61
BU Score
Solid
YAMAP -Social Trekking GPS App
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YAMAP -Social Trekking GPS App is an Android app from YAMAP INC. in the Sports category, currently rated 4.1★ across 10,400 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 61: Solid (established niche player). For a Sports app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (10,400 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.1★)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.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 1w ago📂 Sports💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $3.49 - $89.99 per item🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
📝 About this app
YAMAP is The Most Popular Outdoor App in Japan. YAMAP makes your outdoor adventures, like mountain trekking and skiing, safer and more fun with your smartphone. YAMAP does not require a mobile signal to track and log your outdoor activity. Our detailed outdoor maps provide information you need like elevation, parking and trailhead locations. YAMAP lets you build an online outdoor journal easily so you can share your love of the outdoors!
▲ Video about YAMAP
https://youtu.be/wDq25Yc07nY
▲ Three Main Features of YAMAP
1) Safe
YAMAP makes your smartphone a special GPS device for the outdoors.
YAMAP could provide accurate positioning information with YAMAP's maps in Japan and your smartphone's GPS, even if you are in places not reached by mobile phone signals, such as in mountainous regions.
2) Convenience
YAMAP's maps are used as digital ones with your smartphone, and as ones on paper by downloading them to your PC (or tablet PC).
3) Share
You can easily share your outdoor data with your family and friends through YAMAP. Finishing your outdoor and saving your data, you can uploads it to your online 'ACTIVITY REPORT' where you can view your route, outdoor data, and a comprehensive workout history.
▲ Major awards / podiums of YAMAP
- Good Design Special Award "Monodzukuri Design Award (Small and Medium Enterprise Agency Director General Award)" won (2014)
- Selected as 'Venture 100 to Move Japan' at the magazine AERA（August 24, 2015）
- B DASH CAMP "Pitch Arena" champion (2015)
- Ministry of the Environment (Japan) · National Park Official Partner (2017)
- Red Herring Top 100 Global Winner (2017)
▲ Wear OS
YAMAP also supports Wear OS.
Please check the following important points before using the Wear OS version of the app.
- The Wear OS version of the app cannot be used standalone. When you start using it, you need pairing with a smartphone where the YAMAP smartphone app is installed.
- When you launch the Wear OS version of the app, please start activity using the YAMAP Smartphone app. Then, Wear OS version of the app screen will switch to the activity information screen automatically.
The following functions can be used after pairing.
- Browsing activity information like elevation and distance during trekking
- Displaying your trail on the screen
▲ Regarding the foreground service permissions
- Foreground location data
YAMAP app requires foreground location data in order to record your trajectory. Depending on the smartphone you are using, you may not be able to obtain it correctly. For more details, please check the following help page:
https://help.yamap.com/hc/ja/articles/900000921583
- Foreground screen recording
The 3D replay feature, which allows you to review your trajectory with photos, needs foreground screen recording when recording videos.
https://help.yamap.com/hc/ja/articles/21271985055769
- Data sync
The foreground data sync feature is employed for the purpose of downloading map data.
▲ Terms of service
https://yamap.com/terms
▲ Privacy policy
https://yamap.com/terms/privacy
▲ YAMAP Operating Company
YAMAP INC.
E-mail: support@yamap.co.jp
Help Center: https://help.yamap.com/
▲ Video about YAMAP
https://youtu.be/wDq25Yc07nY
▲ Three Main Features of YAMAP
1) Safe
YAMAP makes your smartphone a special GPS device for the outdoors.
YAMAP could provide accurate positioning information with YAMAP's maps in Japan and your smartphone's GPS, even if you are in places not reached by mobile phone signals, such as in mountainous regions.
2) Convenience
YAMAP's maps are used as digital ones with your smartphone, and as ones on paper by downloading them to your PC (or tablet PC).
3) Share
You can easily share your outdoor data with your family and friends through YAMAP. Finishing your outdoor and saving your data, you can uploads it to your online 'ACTIVITY REPORT' where you can view your route, outdoor data, and a comprehensive workout history.
▲ Major awards / podiums of YAMAP
- Good Design Special Award "Monodzukuri Design Award (Small and Medium Enterprise Agency Director General Award)" won (2014)
- Selected as 'Venture 100 to Move Japan' at the magazine AERA（August 24, 2015）
- B DASH CAMP "Pitch Arena" champion (2015)
- Ministry of the Environment (Japan) · National Park Official Partner (2017)
- Red Herring Top 100 Global Winner (2017)
▲ Wear OS
YAMAP also supports Wear OS.
Please check the following important points before using the Wear OS version of the app.
- The Wear OS version of the app cannot be used standalone. When you start using it, you need pairing with a smartphone where the YAMAP smartphone app is installed.
- When you launch the Wear OS version of the app, please start activity using the YAMAP Smartphone app. Then, Wear OS version of the app screen will switch to the activity information screen automatically.
The following functions can be used after pairing.
- Browsing activity information like elevation and distance during trekking
- Displaying your trail on the screen
▲ Regarding the foreground service permissions
- Foreground location data
YAMAP app requires foreground location data in order to record your trajectory. Depending on the smartphone you are using, you may not be able to obtain it correctly. For more details, please check the following help page:
https://help.yamap.com/hc/ja/articles/900000921583
- Foreground screen recording
The 3D replay feature, which allows you to review your trajectory with photos, needs foreground screen recording when recording videos.
https://help.yamap.com/hc/ja/articles/21271985055769
- Data sync
The foreground data sync feature is employed for the purpose of downloading map data.
▲ Terms of service
https://yamap.com/terms
▲ Privacy policy
https://yamap.com/terms/privacy
▲ YAMAP Operating Company
YAMAP INC.
E-mail: support@yamap.co.jp
Help Center: https://help.yamap.com/
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- YAMAP -Social Trekking GPS App
- Developer
- YAMAP INC.
- Bundle ID
- jp.co.yamap
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Sports
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
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Company
- Website
- yamap.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
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- Founded
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- HQ / Address
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- Employees
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- Logo
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Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $886/mo
- Top-grossing rank
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- All-time revenue
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- Pricing
- $3.49 - $89.99 per item
Founder
- Name
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- X / Twitter
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- GitHub
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- X followers
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- Public statements
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Funding
- Total raised
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- Last round
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- Investors
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- Crunchbase
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- AngelList
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Press & Links
- Articles found
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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- Press / News
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
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- Phone
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- Contact page
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- About page
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📈Ratings growth10,400 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for YAMAP -Social Trekking GPS App: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.