Route: Package Tracker
82
Quality Score
Excellent
Route: Package Tracker
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Route: Package Tracker is an iOS app from Route App LLC in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.8★ across 511,259 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Shopping 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
$2.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.6M – $4.1M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$3.2M – $5.9M
per month
BIG tier
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- 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
$2.7K/mo · 188K ratings · 4.7★
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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 ~2.8y 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 (199 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
51.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
6.1M
Daily active
1.1M
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
| 📲 Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
17% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$2.5M – $3.3M
12 months
$2.6M – $4.1M
24 months
$3.2M – $5.9M
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 · 51/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
6.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.0M - $5.5M/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.83★ across 511,259 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $45.0M-$80.0M.
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:
| High install base (511,259 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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 · v2.182.0
There are always exciting new things changing at Route! Fear of missing out? Make sure that you have automatic updates turned on!
Improvements in this version include the following:
‣‣ Name your orders, your way.… Full release notes →
Improvements in this version include the following:
‣‣ Name your orders, your way.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Route: Package Tracker
- Developer
- Route App LLC
- Bundle ID
- io.routeapp.route
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.route.com
- Tagline
- Route: Post-Purchase Platform. Protection, Tracking, Returns
- Description
- Own the post-purchase experience with Route. Scale your brand using the #1 platform for package protection, AI-driven returns, and real-time tracking.
- Founded
- 2019
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $0AI high
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $3.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The iOS app "Route: Package Tracker" is free for consumers and does not generate direct revenue through in-app purchases or subscriptions. The parent company, Route App LLC, generates revenue by providing post-purchase solutions, including package protection, tracking, and returns management, to e-commerce merchants. Route's company-wide revenue exceeded $100 million in 2023.
Sources mentioned: Route for Shoppers, Sensor Tower, Forbes, dot.LA, Owler, Prospeo, PR Newswire
📈Ratings growth511,259 ratings+63% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (38 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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
Route is the premier package tracker for all of your online orders. Join over 50 Million people who have tracked their orders with Route. Route connects with millions of online stores and over 600 shipping carriers worldwide, including Amazon, FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, and more. Get shipping notifications that give you real-time status updates on any delivery!
NEVER MISS A DELIVERY
The Route App brings package tracking and delivery to life.… View full description on the official store →
NEVER MISS A DELIVERY
The Route App brings package tracking and delivery to life.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 199 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.182.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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 ↑ 3.07 → 4.83 (improved 1.76★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.07 → 4.60 (improved 1.53★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.83 → 2.29 (improved 0.46★)
2024-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.80 (improved 0.80★)
2024-10
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — route.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Anthropic · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Google Workspace · OpenAI · Stripe · SendGrid
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.61001★ | 3,272 | 4.61001★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.83025★ | 324 | 4.83025★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.6558★ | 19,814 | 4.6558★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.5744★ | 672 | 4.5744★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.60674★ | 979 | 4.60674★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.65017★ | 3,193 | 4.65017★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.72558★ | 215 | 4.72558★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.53748★ | 547 | 4.53748★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83012★ | 512,347 | 4.83012★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Route: Package Tracker: 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: 511,259 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Route make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Route earns approximately $3.7K/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.
What apps are like Route?▴
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Who makes Route?▴
Route is published by Route App LLC 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 Route's BU Score?▴
Route 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.