PayByPhone Parking
83
Quality Score
Excellent
PayByPhone Parking
by PayByPhone Technologies Inc.
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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PayByPhone Parking is an iOS app from PayByPhone Technologies Inc. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 757,587 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 83: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Utilities 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
$600K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$635K – $978K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$759K – $1410K
per month
BIG 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
384 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
757,587 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$600K
Snapshots tracked
384
since Jan 2025
🤖Also on Android
$154/mo · 254K ratings · 4.8★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 (166 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $7.5M – $12.5M · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~133× return on build cost
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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
151.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
30.0M
Daily active
6.0M
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 |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$591K – $800K
12 months
$635K – $978K
24 months
$759K – $1.4M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 53/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.6
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
1.8
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.85★ across 757,587 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 = $10.8M-$19.2M.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (757,587 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| 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 · v26.9.0
See your active AutoPay session. Your AutoPay session now shows on the Home screen — time parked, your vehicle, and a QR code for garage access if the gate doesn't lift.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PayByPhone Parking
- Developer
- PayByPhone Technologies Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.verrus.paybyphone
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- HY, EN, FR, DE, IT, PA, ZH, ES, ZH, CY
Company
- Website
- www.paybyphone.com
- Tagline
- Simplify your journey
- Description
- Pay for parking with PayByPhone - the smart cashless parking app that'll help you avoid tickets & remind you when it's time to go. Available in more than 1000 cities throughout North America, UK & Europe.
- 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
- $600K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/paybyphone?ref=hl · instagram instagram.com/paybyphone · linkedin linkedin.com/company/paybyphone-techn… · youtube youtube.com/@PayByPhoneApp
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- paybyphone.com/fleets/contact-us
- About page
- paybyphone.com/about
📈Ratings growth757,279 ratings+156040% 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 Quarter7 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline7 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
PayByPhone is a global leader in mobile parking payments. More than 95 million drivers worldwide have trusted us with their payments to date.
We simplify journeys for millions with smart, intuitive technology and user-focused features. Available in 11 languages, our app is used across more than 1,300 locations -including cities and private operators - in the UK, North America, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
With the PayByPhone app, we help parking to be quick, seamless, and secure.… View full description on the official store →
We simplify journeys for millions with smart, intuitive technology and user-focused features. Available in 11 languages, our app is used across more than 1,300 locations -including cities and private operators - in the UK, North America, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
With the PayByPhone app, we help parking to be quick, seamless, and secure.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 166 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v26.9.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 HY, EN, FR, DE, IT +5📂 Utilities💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
20 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 — v26.7.3 → v26.9.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +9,007 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v26.7.2 → v26.7.3
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.0K/mo · reviews +6,118 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v26.6.2 → v26.7.2
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.0K/mo · reviews +8,448 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v26.6.1 → v26.6.2
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.0K/mo · reviews +10,151 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v26.6.0 → v26.6.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +10,125 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v26.5.1 → v26.6.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +10,373 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v26.5.1
→ 30 days after: rating +0.25★ · reviews +26,408 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.25★ · reviews +19,690 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 4.60 (improved 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.25★ · reviews +19,690 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +2.02★ · reviews +705,559 high confidence
2025-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ · reviews +29 high confidence
2025-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +62 high confidence
2025-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +33 high confidence
2025-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +35 high confidence
2025-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.82 → 2.40 (dropped 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +35 high confidence
2025-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +34 low · multiple changes
2025-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +34 low · multiple changes
2025-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.00 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +34 low · multiple changes
2025-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +34 low · multiple changes
2025-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +34 low · multiple changes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 6 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.62991★ | 3,464 | 4.62991★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.76755★ | 263,278 | 4.76755★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.66959★ | 69,662 | 4.66959★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.7002★ | 473,029 | 4.7002★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.70281★ | 641,726 | 4.70281★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84805★ | 757,922 | 4.84805★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PayByPhone Parking: 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: 757,587 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PayByPhone Parking make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PayByPhone Parking earns approximately $600K/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 PayByPhone Parking profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $75K and monthly revenue $600K, PayByPhone Parking looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 PayByPhone Parking have?▴
Estimated audience: ~151.5M lifetime downloads, ~30.0M monthly active users, and ~6.0M 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 PayByPhone Parking?▴
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.
How much would PayByPhone Parking sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10.0M (marketplace range $7.5M – $12.5M). Calculated as 16× 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.
Who makes PayByPhone Parking?▴
PayByPhone Parking is published by PayByPhone Technologies 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 PayByPhone Parking's BU Score?▴
PayByPhone Parking has a BU Score of 83/100 (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.