Inmate Photos, send to prison
72
Quality Score
Strong
Inmate Photos, send to prison
by Inmate Photos
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Inmate Photos, send to prison is an iOS app from Inmate Photos in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 13,240 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 72: 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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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
127 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
13,240 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
127
since Apr 2024
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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (79 MB) | +$11K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$34K |
| ⚙ 5.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$31K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× 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 |
| 📅 5.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
195K
Daily active
58K
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 |
| 📅 5.2y of rating accumulation | -26% |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% 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 | 79 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-27 · 38 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
| 📅 38 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
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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 · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.3
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.3
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.66★ across 13,240 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (13,240 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v4.1.3
We’ve redesigned the Inmate Photos® app to make staying connected easier, faster, and more meaningful.
- Send more than just photos — now offering greeting cards, calendars, and photobooks
- New AI-assisted letter writing to help you say what’s in your heart… Full release notes →
- Send more than just photos — now offering greeting cards, calendars, and photobooks
- New AI-assisted letter writing to help you say what’s in your heart… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Inmate Photos, send to prison
- Developer
- Inmate Photos
- Bundle ID
- com.app.inmatephotos
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $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 growth14,939 ratings+3092% 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 Quarter7 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline7 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
Send photos, letters, cards, calendars, and more — quick, easy, and with a positive lasting impact.
Inmate Photos® makes it simple to stay connected with someone in jail or prison. Whether your loved one is in a federal, state, county, or city facility, we help you send real, physical mail — without the stress of you having to figure out what is and isn't allowed. We serve over 4,000 correctional facilities across the United States and specialize in handling complex prison mail rules, ensuring your package is delivered to your incarcerated loved one.… View full description on the official store →
Inmate Photos® makes it simple to stay connected with someone in jail or prison. Whether your loved one is in a federal, state, county, or city facility, we help you send real, physical mail — without the stress of you having to figure out what is and isn't allowed. We serve over 4,000 correctional facilities across the United States and specialize in handling complex prison mail rules, ensuring your package is delivered to your incarcerated loved one.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 79 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v4.1.3🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2021 (5y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
22 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v4.1.1 → v4.1.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +456 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v4.1.0 → v4.1.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +590 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.22 → v4.1.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +265 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.21 → v4.0.22
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.3K/mo · reviews +483 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.20 → v4.0.21
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.3K/mo · reviews +585 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.19 → v4.0.20
→ 30 days after: reviews +563 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +393 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.04 → 4.66 (improved 0.62★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +393 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.66★ · reviews −11,937 low · multiple changes
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 4.04 (dropped 0.66★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +10 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.04 → 4.70 (improved 0.66★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +10 medium · co-occurring
2024-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.13★ · reviews +29 high confidence
2024-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +29 high confidence
2024-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +33 high confidence
2024-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.37 → 4.02 (dropped 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +33 high confidence
2024-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.35★ · reviews +35 high confidence
2024-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.35★ · reviews +35 high confidence
2024-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.30★ · reviews +27 medium · co-occurring
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 4.17 (dropped 0.63★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.30★ · reviews +27 low · multiple changes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.67729★ | 15,255 | 4.67729★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.2★ | 10 | 4.2★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Inmate Photos, send to prison: 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: 13,240 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Inmate Photos, send to prison make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Inmate Photos, send to prison 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 Inmate Photos, send to prison profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Inmate Photos, send to prison 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 Inmate Photos, send to prison have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.4M lifetime downloads, ~195K monthly active users, and ~58K 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 Inmate Photos, send to prison?▴
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 Inmate Photos, send to prison built with?▴
Our heuristic places Inmate Photos, send to prison 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 Inmate Photos, send to prison still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Inmate Photos, send to prison 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 Inmate Photos, send to prison last updated?▴
Inmate Photos, send to prison last shipped a new version on 2026-08-27 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Inmate Photos, send to prison?▴
Inmate Photos, send to prison is published by Inmate Photos 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 Inmate Photos, send to prison's BU Score?▴
Inmate Photos, send to prison has a BU Score of 72/100 (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.