72
BU Score
Strong
Pie VAT
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Pie VAT is an iOS app from PieSystems in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 6,708 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a Travel app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (6,708 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (7y old)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.
💚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 →💾 123 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v3.27.1🔄 updated 3d ago🌐 DA, EN, FR, JA, KO +5📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2018 (7y old)
📝 About this app
Pie VAT is the next generation tax free solution. It is the first digital tax free shopping app that enables travelers to easily claim their VAT refunds when traveling abroad. We have eliminated excessive paper forms, long waits in line, high fees; all that’s left is a quick and easy way to shop tax free.
SHOP AT OUR PARTNER STORES
Find, browse, and explore our local partner stores in the app. We have 1000+ PIE partner stores. Find yours today!
QUICK AND EASY:
Request your VAT Refund in a matter of seconds. Clear and concise directions in our app will guide you every step of the way for your VAT refund.
STAY ON TOP OF IT ALL
Easily track your refund requests and their status. Keep up with the entire process and where your funds are.
BIGGER & FASTER
PIE works to get you more of your VAT refund back as fast as possible! We support multiple payout methods, including bank transfers, credit cards, and more.
YOUR SECURITY IS OUR PRIORITY
Pie VAT makes VAT refunds easy and quick, and we take the protection of your account very seriously. We utilize industry standard security measures to help protect your account information.
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How Pie VAT works:
1. After you checkout in store, ask to do a refund via PIE. The store will send you your claim information to start our VAT refund process.
2. Claim your refund on the PIE app, follow the easy steps and submit your request.
3. Enjoy your VAT refund - maybe buy some pie.
Need help? We’re two taps away via live help in-app!
SHOP AT OUR PARTNER STORES
Find, browse, and explore our local partner stores in the app. We have 1000+ PIE partner stores. Find yours today!
QUICK AND EASY:
Request your VAT Refund in a matter of seconds. Clear and concise directions in our app will guide you every step of the way for your VAT refund.
STAY ON TOP OF IT ALL
Easily track your refund requests and their status. Keep up with the entire process and where your funds are.
BIGGER & FASTER
PIE works to get you more of your VAT refund back as fast as possible! We support multiple payout methods, including bank transfers, credit cards, and more.
YOUR SECURITY IS OUR PRIORITY
Pie VAT makes VAT refunds easy and quick, and we take the protection of your account very seriously. We utilize industry standard security measures to help protect your account information.
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How Pie VAT works:
1. After you checkout in store, ask to do a refund via PIE. The store will send you your claim information to start our VAT refund process.
2. Claim your refund on the PIE app, follow the easy steps and submit your request.
3. Enjoy your VAT refund - maybe buy some pie.
Need help? We’re two taps away via live help in-app!
🆕 What's New · v3.27.1
Thank you for using Pie!
What’s new in this version:
- Improved Japan landing permit support
You can now submit more types of landing permits, including non-sticker formats, with reduced errors for less common permits, making the process smoother.
- Store discovery by category
Tap a category to quickly find relevant stores—if you enable location, we’ll show the closest options for you.
- Improved reliability
We’ve made behind-the-scenes updates to improve performance and reduce errors across the app.
- More flexibility for Japan travelers
The departure date selector for Japan now supports a wider date range.
What’s new in this version:
- Improved Japan landing permit support
You can now submit more types of landing permits, including non-sticker formats, with reduced errors for less common permits, making the process smoother.
- Store discovery by category
Tap a category to quickly find relevant stores—if you enable location, we’ll show the closest options for you.
- Improved reliability
We’ve made behind-the-scenes updates to improve performance and reduce errors across the app.
- More flexibility for Japan travelers
The departure date selector for Japan now supports a wider date range.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pie VAT
- Developer
- PieSystems
- Bundle ID
- io.piesystems.customer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, EN, FR, JA, KO, NB, NN, RU, ZH, ZH
Company
- Website
- pievat.com
- Tagline
- Step into the World of Digital Tax Free Shopping
- Description
- Pie Systems - Easy tax free shopping and VAT refunds for merchants, business owners, travelers, and tourists through our web, iOS, and Android Pie VAT app. No forms, no waiting in line, and higher refunds.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / 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
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/piesystems
- 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://pievat.com/blog
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- instagram · linkedin
- hello@piesystems.io
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- https://pievat.com/about
📈Ratings growth6,708 ratings+31% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Pie VAT: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.