How much does Picture Insect make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Picture Insect earns approximately $700K/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 Picture Insect profitable?

With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $700K, Picture Insect looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Picture Insect have?

Estimated audience: ~2.5M lifetime downloads, ~295K monthly active users, and ~88K 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 Picture Insect?

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What is Picture Insect built with?

Our heuristic places Picture Insect on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.

Is Picture Insect still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Picture Insect sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $14.5M (marketplace range $11.0M – $19.0M). Calculated as 21× 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 Picture Insect last updated?

Picture Insect last shipped a new version on 2026-01-15 — 8 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Picture Insect?

Picture Insect is published by Next Vision Limited 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 Picture Insect's BU Score?

Picture Insect has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.

Picture Insect: Bug Identifier

Quality Score

Strong

Picture Insect: Bug Identifier

Name: Picture Insect: Bug Identifier — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Picture Insect: Bug Identifier revenue, Picture Insect: Bug Identifier app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Education revenue, iOS app revenue

by Next Vision Limited

High confidence

4.6 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Picture Insect: Bug Identifier is an iOS app from Next Vision Limited in the Education category, currently rated 4.6★ across 41,541 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.

Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Education 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

$700K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$741K – $1141K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$886K – $1645K

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

6 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.6

Reviews

41,541 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$700K

Snapshots tracked

since Mar 2026

🤖Also on Android

Picture Insect: Bug Identifier

—/mo · 39K ratings · 4.3★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$155K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $115K – $210K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in under a month 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
📦 Asset bundle (158 MB)	+$40K
⚙ Education complexity ×1.20	+$18K
⚙ 7.4y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$44K

Total estimate $155K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$14.5M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $11.0M – $19.0M · 21× MRR multiple

💸 ~94× return on build cost

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
📅 7.4y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷 Education category multiple	+6%

Final multiple 21× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

2.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

295K

Daily active

88K

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

📲 Education engagement	~85 installs / rating
📅 7.4y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Education D30 retention	18%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.30

DAU / MAU 30% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

Medium confidence · 60%

Also possible

React Native 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	158 MB
🏷 Category context	Education
📦 Mid-large iOS bundle	→ Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

50%

Last shipped 2026-01-15 · 254 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

📅 8 months since last update

Concerning gap

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$690K – $933K

12 months

$741K – $1.1M

24 months

$886K – $1.6M

Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 59/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

7.9

Product Quality

9.3

Revenue Strength

5.8

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

6.8

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

9.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.64★ across 41,541 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 248d ago — slow cadence.
⚠️ Risk: Low — 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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 8 of 8 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Mid install base (41,541 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
subscriptionREVIEW		+$2,500
premiumREVIEW		+$2,200
Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC		+$2,200
Multilingual (13 languages)METRIC		+$1,500
free trialREVIEW		+$1,200
Established app (7y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v2.21.1

A few minor bugs have been fixed for smoother user experience.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Picture Insect: Bug Identifier
Developer: Next Vision Limited
Bundle ID: cn.danatech.pictureInsect
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Education
Content rating: 4+
Languages: AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, 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: $700K/mo
Top-grossing rank: 🇺🇸#44 /100 🇩🇪#64 /100 🇨🇦#87 /100 🇫🇷#88 /100 🇬🇧#96 /100
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.

🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank5 countries

🇺🇸US

#44 /100

🇩🇪DE

#64 /100

🇨🇦CA

#87 /100

🇫🇷FR

#88 /100

🇬🇧GB

#96 /100

📊Category Rank Trajectory#44 now · best #44 · worst #46

Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart

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

Picture insect is an easy-to-use insect identifier tool that utilizes AI technology. Simply take a photo of an insect or upload one from your phone gallery, and the app will tell you all about it in a second.

Got bitten by an unknown insect but not sure about its toxicity?  Wonder the name of the moth you got in your mothing activity? Found pests in your home garden and want to find solutions to get rid of them?

Open the Picture Insect app and point your phone camera toward the insect/pest, and you will have your puzzles solved.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 158 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.21.1🔄 updated 8mo ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, DE +8📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)

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Multi-Country Performance

Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.31862★	1,337	4.31862★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	4.75535★	887	4.75535★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.48556★	3,427	4.48556★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.54943★	4,763	4.54943★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.61162★	3,270	4.61162★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.5616★	4,010	4.5616★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.21934★	4,240	4.21934★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.64668★	44,422	4.64668★ this version

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