88
BU Score
Excellent
CarGurus – Shop Used Cars
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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CarGurus – Shop Used Cars is an iOS app from CarGurus in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.9★ across 631,103 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 88 — Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Shopping app, that means strong product-market fit.
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (631,103 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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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⭐ 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 →💾 118 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v5.39🔄 updated 2d ago🌐 EN, FR, ES📂 Shopping💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📝 About this app
As the #1 most downloaded car shopping app in the U.S. with the biggest selection of millions new and used cars, the CarGurus app helps you find the best deal*. Search a wide selection, see all the car details, discover financing options, and sell your car with the CarGurus app.
A robust search experience, real-time alerts, and appointment scheduling allows you to get more done at home. When you are ready to visit the lot, use Dealership Mode to see if a car is the right choice with side-by-side comparisons, estimated final prices, and AI insights.
CAR BUYING YOUR WAY:
DEAL RATINGS YOU CAN TRUST
View deal ratings generated from thousands of details—price, history, reviews, location— so you know what’s “great” or “overpriced.” So when you see a good deal, it actually is.
UNBIASED INFORMATION
See accident history, owner count, days on lot, price drops, and more. No digging required.
DEALERSHIP MODE
Compare cars side-by-side, get a second opinion on your best option with AI, estimate your final price, and look up info on a car on the lot fast.
REAL TIME ALERTS
Be the first to know about price drops or new deals that match your search.
START ONLINE, TEST DRIVE BEFORE YOU BUY
Calculate your budget, get an instant offer for your trade-in, find financing, and schedule a test drive from the app.
FINANCE IN ADVANCE
Pre-qualify for financing to get real rates and see estimated monthly payment - without impacting your credit score.**
CAR SELLING YOUR WAY:
COMPARE OFFERS IN MINUTES
Get multiple offers instantly, choose how to sell, and get paid fast.
INSTANT CAR VALUATIONS
Use our valuation tool to see your car’s value and track changes with monthly updates to your inbox.
CarGurus takes the guesswork out of car shopping—so you can feel good about every decision, whether you're buying, selling, or just browsing.
*CarGurus is the #1 downloaded car shopping app in the US for the last 9 consecutive quarters, in the Automotive Marketplaces & Retailers category, per Sensor Tower data.
Compared to Autotrader.com (YipitData July/August 2025), Cars.com, TrueCar.com (YipitData as of September 30, 2025), and CARFAX (Joreca as of September 30, 2025).
**Financing not completed on CarGurus’ site and is subject to your agreed T&C’s with a participating lender
A robust search experience, real-time alerts, and appointment scheduling allows you to get more done at home. When you are ready to visit the lot, use Dealership Mode to see if a car is the right choice with side-by-side comparisons, estimated final prices, and AI insights.
CAR BUYING YOUR WAY:
DEAL RATINGS YOU CAN TRUST
View deal ratings generated from thousands of details—price, history, reviews, location— so you know what’s “great” or “overpriced.” So when you see a good deal, it actually is.
UNBIASED INFORMATION
See accident history, owner count, days on lot, price drops, and more. No digging required.
DEALERSHIP MODE
Compare cars side-by-side, get a second opinion on your best option with AI, estimate your final price, and look up info on a car on the lot fast.
REAL TIME ALERTS
Be the first to know about price drops or new deals that match your search.
START ONLINE, TEST DRIVE BEFORE YOU BUY
Calculate your budget, get an instant offer for your trade-in, find financing, and schedule a test drive from the app.
FINANCE IN ADVANCE
Pre-qualify for financing to get real rates and see estimated monthly payment - without impacting your credit score.**
CAR SELLING YOUR WAY:
COMPARE OFFERS IN MINUTES
Get multiple offers instantly, choose how to sell, and get paid fast.
INSTANT CAR VALUATIONS
Use our valuation tool to see your car’s value and track changes with monthly updates to your inbox.
CarGurus takes the guesswork out of car shopping—so you can feel good about every decision, whether you're buying, selling, or just browsing.
*CarGurus is the #1 downloaded car shopping app in the US for the last 9 consecutive quarters, in the Automotive Marketplaces & Retailers category, per Sensor Tower data.
Compared to Autotrader.com (YipitData July/August 2025), Cars.com, TrueCar.com (YipitData as of September 30, 2025), and CARFAX (Joreca as of September 30, 2025).
**Financing not completed on CarGurus’ site and is subject to your agreed T&C’s with a participating lender
🆕 What's New · v5.39
Bug fixes and improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- CarGurus – Shop Used Cars
- Developer
- CarGurus
- Bundle ID
- com.cargurus.v1
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, ES
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
- $11.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
CarGurus' primary revenue streams are from marketplace subscriptions (monthly dealer fees for listings and lead-management tools), transaction fees from wholesale operations, and advertising. While the 'CarGurus – Shop Used Cars' iOS app is highly utilized, being the #1 downloaded car shopping app in the US for multiple consecutive quarters, public sources like Sensor Tower, which typically track in-app purchase revenue, do not report direct revenue for this app. This indicates that the app's monetization is not primarily through direct consumer in-app purchases or subscriptions, but rather by facilitating the company's core business model of connecting buyers with dealers and generating leads, for which dealers pay subscription and transaction fees. Therefore, direct revenue attributable solely to the iOS app cannot be estimated from publicly available data.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Companies Market Cap, Stock Analysis, Seeking Alpha, Investing.com, Macrotrends, CarGurus Investor Relations
Citations: sensortower.com · cargurus.com
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.29★ · 79.6% 5★ · 14.3% 1★
5★39 (80%)
4★0 (0%)
3★2 (4%)
2★1 (2%)
1★7 (14%)
+2,074 ratings/week
Praise: great ×12 love ×6 amazing ×4 awesome ×3 best ×3Complaints: bug ×2 hate ×1 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Good servicees
Good luck…
★★★★★ The resource above all resources
Just a super spot to look for what’s available and find out what’s a reasonable expectation to have to pay…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Like everything AI has ruined this app
Unfortunately like everything AI has ruined this app you can’t even search by individual making model without directly typing it in and then when you type it in the AI in the app AutoCorrect to what it thinks you should do I’m guessing base…
★☆☆☆☆ Terrible update
I don’t want to “describe” the car I’m looking for. Why did you take away the list of makes and models? Uninstalled.…
📈Ratings growth631,103 ratings+36% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (35 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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