How much does Marine Navigation make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Marine Navigation earns approximately $4.9K/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 Marine Navigation profitable?

With estimated build cost $195K and monthly revenue $4.9K, Marine Navigation looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.2 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 Marine Navigation have?

Estimated audience: ~45K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Marine Navigation?

Browse the full Maps & Navigation category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.

What is Marine Navigation built with?

Our heuristic places Marine Navigation on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.

Is Marine Navigation still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (40% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Marine Navigation sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $150K (marketplace range $100K – $175K). Calculated as 28× 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 Marine Navigation last updated?

Marine Navigation last shipped a new version on 2026-05-14 — 4 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Marine Navigation?

Marine Navigation is published by Marco Palaferri on the Google Play 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 Marine Navigation's BU Score?

Marine Navigation has a BU Score of 55/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Marine Navigation

Quality Score

Solid

Marine Navigation

Name: Marine Navigation — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Marine Navigation revenue, Marine Navigation app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Maps & Navigation revenue, Android app revenue

by Marco Palaferri

Medium confidence

3.7 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Marine Navigation is an Android app from Marco Palaferri in the Maps & Navigation category, currently rated 3.7★ across 430 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.

Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Maps & Navigation app, that means established niche player. 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

$4.9K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$4.3K – $15.6K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$4.0K – $36.0K

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

3.7

Reviews

430 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$4.9K

Snapshots tracked

since Jun 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$195K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $145K – $265K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~3.2y 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
💎 In-app purchase plumbing	+$9K
⚙ Maps & Navigation complexity ×1.20	+$11K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$39K
⚙ 14.2y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$85K

Total estimate $195K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$150K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 28× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.8× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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

💎 IAP / freemium model base	28× MRR
📅 14.2y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed)	-8%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 28× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

45K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

3.6K

Daily active

1.4K

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

📲 Maps & Navigation engagement	~150 installs / rating
📅 14.2y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Maps & Navigation D30 retention	30%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.40

DAU / MAU 39% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🤖

Native Android (Kotlin)

High confidence · 80%

Also possible

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

🏷 Category context	Maps & Navigation
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

40%

Last shipped 2026-05-14 · 135 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

📅 4 months since last update	Slowing cadence
👥 Small user base (430 ratings) + 14.2y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$4.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$4.2K – $9.8K

12 months

$4.3K – $15.6K

24 months

$4.0K – $36.0K

Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Early-stage solo · 50/100INDIE TIERexpected for tier

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

3.7

Product Quality

5.2

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

4.0

Defensibility

8.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $12K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.69★ across 430 reviews — below category median.
📍 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 = $88K-$158K.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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 5 of 5 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Paid app ($19.99)METRIC		+$2,800
subscriptionREVIEW		+$2,500
Mature app (14y old)METRIC		+$1,500
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
Early-stage install base (430 ratings)METRIC		+$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Marine Navigation
Developer: Marco Palaferri
Bundle ID: air.it.palaferri.fishpointsamerigo
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Maps & Navigation
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.fishpoints.net
Tagline: Not found
Description: Not found
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Reported revenue signal / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
Model estimate / mo: $4.9K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $5.99 per item

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.

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

<h3>MARINE NAVIGATION — Offline GPS Chartplotter You Own Forever</h3>

Tired of apps renting your maps every year? Worried about your secret fishing spots being tracked or sold? It’s time to take back control.

Marine Navigation is the GPS chartplotter you buy once and own for life. No hidden fees, no forced subscriptions. Since 2009, sailors, fishermen, and sea lovers have trusted us for reliable, offline navigation that respects their privacy.

<h3>CHOOSE YOUR WAY TO NAVIGATE</h3>

<b>Try Free:</b> Download Marine Navigation Lite to explore the basics.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v16.5.10🔄 updated 4mo ago📂 Maps & Navigation💰 Free💎 IAP $5.99 per item🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)

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