Bus Savvy - UK Live locations
59
Quality Score
Solid
Bus Savvy - UK Live locations
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Bus Savvy - UK Live locations is an iOS app from Darren Jones in the Travel category, currently rated 4.5★ across 802 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 59: Solid (established niche player). For a Travel 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$6.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.7K – $20.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$5.3K – $47.5K
per month
INDIE tier
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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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$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 |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
Total estimate
$65K
👥 Estimated audience size
88K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
8.8K
Daily active
1.3K
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
$6.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$5.5K – $12.9K
12 months
$5.7K – $20.5K
24 months
$5.3K – $47.5K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Product Quality
6.2
Revenue Strength
3.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.3
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $2K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.46★ across 802 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $117K-$208K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (802 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| 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 · v1.9.1
Fixed Arriva buses.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Bus Savvy - UK Live locations
- Developer
- Darren Jones
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $144/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 growth802 ratings+303% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (2 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.
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
Are you fed up of standing around at the bus stop in the cold and rain, waiting for your bus to get to work?
Do you ever sleep in and rush around frantically getting ready for work, before running up to the bus stop to stand in the rain because your bus is delayed?
Bus Savvy is here to help you.
There's many bus apps available that will help you get from A to B, but what about when you get the same bus every single day?
You don't need all the faff and features most bus apps provide, making it difficult to get to the information you need.
All you want to know is "When is my bus due?"… View full description on the official store →
Do you ever sleep in and rush around frantically getting ready for work, before running up to the bus stop to stand in the rain because your bus is delayed?
Bus Savvy is here to help you.
There's many bus apps available that will help you get from A to B, but what about when you get the same bus every single day?
You don't need all the faff and features most bus apps provide, making it difficult to get to the information you need.
All you want to know is "When is my bus due?"… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 35 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.9.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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 ↓ 4.46 → 3.67 (dropped 0.79★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.46098★ | 820 | 4.46098★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Bus Savvy - UK Live locations: 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 medium confidence: 802 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Bus Savvy - UK Live locations make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Bus Savvy - UK Live locations earns approximately $143/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 Bus Savvy - UK Live locations?▴
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Who makes Bus Savvy - UK Live locations?▴
Bus Savvy - UK Live locations is published by Darren Jones 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 Bus Savvy - UK Live locations's BU Score?▴
Bus Savvy - UK Live locations has a BU Score of 59/100 (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.