73
Quality Score
Strong
Photo Effects - LD
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Photo Effects - LD is an Android app from Lens Distortions in the Photography category, currently rated 4.5★ across 29,609 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Photography app, that means healthy traction. 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$1.6K/mo
In 12 months
$1.4K – $4.9K
In 24 months
$1.3K – $11.4K
INDIE tier
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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
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙Photography complexity ×1.35 | +$17K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$37K |
Total estimate$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$25K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $20K – $35K · 16× MRR multiple
💸~0.2× build cost (under-water)
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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
3.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
530K
Daily active
130K
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
| 📲Photography engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁Photography D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.25 |
DAU / MAU25% 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 | Photography |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2025-07-30 · 297 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅9 months since last update | Concerning gap |
VerdictAt risk
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$1.3K – $3.1K
12 months
$1.4K – $4.9K
24 months
$1.3K – $11.4K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 42/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.2
Product Quality
9.0
Revenue Strength
3.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $623 - $3898/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.52★ across 29,609 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 297d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $28K-$49K.
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 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (29,609 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v4.15.4🔄 updated 9mo ago📂 Photography💰 Free
📝 About this app
LD gives you the most beautiful photo effects and presets to layer on your images.
Add stunning lens flares, sun rays, weather photo effects, and subtle color presets.
You can also add text to your photos using a curated selection of elegant fonts.
If you're looking for the best photo overlays, photo effects, and presets for color grading, this is the app for you. Take your content to the next level today.
Terms of Use: https://www.lensdistortions.com/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://www.lensdistortions.com/privacy-policy
Add stunning lens flares, sun rays, weather photo effects, and subtle color presets.
You can also add text to your photos using a curated selection of elegant fonts.
If you're looking for the best photo overlays, photo effects, and presets for color grading, this is the app for you. Take your content to the next level today.
Terms of Use: https://www.lensdistortions.com/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://www.lensdistortions.com/privacy-policy
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Photo Effects - LD
- Developer
- Lens Distortions
- Bundle ID
- com.lensdistortions.ld
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photography
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
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Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.6K/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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Photo Effects - LD: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Photo Effects - LD make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Photo Effects - LD earns approximately $1K/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.
Is Photo Effects - LD profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $105K and monthly revenue $1K, Photo Effects - LD looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Photo Effects - LD have?▾
Estimated audience: ~3.5M lifetime downloads, ~530K monthly active users, and ~130K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Photo Effects - LD?▾
Browse the full Photography category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Photo Effects - LD built with?▾
Our heuristic places Photo Effects - LD on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Photo Effects - LD still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Photo Effects - LD sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $25K (marketplace range $20K – $35K). Calculated as 16× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Photo Effects - LD last updated?▾
Photo Effects - LD last shipped a new version on 2025-07-30 — 9 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Photo Effects - LD?▾
Photo Effects - LD is published by Lens Distortions 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 Photo Effects - LD's BU Score?▾
Photo Effects - LD has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.