GasBuddy: Find & Pay for Gas
80
Quality Score
Excellent
GasBuddy: Find & Pay for Gas
by GasBuddy Organization Inc
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
“
GasBuddy: Find & Pay for Gas is an iOS app from GasBuddy Organization Inc in the Travel category, currently rated 4.7★ across 447,462 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 80: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Travel app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
506 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
447,462 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
506
since Jul 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$210K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $160K – $285K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.5y 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (164 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 15.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$94K |
Total estimate
$210K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| 📅 15.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
34.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
680K
Daily active
100K
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 |
| 📅 15.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
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 | 164 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Travel |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-08 · 26 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
| 📅 26 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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 · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.6
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.69★ across 447,462 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (447,462 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| 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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v702.6.26790
Finding extra savings just got easier. Now you can find and activate Flash Deals right from the Find Gas tab, making it easier to rack up savings on your fill-ups.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- GasBuddy: Find & Pay for Gas
- Developer
- GasBuddy Organization Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.gasbuddymobile.gasbuddy
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, FR
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
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/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 growth447,808 ratings+100081% 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 Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Wherever you go, GasBuddy® helps you fuel up for less while rewarding you with savings that go beyond the pump. With over 100 million downloads and 25 years of saving drivers more on fuel, the GasBuddy app is a trusted source for value-seeking drivers, helping you save the most on every fill-up while you shop, snap, and game your way to bigger savings.
Find the Best Gas Prices at Any Station
Our community is powered by drivers like you! We rely on GasBuddies to find and report gas prices.… View full description on the official store →
Find the Best Gas Prices at Any Station
Our community is powered by drivers like you! We rely on GasBuddies to find and report gas prices.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 164 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.5+🔖 v702.6.26790🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN, FR📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)
📅
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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v702.5.26668 → v702.6.26790
→ 30 days after: reviews +108 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v702.3.26569 → v702.5.26668
→ 30 days after: reviews +218 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v702.2.26371 → v702.3.26569
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.9K/mo · reviews +232 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v702.1.26272 → v702.2.26371
→ 30 days after: reviews +25 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +25 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.75 → 4.69 (improved 2.94★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +25 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +2.95★ · reviews +446,688 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.75 → 4.70 (improved 2.95★)
→ 30 days after: rating +2.95★ · reviews +446,688 high confidence
2025-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +83 high confidence
2025-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.13★ · reviews +68 high confidence
2025-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.78★ · reviews +68 low · multiple changes
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.33 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.78★ · reviews +63 low · multiple changes
2025-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.69★ · reviews +60 medium · co-occurring
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.69★ · reviews +60 medium · co-occurring
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #14Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
price tracker·#14🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.65041★ | 93,799 | 4.65041★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.68663★ | 447,885 | 4.68663★ this version |
🔔
Track this app’s revenue
FREEGet an email when revenue moves by your threshold. No spam, unsubscribe in one click.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for GasBuddy: Find & Pay for Gas: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 447,462 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does GasBuddy make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, GasBuddy 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 GasBuddy profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $210K and monthly revenue $5.0K, GasBuddy looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.5 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does GasBuddy have?▴
Estimated audience: ~34.0M lifetime downloads, ~680K monthly active users, and ~100K 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 GasBuddy?▴
Browse the full Travel 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 GasBuddy built with?▴
Our heuristic places GasBuddy on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is GasBuddy still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 26 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would GasBuddy sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 20× 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 GasBuddy last updated?▴
GasBuddy last shipped a new version on 2026-09-08 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes GasBuddy?▴
GasBuddy is published by GasBuddy Organization Inc 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 GasBuddy's BU Score?▴
GasBuddy has a BU Score of 80/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.