enthusiasts around the world. With MarineTraffic 2.0, the experience you rely on has been improved, while keeping the core tools you already know and trust.
If you’ve used MarineTraffic before, you’ll feel at home straight away. The main features remain familiar, now supported by better performance, clearer maps, and a more stable foundation built for the future.
With MarineTraffic, you can:
Track vessels live worldwide using AIS data
View ship positions, movements, and voyage history with key events along the route
Build and monitor your chosen fleet by following specific vessels
Access detailed vessel information such as type, destination, speed, and course
Explore enhanced maps with close weather monitoring, including wind conditions
A unified MarineTraffic experience
The new MarineTraffic brings core tools together into one unified mobile app experience. The new app focuses on clarity, reliability, and ease of use, improving performance while keeping the experience familiar.
Maps load faster, interactions feel smoother, and information is presented more clearly, supporting both everyday use and professional maritime workflows.
What’s improved in MarineTraffic:
Faster performance across maps and weather views
Clearer visuals and smoother interactions throughout the app
Improved platform stability and reliability
All your key tools in one app, including close weather monitoring
Unlock more with the Mobile Pro Plan
The Mobile Pro Plan brings advanced capabilities together for users who need deeper visibility and extended coverage.
With Mobile Pro, you can:
Track vessels beyond coastal coverage using Satellite AIS, including activity in open oceans
Access advanced fleet monitoring tools for wider oversight
Follow vessels with extended historical data and deeper insights
Gain access to additional maritime data layers for professional use
Mobile Pro expands your vessel tracking capabilities when standard AIS coverage is not enough.
Mobile Pro is designed for users who need a broader, more complete view of global vessel movement.
Designed for real-world use
MarineTraffic is used in many different ways, from fleet management to vessel tracking. MarineTraffic is designed to support these use cases without adding unnecessary complexity.
You can follow vessels and fleets important to you, set up alerts, and explore global vessel traffic in real time. Vessel details, voyage history, and close weather monitoring are accessible in one place, helping you stay informed without switching between tools.
MarineTraffic builds on everything users already rely on, with a faster, clearer, and more dependable mobile experience designed to support maritime activity around the world.
Download MarineTraffic to explore global vessel traffic with improved speed, clarity, and reliability.
You spoke, we listened. Based on feedback from our customers, the MarineTraffic app has been updated to deliver a faster, clearer, and more reliable way to track vessels and monitor maritime activity worldwide.
MarineTraffic is used by maritime professionals, shipping companies, port authorities, and enthusiasts around the world. With MarineTraffic 2.0, the experience you rely on has been improved, while keeping the core tools you already know and trust.
If you’ve used MarineTraffic before, you’ll feel at home straight away. The main features remain familiar, now supported by better performance, clearer maps, and a more stable foundation built for the future.
With MarineTraffic, you can:
Track vessels live worldwide using AIS data
View ship positions, movements, and voyage history with key events along the route
Build and monitor your chosen fleet by following specific vessels
Access detailed vessel information such as type, destination, speed, and course
Explore enhanced maps with close weather monitoring, including wind conditions
A unified MarineTraffic experience
The new MarineTraffic brings core tools together into one unified mobile app experience. The new app focuses on clarity, reliability, and ease of use, improving performance while keeping the experience familiar.
Maps load faster, interactions feel smoother, and information is presented more clearly, supporting both everyday use and professional maritime workflows.
What’s improved in MarineTraffic:
Faster performance across maps and weather views
Clearer visuals and smoother interactions throughout the app
Improved platform stability and reliability
All your key tools in one app, including close weather monitoring
Unlock more with the Mobile Pro Plan
The Mobile Pro Plan brings advanced capabilities together for users who need deeper visibility and extended coverage.
With Mobile Pro, you can:
Track vessels beyond coastal coverage using Satellite AIS, including activity in open oceans
Access advanced fleet monitoring tools for wider oversight
Follow vessels with extended historical data and deeper insights
Gain access to additional maritime data layers for professional use
Mobile Pro expands your vessel tracking capabilities when standard AIS coverage is not enough.
Mobile Pro is designed for users who need a broader, more complete view of global vessel movement.
Designed for real-world use
MarineTraffic is used in many different ways, from fleet management to vessel tracking. MarineTraffic is designed to support these use cases without adding unnecessary complexity.
You can follow vessels and fleets important to you, set up alerts, and explore global vessel traffic in real time. Vessel details, voyage history, and close weather monitoring are accessible in one place, helping you stay informed without switching between tools.
MarineTraffic builds on everything users already rely on, with a faster, clearer, and more dependable mobile experience designed to support maritime activity around the world.
Download MarineTraffic to explore global vessel traffic with improved speed, clarity, and reliability.
🆕 What's New · v5.4.0
- Smoother, more harmonized navigation across the app
- Wind details added to port and ship sheets
- Vessel tracks now colored by speed
- Multiple bug fixes and small improvements
- Wind details added to port and ship sheets
- Vessel tracks now colored by speed
- Multiple bug fixes and small improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking
- Developer
- MarineTraffic Applications LTD
- Bundle ID
- com.marinetraffic.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.marinetraffic.com
- Tagline
- MarineTraffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic
- Description
- MarineTraffic Live Ships Map. Discover information and vessel positions for vessels around the world. Search the MarineTraffic ships database of more than 550000 active and decommissioned vessels. Search for popular ships globally. Find locations of ports and ships using the near Real Time ships map. View vessel details and ship photos.
- Founded
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- HQ / Address
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- Employees
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- Logo
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Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $29.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇬🇧#5 /100 🇮🇳#5 /100 🇨🇦#6 /100 🇫🇷#7 /100 🇦🇺#8 /100 🇯🇵#9 /100 🇩🇪#14 /100
- All-time revenue
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- Pricing
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Founder
- Name
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- X / Twitter
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- GitHub
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Funding
- Total raised
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- Last round
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Press & Links
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Contacts & Socials
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.45★ · 4.1% 5★ · 79.6% 1★
5★2 (4%)
4★2 (4%)
3★2 (4%)
2★4 (8%)
1★39 (80%)
+72 ratings/week
Praise: great ×6 love ×1 recommend ×1 best ×1 perfect ×1Complaints: terrible ×8 subscription ×7 expensive ×1 bug ×1 broken ×1
Top positive
★★★★☆ 2.0 is a major downgrade
I am a harbor pilot, used to use this app daily to monitor traffic and the locations of assist tugs when traveling to/from a ship or when the vessel’s AIS was inoperable/had insufficient range. This 2.0 update has made this app impractical.…
★★★★★ Not good
The new look is not the same. The water is not pitch black. Functions are gone. Ease of use is gone. Bad “upgrade”.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Great once now ruined
You have to have an account to use now. You can’t opt out of personal data sharing. Used to be a great app.
Corporate greed run amuck.
Just use the website.…
★☆☆☆☆ What a downgrade
I used to love this app, then bam, all the features are gone! It took painstaking effort adding my buddies to my fleet .. gone! But hey, now I can pay for stuff I don’t want and I have a cool new UI. Vessel Finder here I come.…
📈Ratings growth64,833 ratings+27% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (46 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution●Top 10●Top 30●Top 60
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇬🇧GB#5 /100
🇮🇳IN#5 /100
🇨🇦CA#6 /100
🇫🇷FR#7 /100
🇦🇺AU#8 /100
🇯🇵JP#9 /100
🇩🇪DE#14 /100
🇺🇸US#15 /100
🇧🇷BR#21 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#5 now · best #5 · worst #58
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
