87
BU Score
Excellent
Upside: Gas & Food Cash Back
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Upside: Gas & Food Cash Back is an iOS app from Upside Services Inc in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 654,375 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 87 — Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Travel app, that means strong product-market fit.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (654,375 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 337 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16+🔖 v26.17.0🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN, ES📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
📝 About this app
Unlock Cash Back with the free Upside App!
Upside gets you cash back on daily essentials like gas, groceries, and dining. It's designed to reward you for simply being yourself, allowing you to indulge in more of what you love. With over 100,000 participating gas stations, grocery stores, and restaurants, cash back opportunities are always just around the corner.
Users earn an average of 8% cash back on groceries and dining—that’s on TOP of your current credit card rewards - even on debit card purchases!
There are no confusing rewards, points, or credits. You can cash out your earnings straight to your bank account or as an e-gift card to retailers you love, like Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.
With Upside, you can earn up to 25¢/gal cash back on gas, up to 45% back at restaurants, and up to 30% back at grocery stores. These earnings add up quickly — frequent users earn an average of $290 per year just for adding Upside to their normal routine.
HOW IT WORKS
(1) Claim your offer through the app
(2) Pay as usual with any credit or debit card
(3) Follow the instructions to complete your purchase
(4) Earn cash back!
GAS
Phillips 66, Shell, Speedway, Valero, Circle K, Marathon, Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, TA, 7-Eleven, Love’s, BP, Casey’s, Sunoco, and more
RESTAURANTS
Applebee’s, Papa John’s, Dairy Queen, Domino's, Marco's, Arby's, Checkers, KFC, Popeyes, Rally's, Taco Bell, Primanti Bros, Wendy’s, Burger King, and more
GROCERY STORES
Giant Eagle, Cardenas Markets, Carlie C's, Coborn's, Gelson's, Piggly Wiggly, Price Chopper, Save A Lot, Schnucks, Fresh Foods IGA, Geissler's, Acme, and more
Upside gets you cash back on daily essentials like gas, groceries, and dining. It's designed to reward you for simply being yourself, allowing you to indulge in more of what you love. With over 100,000 participating gas stations, grocery stores, and restaurants, cash back opportunities are always just around the corner.
Users earn an average of 8% cash back on groceries and dining—that’s on TOP of your current credit card rewards - even on debit card purchases!
There are no confusing rewards, points, or credits. You can cash out your earnings straight to your bank account or as an e-gift card to retailers you love, like Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.
With Upside, you can earn up to 25¢/gal cash back on gas, up to 45% back at restaurants, and up to 30% back at grocery stores. These earnings add up quickly — frequent users earn an average of $290 per year just for adding Upside to their normal routine.
HOW IT WORKS
(1) Claim your offer through the app
(2) Pay as usual with any credit or debit card
(3) Follow the instructions to complete your purchase
(4) Earn cash back!
GAS
Phillips 66, Shell, Speedway, Valero, Circle K, Marathon, Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, TA, 7-Eleven, Love’s, BP, Casey’s, Sunoco, and more
RESTAURANTS
Applebee’s, Papa John’s, Dairy Queen, Domino's, Marco's, Arby's, Checkers, KFC, Popeyes, Rally's, Taco Bell, Primanti Bros, Wendy’s, Burger King, and more
GROCERY STORES
Giant Eagle, Cardenas Markets, Carlie C's, Coborn's, Gelson's, Piggly Wiggly, Price Chopper, Save A Lot, Schnucks, Fresh Foods IGA, Geissler's, Acme, and more
🆕 What's New · v26.17.0
Just updated: a faster, smarter Upside app. We’ve made interface and performance enhancements that make earning easier and more intuitive!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Upside: Gas & Food Cash Back
- Developer
- Upside Services Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.upside-services.consumer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Cash back on what you already buy
- Description
- Earn every time you shop gas, grocery, or food with Upside's free top-rated app. Get cash back on everyday necessities, making your purchases more rewarding. Download and start earning today!
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $17.5M ($10.0M – $25.0M)AI low
- AI annual estimate
- $210.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $28.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://twitter.com/upside
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/upside/
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- https://www.upside.com/newsroom
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Upside Services Inc., a privately held company, does not publicly disclose its revenue. However, public sources indicate that Upside drives more than $6 billion in annual commerce through its platform. Based on an estimated commission rate of 2-5% on this commerce, the annual revenue is estimated to be between $120 million and $300 million, leading to a monthly estimate of $10 million to $25 million. The company's valuation was $1.5 billion in April 2022.
Sources mentioned: The Motley Fool, Quantumrun, Forbes, Inc., Reddit, Sensor Tower
Citations: fool.com · quantumrun.com · upside.com · upside.com · restaurantbusinessonline.com · retailbrew.com
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.63★ · 59.2% 5★ · 24.5% 1★
5★29 (59%)
4★0 (0%)
3★5 (10%)
2★3 (6%)
1★12 (24%)
+3,229 ratings/week
Praise: great ×10 love ×7 awesome ×2 amazing ×2 recommend ×2Complaints: scam ×3 overpriced ×1 expensive ×1 terrible ×1 hate ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ It’s legitimate
I’m cashing out my first rewards…
★★★★★ I never get gas without it!
I downloaded Upside actually doubting that it would do exactly what it advertised. I’m more satisfied than I even thought possible.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Never worked for me.
I’ve had 6 times where I went way out of my way to put gas as a Gastation that was in network with upside and everything upside found a reason nit to give cash back. Insane and speechless. I used the card and receipt and none was good enoug…
★☆☆☆☆ Cash back
Garbage app… they claim you receive cash back, but I still haven’t received any, even though my card is linked in the app…
📈Ratings growth654,375 ratings+8% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (7 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.
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.
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