GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar
82
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This Android app targets musicians, specifically those needing tuning, chord references, and learning tools for string instruments. It directly competes with other free and paid tuners like DaTuner, Fender Play, and Yousician’s own main app, along with tab sites like Ultimate Guitar. The strong user rating across millions of reviews signals significant traction and a mature product with a loyal user base, indicating it’s well past the early growth stage. As a free app, its revenue potential lies entirely in premium subscriptions or in-app purchases for advanced features like ad removal, more song access, or specialized training modules. In the music utility category, a common monetization path involves a freemium model where basic tuning is free, but comprehensive song libraries and interactive lessons are locked behind a monthly or annual subscription, often seeing strong conversion rates from highly engaged users.
BU Score 82 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Pays back in ~1.1y 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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Tools complexity ×0.90 | $-5949 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$29K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $275K · 30× MRR multiple
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~2.4× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Tools category multiple | -8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
30× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
502.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
110.5M
Daily active
19.5M
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
| 📲 Tools engagement | ~190 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Tools D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 60/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.6
Product Quality
9.0
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
8.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.48★ across 2,645,320 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (2,645,320 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage 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
- GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar
- Developer
- Yousician Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- com.ovelin.guitartuna
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Tools
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- guitartuna.com
- 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
- $115/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $139.99 per item
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.
📈Ratings growth2,645,320 ratings+-3% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (3 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
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
GuitarTuna is your go-to guitar app, with over 100 million downloads and counting! Tune your guitar in seconds with the free guitar tuner, explore guitar chords & tabs for 20,000+ songs, and learn how to play guitar songs you love with trainers, tutorials & personalized feedback.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE GUITARTUNA
- Tune any guitar, ukulele, violin or bass perfectly with easy-to-use tuning
- Switch seamlessly between guitar tuner, ukulele tuner, bass tuner & more
- Get guitar tabs & chords for your favorite songs
- Learn guitar songs with trainers, tutorials & personalized feedback… View full description on the official store →
WHY YOU’LL LOVE GUITARTUNA
- Tune any guitar, ukulele, violin or bass perfectly with easy-to-use tuning
- Switch seamlessly between guitar tuner, ukulele tuner, bass tuner & more
- Get guitar tabs & chords for your favorite songs
- Learn guitar songs with trainers, tutorials & personalized feedback… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v7.95.0🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Tools💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $139.99 per item
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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 →
2026-07
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Shipped update — v7.94.0 → v7.95.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +6,207 high confidence
2026-06
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Shipped update — v7.91.0 → v7.94.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +14,702 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +8,495 high confidence
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar: 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 high confidence: 2,645,320 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does GuitarTuna make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, GuitarTuna earns approximately $6.8K/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.
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Who makes GuitarTuna?▴
GuitarTuna is published by Yousician Ltd. 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 GuitarTuna's BU Score?▴
GuitarTuna has a BU Score of 82/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.