redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets
85
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ 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.
💰 Forecast monthly revenue
—/mo
Founder-confirmed monthly revenue
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
5 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
4,619,201 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
—
Snapshots tracked
5
since May 2026
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BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 44/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.0
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
0.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Pre-revenue or unknown — $0 - $0/mo · BIG tier · high confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.65★ across 4,619,201 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: No verified revenue — acquisition only makes sense for tech / userbase / brand.
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (4,619,201 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $138/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
Book, Track, and Travel Easily with redBus
India’s no.1 app for bus ticket booking with over 18 years of experience and trusted by 5.6 Cr+ users, redBus provides seamless connectivity across 7.3L+ routes with India’s largest bus network of 5,600+ private & RTC bus services.
Apart from private or STC bus booking, you can also enjoy train reservation, hotel booking, metro tickets, live bus tracking, seat availability, search bus schedule & timetable on the redBus app.… View full description on the official store →
India’s no.1 app for bus ticket booking with over 18 years of experience and trusted by 5.6 Cr+ users, redBus provides seamless connectivity across 7.3L+ routes with India’s largest bus network of 5,600+ private & RTC bus services.
Apart from private or STC bus booking, you can also enjoy train reservation, hotel booking, metro tickets, live bus tracking, seat availability, search bus schedule & timetable on the redBus app.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Travel & Local💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-09
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Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device
→ 30 days after: reviews +70,753 high confidence
2026-08
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Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device
→ 30 days after: reviews +136,385 high confidence
2026-07
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Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device
→ 30 days after: reviews +142,571 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
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Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device
→ 30 days after: reviews +184,421 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +107,482 high confidence
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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
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
👥 Estimated audience size
692.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
103.5M
Daily active
20.5M
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
📝 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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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 4,619,201 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow many users does redBus Book Bus, Train Tickets have?▴
Estimated audience: ~692.5M lifetime downloads, ~103.5M monthly active users, and ~20.5M 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 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.