hvv switch: Tickets & Sharing
59
Quality Score
Solid
hvv switch: Tickets & Sharing
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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hvv switch: Tickets & Sharing is an iOS app from Hamburger Hochbahn AG in the Travel category, currently rated 4.5★ across 738 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 59: 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
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Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (299 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
👥 Estimated audience size
81K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
8.1K
Daily active
1.2K
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 · 44/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.45★ across 738 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (738 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 · v2.3.0
The hvv switch app offers you all hvv tickets, the hvv Deutschlandticket, hvv connection information, car sharing, e-scooters and MOIA. And all this within a single app.
This update includes the following new features:… Full release notes →
This update includes the following new features:… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- hvv switch: Tickets & Sharing
- Developer
- Hamburger Hochbahn AG
- Bundle ID
- de.hochbahn.hvvswitch
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, DE
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- hvv switch - die Mobilitätsapp für Hamburg
- Description
- Jetzt Hamburgs Mobilitätsapp hvv switch nutzen. Mit nur einer Registrierung und einem Konto hvv Tickets kaufen, MOIA-Shuttles buchen, Autos von SIXT share…
- 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
- $459/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.
📈Ratings growth741 ratings+74000% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (21 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
With hvv switch you can use public transport, car sharing, e-scooters and ride sharing – all with just one app and one account.
Find your perfect connection by bus, train or ferry – including the right hvv ticket. For regular journeys in Hamburg and across Germany, the hvv Deutschlandticket (from May 1st also the discounted hvv Deutschlandticket for seniors with residence in Hamburg) is available directly in the app.
Alternatively, you can rent a car from Free2move, SIXT share, MILES or Cambio, book a MOIA shuttle, or explore Hamburg flexibly with a Voi e-scooter.… View full description on the official store →
Find your perfect connection by bus, train or ferry – including the right hvv ticket. For regular journeys in Hamburg and across Germany, the hvv Deutschlandticket (from May 1st also the discounted hvv Deutschlandticket for seniors with residence in Hamburg) is available directly in the app.
Alternatively, you can rent a car from Free2move, SIXT share, MILES or Cambio, book a MOIA shuttle, or explore Hamburg flexibly with a Voi e-scooter.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 299 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v2.3.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, DE📂 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
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Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.25 → 4.30 (improved 2.05★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2022-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2021-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
2021-10
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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 | 4.3125★ | 64 | 4.3125★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.58094★ | 105 | 4.58094★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.81818★ | 77 | 3.81818★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.34447★ | 30,084 | 4.34447★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.41791★ | 134 | 4.41791★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.30094★ | 319 | 4.30094★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.71242★ | 153 | 4.71242★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.84375★ | 64 | 3.84375★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.44939★ | 741 | 4.44939★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for hvv switch: Tickets & Sharing: 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: 738 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does hvv switch make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, hvv switch earns approximately $459/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 hvv switch?▴
hvv switch is published by Hamburger Hochbahn AG 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 hvv switch's BU Score?▴
hvv switch has a BU Score of 59/100 (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.