Focos
76
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Focos is an iOS app from Mosaic S.r.l. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 51,400 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 76: 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
$900K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$953K – $1467K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.1M – $2.1M
per month
BIG tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
102 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
51,400 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$900K
Snapshots tracked
102
since Nov 2022
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$195K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $145K – $265K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a 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 (332 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
| ⚙ 8.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$53K |
Total estimate
$195K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$18.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $14.0M – $24.0M · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~95× 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 |
| 📅 8.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
5.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
525K
Daily active
155K
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 |
| 📅 8.9y 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)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
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 | 332 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2026-03-26 · 182 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
| 📅 6 months since last update | Concerning gap |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$900K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$887K – $1.2M
12 months
$953K – $1.5M
24 months
$1.1M – $2.1M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 66/100BIG TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
6.0
Product Quality
7.9
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
9.7
Operational Safety
4.2
Founder Strength
8.3
Monetization Maturity
9.5
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $360K - $1980K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 51,400 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 182d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — 14% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -1.86 ★ (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 12-22× monthly = $10.8M-$19.8M. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (51,400 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (34 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$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 · v2.11.38
Hello creators!
We are glad you enjoy using our app to make your photos even greater! To let you enjoy the app even more, we needed to fix some minor bugs, and.. that's what we have diligently done!
We are glad you enjoy using our app to make your photos even greater! To let you enjoy the app even more, we needed to fix some minor bugs, and.. that's what we have diligently done!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Focos
- Developer
- Mosaic S.r.l.
- Bundle ID
- com.focos
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BG, CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SL, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, 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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $900K/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 growth51,396 ratings+11398% 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.
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
Focos is a big step into the future of computational photography and light-field camera, bringing DSLR-like photography to your iPhone and iPad Pro, with beautiful bokeh effects usually achievable only with professional large aperture cameras. With the technology of computational photography, you can make unlimited changes to your photos, focus after the fact, change the aperture repeatedly, and add multiple lights in 3D space, exceeding the limits of any editing tools you’ve known before. The creative potential unleashed by Focos is endless.
The Verge,… View full description on the official store →
The Verge,… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 332 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v2.11.38🔄 updated 6mo ago🌐 AR, BG, CA, CS, DA +29📂 Photo & Video💰 Free🚀 Launched 2017 (8y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
20 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 ↑ 2.68 → 4.72 (improved 2.04★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +10 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +10 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.60 → 2.68 (dropped 1.92★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.92★ · reviews −50,879 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.68 → 4.60 (improved 1.92★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.92★ · reviews −50,879 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −1.92★ · reviews −50,879 medium · co-occurring
2023-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.17★ · reviews +46 medium · co-occurring
2023-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.36★ · reviews +70 medium · co-occurring
2023-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +23 high confidence
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.18 → 2.87 (dropped 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +23 high confidence
2023-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.31★ · reviews +40 high confidence
2022-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.31★ · reviews +17 high confidence
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.18 (dropped 0.49★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.31★ · reviews +17 high confidence
2022-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.49★ · reviews +35 low · multiple changes
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.29 (dropped 0.38★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.49★ · reviews +35 low · multiple changes
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.40 (dropped 0.60★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.49★ · reviews +35 low · multiple changes
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.49★ · reviews +35 low · multiple changes
2022-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.49★ · reviews +35 low · multiple changes
2022-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.49★ · reviews +35 low · multiple changes
2022-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.49★ · reviews +35 low · multiple changes
2022-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.49★ · reviews +35 low · multiple changes
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 650 reviews across 7 markets● 52% positive · ● 25% neutral · ● 23% negative · Rating drift: -1.86★ (declining — recent 50: 2.86★ vs lifetime: 4.72★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.32
🇮🇳 IN
+0.23
🇬🇧 GB
+0.22
🇨🇦 CA
+0.22
🇫🇷 FR
+0.10
🇯🇵 JP
+0.01
🇩🇪 DE
-0.28
Top praise themes
iphone pro ×5 highly recommended ×5 depth field ×5 pro max ×4 post processing ×4 background blur ×4 portrait mode ×4 muy buena ×3
Top complaint themes
free version ×25 free trial ×18 free now ×17 nicht mehr ×15 free anymore ×14 features free ×11 behind paywall ×11 without paying ×10
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.9% Subscription complaints: 14% Fraud / scam mentions: 2.6%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.72234★ | 51,400 | 4.72234★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.60952★ | 5,588 | 4.60952★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.60752★ | 7,575 | 4.60752★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.61734★ | 7,095 | 4.61734★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.64175★ | 20,391 | 4.64175★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.63701★ | 3,452 | 4.63701★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.69231★ | 2,743 | 4.69231★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.82602★ | 55,604 | 4.82602★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.60661★ | 21,831 | 4.60661★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Focos: 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 high confidence: 51,400 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Focos make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Focos earns approximately $900K/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 Focos profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $195K and monthly revenue $900K, Focos looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Focos have?▴
Estimated audience: ~5.0M lifetime downloads, ~525K monthly active users, and ~155K 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 Focos?▴
Browse the full Photo & Video category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Focos built with?▴
Our heuristic places Focos on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Focos still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Focos sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $18.5M (marketplace range $14.0M – $24.0M). 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 Focos last updated?▴
Focos last shipped a new version on 2026-03-26 — 6 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Focos?▴
Focos is published by Mosaic S.r.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 Focos's BU Score?▴
Focos has a BU Score of 76/100 (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.