ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird
80
Quality Score
Excellent
ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird is an iOS app from New York City Department of Transportation in the Business category, currently rated 4.8★ across 224,264 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 Business 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
$1.4M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.5M – $2.3M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.8M – $3.3M
per month
BIG 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
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4.0y 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 (142 MB) | +$36K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$43K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
14.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.1M
Daily active
945K
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.4M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.4M – $1.9M
12 months
$1.5M – $2.3M
24 months
$1.8M – $3.3M
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 · 50/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
6.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $560K - $3080K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 224,264 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 219d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $25.2M-$44.8M.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (224,264 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 (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (25 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v2.1.3
Convenience fee message adjusted. Security, performance, and user experience enhancements have been implemented.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird
- Developer
- New York City Department of Transportation
- Bundle ID
- us.parkmobile.nycdot
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BS, CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, DE, EL, IS, IT, LT, MS, NB, PL, PT, RU, SK, ES, SV, TR, CY
Company
- Website
- parknyc.org
- Tagline
- Parking made easy
- Description
- Find parking in New York City in seconds! Download the ParkNYC App today. Available on iOS and Android!
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $360.0K ($270.0K – $450.0K)AI low
- AI annual estimate
- $4.3M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $2.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- 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
- Socials
- twitter twitter.com/parknycapp
- Not found
- Phone
- 1-844-442-0700
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
The ParkNYC app, operated by the New York City Department of Transportation in partnership with Flowbird, facilitates parking payments. While direct revenue figures for the app are not publicly available, it processed over 1.8 million transactions in its first four weeks after a relaunch in late 2022. Assuming an estimated convenience fee of $0.15 to $0.25 per transaction, the app's monthly revenue is estimated to be between $270,000 and $450,000, with a central estimate of $360,000. This leads to an annual revenue estimate of approximately $4.32 million.
Sources mentioned: Flowbird, New York City Department of Transportation, Reddit, App Store
📈Ratings growth224,264 ratings+47% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (18 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
Have you ever been late to an important meeting and you can’t find a parking spot? How infuriating!
Say goodbye to this feeling with the introduction of ParkNYC - the now easiest, fastest way to find and pay for parking anywhere in New York City!
This innovative app provides a user-friendly way to easily download, create an account, locate parking zones, and pay all in one place and across multiple devices.
Save yourself some time - Install the ParkNYC app today!
Parking convenience is at your fingertips with the ParkNYC app.… View full description on the official store →
Say goodbye to this feeling with the introduction of ParkNYC - the now easiest, fastest way to find and pay for parking anywhere in New York City!
This innovative app provides a user-friendly way to easily download, create an account, locate parking zones, and pay all in one place and across multiple devices.
Save yourself some time - Install the ParkNYC app today!
Parking convenience is at your fingertips with the ParkNYC app.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 142 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v2.1.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, BS, CA, CS, DA +20📂 Business💰 Free
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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
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.48 → 4.79 (improved 2.31★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.48 → 4.80 (improved 2.32★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.14 → 2.50 (improved 0.36★)
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2025-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 4.00 (improved 1.00★)
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.5★ | 2 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.5★ | 4 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5566★ | 106 | 4.5566★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4★ | 5 | 4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.46666★ | 15 | 4.46666★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.25★ | 20 | 4.25★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.72727★ | 11 | 4.72727★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.59999★ | 10 | 4.59999★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78899★ | 227,384 | 4.78899★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird: 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: 224,264 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird earns approximately $2.7K/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 ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird?▴
ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird is published by New York City Department of Transportation 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 ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird's BU Score?▴
ParkNYC Powered by Flowbird 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.