How much does Chicago Transit Tracker Lite make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Chicago Transit Tracker Lite earns approximately $652/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 Transit Tracker Lite profitable?

With estimated build cost $80K and monthly revenue $652, Chicago Transit Tracker Lite 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.

How many users does Chicago Transit Tracker Lite have?

Estimated audience: ~320K lifetime downloads, ~48K monthly active users, and ~9K 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 Chicago Transit Tracker Lite?

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What is Chicago Transit Tracker Lite built with?

Our heuristic places Chicago Transit Tracker Lite 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 Transit Tracker Lite still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (72% 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.

How much would Chicago Transit Tracker Lite sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5.0K – $15K). Calculated as 15× 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 Transit Tracker Lite last updated?

Chicago Transit Tracker Lite last shipped a new version on 2025-07-06 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Chicago Transit Tracker Lite?

Chicago Transit Tracker Lite is published by jsdf, LLC 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 Transit Tracker Lite's BU Score?

Chicago Transit Tracker Lite has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.

Chicago Transit Tracker Lite

Quality Score

Solid

Chicago Transit Tracker Lite

Name: Chicago Transit Tracker Lite — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Chicago Transit Tracker Lite revenue, Chicago Transit Tracker Lite app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Travel & Local revenue, Android app revenue

by jsdf, LLC

Medium confidence

4.3 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Chicago Transit Tracker Lite is an Android app from jsdf, LLC in the Travel & Local category, currently rated 4.3★ across 2,137 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 60: Solid (established niche player). For a Travel & Local 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

$652

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$570 – $2057

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$529 – $4757

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.3

Reviews

2,137 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$652

Snapshots tracked

since Sep 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$80K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $60K – $110K

$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
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$27K

Total estimate $80K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$10K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $5K – $15K · 15× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.1× build cost (under-water)

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

Final multiple 15× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

320K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

48K

Daily active

9.6K

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 & Local engagement	~150 installs / rating
🔁 Travel & Local D30 retention	15%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% 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	Travel & Local
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

72%

Last shipped 2025-07-06 · 447 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 2mo since last update

Likely deprioritized

Verdict Likely abandoned

🔬

How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$652/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

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

6 months

$556 – $1.3K

12 months

$570 – $2.1K

24 months

$529 – $4.8K

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

Pre-traction · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Revenue Strength

2.8

Product Quality

7.8

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

3.5

Operational Safety

7.0

Founder Strength

4.3

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $261 - $1631/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.31★ across 2,137 reviews — strong (top 10%).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 447d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (447d 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 = $11K-$20K.

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:

Low install base (2,137 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.3★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

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: Chicago Transit Tracker Lite
Developer: jsdf, LLC
Bundle ID: com.jasonshah.ctatracker
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Travel & Local
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: jsdfllc.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: $653/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

Chicago Transit Tracker is the fastest way to see when multiple buses or trains are coming. You can create and track an unlimited number of routes, and see your closest route based on your location. View CTA system maps, and follow CTA alerts, quickly and easily. Used by more riders than any other transit app in Chicago.

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