59
BU Score
Solid
Places: Curated Discovery
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Places: Curated Discovery is an iOS app from Raya App Inc in the Travel category, currently rated 4.3★ across 166 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 59 — Solid (established niche player). For a Travel app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (166 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 →💾 272 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.66.0🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2023 (2y old)
📝 About this app
Places helps you discover restaurants, hotels, and experiences in your city or anywhere in the world.
Every place you see is hand-selected by our Curators — a global team of culture-defining voices who travel the world to capture and catalog destinations that feel truly exceptional. From intimate bistros to emerging galleries to one-of-a-kind stays, if it's on Places, it's worth going.
Not sure where to start? Chat to plan anything — from a local outing to a full itinerary — and discover newly opened spots and events as they happen. A Places membership ensures you’ll visit somewhere you love, every time.
And when inspiration strikes, browse available reservations from multiple platforms, in real time — allowing you to move from discovery to experience in just a few taps.
Save the places you love, follow friends and Curators to see where they're going, and build a personal catalog of the destinations that matter to you.
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Membership is obtained by purchasing a 12-month auto-renewing subscription. Full functionality of Places is granted to members while their subscription is active. Current Raya members are eligible for a complimentary membership.
Every place you see is hand-selected by our Curators — a global team of culture-defining voices who travel the world to capture and catalog destinations that feel truly exceptional. From intimate bistros to emerging galleries to one-of-a-kind stays, if it's on Places, it's worth going.
Not sure where to start? Chat to plan anything — from a local outing to a full itinerary — and discover newly opened spots and events as they happen. A Places membership ensures you’ll visit somewhere you love, every time.
And when inspiration strikes, browse available reservations from multiple platforms, in real time — allowing you to move from discovery to experience in just a few taps.
Save the places you love, follow friends and Curators to see where they're going, and build a personal catalog of the destinations that matter to you.
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Membership is obtained by purchasing a 12-month auto-renewing subscription. Full functionality of Places is granted to members while their subscription is active. Current Raya members are eligible for a complimentary membership.
🆕 What's New · v1.66.0
bug fixes and improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Places: Curated Discovery
- Developer
- Raya App Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.raya.places
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.placestheapp.com
- Tagline
- Places | Expert-Curated Travel Discovery
- Description
- Find curated, global recommendations for restaurants, bars, shops, hotels, and more. Explore with interactive maps, save favorites, and share with friends.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
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- Employees
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- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $8.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#54 /100 🇫🇷#89 /100
- 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
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- 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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📈Ratings growth166 ratings+3220% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (28 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (32 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution●Top 10●Top 30●Top 60
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇨🇦CA#54 /100
🇫🇷FR#89 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#54 now · best #47 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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.
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