Road Trip Planner™
69
Quality Score
Solid
Road Trip Planner™
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Road Trip Planner™ is an iOS app from Kyle Modesitt in the Travel category, currently rated 4.2★ across 2,287 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 69: 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
$1.6M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7M – $2.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0M – $3.8M
per month
BIG tier
💡 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
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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
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $275K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~3.5× 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 |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
250K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
25K
Daily active
3.7K
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
$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 · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.4
Product Quality
7.5
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.18★ across 2,287 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 474d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (474d since update).
🎯 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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,287 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)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 · v4.8.4
- Added enhancement so that when adding a map pin, its name appears not just the address.
- Enhanced "Send all route pins to Apple Maps" so that the route pins are in correct order.
- Bug fixes and interface enhancements.
- Enhanced "Send all route pins to Apple Maps" so that the route pins are in correct order.
- Bug fixes and interface enhancements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Road Trip Planner™
- Developer
- Kyle Modesitt
- Bundle ID
- com.modesittsoftware.RoadTripPlanner
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $14.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇯🇵#100 /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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth2,287 ratings+3365% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇯🇵
JP
Top-grossing rank: #100 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#100 now · best #96 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $3.99 (+0%)
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
Place pins on a worldwide map for each location you want to visit, then see your route. Enter trip details for each location and create a complete trip itinerary. Multiple sample files are available, including an informative Route 66 sample file.
You can demo this app by downloading our free RTP Viewer app. RPT Viewer is virtually identical to this app except with RTP Viewer you can’t save your edits.
Road Trip Planner does not require any subscription and respects your privacy by not collecting any of your data.
MAP PINS HOLD WHAT YOU NEED. Each pin shows:
- arrival date & time… View full description on the official store →
You can demo this app by downloading our free RTP Viewer app. RPT Viewer is virtually identical to this app except with RTP Viewer you can’t save your edits.
Road Trip Planner does not require any subscription and respects your privacy by not collecting any of your data.
MAP PINS HOLD WHAT YOU NEED. Each pin shows:
- arrival date & time… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 8 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.4+🔖 v4.8.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 ↓ 4.50 → 4.18 (dropped 0.32★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $3.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.61 → 4.50 (improved 1.89★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.57 → 2.88 (improved 0.31★)
2016-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.40 → 2.83 (improved 0.43★)
2016-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2016-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2016-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2016-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #30Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
trip planner·#30🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.31737★ | 167 | 4.31737★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 7 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.23571★ | 140 | 4.23571★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.45833★ | 48 | 4.45833★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.37931★ | 29 | 4.37931★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.22368★ | 152 | 4.22368★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.5★ | 2 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.17809★ | 2,291 | 4.17809★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Road Trip Planner™: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 2,287 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Road Trip Planner™ make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Road Trip Planner™ earns approximately $14K/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 Road Trip Planner™?▴
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Who makes Road Trip Planner™?▴
Road Trip Planner™ is published by Kyle Modesitt 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 Road Trip Planner™'s BU Score?▴
Road Trip Planner™ has a BU Score of 69/100 (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.