NJ TRANSIT Mobile App
80
Quality Score
Excellent
NJ TRANSIT Mobile App
by NEW JERSEY TRANSIT CORPORATION
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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NJ TRANSIT Mobile App is an iOS app from NEW JERSEY TRANSIT CORPORATION in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 269,031 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
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 tierFREE
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
218 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
269,031 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.6M
Snapshots tracked
218
since May 2024
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$165K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $125K – $225K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 (89 MB) | +$15K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$19K |
| ⚙ 13.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$80K |
Total estimate
$165K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $26.0M – $45.0M · 22× MRR multiple
💸
~212× 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 |
| 📅 13.5y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
22× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
20.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
635K
Daily active
95K
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 |
| 📅 13.5y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 89 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Travel |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-09-09 · 32 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 32 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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
Concerning · 45/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
8.1
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
6.7
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.81★ across 269,031 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -3.47 ★ (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 = $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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (269,031 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 (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (21 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v2026.3.0i
• Improved support for special-event travel and ticketing
• Streamlined Departures & Schedules experience for train, bus and light rail
• Improved access to service alerts and important travel information
• Enhancements to trip planning and nearby transit information… Full release notes →
• Streamlined Departures & Schedules experience for train, bus and light rail
• Improved access to service alerts and important travel information
• Enhancements to trip planning and nearby transit information… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- NJ TRANSIT Mobile App
- Developer
- NEW JERSEY TRANSIT CORPORATION
- Bundle ID
- com.njtransit.njtapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BN, NL, EN, FR, DE, GU, HT, HI, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR, UR, VI
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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $1.6M/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 growth269,583 ratings+56063% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
All of NJ TRANSIT. One place. The NJ TRANSIT Mobile App makes it easy to get where you need to go—whether you're commuting daily or traveling occasionally. Plan trips, purchase tickets, and stay informed with real-time updates across bus, rail, and light rail.
• Plan Your Trip with Confidence - Get where you're going faster with easy trip planning across all NJ TRANSIT services. Find the best routes, connections, and schedules in seconds.… View full description on the official store →
• Plan Your Trip with Confidence - Get where you're going faster with easy trip planning across all NJ TRANSIT services. Find the best routes, connections, and schedules in seconds.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 89 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.4+🔖 v2026.3.0i🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AR, BN, NL, EN, FR +16📂 Travel💰 Free🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
17 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.2.1 → v2026.3.0i
→ 30 days after: reviews +63 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.2.0 → v2026.2.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +207 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.1.11 → v2026.2.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +375 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.1.10 → v2026.1.11
→ 30 days after: reviews +526 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +526 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.97 → 4.80 (improved 2.83★)
→ 30 days after: rating +2.83★ · reviews +264,487 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +2.83★ · reviews +264,487 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +2.83★ · reviews +264,489 medium · co-occurring
2024-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +25 high confidence
2024-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.08★ · reviews +17 high confidence
2024-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.11★ · reviews +25 high confidence
2024-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.16★ · reviews +27 high confidence
2024-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.16★ · reviews +27 high confidence
2024-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.20 → 1.50 (improved 0.30★)
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.50 (improved 0.50★)
2024-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 528 reviews across 6 markets● 30% positive · ● 8% neutral · ● 62% negative · Rating drift: -3.47★ (declining — recent 50: 1.34★ vs lifetime: 4.81★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.39
🇧🇷 BR
+0.00
🇨🇦 CA
-0.02
🇩🇪 DE
-0.06
🇺🇸 US
-0.22
🇬🇧 GB
-0.23
Top praise themes
trip planner ×3 trains ×6 train ×6 alert ×5 update ×5 doesn ×4 now ×4 stars ×4
Top complaint themes
departure vision ×28 buy tickets ×26 train schedule ×23 terrible update ×22 old version ×19 buy ticket ×19 doesn work ×19 user friendly ×18
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.9% Bug mentions: 5% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.6%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.74747★ | 99 | 4.74747★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.87879★ | 231 | 4.87879★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.79115★ | 905 | 4.79115★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.54237★ | 295 | 4.54237★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.875★ | 16 | 4.875★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.73874★ | 333 | 4.73874★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.92982★ | 57 | 4.92982★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.62195★ | 164 | 4.62195★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.79936★ | 269,583 | 4.79936★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for NJ TRANSIT Mobile App: 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: 269,031 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does NJ TRANSIT Mobile App make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, NJ TRANSIT Mobile App earns approximately $1.6M/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.
Is NJ TRANSIT Mobile App profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $165K and monthly revenue $1.6M, NJ TRANSIT Mobile App looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does NJ TRANSIT Mobile App have?▴
Estimated audience: ~20.5M lifetime downloads, ~635K monthly active users, and ~95K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like NJ TRANSIT Mobile App?▴
Browse the full Travel category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is NJ TRANSIT Mobile App built with?▴
Our heuristic places NJ TRANSIT Mobile App on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is NJ TRANSIT Mobile App still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would NJ TRANSIT Mobile App sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $35.0M (marketplace range $26.0M – $45.0M). Calculated as 22× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was NJ TRANSIT Mobile App last updated?▴
NJ TRANSIT Mobile App last shipped a new version on 2026-09-09 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes NJ TRANSIT Mobile App?▴
NJ TRANSIT Mobile App is published by NEW JERSEY TRANSIT CORPORATION 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 NJ TRANSIT Mobile App's BU Score?▴
NJ TRANSIT Mobile App 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.