Cruise Ship Tracker
56
Quality Score
Solid
Cruise Ship Tracker
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Cruise Ship Tracker is an iOS app from Velocity Raptor Incorporated in the Travel category, currently rated 4.3★ across 273 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 56: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID 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
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$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 (131 MB) | +$32K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$24K |
Total estimate
$110K
👥 Estimated audience size
30K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.0K
Daily active
450
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 · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.2
Product Quality
6.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.35★ across 273 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 ($33K/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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (7 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (273 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Growing app (1y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v1.0.25
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Cruise Ship Tracker
- Developer
- Velocity Raptor Incorporated
- Bundle ID
- co.velocityraptor.Triton
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Move fast. Build fierce.
- Description
- Velocity Raptor Incorporated - Technology & Software Consulting. Expert app development, web design, technical strategy, and accessibility compliance.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Glastonbury
- 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
- 🇨🇦#88 /100
- 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
Publicly available data on the specific revenue of the iOS app "Cruise Ship Tracker" by Velocity Raptor Incorporated is not available. While the app has ratings and reviews on the App Store [3, 7, 11, 18, 20], and some reviews mention subscriptions [7, 10, 11], no concrete revenue figures from sources like Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Reddit, or founder claims could be found for this particular app. Other companies with 'Velocity' or 'Raptor' in their names were found to have revenue figures, but they are distinct entities from 'Velocity Raptor Incorporated' [21, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35].
Sources mentioned: App Store, Reddit, Adapty
📈Ratings growth286 ratings+921% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (19 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (20 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇨🇦
CA
Top-grossing rank: #88 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#88 now · best #86 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Your Complete Cruise Companion
Track any cruise ship across the globe in real-time. CruiseKick puts the entire cruise world at your fingertips—from live ship positions to port webcams to your personal cruise logbook.
LIVE SHIP TRACKING
Follow ships from every major cruise line as they sail the seas. See exact positions on the map, current speed, heading, and voyage details. Discover nearby vessels and watch ships arrive and depart from ports around the world.
CRUISE PORTS WORLDWIDE
Explore thousands of cruise ports with detailed information, docked ships, and live webcams.… View full description on the official store →
Track any cruise ship across the globe in real-time. CruiseKick puts the entire cruise world at your fingertips—from live ship positions to port webcams to your personal cruise logbook.
LIVE SHIP TRACKING
Follow ships from every major cruise line as they sail the seas. See exact positions on the map, current speed, heading, and voyage details. Discover nearby vessels and watch ships arrive and depart from ports around the world.
CRUISE PORTS WORLDWIDE
Explore thousands of cruise ports with detailed information, docked ships, and live webcams.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 131 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.2+🔖 v1.0.25🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +2📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 ↑ 3.20 → 4.35 (improved 1.15★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.30 → 3.20 (dropped 1.10★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.11 → 4.30 (improved 1.19★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.40 (dropped 0.60★)
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
2025-04
🚀
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 | 3.46667★ | 15 | 3.46667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.45455★ | 22 | 4.45455★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.33333★ | 3 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.8★ | 5 | 4.8★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.91489★ | 47 | 3.91489★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.35914★ | 284 | 4.35914★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Cruise Ship Tracker: 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: 273 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Cruise Ship Tracker make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Cruise Ship Tracker 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 Cruise Ship Tracker?▴
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Who makes Cruise Ship Tracker?▴
Cruise Ship Tracker is published by Velocity Raptor Incorporated 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 Cruise Ship Tracker's BU Score?▴
Cruise Ship Tracker has a BU Score of 56/100 (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.