Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker
81
Quality Score
Excellent
Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker is an iOS app from pinkfroot limited in the Travel category, currently rated 4.7★ across 58,096 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 81: 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 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
🤖Also on Android
$890/mo · 15K ratings · 4.5★
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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
📈
Pays back in ~7 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 (158 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $400K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~2.7× 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
6.3M
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 |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🔬
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
Mixed signals · 57/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.74★ across 58,096 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (58,096 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 |
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 · v2026.2.6
Bug fixes, performance and stability improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker
- Developer
- pinkfroot limited
- Bundle ID
- uk.co.leeus.planefinderfree
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, ZH, ES, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $18.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇬🇧#3 /99 🇦🇺#18 /100 🇯🇵#19 /100 🇩🇪#23 /100 🇨🇦#26 /100 🇮🇳#29 /100 🇫🇷#31 /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.
📈Ratings growth58,665 ratings+31% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇬🇧GB#3 /99
🇦🇺AU#18 /100
🇯🇵JP#19 /100
🇩🇪DE#23 /100
🇨🇦CA#26 /100
🇮🇳IN#29 /100
🇫🇷FR#31 /100
🇺🇸US#32 /100
🇧🇷BR#70 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#3 now · best #2 · worst #33
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Uncover the mysteries of live air traffic in one beautiful and easy to use app. Is it a bird? Is it a plane?! If it’s the latter, Plane Finder can tell you exactly which plane it is.
Plane Finder is incredibly easy to use and utterly fascinating. It enables you to see live air traffic patterns with real-time tracking of almost any plane you’re interested in, and in addition to the aircraft’s location you can see its current altitude, its speed and where it’s heading.
Get live information on flights - super handy when travelling.… View full description on the official store →
Plane Finder is incredibly easy to use and utterly fascinating. It enables you to see live air traffic patterns with real-time tracking of almost any plane you’re interested in, and in addition to the aircraft’s location you can see its current altitude, its speed and where it’s heading.
Get live information on flights - super handy when travelling.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 158 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.5+🔖 v2026.2.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +5📂 Travel💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.52 → 4.50 (improved 0.98★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2021-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.20 → 3.67 (dropped 0.53★)
2021-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2021-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2021-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
2021-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #7Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
flight tracker·#7🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.61186★ | 20,890 | 4.61186★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.80581★ | 1,205 | 4.80581★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.62153★ | 10,656 | 4.62153★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.55116★ | 9,861 | 4.55116★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.60349★ | 4,353 | 4.60349★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.66132★ | 92,639 | 4.66132★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.70601★ | 3,456 | 4.70601★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.50372★ | 1,076 | 4.50372★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.74041★ | 58,665 | 4.74041★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker: 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: 58,096 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker earns approximately $18K/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 Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker?▴
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Who makes Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker?▴
Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker is published by pinkfroot limited 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 Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker's BU Score?▴
Plane Finder ⁃ Flight Tracker has a BU Score of 81/100 (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.