Seatfrog: Cheap Train Tickets
64
Quality Score
Solid
Seatfrog: Cheap Train Tickets
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Seatfrog: Cheap Train Tickets is an iOS app from Seatfrog Pty Ltd in the Travel category, currently rated 4.7★ across 334 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 64: Solid (established niche player). For a Travel app, that means established niche player. 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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📊 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
$454/mo · 7K ratings · 3.3★
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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 ~12 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 (159 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 15× MRR multiple
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~1.2× build cost (break-even+)
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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
36K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.6K
Daily active
540
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
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
6.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.65★ across 334 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($9K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (334 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| 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 · v4.4.13
A small update this time to fix payment card details being cut off with larger text sizes so you can make sure you've got the right details for your next upgrade
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Seatfrog: Cheap Train Tickets
- Developer
- Seatfrog Pty Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.Seatfrog
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Save up to 60% on First Class Train Travel
- Description
- Want to travel First Class? Simply bid to upgrade your seat, and get exclusive access to the best seats sent straight to your mobile.
- 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
- $9.6K/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 growth334 ratings+33300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (18 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
🚀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
All aboard Seatfrog, the first app ever to let you upgrade your tickets, swap your journey times and now buy tickets for a massive range of destinations.
Think you have to be rich to sit in First Class? Think again. We can help you upgrade from a standard seat for as little as £10, just by entering our auction. You place your bid and, if you win, we switch you to a fancier seat for much less than you’d pay on the day.
You can also buy instant upgrades, which are still dead cheap compared to the asking price.… View full description on the official store →
Think you have to be rich to sit in First Class? Think again. We can help you upgrade from a standard seat for as little as £10, just by entering our auction. You place your bid and, if you win, we switch you to a fancier seat for much less than you’d pay on the day.
You can also buy instant upgrades, which are still dead cheap compared to the asking price.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 159 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v4.4.13🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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
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Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.29 → 4.80 (improved 3.51★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.33 (improved 0.33★)
2024-05
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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-05
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.7069★ | 116 | 4.7069★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.2931★ | 58 | 4.2931★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.91667★ | 12 | 4.91667★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.58333★ | 12 | 4.58333★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.79472★ | 45,050 | 4.79472★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 12 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 6 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.64985★ | 337 | 4.64985★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Seatfrog: Cheap Train Tickets: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 334 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Seatfrog make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Seatfrog earns approximately $9.6K/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 Seatfrog?▴
Seatfrog is published by Seatfrog Pty 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 Seatfrog's BU Score?▴
Seatfrog has a BU Score of 64/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.