Greyhound: Buy Bus Tickets
80
Quality Score
Excellent
Greyhound: Buy Bus Tickets
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Greyhound: Buy Bus Tickets is an iOS app from Greyhound Lines Inc in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 221,391 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 80: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Travel app, that means strong product-market fit. 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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- 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
$1.3K/mo · 113K ratings · 4.7★
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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
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Pays back in ~2.8y 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 (102 MB) | +$20K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$21K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 18× MRR multiple
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~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% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
24.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.4M
Daily active
360K
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
Mixed signals · 56/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.85★ across 221,391 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 = $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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (221,391 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| 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
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Greyhound: Buy Bus Tickets
- Developer
- Greyhound Lines Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.greyhound.mobile.Greyhound
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, 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
- $2.8K/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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available sources do not provide specific revenue estimates for the iOS app "Greyhound: Buy Bus Tickets." While Greyhound Lines Inc. generates substantial annual revenue (e.g., $894 million in some reports and $670 million for Greyhound and Flix's U.S. operations in 2023), and a significant portion of its ticket sales occur through its mobile applications, a precise breakdown of revenue generated solely by the iOS app is not disclosed.
Sources mentioned: Prospeo, Owler, Growjo, FirstGroup plc, Bus & Motorcoach News, Forbes, App Store, Reddit, Adapty
📈Ratings growth221,391 ratings+17% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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
Book low-fare bus tickets with more options
With the free, refreshed, and enhanced Greyhound app, you have more bus trip options, same low fares, and more new features than ever before.
• Bus Trip Schedules – More options! Now you can see and book both Greyhound and FlixBus carrier schedules. More schedules mean more low fares on bus trips.
• Seat Assignments – Choose the seat on the bus that you like the best. Want a window – sounds great. More of an aisle person – the choice is yours. A fee applies to select your preferred seat, or we’ll choose one for you… View full description on the official store →
With the free, refreshed, and enhanced Greyhound app, you have more bus trip options, same low fares, and more new features than ever before.
• Bus Trip Schedules – More options! Now you can see and book both Greyhound and FlixBus carrier schedules. More schedules mean more low fares on bus trips.
• Seat Assignments – Choose the seat on the bus that you like the best. Want a window – sounds great. More of an aisle person – the choice is yours. A fee applies to select your preferred seat, or we’ll choose one for you… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 102 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v9.48.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, ES📂 Travel💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 ↑ 2.79 → 4.80 (improved 2.01★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.33 → 3.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2021-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.80 → 3.33 (dropped 0.47★)
2021-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.80 (dropped 0.70★)
2021-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.33 (improved 0.33★)
2021-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2021-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.86723★ | 354 | 4.86723★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.7018★ | 1,613 | 4.7018★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.76619★ | 278 | 4.76619★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.83333★ | 792 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.86845★ | 783 | 4.86845★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.75092★ | 273 | 4.75092★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84795★ | 222,894 | 4.84795★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Greyhound: Buy Bus Tickets: 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: 221,391 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Greyhound make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Greyhound earns approximately $2.8K/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 Greyhound?▴
Greyhound is published by Greyhound Lines Inc 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 Greyhound's BU Score?▴
Greyhound has a BU Score of 80/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.