Video Collage
75
Quality Score
Strong
Video Collage
by LightByte Co., Ltd.
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Video Collage is an iOS app from LightByte Co., Ltd. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 3,415 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 75: 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 tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
75 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
3,415 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
75
since Dec 2020
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.9y 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 |
| ⚙ 5.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$35K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.9× 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 |
| 📅 5.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
335K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
46K
Daily active
13K
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 |
| 📅 5.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
29% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 26 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
30%
Last shipped 2026-04-29 · 153 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
| 📅 5 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
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
Below median · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
8.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.69★ across 3,415 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($14K/mo combined) commands premium.
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:
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (3,415 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (5y 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 · v1.2.7
- fix bugs
- add ability to import sounds
- add ability to import sounds
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Video Collage
- Developer
- LightByte Co., Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- com.lightByte.videoCollage
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, 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 growth3,503 ratings+5289% 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
Turn your memories into stunning videos with VidGrid video collage app. Get more likes on Instagram, Facebook and other social networks.
Video collage is a super simple video collage app that helps you to create beautiful and stunning collage videos.
----Fabulous features----
- Various adjustable layouts
- Beautiful patterns, colors and video background of frames
- Crop, filter and change speed of videos
- Euphonious background music
- Preview instantly
- High resolution output
- Share with friends easily
Billing
• Payment:… View full description on the official store →
Video collage is a super simple video collage app that helps you to create beautiful and stunning collage videos.
----Fabulous features----
- Various adjustable layouts
- Beautiful patterns, colors and video background of frames
- Crop, filter and change speed of videos
- Euphonious background music
- Preview instantly
- High resolution output
- Share with friends easily
Billing
• Payment:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 26 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v1.2.7🔄 updated 5mo ago🌐 EN, ZH📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2020 (5y 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 →
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +45 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +45 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.08 → 4.50 (improved 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$867/mo · rating +0.42★ · reviews +191 high confidence
2023-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2022-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ medium · co-occurring
2022-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.14★ · reviews +8 low · multiple changes
2021-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.80 → 3.36 (improved 0.56★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.11★ high confidence
2021-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.80 (improved 0.80★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.56★ medium · co-occurring
2021-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.56★ medium · co-occurring
2021-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.43 → 2.75 (improved 0.32★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.36★ · reviews +10 low · multiple changes
2021-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.80 → 2.33 (improved 0.53★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.80★ · reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2021-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2021-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.33★ high confidence
2021-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.67★ medium · co-occurring
2020-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.69549★ | 3,527 | 4.69549★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.55799★ | 457 | 4.55799★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.58879★ | 214 | 4.58879★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.67441★ | 86 | 4.67441★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.0625★ | 16 | 4.0625★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.59358★ | 374 | 4.59358★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.56583★ | 281 | 4.56583★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.7012★ | 251 | 4.7012★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.58032★ | 2,764 | 4.58032★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Video Collage: 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: 3,415 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Video Collage make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Video Collage 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 Video Collage profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $115K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Video Collage looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.9 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Video Collage have?▴
Estimated audience: ~335K lifetime downloads, ~46K monthly active users, and ~13K 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 Video Collage?▴
Browse the full Photo & Video 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 Video Collage built with?▴
Our heuristic places Video Collage on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 (Swift / UIKit).
Is Video Collage still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Video Collage sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 19× 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 Video Collage last updated?▴
Video Collage last shipped a new version on 2026-04-29 — 5 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Video Collage?▴
Video Collage is published by LightByte Co., 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 Video Collage's BU Score?▴
Video Collage has a BU Score of 75/100 (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.