FILCA - Film Camera Filter
24
Quality Score
Niche
FILCA - Film Camera Filter
by Suhyung Park
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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FILCA - Film Camera Filter is an iOS app from Suhyung Park in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 2.0★ across 7 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 24: Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a Photo & Video app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage. 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
$1.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$947 – $3413
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$877 – $7895
per month
INDIE tier
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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
10 snapshots on record
Rating
2.0
Reviews
7 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.1K
Snapshots tracked
10
since Nov 2018
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
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 📅 7.9y 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)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 13 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2018-12-28 · 2828 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
| 📅 7y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (7 ratings) + 7.9y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.1K/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
$922 – $2.2K
12 months
$947 – $3.4K
24 months
$877 – $7.9K
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 · 31/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
1.6
Revenue Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $433 - $2708/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.0★ across 7 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2822d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2822d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $19K-$34K.
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 ($0.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (7 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 · v1.16
Improved UI. Added color adjust function.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FILCA - Film Camera Filter
- Developer
- Suhyung Park
- Bundle ID
- com.filcaapps.FILCA
- 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
- 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
- $1.1K/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 growth7 ratings+600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (10 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
FILCA, just like film camera.
FILCA lets you fill your Analog mood through various image editing tools.
FILCA is an app including 35mm film camera mood, which has been developed excluding all the unnecessary and complex tools, simplifying the design for a better user-friendly experience.
· Editing tools
Exposure / Contrast / Highlight / Shadow / Saturation / Temperature, etc. The image editing is facilitated thanks to the different available tools.… View full description on the official store →
FILCA lets you fill your Analog mood through various image editing tools.
FILCA is an app including 35mm film camera mood, which has been developed excluding all the unnecessary and complex tools, simplifying the design for a better user-friendly experience.
· Editing tools
Exposure / Contrast / Highlight / Shadow / Saturation / Temperature, etc. The image editing is facilitated thanks to the different available tools.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 13 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v1.16🔄 updated 7y ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2018 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2026-06
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.60 → 2.00 (improved 0.40★)
2019-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.08★ high confidence
2018-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2★ | 2 | 2★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 1.5★ | 2 | 1.5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2★ | 5 | 2★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 2★ | 7 | 2★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 7 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
FILCA - Film Camera Filter is a early-stage iOS app in the photo & video space with weak public traction — only 7 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FILCA - Film Camera Filter make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. FILCA - Film Camera Filter has only 7 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$1.1K/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like FILCA - Film Camera Filter?▴
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What is FILCA - Film Camera Filter built with?▴
Our heuristic places FILCA - Film Camera Filter on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is FILCA - Film Camera Filter 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 FILCA - Film Camera Filter last updated?▴
FILCA - Film Camera Filter last shipped a new version on 2018-12-28 — more than 7 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes FILCA - Film Camera Filter?▴
FILCA - Film Camera Filter is published by Suhyung Park 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 FILCA - Film Camera Filter's BU Score?▴
FILCA - Film Camera Filter has a BU Score of 24/100 (Niche). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.