Sticker Drop Maker Studio
68
Quality Score
Solid
Sticker Drop Maker Studio
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Sticker Drop Maker Studio is an iOS app from Aaron F Stephenson in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 150 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a Photo & Video 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
$2.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.0K – $7.1K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.8K – $16.5K
per month
INDIE tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$90K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $120K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (70 MB) | +$8K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$32K |
Total estimate
$90K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $375K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~3.1× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
21K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.7K
Daily active
1.1K
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 |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$1.9K – $4.5K
12 months
$2.0K – $7.1K
24 months
$1.8K – $16.5K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 30/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalRevenue Strength
3.4
Product Quality
5.1
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.9
Operational Safety
0.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $906 - $5665/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.73★ across 150 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1016d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 9% subscription complaints, rating drift -0.31 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (1016d since update).
🎯 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 = $27K-$49K. Portfolio play ($18K/mo combined) commands premium. 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 ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (34 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (150 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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v1.6.1
Welcome to version 1.6.1 of Sticker Drop!
Changes:
- Bug Fix: Tutorials crash if you select a tutorial when searching.
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Thank you to the amazing Sticker Drop community for the emails and messages of support, feature requests and just all round positive feedback.… Full release notes →
Changes:
- Bug Fix: Tutorials crash if you select a tutorial when searching.
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Thank you to the amazing Sticker Drop community for the emails and messages of support, feature requests and just all round positive feedback.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Sticker Drop Maker Studio
- Developer
- Aaron F Stephenson
- Bundle ID
- com.bronron.StickerDrop
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TA, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
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
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $18.1K/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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.35★ · 73.5% 5★ · 8.2% 1★
5★36 (73%)
4★5 (10%)
3★1 (2%)
2★3 (6%)
1★4 (8%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×17 love ×15 best ×8 awesome ×7 perfect ×4Complaints: subscription ×7 broken ×1 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ I love this so much!
Please keep updating this! I have made so many stickers and they work beautifully. I just wish this was coordinated with my iPad / iPhone better. But the good thing is that it's easy to airdrop the folders to my devices. Thanks for bei…
★★★★★ Awesome app
Just wish they would sync across devices.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ App no longer appears in iMessage apps
Will the app be updated to work with the new iMessage apps format? :(…
★☆☆☆☆ Keeps closing
I was able to make 1 sticker then the program kept closing every time I tried to put a description on the sticker. I sent an email and no one has gotten beach with me yet. Disappointing!…
📈Ratings growth150 ratings+4900% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (39 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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
Lift your favourite part out of an image and turn it into a digital sticker!
Keep a library of your stickers to use later. Group stickers into Packs that can be shared with other Sticker Drop users.
Sticker Drop is also inclusive! It can help you to add a description to the Sticker so that people using VoiceOver can join in the fun.
Every part of Sticker Drop is 100% available - no up sells or subscriptions, and no accounts to create. There are also 12 different icons to choose from!
Sticker Packs can be exported to use in iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp.… View full description on the official store →
Keep a library of your stickers to use later. Group stickers into Packs that can be shared with other Sticker Drop users.
Sticker Drop is also inclusive! It can help you to add a description to the Sticker so that people using VoiceOver can join in the fun.
Every part of Sticker Drop is 100% available - no up sells or subscriptions, and no accounts to create. There are also 12 different icons to choose from!
Sticker Packs can be exported to use in iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 70 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.6.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, HR, CS, DA, NL +29📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.36 → 4.90 (improved 0.54★)
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.91 → 4.58 (dropped 0.33★)
2022-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 81 reviews across 7 markets● 84% positive · ● 7% neutral · ● 9% negative · Rating drift: -0.31★ (declining — recent 50: 4.42★ vs lifetime: 4.73★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.95
🇬🇧 GB
+0.87
🇺🇸 US
+0.72
🇨🇦 CA
+0.69
🇫🇷 FR
+0.45
🇧🇷 BR
+0.42
🇩🇪 DE
+0.35
Top praise themes
making stickers ×5 into stickers ×3 developer responsive ×3 super easy ×3 creating stickers ×3 feature ios ×3 whatsapp support ×3 fun ×20
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×4 work whatsapp ×4 stickers ×7 imessage ×4 new ×3 phone ×3 because ×3 ios ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.2% Subscription complaints: 9% Bug mentions: 5%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.73332★ | 150 | 4.73332★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.61904★ | 21 | 4.61904★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.85714★ | 14 | 4.85714★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 9 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.52941★ | 17 | 4.52941★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 13 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.72727★ | 11 | 3.72727★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Sticker Drop Maker Studio: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 150 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Sticker Drop Maker Studio make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Sticker Drop Maker Studio earns approximately $18K/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.
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Who makes Sticker Drop Maker Studio?▴
Sticker Drop Maker Studio is published by Aaron F Stephenson 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 Sticker Drop Maker Studio's BU Score?▴
Sticker Drop Maker Studio has a BU Score of 68/100 (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.