Camera M - Pro Manual Camera
66
Quality Score
Solid
Camera M - Pro Manual Camera
by bxb
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Camera M - Pro Manual Camera is an iOS app from bxb in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.5★ across 1,410 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 66: Solid (established niche player). For a Photo & Video app, that means established niche player. 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
$8.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$8.3K – $17.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$10.3K – $31.0K
per month
MID tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
70 snapshots on record
Rating
4.5
Reviews
1,410 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$8.1K
Snapshots tracked
70
since Nov 2017
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.4y 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 |
| ⚙ 9.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$55K |
Total estimate
$135K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $200K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~1.1× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅 9.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
135K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
13K
Daily active
4.0K
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 |
| 📅 9.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 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 | 29 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
30%
Last shipped 2026-06-04 · 122 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
| 📅 4 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$8.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$7.6K – $12.7K
12 months
$8.3K – $17.5K
24 months
$10.3K – $31.0K
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
Below median · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.3
Product Quality
8.2
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.3
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $5K - $12K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.54★ across 1,410 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $144K-$257K.
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($7.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,410 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Localized (5 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 · v9.3.1
BUG FIXES
- Resolved an issue where RAW format was incorrectly appearing in the quick access menu for 2× and 8× cameras, which could cause the app to crash.
- Fixed an issue with the EXIF viewer where the map and compass marker weren't displaying as expected.
WHAT'S NEW… Full release notes →
- Resolved an issue where RAW format was incorrectly appearing in the quick access menu for 2× and 8× cameras, which could cause the app to crash.
- Fixed an issue with the EXIF viewer where the map and compass marker weren't displaying as expected.
WHAT'S NEW… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Camera M - Pro Manual Camera
- Developer
- bxb
- Bundle ID
- com.bxb.camera-m
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, DE, JA, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- www.camera-m.com
- Tagline
- Camera М
- Description
- Looking for the best pro manual camera app for iPhone and iPad? Camera M is a beautiful designed camera with powerful controls similar to a DSLR camera. Now updated with iOS 26 Liquid Glass design for iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro.
- 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
- $8.1K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/CameraMApp · instagram instagram.com/cameramapp · twitter twitter.com/CameraMApp · youtube youtube.com/@CameraM
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- camera-m.com/support
- About page
- camera-m.com/about
📈Ratings growth1,409 ratings+2898% 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $7.99 (+0%)
🚀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
Camera M is a professional manual camera app designed to do one thing exceptionally well — help you capture beautiful photos at the highest possible quality with powerful, precise manual controls akin to a DSLR.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Fluid gesture-based native manual controls with Fine-Tuning feature
• iOS 26 optimization with Liquid Glass design
• Zero-process RAW support for the most natural look
• Max Image Processing to ensure the absolute best image quality
• ProRAW*, RAW, HEIF, JPEG, TIFF, and PNG image formats
• Single, Burst, Timer, Live, Depth*, Dual Photo*, and Bracket shooting modes… View full description on the official store →
HIGHLIGHTS
• Fluid gesture-based native manual controls with Fine-Tuning feature
• iOS 26 optimization with Liquid Glass design
• Zero-process RAW support for the most natural look
• Max Image Processing to ensure the absolute best image quality
• ProRAW*, RAW, HEIF, JPEG, TIFF, and PNG image formats
• Single, Burst, Timer, Live, Depth*, Dual Photo*, and Bracket shooting modes… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 29 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16+🔖 v9.3.1🔄 updated 4mo ago🌐 EN, DE, JA, ZH, ES📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
18 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 →
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v9.3 → v9.3.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +26 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.03 → 4.54 (improved 0.51★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 high confidence
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $7.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 4.03 (dropped 0.37★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.02 → 4.40 (improved 0.38★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$76/mo · rating −0.06★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2018-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$147/mo · rating +0.15★ · reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2018-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$182/mo · rating +0.37★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2017-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.78 (dropped 1.22★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.22★ medium · co-occurring
2017-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.63 (dropped 0.37★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$141/mo · rating −1.00★ · reviews +9 low · multiple changes
2017-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.00 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$141/mo · rating −1.00★ · reviews +9 low · multiple changes
2017-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.60 (dropped 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$141/mo · rating −1.00★ · reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2017-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$107/mo · rating −1.22★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2017-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$107/mo · rating −1.22★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.54167★ | 48 | 4.54167★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.85714★ | 21 | 4.85714★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.46078★ | 102 | 4.46078★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.44369★ | 293 | 4.44369★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4★ | 33 | 4★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.38272★ | 81 | 4.38272★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.4074★ | 27 | 4.4074★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.39674★ | 184 | 4.39674★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.53573★ | 1,413 | 4.53573★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Camera M - Pro Manual Camera: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,410 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Camera M - Pro Manual Camera make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Camera M - Pro Manual Camera earns approximately $8.1K/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 Camera M - Pro Manual Camera profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $8.1K, Camera M - Pro Manual Camera looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Camera M - Pro Manual Camera have?▴
Estimated audience: ~135K lifetime downloads, ~13K monthly active users, and ~4K 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 Camera M - Pro Manual Camera?▴
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What is Camera M - Pro Manual Camera built with?▴
Our heuristic places Camera M - Pro Manual Camera 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 Camera M - Pro Manual Camera still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Camera M - Pro Manual Camera sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $150K (marketplace range $125K – $200K). Calculated as 19× 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 Camera M - Pro Manual Camera last updated?▴
Camera M - Pro Manual Camera last shipped a new version on 2026-06-04 — 4 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Camera M - Pro Manual Camera?▴
Camera M - Pro Manual Camera is published by bxb 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 Camera M - Pro Manual Camera's BU Score?▴
Camera M - Pro Manual Camera has a BU Score of 66/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.