How much does Guitar Pro make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Guitar Pro earns approximately $5.0K/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.

Is Guitar Pro profitable?

With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Guitar Pro looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Guitar Pro have?

Estimated audience: ~125K lifetime downloads, ~5K monthly active users, and ~1K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.

What apps are like Guitar Pro?

Browse the full Utilities category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.

What is Guitar Pro built with?

Our heuristic places Guitar Pro on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).

Is Guitar Pro still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 15 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Guitar Pro sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 14× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.

When was Guitar Pro last updated?

Guitar Pro last shipped a new version on 2026-09-10 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Guitar Pro?

Guitar Pro is published by Arobas Music 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 Guitar Pro's BU Score?

Guitar Pro has a BU Score of 51/100 (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.

Guitar Pro

Quality Score

Solid

Guitar Pro

Name: Guitar Pro — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Guitar Pro revenue, Guitar Pro app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

by Arobas Music

Medium confidence

3.6 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Guitar Pro is an iOS app from Arobas Music in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.6★ across 895 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.

Quality Score is 51: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

4 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

3.6

Reviews

895 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since Jun 2026

🤖Also on Android

Guitar Pro

$476/mo · 11K ratings · 2.4★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$135K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $100K – $180K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~2.2y 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
⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85	$-7575
⚙ 15.7y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$94K

Total estimate $135K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$75K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.6× 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
📅 15.7y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed)	-8%
🏷 Utilities category multiple	-10%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 14× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

125K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

5.0K

Daily active

1.0K

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

📲 Utilities engagement	~200 installs / rating
📅 15.7y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Utilities D30 retention	20%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

High confidence · 80%

Also possible

Native iOS (SwiftUI)

Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.

Signals we read

📦 App bundle size	27 MB
🏷 Category context	Utilities
📦 Compact iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Active

Last shipped 2026-09-10 · 15 days ago

0 · Active 50 · At risk 100 · Abandoned

Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.

Risk signals

📅 15 days since last update

Active development

Verdict Active

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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 · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

4.6

Product Quality

5.1

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: 3.64★ across 896 reviews — below category median.
📍 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

MODEL

Revenue 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 5 of 5 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Paid app ($6.99)METRIC		+$2,800
subscriptionREVIEW		+$2,500
Mature app (15y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Multilingual (11 languages)METRIC		+$1,500
Early-stage install base (895 ratings)METRIC		+$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v1.11.6

Thanks for using Guitar Pro! We provide regular updates so it continues to work great for you.

This update includes minor fixes.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Guitar Pro
Developer: Arobas Music
Bundle ID: com.arobas-music.iGP
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
Content rating: 4+
Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH

Company

Website: www.guitar-pro.com
Tagline: The best tab maker and reader to create, play and share sheet music!
Description: Guitar Pro is a tablature editor software for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments. Equipped with a powerful audio engine, it makes writing music easier, and it constitutes an essential tool for guitarists.
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Reported revenue signal / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
Model estimate / mo: $5.0K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Outside top 100 in US Utilities
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.

🌍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

The Guitar Pro application allows all musicians to view and play sheet music and tablature created with the famous Guitar Pro tab-editing program for Windows and Mac.

This mobile version is the ideal companion for you to practice your favorite songs and share them any time, anywhere! Coming up with some arpeggio, a riff, a chord sequence? You can now note and save it all on the single-track tablature NotePad.

Powerful score player

•  Supporting GP3/4/5/6/7/8 (.gp) and PowerTab (.ptb) file formats, 
•  Tab (with rhythmics), slash, and standard notations,… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 27 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.11.6🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +6📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

3 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 →

2026-09

🔧

Shipped update — v1.11.5 → v1.11.6

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v1.11.4 → v1.11.5

→ 30 days after: revenue +$373/mo · reviews +9 high confidence

2026-06

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

🧪

Tech & Domain Intel — guitar-pro.com

Mail provider: Google Workspace
Tech stack: Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) · 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	3.71028★	107	3.71028★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	3.54472★	123	3.54472★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	3.64481★	183	3.64481★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	3.40067★	297	3.40067★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	3.73936★	376	3.73936★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	3.42581★	155	3.42581★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	3.2★	20	3.2★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	3.69939★	163	3.69939★ this version
🇺🇸 US	3.63951★	896	3.63951★ this version

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