Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels
78
Quality Score
Strong
Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels is an iOS app from Hotwire, Inc. in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 144,609 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
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
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
$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 ~3.2y 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 (110 MB) | +$24K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$22K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$45K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $35K – $50K · 18× 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% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
15.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.6M
Daily active
230K
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 · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.5
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 144,609 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.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (144,609 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v18.8.4
Bug fix and maintenance.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels
- Developer
- Hotwire, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.hotwire.Hotwire
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Find the best deals on the cheapest hotels, cars & flights with Hotwire. Save big on hotels and cars with Hotwire Hot Rates.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $2.5K/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 data on the specific revenue of the iOS app "Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels" is not available. Hotwire, Inc. operates on a model where it earns commissions from hotel bookings made through its platform, including the app, by selling unsold travel inventory at discounted prices. The app itself is free to download.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Reddit, Apple App Store, Wikipedia
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.02★ · 20.4% 5★ · 67.3% 1★
5★10 (20%)
4★0 (0%)
3★4 (8%)
2★2 (4%)
1★33 (67%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×6 best ×5 amazing ×2 love ×2 awesome ×1Complaints: refund ×6 worst ×4 terrible ×3 crash ×2 scam ×2
Top positive
★★★★★ Love, Hotwire
Always get great deals on hotwire no matter where I travel. I love the feature pick your room.…
★★★★★ My go to every time! Hotel/car
I get the best deals every time!
I’ve stayed at the best hotel for very reasonable prices. I love top notch but I travel so much, that I need to balance out my cash!! The all helps!♥️im a fan… seamless checkin everytime!…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ App not working
Even though I'm logged in when I'm directed to check out for a reservation in the app, it provides a button to push to sign in for "quicker checkout. "Even though I am already signed in. So every time I check out, the ap…
★☆☆☆☆ Time to go somewhere else!
Whatever they have done to their app, has made it non functional on tablets. I went back a tried it again, they haven’t fixed a thing! This app so called service is complete garbage!…
📈Ratings growth144,609 ratings+30% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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
Save even more with exclusive, last-minute travel deals in the Hotwire app. Hot Rate® deals make booking travel easy, exciting, and affordable!
1. You pick the star-rating, location, amenities, and price.
2. We reveal your top-notch, deeply-discounted hotel right after booking.
3. Done and done.
We've added new ways for you to hack your trip and get the best deal, available only on the app:
• Discounted pricing and app-only coupons. Saving cash looks good on you.
• Draw your ideal neighborhood. Circle a specific location on the map, and we’ll find you a Hot Rate® Hotel right there.… View full description on the official store →
1. You pick the star-rating, location, amenities, and price.
2. We reveal your top-notch, deeply-discounted hotel right after booking.
3. Done and done.
We've added new ways for you to hack your trip and get the best deal, available only on the app:
• Discounted pricing and app-only coupons. Saving cash looks good on you.
• Draw your ideal neighborhood. Circle a specific location on the map, and we’ll find you a Hot Rate® Hotel right there.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 110 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.1+🔖 v18.8.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 ↑ 2.28 → 4.80 (improved 2.52★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
📈
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
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.40 (dropped 0.60★)
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2022-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #5Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
hotel deals·#5🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 144,609 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Hotwire make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hotwire earns approximately $2.5K/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 Hotwire?▴
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Who makes Hotwire?▴
Hotwire is published by Hotwire, 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 Hotwire's BU Score?▴
Hotwire 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.