Lean - Clean up Live Photos
34
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Lean - Clean up Live Photos is an iOS app from Tiny Whale Pte. Ltd. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 1.9★ across 73 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 34: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Photo & Video app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
💡 Grow this revenue
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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
42 snapshots on record
Rating
1.9
Reviews
73 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
42
since Oct 2015
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.4y 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 |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 10.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$65K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| 📅 10.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 5 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2022-02-16 · 1690 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
| 📅 4y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (73 ratings) + 10.9y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 11y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
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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: rating drift may slow acquisition
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
Stalled · 38/100MID TIERno growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
1.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.93★ across 73 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1686d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (1686d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($21K/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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (1.9★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (73 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v1.9.1
- Fix a crash on iOS 15.2.
- Fix a bug with missing metadata.
- Fix a bug with missing metadata.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Lean - Clean up Live Photos
- Developer
- Tiny Whale Pte. Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- net.tinywhale.lean
- 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 growth73 ratings+1117% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+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
Lean helps you save space on your iPhone by cleaning up your unwanted Live Photos, making them normal photos (or Feature Photos as @siracusa put it).
Think of landscape photos, which most of the time are with very little movement. Even if you go to Photos app and mark it as non-Live Photo, it doesn't really remove anything (you can revert back anytime). That fills up your precious space, especially for those of your who are on 16GB iPhone. So Lean is a really simple that does exactly that, remove the "Live" part out of Live Photos.… View full description on the official store →
Think of landscape photos, which most of the time are with very little movement. Even if you go to Photos app and mark it as non-Live Photo, it doesn't really remove anything (you can revert back anytime). That fills up your precious space, especially for those of your who are on 16GB iPhone. So Lean is a really simple that does exactly that, remove the "Live" part out of Live Photos.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 5 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v1.9.1🔄 updated 4y ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Free🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
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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
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.70 → 1.93 (dropped 0.77★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.98 → 2.70 (improved 0.72★)
2022-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.44 → 3.92 (dropped 0.52★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ high confidence
2015-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ high confidence
2015-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.52★ high confidence
2015-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.44 → 4.10 (dropped 0.34★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.52★ high confidence
2015-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ medium · co-occurring
2015-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ medium · co-occurring
2015-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1.875★ | 16 | 1.875★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1★ | 5 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1.61538★ | 13 | 1.61538★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.66667★ | 18 | 2.66667★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 1.42857★ | 7 | 1.42857★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.04348★ | 23 | 2.04348★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1.82353★ | 17 | 1.82353★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 1.93151★ | 73 | 1.93151★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 98% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 73 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Lean - Clean up Live Photos make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Lean - Clean up Live Photos 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 Lean - Clean up Live Photos profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Lean - Clean up Live Photos looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Lean - Clean up Live Photos?▴
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What is Lean - Clean up Live Photos built with?▴
Our heuristic places Lean - Clean up Live Photos on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is Lean - Clean up Live Photos still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Lean - Clean up Live Photos sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 14× 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 Lean - Clean up Live Photos last updated?▴
Lean - Clean up Live Photos last shipped a new version on 2022-02-16 — more than 4 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Lean - Clean up Live Photos?▴
Lean - Clean up Live Photos is published by Tiny Whale Pte. Ltd. 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 Lean - Clean up Live Photos's BU Score?▴
Lean - Clean up Live Photos has a BU Score of 34/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.