Uber - Request a ride
95
Quality Score
Transcendent
Uber - Request a ride
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This iOS Travel app dominates the on-demand ride-hailing and taxi alternative market, competing directly with services like Lyft and local taxi dispatch apps. Its immense user base, reflected in over fifteen million ratings with a near-perfect average, signals exceptional traction and a mature, established growth stage. The reported monthly revenue, while appearing modest at first glance for a brand of this scale, likely represents the developer's direct cut from in-app transactions rather than the gross booking value, indicating a robust and consistent revenue stream from a transactional business model. In this category, monetization is almost exclusively driven by service fees on each ride, with premium ride options serving as the primary upgrade path rather than subscriptions or traditional in-app purchases. The focus is on transaction volume and optimizing commission rates per ride.
BU Score 95 · Transcendent — category-leading momentum. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 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
$9.3K/mo · 8.6M ratings · 4.4★
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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 ~3 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 (587 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$700K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $500K – $900K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~5.8× 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 (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1768.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
176.5M
Daily active
26.0M
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 · 62/100MEGA TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.4
Product Quality
9.8
Revenue Strength
7.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Strong — $4.8M - $24.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.9★ across 16,081,594 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (16,081,594 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (49 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v3.724.10001
We update the Uber app as often as possible to make it faster and more reliable for you. Here are a couple of the enhancements you'll find in the latest update:
- Updates to improve localization across the app
- Various bug fixes & improvements… Full release notes →
- Updates to improve localization across the app
- Various bug fixes & improvements… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Uber - Request a ride
- Developer
- Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.ubercab.UberClient
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BN, BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, KA, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KN, KO, LV, LT, MR, NE, NB, PS, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SI, SK, SL, ES, SW, SV, TA, TE, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, VI
Company
- Website
- www.uber.com
- 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
- $2267.0MAI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $29970.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $36.7K/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The estimated monthly revenue for the 'Uber: Ride-Hailing & Taxis' app, based on Uber's Mobility segment revenue for Q1 2026, is approximately $2.27 billion. The annual estimate, derived from the Mobility segment's trailing twelve months revenue ending March 31, 2026, is $29.97 billion.
Sources mentioned: Uber Technologies, Inc. Earnings Reports, Sensor Tower, Business of Apps, Stock Analysis, Zacks.com, TipRanks.com, SQ Magazine
📈Ratings growth16,081,594 ratings+19% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (4 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.
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
Join the millions of riders who trust Uber for their everyday travel needs. Whether you’re running an errand across town or exploring a city far from home, getting there should be easy.
FIND THE RIDE YOU WANT
Find the perfect ride right at your fingertips! Uber is here to make your journey stress-free and enjoyable.
Pick from a wide range of products that the Uber app has to offer including:
- UberX: Affordable rides, all to yourself
- Electric: Eco-Friendly
- UberXL: Affordable rides for groups up to 6
- Comfort: Newer cars with extra legroom
- Comfort Electric: Premium zero-emission cars… View full description on the official store →
FIND THE RIDE YOU WANT
Find the perfect ride right at your fingertips! Uber is here to make your journey stress-free and enjoyable.
Pick from a wide range of products that the Uber app has to offer including:
- UberX: Affordable rides, all to yourself
- Electric: Eco-Friendly
- UberXL: Affordable rides for groups up to 6
- Comfort: Newer cars with extra legroom
- Comfort Electric: Premium zero-emission cars… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 587 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v3.724.10001🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, BN, BG, CA, HR +44📂 Travel💰 Paid
📅
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
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v3.720.10000
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.04 → 4.90 (improved 0.86★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.60 (dropped 0.40★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #6Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
rideshare·#6🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — uber.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Microsoft 365 · OpenAI · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · Notion (workspace) · Stripe · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence)
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.85189★ | 1,202,669 | 4.85189★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.89409★ | 5,954,268 | 4.89409★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.87178★ | 1,722,407 | 4.87178★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.85611★ | 696,771 | 4.85611★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.82481★ | 880,270 | 4.82481★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.86815★ | 1,772,949 | 4.86815★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.8048★ | 2,613,279 | 4.8048★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.77565★ | 207,362 | 4.77565★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.89611★ | 16,096,275 | 4.89611★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Uber - Request a ride: 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: 16,081,594 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Uber - Request a ride make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Uber - Request a ride earns approximately $36K/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 Uber - Request a ride?▴
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Who makes Uber - Request a ride?▴
Uber - Request a ride is published by Uber Technologies, Inc. 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 Uber - Request a ride's BU Score?▴
Uber - Request a ride has a BU Score of 95/100 (Transcendent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.