Pie VAT
72
Quality Score
Strong
Pie VAT
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Pie VAT is an iOS app from PieSystems in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 6,708 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a Travel app, that means healthy traction. 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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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
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (123 MB) | +$29K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$23K |
Total estimate
$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $30K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
735K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
73K
Daily active
11K
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
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
8.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 6,708 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (6,708 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (7y old)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.
🆕 What's New · v3.29.2
Thank you for using Pie!
What’s new in this version:
- Improved guidance and instructions for departure details in Oslo.
- Added receipt totals for Norway order claim cards for faster counter verification… Full release notes →
What’s new in this version:
- Improved guidance and instructions for departure details in Oslo.
- Added receipt totals for Norway order claim cards for faster counter verification… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pie VAT
- Developer
- PieSystems
- Bundle ID
- io.piesystems.customer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, EN, FR, JA, KO, NB, NN, RU, ZH, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Step into the World of Digital Tax Free Shopping
- Description
- Pie Systems - Easy tax free shopping and VAT refunds for merchants, business owners, travelers, and tourists through our web, iOS, and Android Pie VAT app. No forms, no waiting in line, and higher refunds.
- 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
- $1.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- 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
- instagram instagram.com/pie_vat · linkedin linkedin.com/company/piesystems
- hello@piesystems.io
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- pievat.com/about
📈Ratings growth6,708 ratings+47% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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 Timeline4 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
Pie VAT is the next generation tax free solution. It is the first digital tax free shopping app that enables travelers to easily claim their VAT refunds when traveling abroad. We have eliminated excessive paper forms, long waits in line, high fees; all that’s left is a quick and easy way to shop tax free.
SHOP AT OUR PARTNER STORES
Find, browse, and explore our local partner stores in the app. We have 1000+ PIE partner stores. Find yours today!
QUICK AND EASY:
Request your VAT Refund in a matter of seconds.… View full description on the official store →
SHOP AT OUR PARTNER STORES
Find, browse, and explore our local partner stores in the app. We have 1000+ PIE partner stores. Find yours today!
QUICK AND EASY:
Request your VAT Refund in a matter of seconds.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 123 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v3.29.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 DA, EN, FR, JA, KO +5📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.04 → 4.82 (improved 0.78★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 4.04 (dropped 0.66★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.03 → 4.70 (improved 0.67★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.64 → 4.33 (dropped 0.31★)
2022-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.60 (dropped 0.40★)
2022-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.78648★ | 2,159 | 4.78648★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.89286★ | 364 | 4.89286★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.76152★ | 1,476 | 4.76152★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.65944★ | 1,292 | 4.65944★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.72905★ | 871 | 4.72905★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.77503★ | 1,778 | 4.77503★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.8776★ | 433 | 4.8776★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.67145★ | 2,371 | 4.67145★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.81465★ | 6,992 | 4.81465★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Pie VAT: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 6,708 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Pie VAT make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Pie VAT earns approximately $1.2K/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 Pie VAT?▴
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 Pie VAT?▴
Pie VAT is published by PieSystems 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 Pie VAT's BU Score?▴
Pie VAT has a BU Score of 72/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.