PhotoPills
73
Quality Score
Strong
PhotoPills
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PhotoPills is an iOS app from PhotoPills S.L. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 1,496 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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
$9.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$9.6K – $20.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.8K – $35.5K
per month
MID tierFREE
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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
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in <1 month 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 (51 MB) | +$403 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7635 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$1.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $800K – $1.3M · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~22× return on build cost
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% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
295K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
59K
Daily active
11K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
19% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$9.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.8K – $14.6K
12 months
$9.6K – $20.0K
24 months
$11.8K – $35.5K
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 · 45/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.0
Product Quality
7.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
7.5
Founder Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $6K - $13K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 1,496 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -0.68 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $166K-$295K. Portfolio play ($65K/mo combined) commands premium.
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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,496 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Localized (9 languages)METRIC | +$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.
🆕 What's New · v2.13.25
Bug fixes.
Please, If you find a bug (or have a suggestion), send us an email to info@photopills.com and we'll fix it as soon as possible :)
Please, If you find a bug (or have a suggestion), send us an email to info@photopills.com and we'll fix it as soon as possible :)
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PhotoPills
- Developer
- PhotoPills S.L.
- Bundle ID
- com.photopills.photopills
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- CA, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, RU, ES
Company
- Website
- photopills.com
- Tagline
- Shoot legendary photos
- Description
- Discover how to plan legendary shots in seconds, systematically and for any location on Earth.
- 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
- $65.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/photopills · instagram instagram.com/photopills · twitter twitter.com/photopills · youtube youtube.com/user/photopills?sub_confi…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- photopills.com/contact
- About page
- photopills.com/team
📈Ratings growth1,496 ratings+29% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (53 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $10.99 (+0%)
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
Unlock your creative potential! Discover how to easily turn any Sun, Moon and Milky Way scene you imagine into a real picture… and start shooting truly legendary photos every time you pick up the camera!
Whether your passion is to capture beautiful landscapes, immortalize the infinite night sky, surprise the bride and the groom in their happiest day... or to travel the world, PhotoPills will make you love exploring new artistic possibilities to tell visual stories in a way it wasn’t possible before.
* All in one app… View full description on the official store →
Whether your passion is to capture beautiful landscapes, immortalize the infinite night sky, surprise the bride and the groom in their happiest day... or to travel the world, PhotoPills will make you love exploring new artistic possibilities to tell visual stories in a way it wasn’t possible before.
* All in one app… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 51 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v2.13.25🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 CA, EN, FR, DE, IT +4📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $10.99 price point
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v2.13.25
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
2018-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.33 → 2.75 (dropped 0.58★)
2018-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
2018-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.00 (improved 1.00★)
2018-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 789 reviews across 9 markets● 78% positive · ● 11% neutral · ● 11% negative · Rating drift: -0.68★ (declining — recent 50: 4.02★ vs lifetime: 4.7★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.73
🇬🇧 GB
+0.71
🇨🇦 CA
+0.65
🇺🇸 US
+0.62
🇧🇷 BR
+0.44
🇮🇳 IN
+0.37
🇫🇷 FR
+0.32
🇯🇵 JP
-0.07
🇩🇪 DE
-0.09
Top praise themes
night sky ×15 photography planning ×14 learning curve ×14 photo pills ×13 sun moon ×13 photo planning ×12 landscape photography ×11 planning tool ×10
Top complaint themes
user friendly ×6 waste money ×4 take photos ×4 doesn work ×4 sun moon ×3 rises sets ×3 iphone ×11 only ×10
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.5%
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Tech & Domain Intel — photopills.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · AWS SES
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.70411★ | 1,504 | 4.70411★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.80726★ | 358 | 4.80726★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.66231★ | 459 | 4.66231★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.65184★ | 135 | 4.65184★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.45714★ | 35 | 4.45714★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.80365★ | 219 | 4.80365★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.735★ | 200 | 4.735★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.92856★ | 56 | 4.92856★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.63265★ | 49 | 4.63265★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PhotoPills: 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: 1,496 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PhotoPills make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PhotoPills earns approximately $65K/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.
What apps are like PhotoPills?▴
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Who makes PhotoPills?▴
PhotoPills is published by PhotoPills S.L. 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 PhotoPills's BU Score?▴
PhotoPills 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.