How much does WTA BusTracker make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, WTA BusTracker earns approximately $98/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 WTA BusTracker profitable?

With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $98, WTA BusTracker looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

What apps are like WTA BusTracker?

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What is WTA BusTracker built with?

Our heuristic places WTA BusTracker 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 WTA BusTracker still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (82% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was WTA BusTracker last updated?

WTA BusTracker last shipped a new version on 2025-08-11 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes WTA BusTracker?

WTA BusTracker is published by Whatcom Transportation Authority 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 WTA BusTracker's BU Score?

WTA BusTracker has a BU Score of 48/100 (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.

WTA BusTracker

Quality Score

Emerging

WTA BusTracker

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

by Whatcom Transportation Authority

Low confidence

3.9 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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WTA BusTracker is an Android app from Whatcom Transportation Authority in the Maps & Navigation category, currently rated 3.9★ across 61 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.

Quality Score is 48: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Maps & Navigation 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

$98

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$49 – $460

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$49 – $1378

per month

MICRO tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

3.9

Reviews

61 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$98

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$135K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $100K – $180K

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

📈 Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost

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
⚙ Maps & Navigation complexity ×1.20	+$10K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$33K
⚙ 6.5y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$38K

Total estimate $135K

🛠 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

Likely abandoned

82%

Last shipped 2025-08-11 · 414 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

📅 1y 1mo since last update	Likely deprioritized
👥 Small user base (61 ratings) + 6.5y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$98/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

6 months

$63 – $251

12 months

$49 – $460

24 months

$49 – $1.4K

Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Insufficient data · 30/100MICRO TIERtoo early to score

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

2.5

Product Quality

3.1

Revenue Strength

2.0

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

3.6

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

7.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.93★ across 61 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 413d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (413d since update).

🎯 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 = $1K-$3K.

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 3 of 3 triggers

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

Established app (6y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Pre-traction phase (61 ratings)METRIC		−$300

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: WTA BusTracker
Developer: Whatcom Transportation Authority
Bundle ID: com.WTA.BusTracker
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Maps & Navigation
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: bustracker.ridewta.com
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: $99/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
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.

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

Catching the bus in Bellingham or Whatcom County? With WTA’s BusTracker, you can track your bus in real time. Plus, you can find your nearest stop, view our route map, and plan your upcoming trips—all from your mobile device! 

To view your bus in real time, click on “Real Time Map,” select a route, and look for the bus-in-a-circle icon. To plan a trip, click “Trip Planner” and enter your start and end locations. Using “Stop Times,” you can see all the buses on the way to your nearest stop.

App Specs

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🔖 v1.4.3🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Maps & Navigation💰 Free🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)

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