Grounds Up Downloads & RevenueGrounds Up · App Store
Grounds Up is #5 in Games › Strategy Paid in India and charting in 7 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
6 Nov 2026Full timeline · 9 events
- 🚀Grounds Up: now shown next to Coffee Inc: Business Tycoon, Coffee Inc 2, Coffee Tycoon: Café Empirethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈Grounds Up entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Paid · All Apps · GB · Top Paid · Games · GB · Top Paid · Games · PH
- 🆕Grounds Up first spotted by AppInsider#60 in Top Paid · Simulation · Australia
- 📈Grounds Up entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Simulation · IN · Top Paid · Strategy · IN
- 📈Grounds Up entered the top 100 in 16 chartsTop Paid · Simulation · AU · Top Paid · Strategy · AU · Top Paid · All Apps · CA · Top Paid · Games · CA · +12 more
- 📈Grounds Up new best rank in the overall chart: #33Top Paid · All Apps · IN
- 📈Grounds Up charting in a new country in 6 chartsAustralia · Canada · United Kingdom · Indonesia · +2 more
- 📦Grounds Up version 1.0No release notes
- 🆕Grounds Up released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Games › Strategy PaidGrounds Up at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A premium, offline single-player business tycoon simulation where players expand from a café to a conglomerate with hotels and AI labs, targeting strategy enthusiasts who prefer ad-free, one-time purchase experiences. The app is gaining traction in paid strategy charts across multiple regions including #5 in India and #43 in the UK, indicating strong early adoption among niche premium gamers despite having no public ratings yet.
Similar apps: Game Dev Tycoon, Restaurant Empire, Capitalism Lab
Business Tycoon Minimalist Modern medium sessions Premium
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Grounds Up on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Grounds Up declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Where Grounds Up's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| India | Games › StrategyPaid | #5 |
 United States | GamesPaid | #105 |
| United States | Games › SimulationPaid | #34 |
 United Kingdom | Games › StrategyPaid | #13 |
| United States | Games › StrategyPaid | #37 |
| United Kingdom | GamesPaid | #47 |
| United Kingdom | Games › SimulationPaid | #15 |
| India | Games › SimulationPaid | #10 |
| United Kingdom | All AppsPaid | #96 |
| India | GamesPaid | #60 |
 Canada | GamesPaid | #61 |
| India | All AppsPaid | #86 |
 Indonesia | Games › StrategyPaid | #11 |
| Canada | Games › StrategyPaid | #21 |
| Canada | All AppsPaid | #98 |
| Canada | Games › SimulationPaid | #26 |
| Australia | GamesPaid | #128 |
| Indonesia | GamesPaid | #75 |
| Indonesia | Games › SimulationPaid | #24 |
| Australia | Games › SimulationPaid | #44 |
 Philippines | GamesPaid | #33 |
| Australia | Games › StrategyPaid | #63 |
Apps near Grounds Up on the chart
Games › Strategy Paid, around #5.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
What users say about Grounds Up
From recent reviews.
About Grounds Up
Hotels, an AI lab, a fund, board seats.
Pay once. No ads. Works offline.
Grounds Up is a single-player business tycoon game for iPhone. You open your first small café on a busy street. Each week you set prices, pay your people, pick your coffee and read the results. Then the company grows far beyond coffee: more cafés in more cities, hotels, an AI lab and a fund of your own.
Time moves only when you tap the date, one week at a time. There is no timer and no game over. Everything in the game is made up: the companies, the people, the banks and the money. It is a game, not a financial service, and nothing in it is financial advice.
A GROUP THAT KEEPS GROWING
• Build cafés in eight cities: Osaka, Tokyo, New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Berlin and São Paulo.
• Choose the look, the machines, the menu and the prices of every café, and hire managers to run them.
• Open hotels. Pick the class, the rooms and the rates, and read the guest reviews.
• Start an AI lab and grow it through research, products and funding rounds.
• Run a fund with outside investors and a record that sets the size of the next one.
• Lease offices, buy property, and buy and name landmarks.
STAKES, BOARDS AND VOTES
• Buy shares in listed companies and back startups through their funding rounds.
• Build a stake big enough for a seat on the board, then more seats, then the chair.
• Sit in board meetings. Read the facts, weigh the options and vote, or let your seats vote for you.
• Win control of a company and merge it into your group.
RIVALS AND RECORDS
• 300 rival tycoons grow their own fortunes while you build yours.
• Climb the rich list and chase records, from your first billion up.
• Play Relaxed, Normal, Hard or Tycoon, with up to five rival companies.
PAY ONCE, NOTHING ELSE TO BUY
• One payment on the App Store.
• No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscription.
• Works offline. The game never needs the internet.
• No account. No tracking. Keep up to ten games on your phone.
All companies, people and money in the game are made up. Nothing here is financial advice.
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