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Uber - Request a ride

89
Quality Score
Excellent

Uber - Request a ride

High confidence
4.8 ✍️ Editor
✍️ bumetric analysis

This app dominates the on-demand personal transportation niche, directly competing with Lyft, Grab, and local taxi services. Its substantial user rating, backed by over eight million reviews, signals massive traction and a mature, established growth stage. This isn't a new entrant; it's a category leader with significant market penetration. As a free app in the Maps & Navigation category, its primary monetization strategy isn't direct in-app purchases or advertising. Instead, it leverages a commission-based model on ride fares, demonstrating that high-volume service provision, rather than traditional app monetization, drives revenue in this specific utility niche. Founders in similar service-oriented categories should consider transaction-based fees as a primary revenue stream over ad placements or premium features.

BU Score 89 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$700K
per month
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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Forecast Revenue / mo
Snapshots tracked
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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build
📈 Pays back in ~10 months 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
Maps & Navigation complexity ×1.20 +$10K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) +$33K
Total estimate $95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 19× MRR multiple
💸 ~1.8× build cost (break-even+)

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
★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) +15%
Mature user base (1M+ ratings) +8%
Final multiple 19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2822.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
846.5M
Daily active
338.5M

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
🔁 Maps & Navigation D30 retention 30%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness 0.40
DAU / MAU 40% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE
Baseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 58/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious
GrowthFounderQualityRevenueMonetiz.MoatMarketSafety
Growth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.4
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 4.75★ across 18,814,816 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: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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.
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💰 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:
High install base (18,814,816 ratings)METRIC
+$12,000
Excellent rating (4.8★)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)

📈 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.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name
Uber - Request a ride
Developer
Uber Technologies, Inc.
Bundle ID
com.ubercab
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Maps & Navigation
Content rating
Not found
Languages
Not found

Company

Website
www.uber.com
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
$9.3K/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.
📈Ratings growth18,814,816 ratings+22% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾Jul 2023Jan 2025Jun 2026
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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

Join millions of riders who trust Uber for their everyday travel needs. Whether you’re running errands across town or exploring new cities, getting there should be easy.

FIND THE RIDE YOU WANT
Find the perfect ride right at your fingertips! Uber is here to make your journey stress-free and enjoyable.

Pick from a wide range of rides that the Uber app has to offer including:
- UberX: Affordable rides, All to yourself
- Electric: Eco-Friendly
- UberX Priority: Priority pickup
- UberXL: Rides for groups up to 6
- Comfort: Newer cars with extra legroom… View full description on the official store →
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📝 Description

95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Uber - Request a ride: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
ZCAnalyzed by Zakhar Chumak · founder, bumetric·Full methodology·High confidence

Why high confidence: 18,814,816 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).

Frequently Asked Questions

4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public data
How much does Uber - Request a ride make per month?
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Uber - Request a ride earns approximately $9.3K/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.
What apps are like Uber - Request a ride?
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Who makes Uber - Request a ride?
Uber - Request a ride is published by Uber Technologies, Inc. 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 Uber - Request a ride's BU Score?
Uber - Request a ride has a BU Score of 89/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.