VesselFinder Pro
37
Quality Score
Emerging
VesselFinder Pro
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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VesselFinder Pro is an iOS app from AstraPaging Ltd. in the Business category, currently rated 1.8★ across 60 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 37: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Business 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
$2.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.8K – $6.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.7K – $15.3K
per month
INDIE tier
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- 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
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~2.3× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$1.8K – $4.2K
12 months
$1.8K – $6.6K
24 months
$1.7K – $15.3K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
1.4
Revenue Strength
3.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $838 - $5238/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.77★ across 60 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 = $37K-$67K. Portfolio play ($24K/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 8 of 8 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (1.8★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (60 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v6.3.2
stability improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- VesselFinder Pro
- Developer
- AstraPaging Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- com.astrapaging.VesselFinder
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- VesselFinder is a FREE AIS vessel tracking web site. VesselFinder displays real time ship positions and marine traffic detected by global AIS network.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $50.0K ($16.7K – $83.3K)AI low
- AI annual estimate
- $600.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $13.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- 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/vesselfinder · twitter twitter.com/VesselFinder · youtube youtube.com/@VesselFinder/videos
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- vesselfinder.com/contact
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
The annual revenue for the company 'Vesselfinder', which develops the 'VesselFinder Pro' iOS app, is estimated to be less than $1 million. Based on this, the monthly revenue for the app is estimated to be between $16,666.67 and $83,333.25, with a central estimate of $50,000.
Sources mentioned: Owler, Apple App Store
📈Ratings growth60 ratings+140% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $9.99 (+0%)
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
VesselFinder is the most popular vessel tracking app, providing real-time data on the positions and movements of vessels, utilising a large network of terrestrial AIS receivers.
VesselFinder Pro features include:
- No Ads
- Port Calls - arrival and departure information for recently visited ports
- Real time tracking of over 200,000 ships every day
- Ship search by Name, IMO number or MMSI number
- Ship movement history - follow the track of vessels for the past 7 days… View full description on the official store →
VesselFinder Pro features include:
- No Ads
- Port Calls - arrival and departure information for recently visited ports
- Real time tracking of over 200,000 ships every day
- Ship search by Name, IMO number or MMSI number
- Ship movement history - follow the track of vessels for the past 7 days… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 42 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v6.3.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 Paid
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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 ↑ 1.45 → 1.77 (improved 0.32★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $9.99 price point
2019-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.17 → 2.57 (improved 0.40★)
2013-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.67 → 2.50 (improved 0.83★)
2013-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2013-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2013-03
🚀
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 | 1.84211★ | 19 | 1.84211★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1.93333★ | 15 | 1.93333★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.65455★ | 55 | 2.65455★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.05882★ | 17 | 3.05882★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3★ | 39 | 3★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.5★ | 6 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.48718★ | 78 | 2.48718★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 60 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does VesselFinder Pro make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, VesselFinder Pro earns approximately $13K/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 VesselFinder Pro?▴
VesselFinder Pro is published by AstraPaging 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 VesselFinder Pro's BU Score?▴
VesselFinder Pro has a BU Score of 37/100 (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.