Costa Cruises
35
Quality Score
Emerging
Costa Cruises
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Costa Cruises is an iOS app from Costa Crociere S.p.A. in the Travel category, currently rated 2.7★ across 35 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 35: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Travel app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO 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
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$598/mo · 6K ratings · 3.7★
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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
📈
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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (107 MB) | +$22K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$21K |
Total estimate
$95K
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 35/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.8
Product Quality
2.2
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.6
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.74★ across 35 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($684/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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Below-average rating (2.7★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (7 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (35 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v5.2.0
In this new version, we have made improvements and fixed some bugs. We are also gradually introducing new features based on Artificial Intelligence to enhance and make the entire Costa App experience smarter.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Costa Cruises
- Developer
- Costa Crociere S.p.A.
- Bundle ID
- it.costacrociere.costapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, 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
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/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.
📈Ratings growth35 ratings+3400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (7 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
Your cruise at your fingertips. Costa App is simple, convenient and gives you the chance to enjoy your cruise at its best.
ON LAND
Log in with your booking number or C|Club membership and manage:
- YOUR PROFILE | Easily access your C|Club profile to view your updated point balance, privileges and discounts, or see your past cruises.
- BOOK YOUR CRUISE | Look for your ideal cruise and buy it directly from the APP
- YOUR ITINERARY | Check how long is left to your departure. Discover the complete itinerary and available excursions in advance.… View full description on the official store →
ON LAND
Log in with your booking number or C|Club membership and manage:
- YOUR PROFILE | Easily access your C|Club profile to view your updated point balance, privileges and discounts, or see your past cruises.
- BOOK YOUR CRUISE | Look for your ideal cruise and buy it directly from the APP
- YOUR ITINERARY | Check how long is left to your departure. Discover the complete itinerary and available excursions in advance.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 107 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v5.2.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, PT +2📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.40 → 2.70 (improved 0.30★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.75 → 2.40 (dropped 0.35★)
2024-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.00 (improved 0.50★)
2024-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2019-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
More by Costa Crociere S.p.A.
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2apps·$684/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 87% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 35 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Costa Cruises make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Costa Cruises earns approximately $86/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 Costa Cruises?▴
Costa Cruises is published by Costa Crociere S.p.A. 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 Costa Cruises's BU Score?▴
Costa Cruises has a BU Score of 35/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.