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Grounds Up: Business Tycoon is #24 in Games Paid in United Kingdom and charting in 9 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperDaanish Kaul
CategoryGames
Price2.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.3 (8)
Version1.1
Age rating4+
First seen by us
6 Nov 2026
6 Nov 2026Grounds Up: Business Tycoon update history & changes
Last change · 21 events since 5 Nov 2026Full timeline ↓📈Entered the top 10📈Charting in a new country✏️Description updated✏️New screenshots📦Updated to version 1.1🚀Now shown next to Coffee Inc: Business Tycoon, Coffee Inc 2, Coffee Tycoon: Café Empire🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 1.0🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 21 events
- ✏️Grounds Up: Business Tycoon: app got bigger86 MB → 129 MB (+49%)
- 📈Grounds Up: Business Tycoon entered the top 10Top Paid · Strategy · GB
- 📈Grounds Up: Business Tycoon charting in a new countryMexico
- 📈Grounds Up: Business Tycoon new best rank in the overall chart: #30Top Paid · All Apps · MY
- 📈Grounds Up: Business Tycoon entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Paid · All Apps · AU · Top Paid · All Apps · MY · Top Paid · Games · MY
- 📈Grounds Up: Business Tycoon charting in a new countryMalaysia
- ✏️Grounds Up: Business Tycoon: description updated· 7 countries
- ✏️Grounds Up: Business Tycoon: new screenshots7 screenshots (was 7) · 7 countries
- ✏️Grounds Up: Business Tycoon: renamedGrounds Up → Grounds Up: Business Tycoon · 7 countries
- 📦Grounds Up: Business Tycoon updated to version 1.1A big update.
• A new business: the property developer. Buy plots on the map, choose what to build: apartments, offices and even malls.
• Bigger maps for all eight cities, each with a new district, more plots and more hotel sites.
• A calmer map: pins are easier to see and tap, and pins that overlap open a list.
• A new city picker.
• Remodel a running café and pick each machine's level.
• Board meetings: new exit offers and stronger reactions.
• One clear card for each company on Listing.
• Net worth pages list your cafés, projects and plots.
• Your games are saved to iCloud. Settings has Sync now.
• Fixes.… more - 📈Grounds Up: Business Tycoon entered the top 100 in 4 chartsTop Paid · Games · AU · Top Paid · All Apps · ID · Top Paid · All Apps · PH · Top Paid · All Apps · TW
- 📈Grounds Up: Business Tycoon charting in a new countryTaiwan
- 🚀Grounds Up: Business Tycoon: 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: Business Tycoon entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Paid · All Apps · GB · Top Paid · Games · GB · Top Paid · Games · PH
- 🆕Grounds Up: Business Tycoon first spotted by AppInsider#60 in Top Paid · Simulation · Australia
- 📈Grounds Up: Business Tycoon entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Simulation · IN · Top Paid · Strategy · IN
- 📈Grounds Up: Business Tycoon 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: Business Tycoon new best rank in the overall chart: #33Top Paid · All Apps · IN
- 📈Grounds Up: Business Tycoon charting in a new country in 6 chartsAustralia · Canada · United Kingdom · Indonesia · +2 more
- 📦Grounds Up: Business Tycoon version 1.0No release notes
- 🆕Grounds Up: Business Tycoon released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.3 ★
8 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#24
Games PaidMeasured
Grounds Up: Business Tycoon at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-09. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A premium, offline single-player business tycoon simulation where players expand from a café into a diversified conglomerate including hotels and AI labs, targeting strategy enthusiasts who prefer ad-free, one-time-purchase experiences. The app has recently launched with strong traction in paid strategy and simulation charts across India, Indonesia, and the UK, indicating early adoption in key emerging markets despite limited review volume.
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Grounds Up: Business Tycoon on the App Store
App details
App ID
6828960722
Publisher
Daanish Kaul
On the store since
Nov 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
129 MB
Also listed in
Simulation, Strategy
App privacy Measured
Grounds Up: Business Tycoon declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
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: Business Tycoon'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 |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | GamesPaid | #24 |
| United Kingdom | Games › StrategyPaid | #9 |
 India | Games › StrategyPaid | #5 |
| United Kingdom | All AppsPaid | #52 |
| United Kingdom | Games › SimulationPaid | #12 |
 United States | GamesPaid | #139 |
| United States | Games › StrategyPaid | #47 |
| United States | Games › SimulationPaid | #58 |
 Canada | All AppsPaid | #53 |
| Canada | GamesPaid | #42 |
| Canada | Games › StrategyPaid | #13 |
| India | GamesPaid | #64 |
| India | Games › SimulationPaid | #23 |
| Australia | Games › SimulationPaid | #24 |
| Canada | Games › SimulationPaid | #24 |
| Australia | GamesPaid | #79 |
 Indonesia | All AppsPaid | #65 |
| Australia | Games › StrategyPaid | #30 |
| Indonesia | Games › StrategyPaid | #17 |
| Indonesia | GamesPaid | #91 |
 Malaysia | GamesPaid | #25 |
 Mexico | GamesPaid | #159 |
| Indonesia | Games › SimulationPaid | #53 |
| Malaysia | All AppsPaid | #80 |
 Philippines | GamesPaid | #195 |
Apps near Grounds Up: Business Tycoon on the chart
Games Paid, around #24.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.3 ★
8 ratings
Measured
Ratings
8
Measured
What users say about Grounds Up: Business Tycoon
From recent reviews.
About Grounds Up: Business Tycoon
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.
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.
Latest updates
1.1
A big update.
• A new business: the property developer. Buy plots on the map, choose what to build: apartments, offices and even malls.
• Bigger maps for all eight cities, each with a new district, more plots and more hotel sites.
• A calmer map: pins are easier to see and tap, and pins that overlap open a list.
• A new city picker.
• Remodel a running café and pick each machine's level.
• Board meetings: new exit offers and stronger reactions.
• One clear card for each company on Listing.
• Net worth pages list your cafés, projects and plots.
• Your games are saved to iCloud. Settings has Sync now.
• Fixes.
1.0
Store changes
What Grounds Up: Business Tycoon changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
App got bigger
86 MB → 129 MB (+49%)
Description updated
New screenshots
7 screenshots (was 7)
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