Journi Print: Fotobuch
73
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Journi Print: Fotobuch is an iOS app from Journi GmbH in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.8★ across 9,223 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: 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 tierFREE
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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
180 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
9,223 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
180
since May 2018
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$170K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $230K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.8y 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 (121 MB) | +$28K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$43K |
| ⚙ 8.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$49K |
Total estimate
$170K
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 |
| 📅 8.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
900K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
100K
Daily active
30K
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 |
| 📅 8.3y 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 · 60%
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 | 121 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-11 · 18 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
| 📅 18 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)
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
Below median · 45/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
7.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
5.6
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
6.8
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.84★ across 9,223 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.46 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($36K/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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (9,223 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (18 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 · v8.9.1
Introducing:
- New design to edit your photo book much faster
- Pick your favorite title color
- Wall Calendar: Pick your favorite background color
- Performance Improvements
- Minor issues fixed
Tell us and other users if you like this version by writing a review in the store.
- New design to edit your photo book much faster
- Pick your favorite title color
- Wall Calendar: Pick your favorite background color
- Performance Improvements
- Minor issues fixed
Tell us and other users if you like this version by writing a review in the store.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Journi Print: Fotobuch
- Developer
- Journi GmbH
- Bundle ID
- com.journiapp.book
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, HU, IT, NB, PL, PT, RU, SK, SL, ES, SV
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 growth11,781 ratings+4168% 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
Journi Print is like hiring a designer! It designs a photo book in seconds exactly the way you would have done. Our smart algorithm can find the best layouts for 1200 photos in just 34 seconds. Save time and money and start your photo book today because you already did the work when you took the photos.
▶ HOW IT WORKS
▻ Choose your photo source: iPhone/iPad, iCloud, Google Photos, Facebook or Instagram
▻ Select a suggested album or hand-pick your photos.
▻ BOOM! In just a few seconds your photo book is ready for print!
▶ FAST & EASY… View full description on the official store →
▶ HOW IT WORKS
▻ Choose your photo source: iPhone/iPad, iCloud, Google Photos, Facebook or Instagram
▻ Select a suggested album or hand-pick your photos.
▻ BOOM! In just a few seconds your photo book is ready for print!
▶ FAST & EASY… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 121 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v8.9.1🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 HR, CS, DA, NL, EN +13📂 Photo & Video💰 Free🚀 Launched 2018 (8y 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 — v8.5.0 → v8.9.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +617 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v8.2.1 → v8.5.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,373 high confidence
2026-07
📈
Crossed 10,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +756 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.0.0 → v8.2.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,554 low · multiple changes
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 6 of 7 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +798 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v7.17.1 → v8.0.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,323 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +525 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.21 → 4.84 (improved 0.63★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +525 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 4.21 (dropped 0.49★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.21 → 4.70 (improved 0.49★)
2024-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +13 low · multiple changes
2023-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.09★ high confidence
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.20 → 3.83 (dropped 0.37★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.20★ medium · co-occurring
2019-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.20 (dropped 0.80★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.20★ medium · co-occurring
2019-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.80★ medium · co-occurring
2018-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
6 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
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2 ver.
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2026-06-12
Slot 2
2 ver.
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Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
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2026-06-12
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
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Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
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Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
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2026-06-12
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Voice of Customer
Based on 462 reviews across 4 markets● 75% positive · ● 10% neutral · ● 15% negative · Rating drift: -0.46★ (declining — recent 50: 4.38★ vs lifetime: 4.84★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.72
🇺🇸 US
+0.57
🇫🇷 FR
+0.15
🇯🇵 JP
+0.00
Top praise themes
photo book ×69 photo books ×22 highly recommend ×19 user friendly ×17 first book ×12 customer service ×11 book easy ×10 très facile ×9
Top complaint themes
customer service ×18 photo book ×14 photo books ×6 phone number ×4 shared albums ×4 something else ×3 poor quality ×3 credit card ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.1% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.7%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.82484★ | 4,185 | 4.82484★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.75★ | 52 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.75758★ | 825 | 4.75758★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.7264★ | 27,621 | 4.7264★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.73639★ | 15,371 | 4.73639★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.78853★ | 3,329 | 4.78853★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 11 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 12 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84463★ | 11,894 | 4.84463★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Journi Print: Fotobuch: 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: 9,223 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Journi Print make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Journi Print 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 Journi Print profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Journi Print looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Journi Print have?▴
Estimated audience: ~900K lifetime downloads, ~100K monthly active users, and ~30K 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 Journi Print?▴
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 Journi Print built with?▴
Our heuristic places Journi Print on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Journi Print still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 18 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Journi Print 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 Journi Print last updated?▴
Journi Print 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 Journi Print?▴
Journi Print is published by Journi GmbH 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 Journi Print's BU Score?▴
Journi Print has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.