Big Island Offline Guide
55
Quality Score
Solid
Big Island Offline Guide
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Big Island Offline Guide is an iOS app from I Heart Travel Inc. in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 20 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Travel app, that means established niche player. 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
$2.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.8K – $6.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.7K – $15.0K
per month
INDIE tier
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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
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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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$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 |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
Total estimate
$65K
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$1.8K – $4.1K
12 months
$1.8K – $6.5K
24 months
$1.7K – $15.0K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 44/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.8
Product Quality
3.8
Revenue Strength
3.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.9
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $824 - $5153/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.8★ across 20 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 230d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $37K-$65K. Portfolio play ($21K/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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($7.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (20 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Big Island Offline Guide
- Developer
- I Heart Travel Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.fotospot.bigisland
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- I Heart Travel
- Description
- At I Heart Travel, our mission is to get you out of the house and exploring your surroundings. We believe real-world experiences are the secret to a happy and healthy life. You could say we’re kinda like the anti-metaverse.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/fotospotapp
- linkedin.com/company/ihearttravel
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/fotospotapp · instagram instagram.com/fotospotapp · linkedin linkedin.com/company/ihearttravel · twitter twitter.com/fotospotapp
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- ihearttravel.com/contact-us
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth20 ratings+900% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (9 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
📝 About this app
Tired of those clunky paper maps and ad-filled brochures from airports and rental car counters? We’ve got you covered!
Introducing Big Island by I Heart Travel!
Explore over 120 of our favorite Big Island, Hawaii photo spots, complete with offline maps, directions, photos, and detailed descriptions, all in the palm of your hand. Best of all, our app works without a cell signal!
Simply download our offline guide to your phone and, like magic, the app will work when you don't have a cell signal.… View full description on the official store →
Introducing Big Island by I Heart Travel!
Explore over 120 of our favorite Big Island, Hawaii photo spots, complete with offline maps, directions, photos, and detailed descriptions, all in the palm of your hand. Best of all, our app works without a cell signal!
Simply download our offline guide to your phone and, like magic, the app will work when you don't have a cell signal.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 43 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v2.0.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2026-03
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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $7.99 price point
2023-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2022-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 20 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Big Island Offline Guide is a small / niche iOS app in the travel space with weak public traction — only 20 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
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Big Island Offline Guide make per month?▴
Our model estimates Big Island Offline Guide earns roughly $86/mo, but with only 20 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 Big Island Offline Guide?▴
Browse the full Travel 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.
Who makes Big Island Offline Guide?▴
Big Island Offline Guide is published by I Heart Travel Inc. 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 Big Island Offline Guide's BU Score?▴
Big Island Offline Guide has a BU Score of 55/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.