US Public Lands
69
Quality Score
Solid
US Public Lands
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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US Public Lands is an iOS app from Two Steps Beyond in the Travel category, currently rated 4.5★ across 746 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
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
$6.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$6.9K – $14.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$8.6K – $25.8K
per month
MID tierFREE
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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
$3.0K/mo · 122 ratings · 3.7★
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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 ~7 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 (184 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $350K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~2.3× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
82K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
8.2K
Daily active
1.2K
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
$6.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$6.4K – $10.6K
12 months
$6.9K – $14.5K
24 months
$8.6K – $25.8K
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
Stalled · 37/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
4.7
Revenue Strength
3.8
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
1.9
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $10K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.46★ across 746 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 7.3% refund mentions, rating drift -1.17 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $80K-$147K. Portfolio play ($19K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (746 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| 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 · v2026.3
Updated maps to PADUS 4.1
Added ability to backup and restore pins.
Added export feature so that pins can be imported into mapping software.
Added ability to backup and restore pins.
Added export feature so that pins can be imported into mapping software.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- US Public Lands
- Developer
- Two Steps Beyond
- Bundle ID
- com.twostepsbeyond.public-lands
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Two Steps Beyond LLC
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $17.8K/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
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- twostepsbeyond.com/apps/app-support-faqs
- About page
- twostepsbeyond.com/about
📈Ratings growth746 ratings+2094% 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 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.
💰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
The US Federal Governments owns nearly 650 million acres of land - almost 30 percent of the land area of the United States.
These are lands that are held for all Americans.
US Public Lands allows you to quickly retrieve the boundaries of these properties without carrying physical maps, books, or digging deep online.
Included in the app are on-device (fully works offline), individually selectable & beautifully colored map layers for most of the properties administered by the federal government:
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- US Forest Service (FS)
- National Park Service (NPS)… View full description on the official store →
These are lands that are held for all Americans.
US Public Lands allows you to quickly retrieve the boundaries of these properties without carrying physical maps, books, or digging deep online.
Included in the app are on-device (fully works offline), individually selectable & beautifully colored map layers for most of the properties administered by the federal government:
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- US Forest Service (FS)
- National Park Service (NPS)… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 184 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v2026.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 ↓ 5.00 → 4.46 (dropped 0.54★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $3.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.96 → 5.00 (improved 2.04★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 4.09 (dropped 0.31★)
2014-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.43 (dropped 0.57★)
2014-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 41 reviews across 1 markets● 68% positive · ● 2% neutral · ● 29% negative · Rating drift: -1.17★ (declining — recent 50: 3.29★ vs lifetime: 4.46★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Top praise themes
blm land ×3 maps ×9 resource ×5 find ×4 it's ×4 boundaries ×4 camp ×4 work ×4
Top complaint themes
private property ×4 don't waste ×3 waste money ×3 blm parcels ×3 private land ×3 maps ×7 accurate ×6 trespassing ×5
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 7.3%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.2★ | 15 | 4.2★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.45906★ | 745 | 4.45906★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for US Public Lands: 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: 746 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does US Public Lands make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, US Public Lands earns approximately $17K/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 US Public Lands?▴
US Public Lands is published by Two Steps Beyond 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 US Public Lands's BU Score?▴
US Public Lands 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.