73
BU Score
Strong
Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels is an iOS app from Hotwire, Inc. in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 144,609 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 73 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Travel app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 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:
| High install base (144,609 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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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⭐ 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 →💾 110 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.1+🔖 v18.8.4🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Free🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)
📝 About this app
Save even more with exclusive, last-minute travel deals in the Hotwire app. Hot Rate® deals make booking travel easy, exciting, and affordable!
1. You pick the star-rating, location, amenities, and price.
2. We reveal your top-notch, deeply-discounted hotel right after booking.
3. Done and done.
We've added new ways for you to hack your trip and get the best deal, available only on the app:
• Discounted pricing and app-only coupons. Saving cash looks good on you.
• Draw your ideal neighborhood. Circle a specific location on the map, and we’ll find you a Hot Rate® Hotel right there.
• Sync with your schedule. You can add trip details directly to your calendar in a matter of seconds.
The Hotwire app packs in everything our customers love about our site—and more—including:
• Unbeatable deals up to the last minute. Hotwire is the go-to app for booking money-saving, unforgettable trips. Book weeks in advance or the day of. Either way, Hotwire has you covered.
• Thousands of hotels to choose from. Think: trendy, boutique properties and iconic brands like Fairmont, Hyatt, and Marriott.
• Get 1 of 2 Hot Rate® Hotels. Hacking your Hot Rate® just got easier in the app. We’ll show two hotels, and you’re guaranteed to stay at one of them.
• Our low price guarantee. Book with confidence—our rates won’t be beat.
• 24/7 customer service. Message our team with any questions, day or night.
NEW iOS 14 Features!
DEAL WIDGET: Plan a last-minute getaway in just a few taps with Hotwire’s new deal widget! Check out top weekend deals near you, right from your home screen. Just add the widget and enable location services to get goin’.
APP CLIP: New to Hotwire? Try out our App Clip, available via Hotwire.com on your mobile device. See app-exclusive features, including hotel reviews, and quickly book using Apple Pay. The App Clip will also keep your reservation details on your home screen for up to 10 days. Can’t get enough? You can also easily download the full Hotwire app!
1. You pick the star-rating, location, amenities, and price.
2. We reveal your top-notch, deeply-discounted hotel right after booking.
3. Done and done.
We've added new ways for you to hack your trip and get the best deal, available only on the app:
• Discounted pricing and app-only coupons. Saving cash looks good on you.
• Draw your ideal neighborhood. Circle a specific location on the map, and we’ll find you a Hot Rate® Hotel right there.
• Sync with your schedule. You can add trip details directly to your calendar in a matter of seconds.
The Hotwire app packs in everything our customers love about our site—and more—including:
• Unbeatable deals up to the last minute. Hotwire is the go-to app for booking money-saving, unforgettable trips. Book weeks in advance or the day of. Either way, Hotwire has you covered.
• Thousands of hotels to choose from. Think: trendy, boutique properties and iconic brands like Fairmont, Hyatt, and Marriott.
• Get 1 of 2 Hot Rate® Hotels. Hacking your Hot Rate® just got easier in the app. We’ll show two hotels, and you’re guaranteed to stay at one of them.
• Our low price guarantee. Book with confidence—our rates won’t be beat.
• 24/7 customer service. Message our team with any questions, day or night.
NEW iOS 14 Features!
DEAL WIDGET: Plan a last-minute getaway in just a few taps with Hotwire’s new deal widget! Check out top weekend deals near you, right from your home screen. Just add the widget and enable location services to get goin’.
APP CLIP: New to Hotwire? Try out our App Clip, available via Hotwire.com on your mobile device. See app-exclusive features, including hotel reviews, and quickly book using Apple Pay. The App Clip will also keep your reservation details on your home screen for up to 10 days. Can’t get enough? You can also easily download the full Hotwire app!
🆕 What's New · v18.8.4
Bug fix and maintenance.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels
- Developer
- Hotwire, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.hotwire.Hotwire
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Find the best deals on the cheapest hotels, cars & flights with Hotwire. Save big on hotels and cars with Hotwire Hot Rates.
- 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
- $2.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- 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
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available data on the specific revenue of the iOS app "Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels" is not available. Hotwire, Inc. operates on a model where it earns commissions from hotel bookings made through its platform, including the app, by selling unsold travel inventory at discounted prices. The app itself is free to download.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Reddit, Apple App Store, Wikipedia
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.06★ · 22.4% 5★ · 67.3% 1★
5★11 (22%)
4★0 (0%)
3★3 (6%)
2★2 (4%)
1★33 (67%)
+85,733 ratings/week
Praise: best ×6 great ×6 amazing ×2 love ×2 awesome ×1Complaints: refund ×7 worst ×4 terrible ×4 crash ×2 scam ×2
Top positive
★★★★★ My go to every time! Hotel/car
I get the best deals every time!
I’ve stayed at the best hotel for very reasonable prices. I love top notch but I travel so much, that I need to balance out my cash!! The all helps!♥️im a fan… seamless checkin everytime!…
★★★★★ Very happy Exellent
I have about seven years that I use Hotwire, And I am very happy with this app always booking here for the cars and hotels. I had two experiences where I had to cancel or to change the dates of my reservations and customer service is excell…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Trips don’t show up
Can’t even see the upcoming trips…
★☆☆☆☆ worst customer service
we are tired and book a room, took our money right away. we went to the hotel they can't find the reservation and saying that they are fully booked. we called hoteire and the customer representative said that he's sorry but we ca…
📈Ratings growth144,609 ratings+27% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (53 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 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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