MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking
82
Quality Score
Excellent
MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking is an iOS app from MarineTraffic Applications LTD in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 64,833 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 82: 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
$26.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$27.7K – $58.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$34.3K – $102.8K
per month
MID tierSUBSCRIPTION
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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
$2.2K/mo · 126K ratings · 3.2★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4 months 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 (130 MB) | +$31K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$24K |
Total estimate
$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $375K – $700K · 17× MRR multiple
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~4.8× return on build cost
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
7.1M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
710K
Daily active
105K
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
$26.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$25.4K – $42.3K
12 months
$27.7K – $58.0K
24 months
$34.3K – $102K
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
Building · 60/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive build-outGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
8.0
Revenue Strength
4.4
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
7.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
6.3
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $18K - $40K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 64,833 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 7% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -3.18 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $481K-$855K.
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:
| Mid install base (64,833 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| 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 · v5.6.0
- Multiple bug fixes and small improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking
- Developer
- MarineTraffic Applications LTD
- Bundle ID
- com.marinetraffic.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- MarineTraffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic
- Description
- MarineTraffic Live Ships Map. Discover information and vessel positions for vessels around the world. Search the MarineTraffic ships database of more than 550000 active and decommissioned vessels. Search for popular ships globally. Find locations of ports and ships using the near Real Time ships map. View vessel details and ship photos.
- 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
- $29.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇬🇧#5 /99 🇨🇦#6 /100 🇮🇳#8 /100 🇦🇺#9 /100 🇫🇷#13 /100 🇩🇪#15 /100 🇯🇵#17 /100
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.37★ · 4.1% 5★ · 79.6% 1★
5★2 (4%)
4★0 (0%)
3★2 (4%)
2★6 (12%)
1★39 (80%)
+14 ratings/week
Praise: great ×8 recommend ×4 best ×3 love ×3 favorite ×2Complaints: subscription ×6 terrible ×5 broken ×1 expensive ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Good app
5 five…
★★★★★ Love This App
I Can See Ships and When they are going to be There and I can watch them though the Live Cams or In Person…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Still bad
Besides destroying the great user interface the older version had and not having a user defined default map to always have so users don't have to create a new base map every time, they're now blocking users from the older version …
★☆☆☆☆ I have an account why are you updating it?
Got an update on the app downloaded the update now the app sucks fix it back to what it used to be. If not, I’m going to delete it and I will recommend everybody else to delete it.…
📈Ratings growth64,833 ratings+19% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇬🇧GB#5 /99
🇨🇦CA#6 /100
🇮🇳IN#8 /100
🇦🇺AU#9 /100
🇫🇷FR#13 /100
🇩🇪DE#15 /100
🇯🇵JP#17 /100
🇧🇷BR#18 /100
🇺🇸US#23 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#5 now · best #5 · worst #57
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline4 releases tracked
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
Welcome to MarineTraffic.
You spoke, we listened. Based on feedback from our customers, the MarineTraffic app has been updated to deliver a faster, clearer, and more reliable way to track vessels and monitor maritime activity worldwide.
MarineTraffic is used by maritime professionals, shipping companies, port authorities, and enthusiasts around the world. With MarineTraffic 2.0, the experience you rely on has been improved, while keeping the core tools you already know and trust.
If you’ve used MarineTraffic before, you’ll feel at home straight away.… View full description on the official store →
You spoke, we listened. Based on feedback from our customers, the MarineTraffic app has been updated to deliver a faster, clearer, and more reliable way to track vessels and monitor maritime activity worldwide.
MarineTraffic is used by maritime professionals, shipping companies, port authorities, and enthusiasts around the world. With MarineTraffic 2.0, the experience you rely on has been improved, while keeping the core tools you already know and trust.
If you’ve used MarineTraffic before, you’ll feel at home straight away.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 130 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v5.6.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
📅
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: paid → free
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v5.3.1 → v5.4.0
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.71 → 3.38 (dropped 0.33★)
2024-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.25 → 3.60 (improved 0.35★)
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.67 → 3.25 (improved 0.58★)
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 2.50 (dropped 1.50★)
2024-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 896 reviews across 9 markets● 43% positive · ● 17% neutral · ● 40% negative · Rating drift: -3.18★ (declining — recent 50: 1.58★ vs lifetime: 4.76★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.57
🇧🇷 BR
+0.25
🇺🇸 US
+0.08
🇯🇵 JP
+0.06
🇫🇷 FR
-0.05
🇦🇺 AU
-0.06
🇨🇦 CA
-0.24
🇬🇧 GB
-0.31
🇩🇪 DE
-0.38
Top praise themes
marine traffic ×24 muito bom ×9 new update ×7 cruise ships ×7 see ships ×6 user friendly ×6 free version ×6 able identify ×6
Top complaint themes
new update ×93 new version ×68 old version ×43 latest update ×34 marine traffic ×27 update terrible ×21 update ruined ×21 user friendly ×20
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.6% Subscription complaints: 7% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.7%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.65418★ | 12,223 | 4.65418★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.85185★ | 2,889 | 4.85185★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.663★ | 15,015 | 4.663★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.64459★ | 21,787 | 4.64459★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.6487★ | 12,986 | 4.6487★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.69472★ | 33,317 | 4.69472★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.7181★ | 1,497 | 4.7181★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.41987★ | 7,026 | 4.41987★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.75297★ | 64,894 | 4.75297★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking: 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: 64,833 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking earns approximately $29K/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 MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking?▴
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Who makes MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking?▴
MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking is published by MarineTraffic Applications LTD 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 MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking's BU Score?▴
MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking has a BU Score of 82/100 (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.