55
Quality Score
Solid
Ghosts of St Augustine
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Ghosts of St Augustine is an iOS app from Rothrock Group, LLC in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 21 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Travel 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$5.0K/mo
In 12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
In 24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
MID tier
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Snapshots tracked
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
| ⚙12.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$75K |
Total estimate$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$40K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $30K – $50K · 19× MRR multiple
💸~0.3× 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 |
| 📅12.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple19× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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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 | 18 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Travel |
| 📦Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
40%
Last shipped 2026-01-31 · 112 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅3 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
| 👥Small user base (21 ratings) + 12.7y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictAt risk
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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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.4
Product Quality
3.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.81★ across 21 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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. Portfolio play ($88K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (21 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 18 MB🔞 9+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v2.8🔄 updated 3mo ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Free🚀 Launched 2013 (12y old)
📝 About this app
St. Augustine has the charm, the history, and the haunts. In fact, its dead outnumber its living! Join us on a narrated walking tour of this beautiful, historic city. The tour is 1.8 miles long and stops at 12 sites.
Two Buck Tours allow you to tour on your terms: take the tour when you want, with whom you want. Too spooked? Rain? Take a break and resume later. All tours have maps, directions, photos, text, and are narrated in English. It's like having your own personal tour guide, at a fraction of the price.
Not visiting anytime soon? The text and photos will give you a taste of the city.… View full description on the official store →
Two Buck Tours allow you to tour on your terms: take the tour when you want, with whom you want. Too spooked? Rain? Take a break and resume later. All tours have maps, directions, photos, text, and are narrated in English. It's like having your own personal tour guide, at a fraction of the price.
Not visiting anytime soon? The text and photos will give you a taste of the city.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.8
Small formatting updates
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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 →
2026-03
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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
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Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2013-10
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — twobucktours.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.80952★ | 21 | 4.80952★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Ghosts of St Augustine
- Developer
- Rothrock Group, LLC
- Bundle ID
- WickedWalksStAugustine
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 9+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $2.1K/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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews3 latest · avg 5.0★ · 100.0% 5★ · 0% 1★
5★3 (100%)
4★0 (0%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★0 (0%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×1 favorite ×1 excellent ×1 love ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Great tour!
This is one of my favorite paid apps. I may only use it once, but it was still a bargain: it was much cheaper than a tour guide, and it was nice to have the flexibility to start and stop when we wanted. The audio is good- bring some ear bud…
★★★★★ Excellent!!
If you’ve ever done a ghost tour, with a guide, but want more flexibility - give this one a try. It’s nice to set your own schedule and not worry about how fast or slow the group is going. It was a beautiful day so we could go slowly and ta…
Top negative
★★★★★ Great tour!
This is one of my favorite paid apps. I may only use it once, but it was still a bargain: it was much cheaper than a tour guide, and it was nice to have the flexibility to start and stop when we wanted. The audio is good- bring some ear bud…
★★★★★ Excellent!!
If you’ve ever done a ghost tour, with a guide, but want more flexibility - give this one a try. It’s nice to set your own schedule and not worry about how fast or slow the group is going. It was a beautiful day so we could go slowly and ta…
📈Ratings growth21 ratings+2000% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (6 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.
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✓ Diversified — top app contributes 23%; risk spread across portfolio
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Ghosts of St Augustine: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Ghosts of St Augustine make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Ghosts of St Augustine earns approximately $2K/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 Ghosts of St Augustine profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $2K, Ghosts of St Augustine looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Ghosts of St Augustine?▾
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What is Ghosts of St Augustine built with?▾
Our heuristic places Ghosts of St Augustine 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 Ghosts of St Augustine still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: At risk (40% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Ghosts of St Augustine sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $40K (marketplace range $30K – $50K). Calculated as 19× 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 Ghosts of St Augustine last updated?▾
Ghosts of St Augustine last shipped a new version on 2026-01-31 — 3 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Ghosts of St Augustine?▾
Ghosts of St Augustine is published by Rothrock Group, LLC 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 Ghosts of St Augustine's BU Score?▾
Ghosts of St Augustine has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.