Sydney Transport: Bus & Rail
60
Quality Score
Solid
Sydney Transport: Bus & Rail
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Sydney Transport: Bus & Rail is an iOS app from Transit Now ltd in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 308 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 60: 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
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
📈
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 (166 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
👥 Estimated audience size
33K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.3K
Daily active
490
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.3
Product Quality
6.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 308 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.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Early-stage install base (308 ratings)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 · v2026.8
A big improvement for Live Departure Widgets in this release: you can now pin a station inside a widget. This means that you can now have multiple Live Departure Widgets on your Home Screen, one for each station.
We've been busy during 2026.… Full release notes →
We've been busy during 2026.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Sydney Transport: Bus & Rail
- Developer
- Transit Now ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.busexpertapp.oceania.sydney
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Supercharge your commute.
- Description
- Get real-time arrivals for buses and trains in over 160 cities, including New York, London, Sydney and many more.
- 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
- $201/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇮🇳#39 /100 🇦🇺#47 /100
- 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
- medium whizapp.medium.com · twitter twitter.com/TalkToWhiz
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- travelwhiz.app/help
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth308 ratings+30700% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (16 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇮🇳IN#39 /100
🇦🇺AU#47 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#39 now · best #36 · worst #46
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀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
Sydney Transport — Your Smarter Way Around Sydney
Get real-time bus, train, ferry, and light rail updates across Sydney — all in one simple, reliable app designed for everyday travellers.
“Sydney Transport makes commuting so much easier. The live times are spot on, and I can see exactly when my train or ferry is arriving.”
Why Sydneysiders love Sydney Transport:
• Live Transport for NSW bus, train, ferry, and light rail tracking
• Stop and departure alerts
• Smart trip planner with step-by-step directions
• Live and offline route maps
• One-tap “Get Me Home” journeys… View full description on the official store →
Get real-time bus, train, ferry, and light rail updates across Sydney — all in one simple, reliable app designed for everyday travellers.
“Sydney Transport makes commuting so much easier. The live times are spot on, and I can see exactly when my train or ferry is arriving.”
Why Sydneysiders love Sydney Transport:
• Live Transport for NSW bus, train, ferry, and light rail tracking
• Stop and departure alerts
• Smart trip planner with step-by-step directions
• Live and offline route maps
• One-tap “Get Me Home” journeys… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 166 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v2026.8🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +7📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.14 → 4.77 (improved 1.63★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.14 (dropped 0.36★)
2022-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.25 → 3.60 (dropped 0.65★)
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.25 (dropped 0.75★)
2017-08
🚀
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 | 4.48651★ | 8,822 | 4.48651★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.92593★ | 27 | 4.92593★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.57143★ | 63 | 4.57143★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.68293★ | 82 | 4.68293★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.78205★ | 78 | 4.78205★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.7686★ | 242 | 4.7686★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.76923★ | 52 | 4.76923★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.57447★ | 47 | 4.57447★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.75974★ | 308 | 4.75974★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Sydney Transport: Bus & Rail: 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: 308 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Sydney Transport make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Sydney Transport earns approximately $200/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 Sydney Transport?▴
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Who makes Sydney Transport?▴
Sydney Transport is published by Transit Now 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 Sydney Transport's BU Score?▴
Sydney Transport has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.