Spectre Kamera
70
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Spectre Kamera is an iOS app from Lux Optics Incorporated in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.3★ across 2,391 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 70: 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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
73 snapshots on record
Rating
4.3
Reviews
2,391 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
73
since Feb 2019
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 ~2.1y 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 |
| ⚙ 7.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$45K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| 📅 7.6y proven track record | +20% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
230K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
27K
Daily active
8.2K
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 |
| 📅 7.6y 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)
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 | 12 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-10 · 19 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
| 📅 19 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
Stalled · 37/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.6
Product Quality
6.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
5.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.34★ across 2,391 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 367d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 4.7% refund mentions, scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm.
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($76K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| machine learningREVIEW | +$3,500 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (2,391 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$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 · v1.5.6
A recent iOS update broke Spectre, so we've released this update to fix things. We've also improved purchase validation when offline. If you're ever running into problems, please let us know at support@lux.camera, where each and every message is read by a person.
- Team Spectre
- Team Spectre
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Spectre Kamera
- Developer
- Lux Optics Incorporated
- Bundle ID
- com.chromanoir.spectre
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
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 growth2,408 ratings+929% 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 Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Apple iPhone App of the Year, 2019
Introducing Spectre, from the makers of Halide, one of the top camera apps in the App Store.
Spectre uses AI to help you make amazing long exposure photographs. Spectre can remove crowds, turn city streets into rivers of light, make waterfalls look like paintings, and much more. Until now, it was difficult to take long exposures: from keeping the camera steady to guessing the amount of light you need. Spectre takes care of all of that!
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• MAKE CROWDS DISAPPEAR: Spectre helps take photos of crowded, touristy places.… View full description on the official store →
Introducing Spectre, from the makers of Halide, one of the top camera apps in the App Store.
Spectre uses AI to help you make amazing long exposure photographs. Spectre can remove crowds, turn city streets into rivers of light, make waterfalls look like paintings, and much more. Until now, it was difficult to take long exposures: from keeping the camera steady to guessing the amount of light you need. Spectre takes care of all of that!
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• MAKE CROWDS DISAPPEAR: Spectre helps take photos of crowded, touristy places.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 12 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.5.6🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +5📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.64 → 4.20 (improved 1.56★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.1K/mo · rating +1.56★ · reviews +498 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.1K/mo · rating +1.56★ · reviews +498 high confidence
2019-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2019-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$761/mo · rating −0.16★ · reviews +115 low · multiple changes
2019-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$761/mo · rating −0.16★ · reviews +115 low · multiple changes
2019-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$761/mo · rating −0.16★ · reviews +115 medium · co-occurring
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$761/mo · rating −0.16★ · reviews +115 medium · co-occurring
2019-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$761/mo · rating −0.16★ · reviews +115 medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 639 reviews across 9 markets● 53% positive · ● 16% neutral · ● 30% negative · Rating drift: -1.82★ (declining — recent 50: 2.52★ vs lifetime: 4.34★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.36
🇺🇸 US
+0.28
🇨🇦 CA
+0.24
🇫🇷 FR
+0.21
🇮🇳 IN
+0.21
🇦🇺 AU
+0.15
🇧🇷 BR
+0.08
🇯🇵 JP
+0.04
🇩🇪 DE
-0.14
Top praise themes
long exposure ×33 long exposures ×21 light trails ×11 low light ×9 slow shutter ×8 live photo ×7 without tripod ×6 iphone pro ×6
Top complaint themes
long exposure ×36 waste money ×29 doesn work ×20 iphone pro ×18 blurry photos ×14 picture blurry ×12 photos blurry ×11 pro max ×10
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 4.7% Bug mentions: 5% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.6%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.25★ | 220 | 4.25★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.78723★ | 94 | 3.78723★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.15225★ | 289 | 4.15225★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.12832★ | 865 | 4.12832★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.24324★ | 222 | 4.24324★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.16805★ | 482 | 4.16805★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.24409★ | 127 | 4.24409★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.17978★ | 178 | 4.17978★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.32724★ | 2,408 | 4.32724★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Spectre Kamera: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 98% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 2,391 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Spectre Kamera make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Spectre Kamera 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 Spectre Kamera profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Spectre Kamera looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.1 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Spectre Kamera have?▴
Estimated audience: ~230K lifetime downloads, ~27K monthly active users, and ~8K 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 Spectre Kamera?▴
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What is Spectre Kamera built with?▴
Our heuristic places Spectre Kamera 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 Spectre Kamera still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 19 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Spectre Kamera sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 18× 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 Spectre Kamera last updated?▴
Spectre Kamera last shipped a new version on 2026-09-10 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Spectre Kamera?▴
Spectre Kamera is published by Lux Optics Incorporated 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 Spectre Kamera's BU Score?▴
Spectre Kamera has a BU Score of 70/100 (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.