Royal Caribbean International
83
Quality Score
Excellent
Royal Caribbean International
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Royal Caribbean International is an iOS app from Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 1,172,065 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 83: 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
$12.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$12.3M – $16.4M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$13.7M – $20.6M
per month
MEGA 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
$973/mo · 127K ratings · 4.6★
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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 ~2.1y 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 (486 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
128.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
12.5M
Daily active
1.9M
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
$12.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$11.8M – $14.4M
12 months
$12.3M – $16.4M
24 months
$13.7M – $20.6M
Compound growth at +1.5% MoM (tier baseline for MEGA). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±10% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 60/100MEGA TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.9
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
7.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Strong — $4.8M - $24.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 1,172,065 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 32-48× monthly = $384.0M-$576.0M.
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 (1,172,065 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| 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 · v1.76.0
With this release, we improved the app's speed and usability, and fixed bugs. Make sure you turn on auto-updates, so you can keep up with all the ways we improve the app.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Royal Caribbean International
- Developer
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- com.rccl.royalcaribbean
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, FR, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- www.royalcaribbean.com
- Tagline
- Royal Caribbean Cruises
- Description
- Cruise to unforgettable destinations with Royal Caribbean. Save with the best cruise deals and packages to the Caribbean and the Bahamas. Start your dream vacation with a cruise to Alaska, the Mediterranean, Mexico, or the South Pacific.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $4.8K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/royalcaribbean · instagram instagram.com/RoyalCaribbean · tiktok tiktok.com/@royalcaribbean?lang=en · twitter x.com/royalcaribbean · youtube youtube.com/@RoyalCaribbean
- Not found
- Phone
- 866-562-7625
- Contact page
- royalcaribbean.com/resources/contact-us
- About page
- royalcaribbean.com/about-us
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available sources do not provide a direct revenue estimate for the 'Royal Caribbean International' iOS app. The app serves as a crucial digital platform that facilitates pre-cruise bookings and onboard purchases, significantly contributing to the overall revenue of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. For instance, the app drives 90% of pre-cruise onboard revenue bookings through digital channels, and nearly 50% of onboard purchases are made via the app. While the app enables substantial revenue for the parent company, its individual revenue is not disclosed.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Cruise Industry News, Similarweb, AltIndex, Macrotrends, Growjo, Companies Market Cap, Fantasy.co, Reddit, Apple App Store
📈Ratings growth1,172,065 ratings+51% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (15 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
A lifetime of vacations, at your fingertips
Explore cruises – from Europe to Alaska, the Caribbean to Asia, and Mexico to Australia – and book with just a few taps. Get great deals and buy gift cards to use on pre-cruise purchases and new bookings. Tackle all your travel planning, too. Find and book great deals on flights, explore transportation and lodging options, and plan your entire journey. And stay in vacation mode all year long by shopping VacayMarket, where you can purchase thoughtfully curated merch and gear to outfit your upcoming cruise and have items delivered to your U.S.… View full description on the official store →
Explore cruises – from Europe to Alaska, the Caribbean to Asia, and Mexico to Australia – and book with just a few taps. Get great deals and buy gift cards to use on pre-cruise purchases and new bookings. Tackle all your travel planning, too. Find and book great deals on flights, explore transportation and lodging options, and plan your entire journey. And stay in vacation mode all year long by shopping VacayMarket, where you can purchase thoughtfully curated merch and gear to outfit your upcoming cruise and have items delivered to your U.S.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 486 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.76.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, ZH, ES📂 Travel💰 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 ↑ 4.09 → 4.79 (improved 0.70★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.08 → 4.70 (improved 0.62★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2025-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.67648★ | 43,200 | 4.67648★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.81763★ | 15,041 | 4.81763★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.71765★ | 55,085 | 4.71765★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.61742★ | 2,538 | 4.61742★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.66317★ | 1,817 | 4.66317★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.6994★ | 38,274 | 4.6994★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.85342★ | 4,755 | 4.85342★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.61489★ | 940 | 4.61489★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Royal Caribbean International: 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: 1,172,065 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Royal Caribbean International make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Royal Caribbean International earns approximately $4.8K/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 Royal Caribbean International?▴
Royal Caribbean International is published by Royal Caribbean Cruises 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 Royal Caribbean International's BU Score?▴
Royal Caribbean International has a BU Score of 83/100 (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.