Chicago Bikes
40
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Chicago Bikes is an Android app from AltairApps in the Maps & Navigation category, currently rated 3.2★ across 47 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 40: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
1 snapshots on record
Rating
3.2
Reviews
47 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
1
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$165K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $125K – $225K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.8y 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 |
| ⚙ 9.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$54K |
Total estimate
$165K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 25× 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 |
| 📅 9.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
25× MRR
🛠 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
95%
Last shipped 2024-01-15 · 990 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
| 📅 2y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (47 ratings) + 9.1y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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 · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
2.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
9.8
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.18★ across 47 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 990d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (990d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (47 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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
- Chicago Bikes
- Developer
- AltairApps
- Bundle ID
- com.altairapps.divvybikes
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Maps & Navigation
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- altairapps.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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $7.49 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
Unofficial app to view detailed information about the stations of the Divvy Bikes rental service in Chicago.
- Map of the city with the position of stations showing the number of bikes and the free stands for each station. It includes also the BIKE PATH.
- You can click on a station directly on the map to expand its information.
- The map also shows your current position and it updates when you move.
- List of favorite stations categorized by groups (home, work, friends or general).
- List of stations closest to you according to your current position.
- List of all stations.… View full description on the official store →
- Map of the city with the position of stations showing the number of bikes and the free stands for each station. It includes also the BIKE PATH.
- You can click on a station directly on the map to expand its information.
- The map also shows your current position and it updates when you move.
- List of favorite stations categorized by groups (home, work, friends or general).
- List of stations closest to you according to your current position.
- List of all stations.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v2.6.3🔄 updated 2y ago📂 Maps & Navigation💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $7.49 per item🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — altairapps.com
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 47 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Chicago Bikes make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Chicago Bikes earns approximately $5.0K/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 Chicago Bikes profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $165K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Chicago Bikes looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Chicago Bikes?▴
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 Chicago Bikes built with?▴
Our heuristic places Chicago Bikes 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 Chicago Bikes still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Chicago Bikes sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $175K). Calculated as 25× 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 Chicago Bikes last updated?▴
Chicago Bikes last shipped a new version on 2024-01-15 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Chicago Bikes?▴
Chicago Bikes is published by AltairApps 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 Chicago Bikes's BU Score?▴
Chicago Bikes has a BU Score of 40/100 (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.