RNI Films: Photo & RAW Editor
78
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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RNI Films: Photo & RAW Editor is an iOS app from RNI in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.8★ across 9,021 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: 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 tierSUBSCRIPTION
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
103 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
9,021 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
103
since Nov 2018
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$160K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $120K – $215K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.7y 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 (73 MB) | +$9K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$32K |
| ⚙ 11.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$66K |
Total estimate
$160K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 📅 11.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
880K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
71K
Daily active
21K
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 |
| 📅 11.1y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
29% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
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
| 📦 App bundle size | 73 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-11 · 15 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · 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
| 📅 15 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Building · 63/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive build-outGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.3
Product Quality
7.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
8.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.9
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 9,021 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 8% subscription complaints, rating drift -0.61 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($43K/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 12 of 12 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 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (9,021 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v5.10.4
Fixing starup crashes for some new users
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- RNI Films: Photo & RAW Editor
- Developer
- RNI
- Bundle ID
- RNI.Rni-Films
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/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 growth9,062 ratings+2248% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Get real film look while shooting digital.
At RNI we always wanted to transfer the true character of analogue film to digital medium. So we did by digitising our library of analog slides and negatives, building their profiles and packaging those profiles into a lightweight and easy to use mobile app.
RNI Films is a great mobile companion for those who appreciate the beauty of analogue photography. And this little app enables creators to bring the artistic flair of film into their mobile workflow.… View full description on the official store →
At RNI we always wanted to transfer the true character of analogue film to digital medium. So we did by digitising our library of analog slides and negatives, building their profiles and packaging those profiles into a lightweight and easy to use mobile app.
RNI Films is a great mobile companion for those who appreciate the beauty of analogue photography. And this little app enables creators to bring the artistic flair of film into their mobile workflow.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 73 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v5.10.4🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
19 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v5.9.6 → v5.10.4
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v5.8.6 → v5.9.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.8.4 → v5.8.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +18 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.8.0 → v5.8.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +36 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +18 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 5,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +18 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.25 → 4.90 (improved 0.65★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$8.9K/mo · rating +0.65★ · reviews +530 high confidence
2019-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$212/mo · reviews +13 high confidence
2019-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$194/mo · reviews +12 high confidence
2019-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$190/mo · reviews +12 high confidence
2019-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$365/mo · reviews +23 high confidence
2018-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$272/mo · rating +0.07★ · reviews +17 high confidence
2018-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$317/mo · rating +0.08★ · reviews +20 high confidence
2018-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$317/mo · rating +0.08★ · reviews +20 low · multiple changes
2018-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.00 (improved 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$317/mo · rating +0.08★ · reviews +20 low · multiple changes
2018-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$317/mo · rating +0.08★ · reviews +20 low · multiple changes
2018-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$317/mo · rating +0.08★ · reviews +20 low · multiple changes
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 100 reviews across 2 markets● 87% positive · ● 7% neutral · ● 6% negative · Rating drift: -0.61★ (declining — recent 50: 4.18★ vs lifetime: 4.79★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.74
🇨🇦 CA
+0.64
Top praise themes
filters amazing ×3 filters free ×3 phone photos ×3 free filters ×3 edit photos ×3 awesome filters ×3 highly recommend ×3 film ×28
Top complaint themes
subscription ×9 now ×4 update ×4 save ×3 purchase ×3 pro ×3 paid ×3 only ×3
Risk signals
Subscription complaints: 8%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.79406★ | 1,044 | 4.79406★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.83866★ | 2,281 | 4.83866★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.76696★ | 1,253 | 4.76696★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.64372★ | 988 | 4.64372★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.74924★ | 981 | 4.74924★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.76536★ | 1,530 | 4.76536★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.63056★ | 720 | 4.63056★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.6254★ | 622 | 4.6254★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78713★ | 9,062 | 4.78713★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for RNI Films: Photo & RAW Editor: 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: 9,021 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does RNI Films make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, RNI Films earns approximately $5.0K/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 RNI Films profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $5.0K, RNI Films looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.7 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does RNI Films have?▴
Estimated audience: ~880K lifetime downloads, ~71K monthly active users, and ~21K 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 RNI Films?▴
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What is RNI Films built with?▴
Our heuristic places RNI Films on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is RNI Films still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 15 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would RNI Films sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 21× 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 RNI Films last updated?▴
RNI Films last shipped a new version on 2026-09-11 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes RNI Films?▴
RNI Films is published by RNI 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 RNI Films's BU Score?▴
RNI Films has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.