redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets
85
Quality Score
Excellent
redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This Android travel app dominates the Indian intercity and local transport booking market, directly competing with established players like MakeMyTrip and Goibibo, as well as regional aggregators. Its substantial rating, backed by millions of user reviews, signals robust traction and a mature growth stage, indicating a highly engaged and loyal user base. The app’s free monetization model, coupled with frequent discount codes for new bookings, suggests a strategy focused on aggressive user acquisition and market share capture. In this high-volume travel booking category, a common monetization observation is the reliance on commission-based revenue from ticket sales, often supplemented by premium service upsells or strategic partnerships with travel providers. The challenge for free apps here is balancing user incentives with sustainable commission rates to drive long-term profitability.
BU Score 85 · 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
💡 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
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
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
📈
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 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$27K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~1.6× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
660.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
99.0M
Daily active
19.5M
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
| 📲 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 CONFIDENCEBaseline
$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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
9.3
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.67★ across 4,405,877 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.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (4,405,877 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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
- redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets
- Developer
- redBus - Bus, Ferry, Train, IRCTC Auth. Partner
- Bundle ID
- in.redbus.android
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel & Local
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.redbus.in
- 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
- $7.7K/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 growth4,405,877 ratings+30% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (2 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
<h1>India's Most Preferred Train, Metro, Hotel, & Bus Ticket Booking App - 5.6 Cr+ Users Trust Us, 2 Lakhs+ Bookings Per Day</h1>
<h2>💰Use Code RED500 & Save Upto ₹500 on Your First Bus Booking</h2>
<h2>💰₹120 OFF on Your First Train Booking, Use Code SUMMERNEW</h2>
<h2>💰20% Off on Every Metro Booking</h2>
Official Bus Booking Partner App for GSRTC, APSRTC, TSRTC, RSRTC, KSRTC (kerala), UPSRTC, HRTC, OSRTC, PRTC & 5200+ Private Bus Services i.e.… View full description on the official store →
<h2>💰Use Code RED500 & Save Upto ₹500 on Your First Bus Booking</h2>
<h2>💰₹120 OFF on Your First Train Booking, Use Code SUMMERNEW</h2>
<h2>💰20% Off on Every Metro Booking</h2>
Official Bus Booking Partner App for GSRTC, APSRTC, TSRTC, RSRTC, KSRTC (kerala), UPSRTC, HRTC, OSRTC, PRTC & 5200+ Private Bus Services i.e.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected 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
🔧
Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device
→ 30 days after: reviews +107,482 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +107,482 high confidence
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 90% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 4,405,877 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets earns approximately $7.7K/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 redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets?▴
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Who makes redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets?▴
redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets is published by redBus - Bus, Ferry, Train, IRCTC Auth. Partner 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 redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets's BU Score?▴
redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets has a BU Score of 85/100 (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.