ArriveCAN
86
Quality Score
Excellent
ArriveCAN
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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ArriveCAN is an iOS app from Canada Border Services Agency in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 505,548 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 86: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Travel app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$1.6M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7M – $2.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0M – $3.8M
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- 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
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (105 MB) | +$21K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$21K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$375K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $275K – $475K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~3.9× return on build cost
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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
55.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.5M
Daily active
830K
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
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.6M – $2.1M
12 months
$1.7M – $2.6M
24 months
$2.0M – $3.8M
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 · 49/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.77★ across 505,548 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 466d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (466d since update).
🎯 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 = $28.8M-$51.2M.
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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (505,548 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (6y 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.
🆕 What's New · v3.6.5
- Accessibility improvements
- Bug fixes
- Bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- ArriveCAN
- Developer
- Canada Border Services Agency
- Bundle ID
- ca.gc.cbsa-asfc.tsa
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $0AI high
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $20.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The ArriveCAN app, developed by the Canada Border Services Agency, is a public service application and does not generate any revenue. Publicly available information, including reports from the Auditor General of Canada and the Canada Border Services Agency, focuses on the app's development and operational costs, which are estimated to be tens of millions of dollars.
Sources mentioned: Canada Border Services Agency, Auditor General of Canada, Wikipedia, Reddit, Public Safety Canada, CBC News, Sensor Tower
📈Ratings growth505,548 ratings+73% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 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
ArriveCAN still contains Advance CBSA Declaration, which allows you to answer customs and immigration questions up to 72 hours in advance of flying into Canada. It is currently available to international air travellers who enter Canada at selected airports.
By submitting your customs and immigration information in advance, you will spend less time at a primary inspection kiosk (PIK) or eGate when you arrive at the airport. This contributes to shorter line-ups in arrivals halls.… View full description on the official store →
By submitting your customs and immigration information in advance, you will spend less time at a primary inspection kiosk (PIK) or eGate when you arrive at the airport. This contributes to shorter line-ups in arrivals halls.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 105 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v3.6.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, ES📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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
📈
Crossed 500,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.34 → 4.70 (improved 0.36★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.11 → 3.80 (dropped 0.31★)
2023-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.20 → 3.67 (dropped 0.53★)
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2022-12
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.79321★ | 12,128 | 4.79321★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.94268★ | 8,618 | 4.94268★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.59684★ | 921,477 | 4.59684★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.6687★ | 17,081 | 4.6687★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.79769★ | 38,297 | 4.79769★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.78976★ | 39,944 | 4.78976★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.89458★ | 27,632 | 4.89458★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.68983★ | 5,181 | 4.68983★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.77033★ | 508,974 | 4.77033★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for ArriveCAN: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 505,548 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does ArriveCAN make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, ArriveCAN earns approximately $20K/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 ArriveCAN?▴
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Who makes ArriveCAN?▴
ArriveCAN is published by Canada Border Services Agency 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 ArriveCAN's BU Score?▴
ArriveCAN has a BU Score of 86/100 (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.