BCycle
66
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ GetAppValue analysis
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BCycle is an iOS app from Bicycle Transit Systems in the Travel category, currently rated 4.2★ across 5,461 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 66: 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 tierFREE
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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
🤖Also on Android
$91/mo · 1K ratings · 2.6★
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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 (97 MB) | +$18K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$20K |
Total estimate
$90K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
600K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
60K
Daily active
9.0K
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
$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
Stalled · 35/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.1
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
0.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.23★ across 5,461 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 2.7% refund mentions, scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm.
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Low install base (5,461 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v5.10.5
This release includes bug fixes and additional support for older OS versions.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- BCycle
- Developer
- Bicycle Transit Systems
- Bundle ID
- com.bcycle.mobileapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, 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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.2K/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 growth5,482 ratings+1879% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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 Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
The BCycle app is the official companion for BCycle-powered bike share systems. Bike share is public transportation designed for short trips between stations. The app helps riders find BCycle stations and see real-time bike and dock availability.
The app supports signups and bike checkouts for Santa Barbara BCycle, Santa Cruz BCycle, Boulder BCycle, Pacers Bikeshare, BikeLNK, Heartland Bike Share, Red Bike, Greenville BCycle, Nashville BCycle, San Antonio BCycle, GREENbike, Bublr Bikes, Madison BCycle, and more.
The app supports signups and bike checkouts for Santa Barbara BCycle, Santa Cruz BCycle, Boulder BCycle, Pacers Bikeshare, BikeLNK, Heartland Bike Share, Red Bike, Greenville BCycle, Nashville BCycle, San Antonio BCycle, GREENbike, Bublr Bikes, Madison BCycle, and more.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 97 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v5.10.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, ES📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
15 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
📦
Bundle ↑ 69MB → 102MB — likely major code refresh
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.9.1 → v5.10.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +31 low · multiple changes
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +22 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.05 → 4.20 (improved 2.15★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.14★ · reviews +17 high confidence
2018-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.21★ · reviews +27 high confidence
2016-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ high confidence
2011-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ high confidence
2010-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.86 → 3.50 (dropped 0.36★)
2010-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.17 → 3.86 (dropped 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.36★ high confidence
2010-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.75 → 4.40 (dropped 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.25★ high confidence
2010-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.89★ high confidence
2010-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.89★ medium · co-occurring
2010-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.89★ medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 517 reviews across 4 markets● 41% positive · ● 9% neutral · ● 50% negative · Rating drift: -2.49★ (declining — recent 50: 1.74★ vs lifetime: 4.23★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇩🇪 DE
+0.09
🇺🇸 US
-0.02
🇨🇦 CA
-0.13
🇧🇷 BR
-0.55
Top praise themes
santa barbara ×7 docking stations ×6 electric bikes ×6 check bike ×6 customer service ×5 bikes available ×4 phone holder ×3 bikes fun ×3
Top complaint themes
customer service ×43 doesn work ×29 check bike ×17 rent bike ×16 unlock bike ×15 create account ×15 bike ride ×13 return bike ×12
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.7% Bug mentions: 15% Fraud / scam mentions: 5.4%
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — bcycle.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Google Workspace · Mailgun
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.22309★ | 5,482 | 4.22309★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.03226★ | 31 | 3.03226★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.34615★ | 26 | 4.34615★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.72727★ | 11 | 4.72727★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.88889★ | 9 | 3.88889★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.47222★ | 108 | 4.47222★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 8 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.25★ | 12 | 4.25★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.72727★ | 11 | 3.72727★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for BCycle: 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: 5,461 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does BCycle make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, BCycle earns approximately $1.2K/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 BCycle?▴
BCycle is published by Bicycle Transit Systems 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 BCycle's BU Score?▴
BCycle has a BU Score of 66/100 (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.