Flight Buddy: Calm Down & Fly
61
Quality Score
Solid
Flight Buddy: Calm Down & Fly
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Flight Buddy: Calm Down & Fly is an iOS app from Sergey Laptenok in the Travel category, currently rated 4.6★ across 115 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 61: 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
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📊 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 ~1.2y 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 (238 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 15× MRR multiple
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~1.0× build cost (break-even+)
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% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
12K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.2K
Daily active
180
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
6.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.6
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.58★ across 115 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 341d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 ($8K/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 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (115 ratings)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 · v1.5.36
Our latest app update brings you a better user experience and improved stability.
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Flight Buddy: Calm Down & Fly
- Developer
- Sergey Laptenok
- Bundle ID
- com.calmflight.fwf
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, RU
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Flight Buddy App - #1 for anxious fliers
- Description
- Experience a strong sense of fear and panic when you fly, or anticipate flying? Does a tiny thought of getting onboard make your hands cold and shaking? Flight Buddy is what you need when it’s high time to say NO to your fear of flying.
- 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
- $8.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#94 /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.
📈Ratings growth115 ratings+11400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (16 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #94 / 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#94 now · best #86 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Experience a strong sense of fear and panic when you fly, or anticipate flying? Does a tiny thought of getting onboard make your hands cold and shaking? Bad news is that you probably have an aerophobia. GOOD NEWS is that you can be cured once and forever! Flight Buddy app is what you need when it’s high time to say NO to your fear of flying.
We know that crowded space, turbulence, taking off and landing can certainly be unpleasant. That’s why Flight Buddy app is developed by professional pilots and mental health professionals to help you manage alarm symptoms before and during a flight.… View full description on the official store →
We know that crowded space, turbulence, taking off and landing can certainly be unpleasant. That’s why Flight Buddy app is developed by professional pilots and mental health professionals to help you manage alarm symptoms before and during a flight.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 238 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.5.36🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, RU📂 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
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.29 → 4.72 (improved 1.43★)
2024-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.40 → 3.00 (dropped 0.40★)
2021-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.40 (improved 0.40★)
2021-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2020-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
2019-11
🚀
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 | 4.46154★ | 13 | 4.46154★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4★ | 2 | 4★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.90909★ | 11 | 4.90909★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.30769★ | 13 | 4.30769★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.375★ | 8 | 4.375★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.55172★ | 29 | 4.55172★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.57983★ | 119 | 4.57983★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Flight Buddy: Calm Down & Fly: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 115 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Flight Buddy make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Flight Buddy earns approximately $8.3K/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 Flight Buddy?▴
Flight Buddy is published by Sergey Laptenok 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 Flight Buddy's BU Score?▴
Flight Buddy has a BU Score of 61/100 (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.