Skiplagged - Travel Hacks
86
Quality Score
Excellent
Skiplagged - Travel Hacks
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Skiplagged - Travel Hacks is an iOS app from Skiplagged LLC in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 331,356 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 86: 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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$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 (84 MB) | +$13K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$19K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~2.6× 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% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
36.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.6M
Daily active
540K
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
$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
Concerning · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.83★ across 331,356 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 = $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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (331,356 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (6 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v3.14.0
This update includes bug fixes and performance improvements.
Like us? Please leave a review in the App Store! NOW GO FLY
Like us? Please leave a review in the App Store! NOW GO FLY
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Skiplagged - Travel Hacks
- Developer
- Skiplagged LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.skiplagged
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, PL, PT, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- skiplagged.com
- Tagline
- Ridiculous travel deals you can't find anywhere else.
- Description
- Skiplagged is an airfare search engine for cheap flights, showing hidden-city ticketing trips. Save up to 80% on airfare today!
- 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
- $12.7K/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/Skiplagged · instagram instagram.com/skiplagged · tiktok tiktok.com/@skiplagged · twitter twitter.com/skiplagged
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- skiplagged.com/about
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available sources do not provide specific revenue estimates for the iOS app "Skiplagged - Travel Hacks" by Skiplagged LLC. While the company Skiplagged reported over $20 million in revenue in 2023, this figure represents the entire company's operations, which includes its website and potentially other platforms, not solely the iOS app. Other estimates for Skiplagged's annual revenue are significantly lower, around $1.2 million to $1.37 million, but these are also for the company as a whole and not specifically the iOS app.
Sources mentioned: Fast Company, Growjo, Prospeo, Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Reddit, PitchBook
📈Ratings growth331,356 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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
We are the original and best hidden city booking engine. Find cheap flights and hotel rates you won’t see anywhere else. Save hundreds of dollars compared to other travel sites.
Discover extraordinary travel deals, set fare alerts, and uncover great hotel rates.
We’re so good, United Airlines actually sued us for it!
• Find flights other search engines won’t show you -- including HIDDEN-CITY flights and arbitrary round-trips
• Filter flights by duration, number of layovers, takeoff/landing time and more… View full description on the official store →
Discover extraordinary travel deals, set fare alerts, and uncover great hotel rates.
We’re so good, United Airlines actually sued us for it!
• Find flights other search engines won’t show you -- including HIDDEN-CITY flights and arbitrary round-trips
• Filter flights by duration, number of layovers, takeoff/landing time and more… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 84 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v3.14.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, PL, PT, ZH +1📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.80 (improved 1.30★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2022-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.75 → 3.40 (dropped 0.35★)
2022-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2022-05
🚀
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 | 4.66849★ | 914 | 4.66849★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.89731★ | 9,573 | 4.89731★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.7474★ | 7,320 | 4.7474★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.60271★ | 589 | 4.60271★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.71955★ | 895 | 4.71955★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.67788★ | 1,605 | 4.67788★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.60555★ | 1,009 | 4.60555★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.64642★ | 280 | 4.64642★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83263★ | 331,901 | 4.83263★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Skiplagged - Travel Hacks: 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: 331,356 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Skiplagged - Travel Hacks make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Skiplagged - Travel Hacks earns approximately $12K/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 Skiplagged - Travel Hacks?▴
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Who makes Skiplagged - Travel Hacks?▴
Skiplagged - Travel Hacks is published by Skiplagged 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 Skiplagged - Travel Hacks's BU Score?▴
Skiplagged - Travel Hacks has a BU Score of 86/100 (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.