62
BU Score
Solid
Obscura — Pro Camera
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Obscura — Pro Camera is an iOS app from Ben McCarthy in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.0★ across 260 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Photo & Video app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.0★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (260 ratings)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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 98 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2025.12🔄 updated 5mo ago🌐 AR, EN, FR, DE, JA +5📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (4y old)
📝 About this app
Obscura 4 is a camera app packed full of features to help you take incredible photos. Obscura pairs a stunning design with intuitive controls that make taking photos a delight.
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Over its 10 years on the App Store, Obscura has been much numerous times around the world, including as Editors’ Choice and App of the Day.
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Design
Obscura squeezes a bunch of powerful features into simple controls anyone can master. The interface balances aesthetics, ergonomics, and intuitiveness. You won’t want to use anything else.… View full description on the official store →
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Over its 10 years on the App Store, Obscura has been much numerous times around the world, including as Editors’ Choice and App of the Day.
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Design
Obscura squeezes a bunch of powerful features into simple controls anyone can master. The interface balances aesthetics, ergonomics, and intuitiveness. You won’t want to use anything else.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2025.12
Fixed a very minor bug related to diagnostic info in support email.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Obscura — Pro Camera
- Developer
- Ben McCarthy
- Bundle ID
- com.benricemccarthy.obscura-3
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- obscura.camera
- Tagline
- ben rice mccarthy
- Description
- the personal and professional site of ben rice mccarthy
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
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- Employees
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- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $21.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Photo & Video
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
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Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
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- GitHub
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- X followers
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- Public statements
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Funding
- Total raised
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- Last round
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- Investors
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- Crunchbase
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- AngelList
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Press & Links
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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- Press / News
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
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- Phone
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- Contact page
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- About page
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.0★ · 34.7% 5★ · 28.6% 1★
5★17 (35%)
4★1 (2%)
3★10 (20%)
2★7 (14%)
1★14 (29%)
+1 ratings/week
Praise: great ×11 love ×10 best ×6 recommend ×5 perfect ×3Complaints: subscription ×18 hate ×3 terrible ×2 bug ×2 worst ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Great update!
Obscura 4 is a huge update! Aesthetically beautiful and functional, this app can be as simple as a drop-in camera.app replacement while still offering many advanced features under the hood if you need them. Highly recommended.…
★★★★★ Excellent App
For anyone who’s had a bit a bit of experience with a variety of iOS camera apps. I probably have too many. Obscura is opinionated and clever about USER INTERFACE and that’s a good thing. It may feel intuitive to some, maybe not so much to …
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ No Free Tier, no support
There is no accessible free tier, I’m taken to the upgrade screen, with no way to get to the camera controls. Also the support link next to the review button leads to a page not found error screen.…
★☆☆☆☆ Where is support?
Emailed twice, ignored. Camera shoots whatever it wants despite what settings you choose. Need to shoot raw, can't have random mode. Needs to be more stable and the dev needs to care…
📈Ratings growth260 ratings+3150% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Obscura — Pro Camera: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.