35
BU Score
Emerging
Polca - Retro Camera
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Polca - Retro Camera is an iOS app from ThirtyFive Inc. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 3.0★ across 11 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 35: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Photo & Video app, that means early traction worth watching.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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 5 of 5 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 | |
| Below-average rating (3.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (11 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 20 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v3.0🔄 updated 6y ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (8y old)
📝 About this app
Polca is an easy and fun retro camera application.
You can obtain various film photos by 3 stage scene mode.
Pressing shutter for a short time, it is basic scene mode of Polca.
If you press it a bit longer and let go of the shutter when the 1st stage lamp is turned on, you can make photos with various light leak effect.
And you can make photos with weak damage effect in the 2nd stage lamp, and strong damage effect like coffee stains in the 3rd stage lamp.
If you turn on the Date switch in the lower right-hand corner, the date will be marked.… View full description on the official store →
You can obtain various film photos by 3 stage scene mode.
Pressing shutter for a short time, it is basic scene mode of Polca.
If you press it a bit longer and let go of the shutter when the 1st stage lamp is turned on, you can make photos with various light leak effect.
And you can make photos with weak damage effect in the 2nd stage lamp, and strong damage effect like coffee stains in the 3rd stage lamp.
If you turn on the Date switch in the lower right-hand corner, the date will be marked.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v3.0
Optimized for iOS 13
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Polca - Retro Camera
- Developer
- ThirtyFive Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.3hirty5ive.Polca
- 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
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- Employees
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- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Photo & Video
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
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- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
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Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
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- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
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- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1781301520
⭐Recent App Store Reviews4 latest · avg 2.75★ · 25.0% 5★ · 50.0% 1★
5★1 (25%)
4★1 (25%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★2 (50%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: love ×2 great ×1 recommend ×1
Top positive
★☆☆☆☆ don’t pay for this
waste of money do not buy. it’s the most basic app that only lets you put a filter on if you take the picture using the app you can’t upload any pictures from your camera roll. would not recommend…
★★★★☆ Lovely App
I wish I could edit photos that are on my camera roll! Besides that A+ app!…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Waste of data to even bother downloading
I’m sorry but your app is beyond pointless. If someone is looking to take pics with an app that has a somewhat interesting, retro user interface then that’s about all that it’s good for. No choice of filters, no way to apply filters to othe…
★☆☆☆☆ don’t pay for this
waste of money do not buy. it’s the most basic app that only lets you put a filter on if you take the picture using the app you can’t upload any pictures from your camera roll. would not recommend…
📈Ratings growth11 ratings+1000% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (6 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Polca - Retro Camera: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.