Amtrak
78
Quality Score
Strong
Amtrak
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Amtrak is an iOS app from Amtrak in the Travel category, currently rated 4.7★ across 205,488 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Travel app, that means healthy traction. 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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- 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
🤖Also on Android
$1.8K/mo · 46K ratings · 4.3★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.4y 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (133 MB) | +$33K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$25K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$45K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $35K – $50K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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 base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
22.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.2M
Daily active
335K
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 engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.3
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.65★ across 205,488 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (205,488 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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.
🆕 What's New · v6.1.4
Thanks for choosing the Amtrak app. We continue to fix bugs and improve the experience. Please check for updates frequently to take advantage of the improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Amtrak
- Developer
- Amtrak
- Bundle ID
- com.amtrak.rider
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Book Flex Fares & Travel With Ease
- Description
- Book your Amtrak train and bus tickets today by choosing from over 30 U.S. train routes and 500 destinations in North America.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $2.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/amtrak
- linkedin.com/company/amtrak
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/amtrak · instagram instagram.com/amtrak · linkedin linkedin.com/company/amtrak · twitter twitter.com/amtrak · youtube youtube.com/amtrak
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- amtrak.com/contact-us
- About page
- amtrak.com/about-amtrak
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available sources such as Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Reddit, and app review databases do not provide specific revenue estimates for the iOS app 'Amtrak'. The app primarily functions as a platform for booking and managing train tickets, with revenue generated through ticket sales contributing to Amtrak's overall company revenue rather than being a separate, directly monetized app revenue stream.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Reddit, App Store, Unstar.app
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.24★ · 16.3% 5★ · 51.0% 1★
5★8 (16%)
4★3 (6%)
3★7 (14%)
2★6 (12%)
1★25 (51%)
+606 ratings/week
Praise: great ×5 love ×3 best ×2 recommend ×1Complaints: worst ×2 scam ×2 refund ×2 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Traveler
We like using Amtrak its continent and cost effective.…
★★★★★ App Not Working
App has not worked for booking trains for at least two weeks - I receive the message “We are temporarily unable to process your request. Please try again.” My app is up to date.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Mothers Day Ruined.
2 hour and 45 minute delay because a semi truck is stuck on the tracks. It’s Mother’s Day and I missed my connect, this is ridiculous.…
★☆☆☆☆ I can not buy ticket by using credit card
After last process of buy tickets , they sent me code and I put code , it went blank ,nothing happened . I email and text customers service many time. No response for solve this problem. So I have to go website to book this tickets. If anyo…
📈Ratings growth205,488 ratings+36% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (27 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
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
Discover the convenience of traveling with Amtrak. With the Amtrak app you can get simple and intuitive access to all the travel information you need, whenever you need it.
• Show your eTicket while onboard, including multi-ride and monthly passes - no need to print
• Purchase one-way, roundtrip, multi-ride and monthly tickets with dollars or Amtrak Guest Rewards points
• Check train status
• Find station information
• Edit and manage your account profile
• Save credit cards for quick checkout
• Send your eTicket to Apple Wallet
• And so much more...… View full description on the official store →
• Show your eTicket while onboard, including multi-ride and monthly passes - no need to print
• Purchase one-way, roundtrip, multi-ride and monthly tickets with dollars or Amtrak Guest Rewards points
• Check train status
• Find station information
• Edit and manage your account profile
• Save credit cards for quick checkout
• Send your eTicket to Apple Wallet
• And so much more...… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 133 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v6.1.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Free
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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 →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.47 → 4.66 (improved 2.19★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.47 → 4.30 (improved 1.83★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.75 → 2.40 (improved 0.65★)
2025-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.75 (improved 0.75★)
2025-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Amtrak: 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: 205,488 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Amtrak make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Amtrak earns approximately $2.7K/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.
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Who makes Amtrak?▴
Amtrak is published by Amtrak on the Apple App 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 Amtrak's BU Score?▴
Amtrak has a BU Score of 78/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.