PersoPhoto
43
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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PersoPhoto is an iOS app from Andre Kosak in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 3.5★ across 47 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 43: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Photo & Video app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$4.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.5K – $12.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$3.3K – $29.5K
per month
INDIE tier
💡 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
44 snapshots on record
Rating
3.5
Reviews
47 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$4.0K
Snapshots tracked
44
since Nov 2018
🤖Also on Android
—/mo · no ratings
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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
📈
Pays back in ~2.6y 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 |
| ⚙ 8.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$48K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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 |
| 📅 8.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
🛠 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 | 42 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2026-02-11 · 231 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
| 📅 7 months since last update | Concerning gap |
| 👥 Small user base (47 ratings) + 8.2y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$4.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$3.4K – $8.0K
12 months
$3.5K – $12.7K
24 months
$3.3K – $29.5K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 38/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
3.6
Product Quality
2.8
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.5
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
3.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $10K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.49★ across 47 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 231d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $72K-$129K.
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 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 (3.5★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Localized (6 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (47 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.
🆕 What's New · v2.0.1
Added extra app languages: de, fr, es, uk. We are now a multi-language family!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PersoPhoto
- Developer
- Andre Kosak
- Bundle ID
- com.ikosak.PersoPhoto
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, RU, ES, UK
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
- $4.0K/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 growth46 ratings+2200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 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 → $0.99 (+0%)
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
Skip the photo studio and save time and money. With Persophoto, you can create professional, biometric passport photos right from your phone — in just a few minutes.
Perfect for passports, ID cards, driver’s licenses, visas, applications, and health cards.
How it works — 3 simple steps:
1. Take a new photo or import one from your gallery.
2. Choose your required photo size (supported for all countries).
3. Adjust your photo using our guided editor and export a ready-to-print collage.
Print the generated 10×15 cm sheet and cut out multiple compliant photos yourself.… View full description on the official store →
Perfect for passports, ID cards, driver’s licenses, visas, applications, and health cards.
How it works — 3 simple steps:
1. Take a new photo or import one from your gallery.
2. Choose your required photo size (supported for all countries).
3. Adjust your photo using our guided editor and export a ready-to-print collage.
Print the generated 10×15 cm sheet and cut out multiple compliant photos yourself.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 42 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.0.1🔄 updated 7mo ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, RU, ES +1📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2018 (8y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.88 → 3.56 (dropped 0.32★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.26★ high confidence
2019-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.20 (dropped 0.80★)
2018-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.57447★ | 47 | 3.57447★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4★ | 7 | 4★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.46789★ | 218 | 3.46789★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.0606★ | 33 | 4.0606★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.875★ | 8 | 3.875★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 47 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PersoPhoto make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PersoPhoto earns approximately $4.0K/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 PersoPhoto profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $4.0K, PersoPhoto looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.6 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like PersoPhoto?▴
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What is PersoPhoto built with?▴
Our heuristic places PersoPhoto 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 PersoPhoto still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would PersoPhoto sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $50K (marketplace range $40K – $75K). Calculated as 14× 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 PersoPhoto last updated?▴
PersoPhoto last shipped a new version on 2026-02-11 — 7 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes PersoPhoto?▴
PersoPhoto is published by Andre Kosak 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 PersoPhoto's BU Score?▴
PersoPhoto has a BU Score of 43/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.