FindPenguins: Travel Tracker
69
Quality Score
Solid
FindPenguins: Travel Tracker
by Tobias Riedle
Medium confidence
✍️ GetAppValue analysis
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FindPenguins: Travel Tracker is an iOS app from Tobias Riedle in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 1,754 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
$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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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~12 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 (144 MB) | +$37K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$26K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 17× MRR multiple
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~1.5× build cost (break-even+)
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
190K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
19K
Daily active
2.8K
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 · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
8.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.78★ across 1,754 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($9K/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 10 of 10 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,754 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (17 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v11.1.1
New: Spots & Activities!
You can now add the places you visited to your posts, including restaurants, cafés, beaches, museums, hikes, campsites, attractions, and much more. Make your travel memories richer than ever.
We’ve also fixed bugs and improved performance.
You can now add the places you visited to your posts, including restaurants, cafés, beaches, museums, hikes, campsites, attractions, and much more. Make your travel memories richer than ever.
We’ve also fixed bugs and improved performance.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FindPenguins: Travel Tracker
- Developer
- Tobias Riedle
- Bundle ID
- com.findpenguins.core
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, MS, NB, PL, PT, RU, ES, SV, TR
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
- $10.0K/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth1,895 ratings+13% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (27 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter7 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline7 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
Millions of travelers trust FindPenguins, the first travel app of its kind. Plan, track, and share your trip — all in one. Instantly transform your journey into flyover videos vividly visualizing your travel route. Build your own unique travel profile by adding your places, photos, and stories — capturing memories that last a lifetime. And with just a wink, turn these memories into a carefully-designed hardcover travel book.
Activate our Travel Tracker to automatically record your travel route — battery-friendly and offline, with your phone in your pocket.… View full description on the official store →
Activate our Travel Tracker to automatically record your travel route — battery-friendly and offline, with your phone in your pocket.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 144 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v11.1.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FI, FR +12📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 →
2026-07
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Shipped update — v11.1 → v11.1.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.8K/mo · reviews +41 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
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Shipped update — v11.0.7 → v11.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.8K/mo · reviews +41 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
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Shipped update — v11.0.6 → v11.0.7
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.8K/mo · reviews +56 high confidence
2026-06
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Shipped update — v11.0.4 → v11.0.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +52 high confidence
2026-05
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Shipped update — v11.0.1 → v11.0.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +67 high confidence
2026-05
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Shipped update — v11.0 → v11.0.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +71 high confidence
2026-03
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78564★ | 1,908 | 4.78564★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.79786★ | 841 | 4.79786★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.7512★ | 13,955 | 4.7512★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.75776★ | 644 | 4.75776★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.59999★ | 15 | 4.59999★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.77496★ | 671 | 4.77496★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.77003★ | 1,448 | 4.77003★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.88★ | 25 | 4.88★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.9★ | 20 | 4.9★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for FindPenguins: Travel Tracker: 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: 1,754 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FindPenguins make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, FindPenguins earns approximately $10.0K/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 FindPenguins?▴
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Who makes FindPenguins?▴
FindPenguins is published by Tobias Riedle 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 FindPenguins's BU Score?▴
FindPenguins 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.