Worldpackers Travel the World
67
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Worldpackers Travel the World is an iOS app from Worldpackers in the Travel category, currently rated 4.9★ across 4,827 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 67: 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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- 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
$103/mo · 13K ratings · 4.6★
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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
📈
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 (233 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× build cost (under-water)
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% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
530K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
53K
Daily active
7.9K
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 · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.3
Product Quality
8.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.88★ across 4,827 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Low install base (4,827 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v4.60.0
What's new in this version:
• My Reviews: a new space to see what hosts have said about you, track your level in the community, and the benefits you've earned — with automatic translation.
• Group trips: clearer trip status, including canceled trips.… Full release notes →
• My Reviews: a new space to see what hosts have said about you, track your level in the community, and the benefits you've earned — with automatic translation.
• Group trips: clearer trip status, including canceled trips.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Worldpackers Travel the World
- Developer
- Worldpackers
- Bundle ID
- com.worldpackers.Worldpackers
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $834/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.
📈Ratings growth4,827 ratings+160800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀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
Travel changes people, people change the world. Worldpackers is the safest community to travel and volunteer with. We connect more than 7 million travelers with 20 different kinds of hosts in over 150 countries!
What makes it awesome?
- Confirm your trips with peace of mind: become part of a community with 12 years of experience and thousands of successful trips
- Contact thousands of hosts: apply to as many positions as you like with our verified and responsive hosts who are reviewed by our community… View full description on the official store →
What makes it awesome?
- Confirm your trips with peace of mind: become part of a community with 12 years of experience and thousands of successful trips
- Contact thousands of hosts: apply to as many positions as you like with our verified and responsive hosts who are reviewed by our community… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 233 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v4.60.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, PT +1📂 Travel💰 Free
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 →
2026-07
📈
Crossed 5,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.59.2 → v4.60.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +98 high confidence
2026-06
📦
Bundle ↑ 154MB → 236MB — likely major code refresh
→ 30 days after: reviews +98 high confidence
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 6 of 6 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +98 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.58.2 → v4.59.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +212 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +114 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.99 → 4.70 (improved 1.71★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.07★ high confidence
2018-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.40 → 3.00 (dropped 0.40★)
2017-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 3.50 (dropped 0.83★)
2017-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.83★ high confidence
2016-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
6 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
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Slot 2
2 ver.
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Slot 3
2 ver.
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Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
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Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
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Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
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Tech & Domain Intel — worldpackers.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.8614★ | 671 | 4.8614★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.92253★ | 10,094 | 4.92253★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.8425★ | 800 | 4.8425★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.73359★ | 777 | 4.73359★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.84164★ | 682 | 4.84164★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.82734★ | 1,141 | 4.82734★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.81301★ | 123 | 4.81301★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.79807★ | 104 | 4.79807★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.88106★ | 5,011 | 4.88106★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Worldpackers Travel the World: 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: 4,827 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Worldpackers Travel the World make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Worldpackers Travel the World earns approximately $833/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 Worldpackers Travel the World?▴
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Who makes Worldpackers Travel the World?▴
Worldpackers Travel the World is published by Worldpackers 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 Worldpackers Travel the World's BU Score?▴
Worldpackers Travel the World has a BU Score of 67/100 (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.