58
Quality Score
Solid
McGill’s Buses
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McGill’s Buses is an Android app from McGill's Bus Services Limited in the Travel & Local category, currently rated 4.2★ across 1,474 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 58: 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$500/mo
In 12 months
$437 – $1575
In 24 months
$405 – $3644
INDIE 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
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since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$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 |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$27K |
| ⚙7.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$45K |
Total estimate$125K
👥 Estimated audience size
150K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
14K
Daily active
2.9K
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 |
| 📅7.6y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Travel & Local D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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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 context | Travel & Local |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-13 · 10 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
| 📅10 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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
Early-stage solo · 42/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.9
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.17★ across 1,474 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $9K-$16K.
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:
| Low install base (1,474 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v115🔄 updated 1w ago📂 Travel & Local💰 Free🚀 Launched 2018 (7y old)
📝 About this app
McGill’s new and improved m-ticket and real-time app allows you to buy your tickets within the app and use your mobile device as your ticket as well as view real-time information, meaning you can check exactly where your bus is, at any given time – all in the once place!
With other added features including- planning my journey, find my nearest stop, user friendly timetable information and saving your favourite services, this will make McGill’s bus travel even easier, with everything you need fitting into your pocket.… View full description on the official store →
With other added features including- planning my journey, find my nearest stop, user friendly timetable information and saving your favourite services, this will make McGill’s bus travel even easier, with everything you need fitting into your pocket.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — mcgillsbuses.co.uk
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Google Workspace · AWS SES
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- McGill’s Buses
- Developer
- McGill's Bus Services Limited
- Bundle ID
- uk.co.mcgillsbuses
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel & Local
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.mcgillsbuses.co.uk
- 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
- $470/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 growth1,474 ratings+24% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for McGill’s Buses: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does McGill’s Buses make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, McGill’s Buses earns approximately $470/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 McGill’s Buses profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $470, McGill’s Buses 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 McGill’s Buses have?▾
Estimated audience: ~150K lifetime downloads, ~14K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 McGill’s Buses?▾
Browse the full Travel & Local 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 McGill’s Buses built with?▾
Our heuristic places McGill’s Buses 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 McGill’s Buses still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 10 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was McGill’s Buses last updated?▾
McGill’s Buses last shipped a new version on 2026-05-13 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes McGill’s Buses?▾
McGill’s Buses is published by McGill's Bus Services 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 McGill’s Buses's BU Score?▾
McGill’s Buses has a BU Score of 58/100 (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.