BlaBlaCar: Carpooling and Bus
73
Quality Score
Strong
BlaBlaCar: Carpooling and Bus
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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BlaBlaCar: Carpooling and Bus is an iOS app from Comuto in the Travel category, currently rated 4.7★ across 14,295 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 73: 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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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
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.9y 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 (254 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $100K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
155K
Daily active
23K
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
$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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.69★ across 14,295 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($14K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (14,295 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (25 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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.
🆕 What's New · v6.15.0
Travel with a clearer conscience.
You can now see the CO₂ footprint of every carpool in Ride Details, plus how much you're saving by sharing the ride instead of driving alone. We've also polished the overall experience and squashed a few bugs. Thanks for being part of the change!
You can now see the CO₂ footprint of every carpool in Ride Details, plus how much you're saving by sharing the ride instead of driving alone. We've also polished the overall experience and squashed a few bugs. Thanks for being part of the change!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- BlaBlaCar: Carpooling and Bus
- Developer
- Comuto
- Bundle ID
- com.comuto.comuto
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- SQ, BS, BG, CS, NL, EN, FR, DE, EL, HU, ID, IT, MK, MS, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, SK, ES, TH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- www.blablacar.com
- 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
- $23.3M ($23.3M – $23.3M)AI low
- AI annual estimate
- $279.7M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $5.2K/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: LOW
BlaBlaCar, the parent company of the iOS app 'BlaBlaCar: Carpooling and Bus,' reported an annual revenue of approximately $279.7 million for 2023. This translates to an estimated monthly revenue of $23.3 million. These figures represent the company's total revenue across all its services (carpooling and bus), and a specific breakdown for the iOS app alone is not publicly available. The app is, however, the primary platform for accessing these services.
Sources mentioned: Zippia, Brineweb, Sensor Tower, Daffodil Software, Quora, PM Insights
📈Ratings growth14,295 ratings+38% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (53 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
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
Carpool and BlaBlaCar Bus: go anywhere with the BlaBlaCar app.
Compare and book the best rides at low prices. Take your pick from thousands of destinations across Europe and travel better for less!
Great deals in one app
Compare BlaBlaCar Bus and carpool rides to find the best way to get there for less.
Use the app to book rides to thousands of places at low prices.
Cut your driving costs
Driving somewhere? Share your empty seats in minutes and reduce your fuel and toll costs.
You're in charge: choose who travels with you by checking ratings and member Verified Profiles.… View full description on the official store →
Compare and book the best rides at low prices. Take your pick from thousands of destinations across Europe and travel better for less!
Great deals in one app
Compare BlaBlaCar Bus and carpool rides to find the best way to get there for less.
Use the app to book rides to thousands of places at low prices.
Cut your driving costs
Driving somewhere? Share your empty seats in minutes and reduce your fuel and toll costs.
You're in charge: choose who travels with you by checking ratings and member Verified Profiles.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 254 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v6.15.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 SQ, BS, BG, CS, NL +20📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v6.12.0
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.57 → 4.60 (improved 2.03★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.25 → 2.56 (improved 0.31★)
2019-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.43 (improved 0.43★)
2019-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2019-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2019-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #31Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
rideshare·#31🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.68679★ | 14,329 | 4.68679★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.5709★ | 79,152 | 4.5709★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.67224★ | 411,938 | 4.67224★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.74151★ | 1,296 | 4.74151★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.70939★ | 936 | 4.70939★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.89189★ | 406,721 | 4.89189★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.76858★ | 106,530 | 4.76858★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for BlaBlaCar: Carpooling and Bus: 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: 14,295 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does BlaBlaCar make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, BlaBlaCar earns approximately $5.2K/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 BlaBlaCar?▴
BlaBlaCar is published by Comuto 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 BlaBlaCar's BU Score?▴
BlaBlaCar has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.