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California Trail Map

44
Quality Score
Emerging

California Trail Map

by Fusion Methods
Low confidence
3.7 Google Play rating
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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California Trail Map is an Android app from Fusion Methods in the Maps & Navigation category, currently rated 3.7★ across 21 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 44: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Maps & Navigation app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$128
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$64 – $597
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$64 – $1788
per month
MICRO tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record
idle
0%
Rating
3.7
Reviews
21 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$128
Snapshots tracked
1
since Sep 2026
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
⚙ Maps & Navigation complexity ×1.20 +$10K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) +$33K
⚙ 8.0y maintenance × ~1-person team +$47K
Total estimate $140K
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
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
🏷 Category context Maps & Navigation
📦 Compact Android bundle → Native Kotlin
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
25%
Last shipped 2026-08-30 · 36 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
📅 36 days since last update Healthy release cadence
👥 Small user base (21 ratings) + 8.0y old +10% (solo-project pattern)
Verdict Slowing
🔬

How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE
Baseline
$128/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$81 – $325
12 months
$64 – $597
24 months
$64 – $1.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊

BU Investment Matrix

Insufficient data · 35/100MICRO TIERtoo early to score
GrowthFounderQualityRevenueMonetiz.MoatMarketSafety
Growth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
3.0
Revenue Strength
2.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 3.71★ 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 = $2K-$4K.
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

MODEL
Revenue 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 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
Established app (7y old)METRIC
+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC
+$600
Pre-traction phase (21 ratings)METRIC
−$300
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE
Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE
Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name
California Trail Map
Developer
Fusion Methods
Bundle ID
com.californiatrailmap.catm
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Maps & Navigation
Content rating
Not found
Languages
Not found

Company

Website
www.CaliforniaTrailMap.com
Tagline
Not found
Description
Not found
Founded
Not found
HQ / Address
Not found
Employees
Not found
Logo
Not found

Revenue

Reported revenue signal / mo
Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo
Not found
AI annual estimate
Not found
Model estimate / mo
$128/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.
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

<b>Southern and central California + southern Nevada</b>

All Trails, Dirt Roads and POIs on Public Land

48,950 miles of non-motorized trails!
88,005 miles of motorized dirt roads and OHV trails!

<b>Map can be used in any app that supports Mapsforge vector format, including</b>
★ Locus Map 3 Classic
★ Locus Map 4
★ OruxMaps
★ BackCountry Navigator

The same map files can be used on a Windows or Mac OS computer with Cartograph Pro.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →
🔖 v1.3🔄 updated 1mo ago📂 Maps & Navigation💰 Free🚀 Launched 2018 (7y old)
🧪

Tech & Domain Intel — californiatrailmap.com

Mail provider
Zoho Mail
Tech stack
Zoho
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description

95
BU Score · Transcendent

Similar apps in Maps & Navigation

About this analysis
ZCAnalyzed by Zakhar Chumak · founder, Bumetric·Full methodology·Low confidence

Why low confidence: only 21 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.

📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above

California Trail Map is a small / niche Android app in the maps & navigation space with weak public traction — only 21 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.

Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public data
How much does California Trail Map make per month?▴
Our model estimates California Trail Map earns roughly $128/mo, but with only 21 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like California Trail Map?▴
Browse the full Maps & Navigation category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is California Trail Map built with?▴
Our heuristic places California Trail Map on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is California Trail Map still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was California Trail Map last updated?▴
California Trail Map last shipped a new version on 2026-08-30 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes California Trail Map?▴
California Trail Map is published by Fusion Methods on the Google Play 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 California Trail Map's BU Score?▴
California Trail Map has a BU Score of 44/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.