Caption This - Video Subtitles
28
Quality Score
Niche
Caption This - Video Subtitles
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Caption This - Video Subtitles is an iOS app from Jonathan Brennecke in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 2.5★ across 4 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 28: 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
$736
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$643 – $2319
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$596 – $5366
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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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
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$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 |
Total estimate
$80K
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$736/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
$627 – $1.5K
12 months
$643 – $2.3K
24 months
$596 – $5.4K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 31/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
2.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.9
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $294 - $1840/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.5★ across 4 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 774d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (774d 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 = $13K-$23K.
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 7 of 7 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.5★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (4 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 · v2.0.24
Caption This version 2.0.24 updates the design of the home page.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Caption This - Video Subtitles
- Developer
- Jonathan Brennecke
- Bundle ID
- com.jonbrennecke.CaptionThis
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Hi, I’m Jon. 👋
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- Socials
- github github.com/jonbrennecke
- jpbrennecke@gmail.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth4 ratings+-60% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $2.99 (+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
Create subtitled videos with "Caption This." Turn your spoken words into video subtitles without the hassle of manual transcription.
Features:
CUSTOMIZATION
• Define your visual style with a range of fonts and style options
• Adjust animations, customize transitions, play with colors, and define font and paragraph styles for videos that truly stand out.
PRIVACY AT THE CORE
• Transcribe offline with peace of mind.
• Caption This respects your privacy by using Apple's secure speech recognition technology, keeping your personal data secure.
ONE-TIME PURCHASE
• No Subscriptions, Just Freedom… View full description on the official store →
Features:
CUSTOMIZATION
• Define your visual style with a range of fonts and style options
• Adjust animations, customize transitions, play with colors, and define font and paragraph styles for videos that truly stand out.
PRIVACY AT THE CORE
• Transcribe offline with peace of mind.
• Caption This respects your privacy by using Apple's secure speech recognition technology, keeping your personal data secure.
ONE-TIME PURCHASE
• No Subscriptions, Just Freedom… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 47 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2.0.24🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 1.72 → 1.00 (dropped 0.72★)
2020-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
2019-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — jonbrennecke.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.5★ | 4 | 2.5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 1.5★ | 2 | 1.5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 4 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Caption This - Video Subtitles is a very early-stage iOS app in the photo & video space with weak public traction — only 4 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
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Caption This - Video Subtitles make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Caption This - Video Subtitles has only 4 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$86/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 Caption This - Video Subtitles?▴
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Who makes Caption This - Video Subtitles?▴
Caption This - Video Subtitles is published by Jonathan Brennecke 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 Caption This - Video Subtitles's BU Score?▴
Caption This - Video Subtitles has a BU Score of 28/100 (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.