Suica
39
Quality Score
Emerging
Suica
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Suica is an iOS app from East Japan Railway Company in the Finance category, currently rated 2.6★ across 391 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 39: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Finance app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
💡 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
$90K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $120K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (62 MB) | +$4K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$33K |
Total estimate
$90K
👥 Estimated audience size
23K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
6.4K
Daily active
2.5K
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
| 📲 Finance engagement | ~60 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Finance D30 retention | 28% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
39% 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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 42/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
3.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.61★ across 391 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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.
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:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.6★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (391 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 · v3.5.3
軽微な修正を行いました。
モバイルSuicaでは、定期的に最新バージョンのアプリへの更新が必要になります。
お手数をおかけしますが、最新バージョンへのアップデートをお願いいたします。
モバイルSuicaでは、定期的に最新バージョンのアプリへの更新が必要になります。
お手数をおかけしますが、最新バージョンへのアップデートをお願いいたします。
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Suica
- Developer
- East Japan Railway Company
- Bundle ID
- jp.co.jreast.suica.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- JA
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
- $253/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Finance
- 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 growth393 ratings+34% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 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
東日本旅客鉄道株式会社(JR東日本)が提供するSuicaをApple Payで利用するためのアプリです。Suicaの発行やチャージ、定期券の購入もアプリで完結します。スマホを「かざすだけ」で鉄道・バスの乗車やキャッシュレス決済をスムーズにご利用いただけます。「JRE POINT」に登録すれば、JR東日本の鉄道に乗るとポイントが貯まります。また、貯まったポイントをSuicaにチャージすることも可能です。
【Suicaアプリケーションでできること】
iPhone*とクレジットカードがあればSuicaアプリで簡単にキャッシュレス生活を始められます。お手元にSuicaカードがなくても、Suicaアプリにて新規発行することが可能です。Suicaカードをお持ちの場合は、iPhoneでApple Payに取り込んで利用できます。iPhoneとペアリングすることで、Apple Watch*でも利用可能です。
入会金、年会費、デポジット等はいただきません。
* iPhone 8以降のiPhone、Apple Watch Series 3以降のApple Watch、日本国内で発売されたiPhone 7及びApple Watch Series 2の機種が対象です。
決済手段は下記の2つが選べます。
・ Suicaアプリケーションに登録のクレジットカード*… View full description on the official store →
【Suicaアプリケーションでできること】
iPhone*とクレジットカードがあればSuicaアプリで簡単にキャッシュレス生活を始められます。お手元にSuicaカードがなくても、Suicaアプリにて新規発行することが可能です。Suicaカードをお持ちの場合は、iPhoneでApple Payに取り込んで利用できます。iPhoneとペアリングすることで、Apple Watch*でも利用可能です。
入会金、年会費、デポジット等はいただきません。
* iPhone 8以降のiPhone、Apple Watch Series 3以降のApple Watch、日本国内で発売されたiPhone 7及びApple Watch Series 2の機種が対象です。
決済手段は下記の2つが選べます。
・ Suicaアプリケーションに登録のクレジットカード*… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 62 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.4+🔖 v3.5.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 JA📂 Finance💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 ↑ 1.96 → 2.59 (improved 0.63★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.30 → 1.96 (dropped 0.34★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.97 → 2.30 (improved 0.33★)
2025-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2016-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2016-10
🚀
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 | 2.87097★ | 62 | 2.87097★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.16667★ | 18 | 3.16667★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1.78462★ | 65 | 1.78462★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.27999★ | 50 | 2.27999★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.07894★ | 38 | 2.07894★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.33333★ | 87 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.1★ | 20 | 2.1★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.15166★ | 31,268 | 2.15166★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.6056★ | 393 | 2.6056★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Suica: 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 medium confidence: 391 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Suica make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Suica earns approximately $253/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 Suica?▴
Suica is published by East Japan Railway Company 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 Suica's BU Score?▴
Suica has a BU Score of 39/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.