FlightStats
78
Quality Score
Strong
FlightStats
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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FlightStats is an iOS app from LNRS Data Services Limited in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 78,043 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: 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
$1.6M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7M – $2.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0M – $3.8M
per month
BIG 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
🤖Also on Android
$1.3K/mo · 26K ratings · 3.0★
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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
📈
Pays back in ~2.7y 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 |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
8.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
855K
Daily active
125K
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
$1.6M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.6M – $2.1M
12 months
$1.7M – $2.6M
24 months
$2.0M – $3.8M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 52/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.83★ across 78,043 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 584d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (584d since update).
🎯 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 = $28.8M-$51.2M.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (78,043 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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 · v3.4.16
zendesk help url updated
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FlightStats
- Developer
- LNRS Data Services Limited
- Bundle ID
- com.flightstats.FlightStats
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- FlightStats Serves the Needs of On-the-go Travelers
- Description
- Track real-time flight status, departures and arrivals, airport delays, and airport information using FlightStats Global Flight Tracker from Cirium.
- 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
- $2.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/cirium
- linkedin.com/company/cirium
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- linkedin linkedin.com/company/cirium · twitter twitter.com/cirium · youtube youtube.com/c/Cirium
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- flightstats.com/company/legal/terms-o…
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available sources do not provide specific revenue estimates for the iOS app "FlightStats" by LNRS Data Services Limited. While FlightStats (the company, now part of Cirium) generates an estimated $14.2 million in annual revenue from its broader aviation data services, this figure is for the entire business, which includes B2B data solutions and not solely the iOS app. The app itself is free and offers a subscription primarily for ad removal and access to the flightstats.com website. Competitor apps like Flightradar24 Flight Tracker show weekly revenues ranging from approximately $92.8K to $126.9K on iOS, and Flighty – Live Flight Tracker has an estimated monthly revenue of $1 million. However, without specific data for the FlightStats app's in-app purchases or subscription numbers, a direct revenue estimate for the app cannot be accurately determined from public sources.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Reddit, Owler, PitchBook, Tracxn, App Store
📈Ratings growth78,043 ratings+47% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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
FlightStats is a free real-time flight status and airport tracking app for iPhone and iPad.
Take control of your day-of-travel by downloading FlightStats:
-Quickly access worldwide flight status by flight number, airport, or route
-Watch flights as they move across the world on our gorgeous flight tracker
-Scan essential information like departure/arrival times, delay indexes, gates, and weather
-Enable Siri Shortcuts to Departures, Arrivals, Route searches, or daily flights
-Use 3D Touch to quickly view flights from My Flights, Departures, Arrivals, or Route search results… View full description on the official store →
Take control of your day-of-travel by downloading FlightStats:
-Quickly access worldwide flight status by flight number, airport, or route
-Watch flights as they move across the world on our gorgeous flight tracker
-Scan essential information like departure/arrival times, delay indexes, gates, and weather
-Enable Siri Shortcuts to Departures, Arrivals, Route searches, or daily flights
-Use 3D Touch to quickly view flights from My Flights, Departures, Arrivals, or Route search results… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 26 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v3.4.16🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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 ↑ 3.79 → 4.80 (improved 1.01★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2017-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2017-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #6Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
flight tracker·#6🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.75596★ | 4,520 | 4.75596★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.83883★ | 3,152 | 4.83883★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.78789★ | 7,864 | 4.78789★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.67934★ | 4,578 | 4.67934★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.73643★ | 3,039 | 4.73643★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.75627★ | 12,998 | 4.75627★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.77461★ | 14,988 | 4.77461★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.69044★ | 701 | 4.69044★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83385★ | 78,250 | 4.83385★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for FlightStats: 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: 78,043 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FlightStats make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, FlightStats earns approximately $2.1K/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 FlightStats?▴
FlightStats is published by LNRS Data Services Limited 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 FlightStats's BU Score?▴
FlightStats has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.