How much does Plane Finder - Flight Tracker make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Plane Finder - Flight Tracker earns approximately $890/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.

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Who makes Plane Finder - Flight Tracker?

Plane Finder - Flight Tracker is published by pinkfroot limited 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 Plane Finder - Flight Tracker's BU Score?

Plane Finder - Flight Tracker has a BU Score of 68/100 (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.

Plane Finder - Flight Tracker

Quality Score

Solid

Plane Finder - Flight Tracker

Name: Plane Finder - Flight Tracker — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Plane Finder - Flight Tracker revenue, Plane Finder - Flight Tracker app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Travel & Local revenue, Android app revenue

High confidence

4.7 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Plane Finder - Flight Tracker is an Android app from pinkfroot limited in the Travel & Local category, currently rated 4.7★ across 15,561 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 68: 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

$5.0K

per month

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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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🍎Also on iOS

Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker

$18.4K/mo · 58K ratings · 4.7★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$90K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $70K – $120K

$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
💎 In-app purchase plumbing	+$9K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$32K

Total estimate $90K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$25K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $20K – $35K · 30× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.3× 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
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%

Final multiple 30× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

2.3M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

345K

Daily active

69K

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

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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.

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BU Investment Matrix

Building · 59/100MID TIERcompetitive build-out

Revenue Strength

3.7

Product Quality

9.3

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

8.5

Operational Safety

10.0

Founder Strength

6.0

Monetization Maturity

5.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.66★ across 15,561 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: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($19K/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

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 4 of 4 triggers

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

Mid install base (15,561 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC		+$2,200
Mature app (15y old)METRIC		+$1,500
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: Plane Finder - Flight Tracker
Developer: pinkfroot limited
Bundle ID: com.pinkfroot.planefinderfree
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Travel & Local
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

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

Revenue

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
ML model estimate / mo: $890/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $1.99 - $19.99 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.

📈Ratings growth15,561 ratings+35% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (2 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

🚀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

Plane Finder is the only app to offer global live flight tracking plus fast and accurate flight status notifications in a single app. 

Whether you're a seasoned aviation enthusiast who wants to know it all, or a curious traveler simply interested in the key moments of a specific flight, we’ve got you covered. 

Aviation enthusiasts tell us they can’t live without our exclusive map focus mode used to quickly show military or other traffic types live on the map. 

Social media content creators can’t get enough of our 3D globe view combined with playback mode.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v2026.4.2🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Travel & Local💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.99 - $19.99 per item

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

2 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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

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Shipped update — v2026.3.0 → v2026.4.2

→ 30 days after: rating +0.11★ · reviews +261 high confidence

2026-05

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: rating +0.11★ · reviews +261 high confidence

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Tech & Domain Intel — planefinder.net

Mail provider: Google Workspace
Tech stack: Google Workspace · AWS SES

Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).

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📝 Description

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Full revenue analysis

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