Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours
79
Quality Score
Strong
Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours is an iOS app from Shaka Guide in the Travel category, currently rated 4.9★ across 13,317 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 79: 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
$16.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$16.9K – $35.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$20.9K – $62.8K
per month
MID 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
$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 ~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 (193 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$700K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $500K – $900K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~5.8× 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
145K
Daily active
21K
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
$16.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$15.5K – $25.9K
12 months
$16.9K – $35.4K
24 months
$20.9K – $62.8K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.5
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $11K - $24K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.87★ across 13,317 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $294K-$523K. Portfolio play ($89K/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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (13,317 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (4y 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 · v9.1.6
- Bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours
- Developer
- Shaka Guide
- Bundle ID
- com.shakaguide.combined
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Shaka Guide: Audio Tour Guide | Shaka Guide
- Description
- Explore with Shaka Guide: Your go-to for immersive audio tours. Uncover destinations like never before with an expert audio tour guide by your side. Download the app now.
- 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
- $41.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇮🇳#9 /100 🇺🇸#19 /100 🇨🇦#48 /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/shakaguideapps · instagram instagram.com/shakaguide · tiktok tiktok.com/@shakaguide?lang=en · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCd8dXjE77wChD-VR…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- shakaguide.com/support
- About page
- shakaguide.com/aboutus
📈Ratings growth13,317 ratings+155% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (30 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank3 countries
🇮🇳IN#9 /100
🇺🇸US#19 /100
🇨🇦CA#48 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#9 now · best #9 · worst #48
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
Meet your personal tour guide in an app! Shaka Guide has 90+ audio tours across the country in places like Hawaii, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton, Yosemite, Sedona, Gettysburg, Salem, the Boston Freedom Trail, Utah's Mighty 5 and more.
HOW A GPS AUDIO TOUR WORKS
The app uses GPS to play audio narration automatically as you drive or walk. Shaka Guide’s audio tours provide directions to must-see stops, stories about the places you’re visiting, travel tips, and local music. It's like having a personal tour guide along for the ride!
TOUR ON YOUR TERMS… View full description on the official store →
HOW A GPS AUDIO TOUR WORKS
The app uses GPS to play audio narration automatically as you drive or walk. Shaka Guide’s audio tours provide directions to must-see stops, stories about the places you’re visiting, travel tips, and local music. It's like having a personal tour guide along for the ride!
TOUR ON YOUR TERMS… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 193 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15+🔖 v9.1.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.90 → 4.60 (dropped 0.30★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.60 → 4.90 (improved 0.30★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.38 → 4.00 (dropped 0.38★)
2024-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2024-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — shakaguide.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · AWS SES
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours: 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 high confidence: 13,317 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours earns approximately $41K/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 Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours?▴
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Who makes Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours?▴
Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours is published by Shaka Guide 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 Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours's BU Score?▴
Shaka Guide | GPS Audio Tours has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.