52
Quality Score
Solid
Shine -Sparkle Camera
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Shine -Sparkle Camera is an iOS app from 文杰 胡 in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.2★ across 109 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 52: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙7.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$47K |
Total estimate$125K
👥 Estimated audience size
10K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.2K
Daily active
360
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 |
| 📅7.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 32 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2019-02-20 · 2651 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅7y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥Small user base (109 ratings) + 7.9y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictLikely 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)
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 39/100MID TIERno growth momentumRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
5.9
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.2★ across 109 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2651d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2651d since update).
🎯 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.
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 4 of 4 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 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (109 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 →💾 32 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v1.3.0🔄 updated 7y ago🌐 EN, JA, ZH, ZH📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2018 (7y old)
📝 About this app
Shine offers No.1 kirakira styles, features exclusively.It's 100% a high value filter app.No worry for issues you have ever experienced.
【Features】
◆ 20+ sparkle effects designed for shooting specific objects including jewelry, cloth, food, sea, sky etc.
◆ Effects can be edited for various combinations of sparkle's amount, color, size, motion and sensitivity.
◆ Support adding and masking sparkles manually.
◆ 30+ color filters and face beauty option.
◆ Live filtering video and photo.
◆ Filtering video and photo from Album.
◆ Easy conversion between photo, live photo and video.… View full description on the official store →
【Features】
◆ 20+ sparkle effects designed for shooting specific objects including jewelry, cloth, food, sea, sky etc.
◆ Effects can be edited for various combinations of sparkle's amount, color, size, motion and sensitivity.
◆ Support adding and masking sparkles manually.
◆ 30+ color filters and face beauty option.
◆ Live filtering video and photo.
◆ Filtering video and photo from Album.
◆ Easy conversion between photo, live photo and video.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.3.0
◆ New IAP filter pack " Japan" includes 8 exclusive japanese style scene filters.
Station: Aqua Theme
Sakura: Pink Theme
Theme Park: Skin Theme
Countyard: Brown Theme
Temple: Red Theme
Pub: Orange Theme
Street: Blue Theme
Metropolis: Cyperpunk Theme… Full release notes →
Station: Aqua Theme
Sakura: Pink Theme
Theme Park: Skin Theme
Countyard: Brown Theme
Temple: Red Theme
Pub: Orange Theme
Street: Blue Theme
Metropolis: Cyperpunk Theme… Full release notes →
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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 →
2018-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2018-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.20183★ | 109 | 4.20183★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.66667★ | 9 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4★ | 5 | 4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.7★ | 20 | 3.7★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5★ | 4 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2★ | 2 | 2★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Shine -Sparkle Camera
- Developer
- 文杰 胡
- Bundle ID
- com.dreapp.shine
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, JA, ZH, ZH
Company
- Website
- shine.dreapp.com
- Tagline
- Shine App Store User Reviews
- Description
- Shine is an innovative photo and video filter app that adds sparkle and shine effects to your media.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- 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
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 growth109 ratings+10800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (24 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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 Shine -Sparkle 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: 109 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Shine -Sparkle Camera make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Shine -Sparkle Camera earns approximately $86/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 Shine -Sparkle Camera profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $86, Shine -Sparkle Camera looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Shine -Sparkle Camera have?▴
Estimated audience: ~10K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~360 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 Shine -Sparkle Camera?▴
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 Shine -Sparkle Camera built with?▴
Our heuristic places Shine -Sparkle Camera on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Shine -Sparkle Camera still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Shine -Sparkle Camera last updated?▴
Shine -Sparkle Camera last shipped a new version on 2019-02-20 — more than 7 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Shine -Sparkle Camera?▴
Shine -Sparkle Camera is published by 文杰 胡 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 Shine -Sparkle Camera's BU Score?▴
Shine -Sparkle Camera has a BU Score of 52/100 (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.