GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours
80
Quality Score
Excellent
GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
“
GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours is an iOS app from GyPSy Guide LLC in the Travel category, currently rated 4.9★ across 12,506 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 80: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Travel app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$1.6M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7M – $2.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0M – $3.8M
per month
BIG tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 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
Loading…
Rating
—
Reviews
—
Forecast Revenue / mo
—
Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$201/mo · 1K ratings · 4.6★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3 months 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 (71 MB) | +$8K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$17K |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $375K – $600K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~6.7× return on build cost
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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
135K
Daily active
20K
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 |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$1.6M – $2.1M
12 months
$1.7M – $2.6M
24 months
$2.0M – $3.8M
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Strong fundamentals · 73/100BIG TIERSUBSCRIPTIONabove-averageGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.8
Product Quality
9.8
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
8.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.9
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.91★ across 12,506 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 345d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $28.8M-$51.2M.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (12,506 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v2.3.4
We’ve made things smoother, quicker, and more reliable—so your self-guided tours stay effortless from start to finish.
Even better? We’ve added new tours across stunning destinations—so you can hit the road or the trail with even more to explore.… Full release notes →
Even better? We’ve added new tours across stunning destinations—so you can hit the road or the trail with even more to explore.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours
- Developer
- GyPSy Guide LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.gypsyguide
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Location-based audio tours
- Description
- The flexible & fully automatic audio tour guide app with perfectly timed stories, tips & directions. Road trip to places you would never have found yourself.
- 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
- $28.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#7 /100 🇨🇦#25 /100 🇬🇧#26 /99 🇮🇳#60 /100 🇦🇺#68 /100
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/guidealong · instagram instagram.com/guidealong · linkedin linkedin.com/company/guidealong · youtube youtube.com/@guidealong
- Not found
- Phone
- +1 866-477-1791 9
- Contact page
- guidealong.com/contact
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth12,506 ratings+106% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (38 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank5 countries
🇺🇸US#7 /100
🇨🇦CA#25 /100
🇬🇧GB#26 /99
🇮🇳IN#60 /100
🇦🇺AU#68 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#7 now · best #7 · worst #36
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Upgrade your road trip adventures with our location-based audio tours. It’s just like having a tour guide in your car™.
HOW IT WORKS
We’ll guide you to the all the best things to see and do, and suggest side-trips and local tips, so you don’t miss a thing.
Listen to fun and informative stories about the history, geology, hikes, animals, local peoples and highlights along the routes.
Commentary plays automatically as you drive, based on your location and direction. You have the freedom to travel at your own pace.
Tour offline with GPS. No need for cell service or WiFi signal while touring.… View full description on the official store →
HOW IT WORKS
We’ll guide you to the all the best things to see and do, and suggest side-trips and local tips, so you don’t miss a thing.
Listen to fun and informative stories about the history, geology, hikes, animals, local peoples and highlights along the routes.
Commentary plays automatically as you drive, based on your location and direction. You have the freedom to travel at your own pace.
Tour offline with GPS. No need for cell service or WiFi signal while touring.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 71 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.3.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
📅
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
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 662 reviews across 6 markets● 95% positive · ● 1% neutral · ● 4% negative · Rating drift: +0.03★ (stable — recent 50: 4.94★ vs lifetime: 4.91★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.85
🇦🇺 AU
+0.84
🇺🇸 US
+0.81
🇨🇦 CA
+0.81
🇮🇳 IN
+0.35
🇩🇪 DE
+0.12
Top praise themes
highly recommend ×82 national park ×69 national parks ×68 road hana ×42 road trip ×42 grand teton ×36 yellowstone grand ×35 big island ×27
Top complaint themes
waste money ×5 work ×6 tour ×5 help ×4 gone ×3 information ×3 yellowstone ×3 trip ×3
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.93506★ | 77 | 4.93506★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.92708★ | 672 | 4.92708★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.83333★ | 24 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.825★ | 120 | 4.825★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.88889★ | 18 | 4.88889★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.91411★ | 12,785 | 4.91411★ this version |
🔔
Track this app’s revenue
FREEGet an email when revenue moves by your threshold. No spam, unsubscribe in one click.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
More by GyPSy Guide LLC
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryMID studio
7apps·$209K/mocombined
✓ Diversified — top app contributes 20%; risk spread across portfolio
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 12,506 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours earns approximately $28K/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.
What apps are like GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours?▴
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 GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours?▴
GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours is published by GyPSy Guide 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 GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours's BU Score?▴
GuideAlong | GPS Audio Tours has a BU Score of 80/100 (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.