VicoHome
84
Quality Score
Excellent
VicoHome
by PHOTON SAIL TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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VicoHome is an iOS app from PHOTON SAIL TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.9★ across 107,134 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 84: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Utilities app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$655K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$694K – $1068K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$830K – $1541K
per month
BIG tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 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
312 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
107,134 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$655K
Snapshots tracked
312
since Feb 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$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 (267 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 7.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$42K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$13.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $9.5M – $16.5M · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~108× 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 |
| 📅 7.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
14.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.0M
Daily active
400K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅 7.1y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
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 | 267 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-07 · 18 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
| 📅 18 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$655K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$646K – $874K
12 months
$694K – $1.1M
24 months
$830K – $1.5M
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 60/100BIG TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
8.2
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
6.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.8
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $262K - $1442K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.86★ across 107,134 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — 10% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -2.74 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $11.8M-$21.0M.
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 15 of 16 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (107,134 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (21 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 |
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 · v4.5.0
This update includes bug fixes and performance improvements for a more stable and reliable experience.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- VicoHome
- Developer
- PHOTON SAIL TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
- Bundle ID
- addx.ai.vicoo
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CS, EN, FI, FR, DE, HE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $655K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#12 /100 🇺🇸#16 /100 🇫🇷#61 /100 🇬🇧#70 /100 🇦🇺#76 /100 🇧🇷#79 /100 🇩🇪#82 /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.
📈Ratings growth113,489 ratings+25289% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank7 countries
🇨🇦CA#12 /100
🇺🇸US#16 /100
🇫🇷FR#61 /100
🇬🇧GB#70 /100
🇦🇺AU#76 /100
🇧🇷BR#79 /100
🇩🇪DE#82 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#12 now · best #12 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Introducing VicoHome, the smart home camera app designed to bring peace of mind directly to your fingertips.
With VicoHome, effortlessly monitor your property from anywhere, anytime. Keep an eye on what matters with live video and greet visitors with Two-Way Talk. Receive instant notifications for any detected motion, so important moments never slip by unnoticed. With the convenience of multiple-user access, keeping your family in the loop has never been easier.
【VicoHome Awareness Service】
Elevate your security with the VicoHome Awareness Subscription to unlock next-level features:
1.… View full description on the official store →
With VicoHome, effortlessly monitor your property from anywhere, anytime. Keep an eye on what matters with live video and greet visitors with Two-Way Talk. Receive instant notifications for any detected motion, so important moments never slip by unnoticed. With the convenience of multiple-user access, keeping your family in the loop has never been easier.
【VicoHome Awareness Service】
Elevate your security with the VicoHome Awareness Subscription to unlock next-level features:
1.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 267 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v4.5.0🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 AR, CS, EN, FI, FR +16📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v4.3.0 → v4.5.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,215 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2.1 → v4.3.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,420 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2.0 → v4.2.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$18.4K/mo · reviews +1,622 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.2 → v4.2.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$18.4K/mo · reviews +1,622 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,016 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.18 → 4.74 (improved 1.56★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$19.4K/mo · rating +1.57★ · reviews +101,407 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$19.4K/mo · rating +1.57★ · reviews +101,407 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$19.4K/mo · rating +1.57★ · reviews +101,409 medium · co-occurring
2025-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.13★ · reviews +43 high confidence
2025-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +36 high confidence
2025-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.17★ · reviews +73 high confidence
2025-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ · reviews +37 high confidence
2025-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ · reviews +37 low · multiple changes
2025-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.43 → 3.13 (dropped 0.30★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ · reviews +37 low · multiple changes
2025-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ · reviews +37 medium · co-occurring
2025-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ · reviews +37 medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 475 reviews across 6 markets● 42% positive · ● 23% neutral · ● 35% negative · Rating drift: -2.74★ (declining — recent 50: 2.12★ vs lifetime: 4.86★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇨🇦 CA
+0.26
🇦🇺 AU
+0.18
🇫🇷 FR
+0.09
🇺🇸 US
+0.08
🇯🇵 JP
+0.03
🇧🇷 BR
-0.06
Top praise themes
customer service ×10 bird feeder ×9 feeder camera ×5 camera bird ×4 easy set ×4 easy setup ×4 home cameras ×3 camera clear ×3
Top complaint themes
ads now ×14 customer service ×14 bird feeder ×11 latest update ×10 mise jour ×9 last update ×8 ads pop ×7 added ads ×7
Risk signals
Subscription complaints: 10% Fraud / scam mentions: 2.5%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.77843★ | 853 | 4.77843★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.86728★ | 1,198 | 4.86728★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.80284★ | 3,596 | 4.80284★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.65058★ | 518 | 4.65058★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.63321★ | 578 | 4.63321★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.79014★ | 1,582 | 4.79014★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.88★ | 25 | 4.88★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.50256★ | 780 | 4.50256★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.85398★ | 113,756 | 4.85398★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for VicoHome: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 107,134 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does VicoHome make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, VicoHome earns approximately $655K/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 VicoHome profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $655K, VicoHome 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 VicoHome have?▴
Estimated audience: ~14.5M lifetime downloads, ~2.0M monthly active users, and ~400K 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 VicoHome?▴
Browse the full Utilities category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is VicoHome built with?▴
Our heuristic places VicoHome on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is VicoHome still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 18 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would VicoHome sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $13.0M (marketplace range $9.5M – $16.5M). Calculated as 20× 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 VicoHome last updated?▴
VicoHome last shipped a new version on 2026-09-07 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes VicoHome?▴
VicoHome is published by PHOTON SAIL TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD. 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 VicoHome's BU Score?▴
VicoHome has a BU Score of 84/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.