FlixBus & FlixTrain
78
Quality Score
Strong
FlixBus & FlixTrain
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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FlixBus & FlixTrain is an iOS app from Flix SE in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 83,264 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
$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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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
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.1y 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 (88 MB) | +$15K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$19K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~1.2× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
9.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
915K
Daily active
135K
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
🔬
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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 83,264 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($11K/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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (83,264 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 (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (25 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v9.48.0
Just saying Hi with some performance improvements. Have a great day and happy traveling!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FlixBus & FlixTrain
- Developer
- Flix SE
- Bundle ID
- com.flixbus.ios.Flixbus
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- SQ, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FR, DE, HU, IT, LV, LT, NB, PL, PT, RO, SR, SK, SL, ES, SV, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Bus Travel in the US
- Description
- Discover the new way to travel by bus. Enjoy comfortable seats with spacious legroom, power outlets and free Wi-Fi while you travel the US by bus at unbeatable prices. Book your bus ticket now → FlixBus: The smart choice in traveling
- 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
- $6.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- corporate.flix.com/flix-sustainable-t…
- de.linkedin.com/company/flixbus
- 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
- facebook facebook.com/FlixBus · instagram instagram.com/flixbus · linkedin de.linkedin.com/company/flixbus · tiktok tiktok.com/@flixbus · twitter corporate.flix.com/flix-sustainable-t… · youtube youtube.com/user/EinfachBusfahren?fea…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- flixbus.com/company/sustainability
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available sources do not provide a specific revenue estimate for the 'FlixBus & FlixTrain' iOS app. Flix SE, the parent company, reported a total annual revenue of €2 billion (approximately $2.16 billion USD based on current exchange rates) in 2023, with a forecast of €2.5 billion in 2025. The app is a core component of Flix SE's digital distribution and booking platform, facilitating a significant portion of the company's overall ticket sales and ancillary service revenue, but its individual contribution is not disaggregated in public financial reports.
Sources mentioned: Business Model Canvas Templates, Tracxn, Vizologi, Growjo, Suffescom Solutions, Prospeo, Munich Startup, FlixBus (Company Website), The Financial Express, Mobility Outlook
📈Ratings growth83,264 ratings+11% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (54 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
The FlixBus and FlixTrain mobile app. Book cheap bus and train* tickets for all of Europe, Turkey, Brazil and the USA. Download the bus and train app now!
*Train trips are available in Germany
Travelling with FlixBus and FlixTrain is easy! Just download the free app and give it a try. For bookworms who’d like more details, here are some tips to get you started.
BOOKING
Choose your desired connection, enter your passenger information, choose your preferred payment method, and pay for your ticket. The advantages of booking through the app:… View full description on the official store →
*Train trips are available in Germany
Travelling with FlixBus and FlixTrain is easy! Just download the free app and give it a try. For bookworms who’d like more details, here are some tips to get you started.
BOOKING
Choose your desired connection, enter your passenger information, choose your preferred payment method, and pay for your ticket. The advantages of booking through the app:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 88 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v9.48.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 SQ, CA, HR, CS, DA +20📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 ↑ 2.21 → 4.80 (improved 2.59★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 2.71 (improved 0.38★)
2022-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.60 (improved 0.60★)
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.33 (improved 1.33★)
2022-03
🚀
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 | 4.82116★ | 3,875 | 4.82116★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.92283★ | 24,737 | 4.92283★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.82528★ | 12,431 | 4.82528★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.75276★ | 160,707 | 4.75276★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.72663★ | 115,844 | 4.72663★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.83746★ | 58,200 | 4.83746★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.7857★ | 10,868 | 4.7857★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.74326★ | 2,524 | 4.74326★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.81547★ | 85,063 | 4.81547★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for FlixBus & FlixTrain: 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: 83,264 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FlixBus & FlixTrain make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, FlixBus & FlixTrain earns approximately $6.3K/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 FlixBus & FlixTrain?▴
FlixBus & FlixTrain is published by Flix SE 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 FlixBus & FlixTrain's BU Score?▴
FlixBus & FlixTrain 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.