# Grounds Up

> Grounds Up (iPhone/iPad app by Daanish Kaul.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grounds-up/id6828960722 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Daanish Kaul](https://appshunter.io/developer/6828960724)
- Category: Games, Simulation, Strategy
- Price: $2.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 82 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-05
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Grounds Up?

Open one café. Grow it into an empire.
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.

## Chart rankings

- #118 in Top Paid · Games (US App Store)
- #43 in Top Paid · Simulation (US App Store)
- #40 in Top Paid · Strategy (US App Store)
- #189 in Top Paid (US App Store)

## Is Grounds Up safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Grounds Up.

## Is Grounds Up legit?

Grounds Up has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Grounds Up is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-11-05

No release notes.

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