Spectra - Music Visualizer
62
Quality Score
Solid
Spectra - Music Visualizer
by Spectre Software Inc.
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Spectra - Music Visualizer is an iOS app from Spectre Software Inc. in the News category, currently rated 4.6★ across 1,525 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a News app, that means established niche player. 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
$8.9K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$9.2K – $19.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.4K – $34.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
69 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
1,525 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$8.9K
Snapshots tracked
69
since Apr 2020
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~11 months 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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| ⚙ 6.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$38K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~1.8× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅 6.5y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
125K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
13K
Daily active
6.0K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅 6.5y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 32 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
72%
Last shipped 2024-11-02 · 696 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
| 📅 1y 11mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$8.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.4K – $14.1K
12 months
$9.2K – $19.3K
24 months
$11.4K – $34.2K
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 · 32/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.7
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
3.6
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $6K - $13K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.56★ across 1,525 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 690d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 2.5% 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 = $106K-$195K. 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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (1,525 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v1.5.8
Version 1.5.8:
• Added 4K export option
Version 1.5.7:
• Fixed iOS 18.0 bug that didn't let users export videos that have video backgrounds
• Fixed a bug that caused lag between frames resulting in 60 FPS exported videos having a lower frame rate… Full release notes →
• Added 4K export option
Version 1.5.7:
• Fixed iOS 18.0 bug that didn't let users export videos that have video backgrounds
• Fixed a bug that caused lag between frames resulting in 60 FPS exported videos having a lower frame rate… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Spectra - Music Visualizer
- Developer
- Spectre Software Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.specter.Sine-Graph
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, HE, RU, 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
- $8.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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 growth1,533 ratings+1281% 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.
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
Enjoy music at a deeper level with realtime visualization! Spectra is a lightweight music & audio visualizer app that allows you to select and visualize audio in realtime, right on your phone or mac. Want to export your visualization? We have you covered. Simply click the "Create Video" button from within the app. No longer do you need expensive software to create those beautiful animations you've seen on the internet. Want to customize the background image or put a logo in the center? We made that available as well. In fact, you can customize just about all aspects of the visualizer.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 32 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v1.5.8🔄 updated 1y ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, HE +3📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 →
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.84 → 4.56 (improved 0.72★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +12 high confidence
2026-04
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +12 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +12 high confidence
2021-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2021-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ · reviews +12 high confidence
2020-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.10★ · reviews +6 high confidence
2020-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.11★ · reviews +26 high confidence
2020-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.82 → 4.23 (dropped 0.59★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +20 high confidence
2020-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.59★ · reviews +28 medium · co-occurring
2020-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.59★ · reviews +28 medium · co-occurring
2020-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.59★ · reviews +28 high confidence
2020-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 280 reviews across 7 markets● 69% positive · ● 8% neutral · ● 23% negative · Rating drift: -1.58★ (declining — recent 50: 2.98★ vs lifetime: 4.56★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.57
🇺🇸 US
+0.44
🇨🇦 CA
+0.42
🇧🇷 BR
+0.40
🇬🇧 GB
+0.34
🇩🇪 DE
+0.21
🇮🇳 IN
+0.16
Top praise themes
only one ×6 please keep ×5 youtube channel ×5 create video ×5 doesn work ×5 worth money ×5 high quality ×5 one issue ×4
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×10 waste money ×8 work apple ×4 keeps crashing ×4 don waste ×3 buy songs ×3 itunes store ×3 não consigo ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.5% Bug mentions: 9% Fraud / scam mentions: 1.4%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.5875★ | 80 | 4.5875★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.66667★ | 102 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.47414★ | 116 | 4.47414★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.51497★ | 167 | 4.51497★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.48245★ | 114 | 4.48245★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.35555★ | 135 | 4.35555★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.98361★ | 61 | 3.98361★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.62857★ | 315 | 4.62857★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.55635★ | 1,535 | 4.55635★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Spectra - Music Visualizer: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,525 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Spectra - Music Visualizer make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Spectra - Music Visualizer earns approximately $8.9K/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 Spectra - Music Visualizer profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $100K and monthly revenue $8.9K, Spectra - Music Visualizer looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 11 months 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 Spectra - Music Visualizer have?▴
Estimated audience: ~125K lifetime downloads, ~13K monthly active users, and ~6K 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 Spectra - Music Visualizer?▴
Browse the full News 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 Spectra - Music Visualizer built with?▴
Our heuristic places Spectra - Music Visualizer on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Spectra - Music Visualizer still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (72% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Spectra - Music Visualizer sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $175K (marketplace range $125K – $225K). 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 Spectra - Music Visualizer last updated?▴
Spectra - Music Visualizer last shipped a new version on 2024-11-02 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Spectra - Music Visualizer?▴
Spectra - Music Visualizer is published by Spectre Software Inc. 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 Spectra - Music Visualizer's BU Score?▴
Spectra - Music Visualizer has a BU Score of 62/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.