Upside: Gas & Food Cash Back
87
Quality Score
Excellent
Upside: Gas & Food Cash Back
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Upside: Gas & Food Cash Back is an iOS app from Upside Services Inc in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 656,857 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 87: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 ~4 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 (262 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $375K – $700K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~4.2× 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% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
72.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.2M
Daily active
1.1M
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
$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 · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 656,857 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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. Portfolio play ($28K/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:
| High install base (656,857 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v26.19.0
Upside now offers even more ways to earn in more places. Plus, bug fixes and improvements make shopping smarter and earning more even easier.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Upside: Gas & Food Cash Back
- Developer
- Upside Services Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.upside-services.consumer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Cash back on what you already buy
- Description
- Earn every time you shop gas, grocery, or food with Upside's free top-rated app. Get cash back on everyday necessities, making your purchases more rewarding. Download and start earning today!
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $17.5M ($10.0M – $25.0M)AI low
- AI annual estimate
- $210.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $28.1K/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/upside
- linkedin.com/company/upside
- 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/upside · instagram instagram.com/upside · linkedin linkedin.com/company/upside · twitter twitter.com/upside · youtube youtube.com/@upsideapp
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- upside.com/about
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Upside Services Inc., a privately held company, does not publicly disclose its revenue. However, public sources indicate that Upside drives more than $6 billion in annual commerce through its platform. Based on an estimated commission rate of 2-5% on this commerce, the annual revenue is estimated to be between $120 million and $300 million, leading to a monthly estimate of $10 million to $25 million. The company's valuation was $1.5 billion in April 2022.
Sources mentioned: The Motley Fool, Quantumrun, Forbes, Inc., Reddit, Sensor Tower
📈Ratings growth656,857 ratings+10% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (22 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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 Timeline3 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
Make every day a little more rewarding with Upside, the ultimate cash back rewards app for gas, groceries, and dining.
Your regular grocery run. Your usual fill-up. Your go-to dinner spot. Upside fits right into your life, giving you real cash back on the things you already buy, without changing a thing about how you shop.
How Upside works
- Find offers near you
- Claim an offer before you pay
- Pay as usual with your credit or debit card
- Earn cash back in your account
Cash out whenever you want.
Earn cash back on the things you already buy… View full description on the official store →
Your regular grocery run. Your usual fill-up. Your go-to dinner spot. Upside fits right into your life, giving you real cash back on the things you already buy, without changing a thing about how you shop.
How Upside works
- Find offers near you
- Claim an offer before you pay
- Pay as usual with your credit or debit card
- Earn cash back in your account
Cash out whenever you want.
Earn cash back on the things you already buy… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 262 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16+🔖 v26.19.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, ES📂 Travel💰 Paid
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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 — v26.17.0 → v26.18.0
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v26.17.0
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.78 → 4.80 (improved 1.02★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2026-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.50 (dropped 1.50★)
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #32Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
coupons·#32🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Upside: Gas & Food Cash Back: 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: 656,857 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Upside make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Upside 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 Upside?▴
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Who makes Upside?▴
Upside is published by Upside Services 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 Upside's BU Score?▴
Upside has a BU Score of 87/100 (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.