Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide
73
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide is an iOS app from Gypsy Guide GPS LLC in the Travel category, currently rated 5.0★ across 393 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Travel app, that means healthy traction. 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
$5.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.7K – $11.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$7.0K – $21.1K
per month
MID tierFREE
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
46 snapshots on record
Rating
5.0
Reviews
393 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.5K
Snapshots tracked
46
since May 2015
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$185K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $250K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.8y 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 (175 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 11.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$68K |
Total estimate
$185K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| 📅 11.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
30K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.3K
Daily active
190
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
| 📲 Travel engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 📅 11.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
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 | 175 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Travel |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
87%
Last shipped 2025-06-03 · 481 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · 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
| 📅 1y 3mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| 👥 Small user base (393 ratings) + 11.4y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 11y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$5.2K – $8.7K
12 months
$5.7K – $11.9K
24 months
$7.0K – $21.1K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 50/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
6.6
Founder Strength
7.8
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $8K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 5.0★ across 393 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 481d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (481d since update).
🎯 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 = $98K-$175K. Portfolio play ($204K/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 10 of 10 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 | |
| Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Early-stage install base (393 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v3.7.2
New Content added.
Bug fixes.
Bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide
- Developer
- Gypsy Guide GPS LLC
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $5.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 Reviews49 latest · avg 4.9★ · 95.9% 5★ · 0% 1★
5★47 (96%)
4★0 (0%)
3★1 (2%)
2★1 (2%)
1★0 (0%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×16 love ×14 amazing ×8 perfect ×8 recommend ×7
Top positive
★★★★★ Your personal guide
This was well worth it. With visitor centers closed because of Covid this was great. Works in both parks. The gps is amazing well worth the money. Made our trip so much more interesting…
★★★★★ I’m one of those people.
I am one of those people who can get stressed out trying to see too many things. It was lovely to have a guide so that I could relax and enjoy the scenery and not worry that I was missing the most important views. I would use this again, I’…
Top negative
★★☆☆☆ Great idea - meh execution
The technology and concept were spot on but the narration and information were not very good. I didn’t learn anything really and found the narrator to be a bore.…
📈Ratings growth394 ratings+39300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (46 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $24.99 (+0%)
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
Plays commentary automatically as you drive so you don't miss any of the best places to visit, plus stories, tips and directions.
GyPSy Guide’s narrated driving tour for Arches and Canyonlands National Parks is an excellent way to enjoy all the benefits of a guided tour while you explore at your own pace.
There are 200+ audio points that play automatically along the scenic drive, featuring the best things to see and do, stories, tips and driving directions.… View full description on the official store →
GyPSy Guide’s narrated driving tour for Arches and Canyonlands National Parks is an excellent way to enjoy all the benefits of a guided tour while you explore at your own pace.
There are 200+ audio points that play automatically along the scenic drive, featuring the best things to see and do, stories, tips and driving directions.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 175 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v3.7.2🔄 updated 1y ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $24.99 price point
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$168/mo medium · co-occurring
2019-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$593/mo · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2016-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$80/mo · rating −0.05★ high confidence
2015-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2015-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$84/mo high confidence
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 86 reviews across 3 markets● 95% positive · ● 2% neutral · ● 2% negative · Rating drift: -0.10★ (declining — recent 50: 4.9★ vs lifetime: 5.0★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.88
🇺🇸 US
+0.81
🇨🇦 CA
+0.54
Top praise themes
national parks ×16 national park ×12 about park ×7 highly recommend ×7 worth money ×5 guided tour ×5 having own ×4 tour car ×3
Top complaint themes
— no recurring complaint themes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.90862★ | 394 | 4.90862★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.83333★ | 6 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.66667★ | 3 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 393 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide earns approximately $5.5K/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 Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $185K and monthly revenue $5.5K, Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide have?▴
Estimated audience: ~30K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~190 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 Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide?▴
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What is Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide built with?▴
Our heuristic places Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (87% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). 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 Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide last updated?▴
Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide last shipped a new version on 2025-06-03 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide?▴
Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide is published by Gypsy Guide GPS 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 Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide's BU Score?▴
Arches Canyonlands GyPSy Guide has a BU Score of 73/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.