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Ventra

50
Quality Score
Solid

Ventra

Medium confidence
3.1 ✍️ Editor
✍️ bumetric analysis

Ventra is an Android app from Chicago Transit Authority in the Maps & Navigation category, currently rated 3.1★ across 6,526 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a Maps & Navigation 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
$839
per month
12-mo forecast
$734 – $2646
per month
24-mo forecast
$680 – $6121
per month
INDIE 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
📈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
Total estimate$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 12× 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 base15× MRR
★ rating < 3.5 (weak)-18%
Final multiple12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
975K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
290K
Daily active
115K

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 retention30%
📍DAU / MAU stickiness0.40
DAU / MAU40% 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 contextMaps & Navigation
📦Compact Android bundle→ Native Kotlin
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-03-02 · 85 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
📅85 days since last updateHealthy release cadence
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE
Baseline
$839/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$715 – $1.7K
12 months
$734 – $2.6K
24 months
$680 – $6.1K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix

Pre-traction · 37/100INDIE TIERlimited signal
RevenueQualityMarketGrowthMoatSafetyFounderMonetiz.
Revenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
5.6
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.5
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $335 - $2099/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 3.1★ across 6,526 reviews — below category median.
  • 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
  • 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
  • ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $15K-$26K.
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 (6,526 ratings)METRIC
+$1,500
Below-average rating (3.1★)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.
App Specs
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🔖 v2.2.14🔄 updated 2mo ago📂 Maps & Navigation💰 Free

📝 About this app

Use transit in and around all of Chicago: It's easy to manage and pay your fare on CTA, Metra and Pace buses and trains with the Ventra app. Find all the features you're used to on the Ventra website and more, including mobile ticketing for Metra trains!


<b>With the Ventra app, you can:</b>


• Check your balance and available passes in your Ventra Card's transit account.
• Instantly load value or passes to your Ventra Card's transit account.
• Switch autoload for transit value or passes on and off.
• Buy and use Metra mobile tickets to ride any Metra train.… View full description on the official store →
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Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name
Ventra
Developer
Chicago Transit Authority
Bundle ID
com.ventrachicago.riderapp
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Maps & Navigation
Content rating
Not found
Languages
Not found

Company

Website
Not found
Tagline
Not found
Description
Not found
Founded
Not found
HQ / Address
Not found
Employees
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Logo
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Revenue

Verified revenue / mo
Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo
Not found
AI annual estimate
Not found
ML model estimate / mo
$840/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.

📝 Description

95
BU Score · Transcendent

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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Ventra: 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·Medium confidence

Why medium confidence: 6,526 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).

Frequently Asked Questions

10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public data
How much does Ventra make per month?
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Ventra earns approximately $839/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 Ventra profitable?
With estimated build cost $95K and monthly revenue $839, Ventra 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 Ventra have?
Estimated audience: ~975K lifetime downloads, ~290K monthly active users, and ~115K 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 Ventra?
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 Ventra built with?
Our heuristic places Ventra 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 Ventra still actively maintained?
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Ventra sell for?
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $10K – $15K). Calculated as 12× 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 Ventra last updated?
Ventra last shipped a new version on 2026-03-02 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Ventra?
Ventra is published by Chicago Transit 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 Ventra's BU Score?
Ventra has a BU Score of 50/100 (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.