82
BU Score
Excellent
Rover—Dog Sitters & Walkers
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Rover—Dog Sitters & Walkers is an iOS app from Rover.com in the Travel category, currently rated 4.9★ across 515,437 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 82: 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.
📊 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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (515,437 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (11 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| 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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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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 →💾 276 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.6+🔖 v26.0429.01🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FI, FR +6📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)
📝 About this app
Rover is the #1 pet sitting and dog walking app. Get trusted pet care in your neighborhood.
The Rover app was created for dog people by The Dog PeopleTM. Through the app, get adorable photo updates, GPS tracking of your dog’s walk, an easy way to message sitters or manage your business, and a secure way to book and pay.
With over 200,000 pet sitters and dog walkers in the U.S. and Canada, Rover makes it easy to book pet care you can trust.
PEACE OF MIND
95% of reviewed services receive a perfect 5-star rating.
Every service booked on Rover is backed by the Rover Guarantee and 24/7 support.
FAST & EASY
Contact and message sitters and dog walkers, right from the app. Receive messages from sitters when you're on the go.
Hassle-free and secure payments, every time.
Get a map of your dog's walk, pee/poo and food/water alerts, and a personalized note from your sitter or dog walker.
FOR PET SITTERS AND DOG WALKERS, TOO
Send photos, videos, and messages to pet owners with just a few taps.
Get paid on the go—it’s simple and secure with the Rover app.
Seamlessly manage your business, even if you're at the dog park.
Enable push notifications to respond faster than ever to booking requests.
Create Rover Cards to seamlessly share information with your clients.
IN THE PRESS
Rover has appeared in:
The New York Times
The Today Show
The Wall Street Journal
USA Today
ABC News
And many more!
Note: Rover uses location information in the background for tracking active services. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
The Rover app was created for dog people by The Dog PeopleTM. Through the app, get adorable photo updates, GPS tracking of your dog’s walk, an easy way to message sitters or manage your business, and a secure way to book and pay.
With over 200,000 pet sitters and dog walkers in the U.S. and Canada, Rover makes it easy to book pet care you can trust.
PEACE OF MIND
95% of reviewed services receive a perfect 5-star rating.
Every service booked on Rover is backed by the Rover Guarantee and 24/7 support.
FAST & EASY
Contact and message sitters and dog walkers, right from the app. Receive messages from sitters when you're on the go.
Hassle-free and secure payments, every time.
Get a map of your dog's walk, pee/poo and food/water alerts, and a personalized note from your sitter or dog walker.
FOR PET SITTERS AND DOG WALKERS, TOO
Send photos, videos, and messages to pet owners with just a few taps.
Get paid on the go—it’s simple and secure with the Rover app.
Seamlessly manage your business, even if you're at the dog park.
Enable push notifications to respond faster than ever to booking requests.
Create Rover Cards to seamlessly share information with your clients.
IN THE PRESS
Rover has appeared in:
The New York Times
The Today Show
The Wall Street Journal
USA Today
ABC News
And many more!
Note: Rover uses location information in the background for tracking active services. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
🆕 What's New · v26.0429.01
Rover is always working on performance improvements and bug fixes (nobody likes fleas) to keep your experience bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Rover—Dog Sitters & Walkers
- Developer
- Rover.com
- Bundle ID
- com.rover.Rover-com
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, NB, PL, ES, SV
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
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- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
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- Logo
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Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $23.2M ($19.2M – $23.2M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $278.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.5K/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
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- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
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- Public statements
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Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
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- Investors
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- Crunchbase
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- AngelList
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Press & Links
- Articles found
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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- Press / News
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
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- Phone
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- Contact page
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- About page
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✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
Rover.com, the parent company of the 'Rover—Dog Sitters & Walkers' app, had an estimated annual revenue of $230 million in 2023, projected to reach $278 million in 2024. While specific iOS app revenue is not publicly disaggregated, the app is a primary driver of the company's overall revenue.
Sources mentioned: Companies Market Cap, Tracxn, Brineweb, Stock Analysis, GlobalPETS, GeekWire, Sensor Tower, Adapty, Reddit
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.67★ · 6.1% 5★ · 69.4% 1★
5★3 (6%)
4★3 (6%)
3★3 (6%)
2★6 (12%)
1★34 (69%)
+171 ratings/week
Praise: great ×10 love ×6 recommend ×5 best ×2 amazing ×2Complaints: hate ×4 refund ×4 scam ×4 worst ×3 broken ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Trusted Platform for Sitters, Peace of Mind for Pet Owners.
Using Rover as a sitter has been a great experience. It makes booking, communication, and updates easy, and has helped me connect with amazing pet parents while growing my services.As a pet owner, I love using Rover. It’s easy to find trust…
★★★★★ Great work, great people!
I’m so happy to see this platform succeed and grow as more people get to experience and learn together. I hope one day I can be part of this community as a sitter, it’s more than a job, it’s a privilege.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Sitters beware
My dog was recently viciously attacked by a new dog. Rovers response was just to blame me for not doing a meet and greet (which the client couldn’t do). She also left a one star review (everyone else has been 5 star) because I asked her to …
★☆☆☆☆ Poor policies and support
The platform required me to use my legal name and wouldn’t allow an option for my preferred name on my profile. I was misled prior to paying the background check fee; once I’d paid the fee and my background check cleared I was then informed…
📈Ratings growth515,437 ratings+16% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (31 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Rover—Dog Sitters & Walkers: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.