PayByPhone Parking
83
Quality Score
Excellent
PayByPhone Parking
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PayByPhone Parking is an iOS app from PayByPhone Technologies Inc. in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 732,950 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 83: 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 tierFREE
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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📊 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
🤖Also on Android
$2.9K/mo · 207K ratings · 4.9★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.4y 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 (202 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× build cost (under-water)
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% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
80.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
8.1M
Daily active
1.2M
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)
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
Concerning · 44/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
8.2
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
1.8
Operational Safety
5.9
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.85★ across 728,737 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -2.09 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (732,950 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| 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.
🆕 What's New · v26.6.0
This update focuses on improving stability and performance.
* Resolved multiple reported issues
* Fixed crashes affecting some users
* General optimizations and refinements
As always, we're working to make the app better with every update.
* Resolved multiple reported issues
* Fixed crashes affecting some users
* General optimizations and refinements
As always, we're working to make the app better with every update.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PayByPhone Parking
- Developer
- PayByPhone Technologies Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.verrus.paybyphone
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- HY, EN, FR, DE, IT, PA, ZH, ES, ZH, CY
Company
- Website
- www.paybyphone.com
- Tagline
- Simplifying your journey
- Description
- Pay for parking with PayByPhone - the smart cashless parking app that'll help you avoid tickets & remind you when it's time to go. Available in more than 1000 cities throughout North America, UK & Europe.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $4.1M ($3.3M – $5.0M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $49.6M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $4.1K/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/PayByPhone
- linkedin.com/company/paybyphone-techn…
- 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/paybyphone?ref=hl · instagram instagram.com/paybyphone · linkedin linkedin.com/company/paybyphone-techn… · twitter twitter.com/PayByPhone · youtube youtube.com/user/PayByPhoneFrance
- pbp-pressoffice@corpay.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- paybyphone.com/contact
- About page
- paybyphone.com/about
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
PayByPhone Technologies Inc., the company behind the 'PayByPhone Parking' app, has estimated annual revenues ranging from $39.2 million to $60 million. This translates to a monthly revenue estimate between $3.26 million and $5 million. The app processes over $550 million in payments annually.
Sources mentioned: Growjo, Owler, 8ration, Digital Transactions, Sensor Tower, PE Hub
📈Ratings growth732,950 ratings+5% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (33 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
PayByPhone is a global leader in mobile parking payments. More than 95 million drivers worldwide have trusted us with their payments to date.
We simplify journeys for millions with smart, intuitive technology and user-focused features. Available in 11 languages, our app is used across more than 1,300 locations -including cities and private operators - in the UK, North America, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
With the PayByPhone app, we help parking to be quick, seamless, and secure.… View full description on the official store →
We simplify journeys for millions with smart, intuitive technology and user-focused features. Available in 11 languages, our app is used across more than 1,300 locations -including cities and private operators - in the UK, North America, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
With the PayByPhone app, we help parking to be quick, seamless, and secure.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 202 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v26.6.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 HY, EN, FR, DE, IT +5📂 Travel💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v26.5.1
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 4.60 (improved 2.00★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2025-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 750 reviews across 6 markets● 47% positive · ● 17% neutral · ● 36% negative · Rating drift: -2.09★ (declining — recent 50: 2.76★ vs lifetime: 4.85★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.26
🇨🇦 CA
+0.16
🇬🇧 GB
+0.16
🇺🇸 US
+0.11
🇫🇷 FR
+0.08
🇩🇪 DE
-0.25
Top praise themes
pay phone ×10 easy easy ×9 easy pay ×8 super easy ×7 easy convenient ×7 simple easy ×6 park pay ×6 user friendly ×5
Top complaint themes
apple pay ×34 doesn work ×15 credit card ×14 customer service ×13 rip off ×10 phone number ×9 user friendly ×8 latest update ×7
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.8% Bug mentions: 3% Fraud / scam mentions: 2.7%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 6 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.62327★ | 3,395 | 4.62327★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.76614★ | 253,339 | 4.76614★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.65764★ | 63,957 | 4.65764★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.69783★ | 459,599 | 4.69783★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.69807★ | 614,184 | 4.69807★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84696★ | 732,029 | 4.84696★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PayByPhone Parking: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 732,950 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PayByPhone Parking make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PayByPhone Parking earns approximately $4.1K/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 PayByPhone Parking?▴
PayByPhone Parking is published by PayByPhone Technologies 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 PayByPhone Parking's BU Score?▴
PayByPhone Parking has a BU Score of 83/100 (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.