Retro — Fotos mit Freunden
71
Quality Score
Strong
Retro — Fotos mit Freunden
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Retro — Fotos mit Freunden is an iOS app from Lone Palm Labs, Inc. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.8★ across 4,126 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Photo & Video 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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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
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.6y 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (133 MB) | +$33K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$46K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~1.0× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
575K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
100K
Daily active
30K
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
| 📲 Photo & Video engagement | ~140 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.8
Product Quality
8.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.7
Market Position
1.5
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 4,126 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (4,126 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (14 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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.
🆕 What's New · v107.0
This update includes bug fixes and other improvements.
We love hearing from you - leave us a quick review on the App Store, follow us at @retrodotapp, or say hi at founders@retro.app.
We love hearing from you - leave us a quick review on the App Store, follow us at @retrodotapp, or say hi at founders@retro.app.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Retro — Fotos mit Freunden
- Developer
- Lone Palm Labs, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- io.lonepalm.Retro
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $6.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Photo & Video
- 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.
📈Ratings growth4,126 ratings+2142% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
Retro is a radical new idea: a social app where you share real photos with real friends.
It's the app that we wanted for our own family and friends, and for you, it should feel like a breath of fresh air.
Retro is a weekly photo journal that (1) brings you closer to the people you actually care about and (2) helps you appreciate your own life - all without the distractions and pressure of big social media.
So dust off those photos that are just sitting in your camera roll and spread some joy in the world.
Say hi to us at founders@retro.app… View full description on the official store →
It's the app that we wanted for our own family and friends, and for you, it should feel like a breath of fresh air.
Retro is a weekly photo journal that (1) brings you closer to the people you actually care about and (2) helps you appreciate your own life - all without the distractions and pressure of big social media.
So dust off those photos that are just sitting in your camera roll and spread some joy in the world.
Say hi to us at founders@retro.app… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 133 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v107.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, ID +9📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected 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 →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.36 → 4.82 (improved 0.46★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 4.36 (dropped 0.34★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.36 → 4.70 (improved 0.34★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.64 → 4.33 (dropped 0.31★)
2023-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.43 (dropped 0.57★)
2023-07
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 5 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.8★ | 70 | 4.8★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.65653★ | 2,597 | 4.65653★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.75645★ | 271 | 4.75645★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.76789★ | 517 | 4.76789★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.80787★ | 4,856 | 4.80787★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Retro — Fotos mit Freunden: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 4,126 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Retro — Fotos mit Freunden make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Retro — Fotos mit Freunden earns approximately $6.8K/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.
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Who makes Retro — Fotos mit Freunden?▴
Retro — Fotos mit Freunden is published by Lone Palm Labs, Inc. on the Apple App 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 Retro — Fotos mit Freunden's BU Score?▴
Retro — Fotos mit Freunden has a BU Score of 71/100 (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.