Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights
81
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights is an iOS app from Skiplagged in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 41,786 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 81: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Travel app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$154/mo · 41K ratings · 4.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~8 months 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 (84 MB) | +$13K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$19K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~2.4× return on build cost
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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
4.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
455K
Daily active
68K
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 |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🔬
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)
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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.77★ across 41,786 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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. Portfolio play ($11K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (41,786 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (6 languages)METRIC | +$600 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights
- Developer
- Skiplagged
- Bundle ID
- com.skiplagged
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, PL, PT, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- skiplagged.com
- Tagline
- Ridiculous travel deals you can't find anywhere else.
- Description
- Skiplagged is an airfare search engine for cheap flights, showing hidden-city ticketing trips. Save up to 80% on airfare today!
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $11.0K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/Skiplagged · instagram instagram.com/skiplagged · tiktok tiktok.com/@skiplagged · twitter twitter.com/skiplagged
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- skiplagged.com/about
📈Ratings growth41,786 ratings+5% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Find cheap flights and hotel rates you won’t see anywhere else. Save hundreds of dollars compared to other travel sites.
Discover extraordinary travel deals, set fare alerts, and uncover great hotel rates.
We’re so good, United Airlines actually sued us for it!
• Find flights other search engines won’t show you -- including HIDDEN-CITY flights and arbitrary round-trips
• Filter flights by duration, number of layovers, takeoff/landing time and more
• Our powerful search engine pulls in the best deals to save you from having to google flights and check multiple sites… View full description on the official store →
Discover extraordinary travel deals, set fare alerts, and uncover great hotel rates.
We’re so good, United Airlines actually sued us for it!
• Find flights other search engines won’t show you -- including HIDDEN-CITY flights and arbitrary round-trips
• Filter flights by duration, number of layovers, takeoff/landing time and more
• Our powerful search engine pulls in the best deals to save you from having to google flights and check multiple sites… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 84 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v3.14.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, PL, PT, ZH +1📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
18 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 →
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +148 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v3.12.0 → v3.14.0
→ 30 days after: revenue −$12.7K/mo · rating −0.05★ · reviews −289,300 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: revenue −$12.7K/mo · rating −0.05★ · reviews −289,300 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$12.7K/mo · rating +1.30★ · reviews +328,227 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.80 (improved 1.30★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$12.7K/mo · rating +1.30★ · reviews +328,227 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$12.7K/mo · rating +1.30★ · reviews +328,227 medium · co-occurring
2023-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +12 medium · co-occurring
2023-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.10★ · reviews +31 low · multiple changes
2022-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +11 high confidence
2022-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.27★ · reviews +16 high confidence
2022-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 2.92 (dropped 0.75★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.15★ high confidence
2022-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.15★ high confidence
2022-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.60★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2022-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.60★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2022-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.75 → 3.40 (dropped 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.75★ · reviews +10 high confidence
2022-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.75★ · reviews +10 medium · co-occurring
2022-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.75★ · reviews +10 medium · co-occurring
2022-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.75★ · reviews +10 medium · co-occurring
📸
Store Page History
8 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-23
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-23
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-23
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-23
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-23
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-23
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.66993★ | 918 | 4.66993★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.8975★ | 9,650 | 4.8975★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.747★ | 7,344 | 4.747★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.59122★ | 592 | 4.59122★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.72018★ | 897 | 4.72018★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.67806★ | 1,609 | 4.67806★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.60375★ | 1,012 | 4.60375★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.64642★ | 280 | 4.64642★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83268★ | 333,548 | 4.83268★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 99% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 41,786 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights earns approximately $10K/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.
What apps are like Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights?▴
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Who makes Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights?▴
Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights is published by Skiplagged 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 Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights's BU Score?▴
Skiplagged - Exclusive Flights has a BU Score of 81/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.