How much does Google Maps make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Google Maps earns approximately $10K/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 Google Maps?

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Who makes Google Maps?

Google Maps is published by Google LLC on the Google Play 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 Google Maps's BU Score?

Google Maps 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.

Google Maps

Quality Score

Strong

Google Maps

Name: Google Maps — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Google Maps revenue, Google Maps app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Travel & Local revenue, Android app revenue

by Google LLC

High confidence

3.2 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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This app dominates the location and navigation services niche, directly competing with Apple Maps, Waze, and HERE WeGo for user attention. The substantial volume of ratings, despite a moderate average, indicates a massive, established user base and significant market penetration, suggesting this app is in a mature growth stage, focused on retention and feature expansion rather than initial acquisition. Given its free monetization model, the sheer scale of engagement points to a strategy leveraging data and ecosystem integration over direct in-app revenue. In the broader Travel & Local category, many free navigation apps often monetize through location-based advertising, premium subscriptions for offline maps or advanced features, or partnerships with local businesses for promoted listings. For an app of this scale, the absence of IAPs suggests a strong indirect monetization strategy through other Google services.

BU Score 79 · Strong — healthy traction. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$700K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$741K – $1141K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$886K – $1645K

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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🍎Also on iOS

Google Maps

$384/mo · 7.3M ratings · 4.7★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$80K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $60K – $110K

$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
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$27K

Total estimate $80K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$150K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 13× MRR multiple

💸 ~1.9× 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 < 3.5 (weak)	-18%
⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple 13× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

2920.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

438.0M

Daily active

87.5M

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 & Local engagement	~150 installs / rating
🔁 Travel & Local D30 retention	15%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

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Native Android (Kotlin)

High confidence · 80%

Also possible

Flutter

Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.

Signals we read

🏷 Category context	Travel & Local
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$690K – $933K

12 months

$741K – $1.1M

24 months

$886K – $1.6M

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.

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BU Investment Matrix

Concerning · 48/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarks

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

6.8

Product Quality

6.5

Revenue Strength

5.8

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

5.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

8.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.25★ across 19,470,135 reviews — solid.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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 6 of 6 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

High install base (19,470,135 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Below-average rating (3.2★)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)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Google Maps
Developer: Google LLC
Bundle ID: com.google.android.apps.maps
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Travel & Local
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: maps.google.com
Tagline: Not found
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: $212/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
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.

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

Explore and navigate the world with confidence using Google Maps. Find the best routes with live traffic data and real-time GPS navigation for driving, walking, cycling, and public transport. Discover over 250 million businesses and places - from restaurants and shops to everyday essentials – with photos, reviews, and helpful information.

Navigate the world, the way you want:

• Get to where you need to go with fuel-efficient route options

• Find the best route with real-time, turn-by-turn voice, and on screen navigation… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Travel & Local💰 Free📺 Ad-supported

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

3 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 — vVaries with device → vVaries with device

→ 30 days after: reviews +21,349 high confidence

2026-06

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Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device

→ 30 days after: reviews +71,630 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +50,281 high confidence

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Google Maps: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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