17V28: Creative Carousel
73
Quality Score
Strong
17V28: Creative Carousel
by 17V28 LTD
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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17V28: Creative Carousel is an iOS app from 17V28 LTD in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.9★ across 522 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: 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
$6.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.5K – $19.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$5.1K – $45.7K
per month
INDIE tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
43 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
522 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$6.3K
Snapshots tracked
43
since Apr 2023
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$160K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $120K – $215K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.2y 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 (1028 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
| ⚙ 3.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$21K |
Total estimate
$160K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 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 |
| 📅 3.5y proven track record | +18% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
60K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
9.8K
Daily active
2.9K
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 |
| 📅 3.5y of rating accumulation | -18% |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
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 | 1028 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-11 · 12 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
| 📅 12 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$6.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$5.3K – $12.4K
12 months
$5.5K – $19.7K
24 months
$5.1K – $45.7K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 46/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
6.9
Revenue Strength
3.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $2K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.9★ across 522 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $112K-$200K. Portfolio play ($30K/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 8 of 8 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 (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (522 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| 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 · v5.34
hey there! we are so excited to bring you this sunny update:
– we added new summer dump templates to turn your camera roll into your summer story;… Full release notes →
– we added new summer dump templates to turn your camera roll into your summer story;… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- 17V28: Creative Carousel
- Developer
- 17V28 LTD
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $6.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth1,828 ratings+45600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (43 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 Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Turn your favorite photos into beautiful carousels, scrapbook pages, and collages – all in one app. 17V28 is the creative toolkit trusted by 1.5M+ creators worldwide for making Instagram posts that actually stand out!!
Whether you’re creating a photo dump from last weekend, a travel diary from your latest trip, a monthly recap, or a digital junk journal – 17V28 gives you everything you need to make it look incredible.
200+ UNIQUE TEMPLATES… View full description on the official store →
Whether you’re creating a photo dump from last weekend, a travel diary from your latest trip, a monthly recap, or a digital junk journal – 17V28 gives you everything you need to make it look incredible.
200+ UNIQUE TEMPLATES… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1.0 GB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v5.34🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2023 (3y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v5.32 → v5.34
→ 30 days after: reviews +25 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v5.28 → v5.32
→ 30 days after: reviews +83 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.24 → v5.28
→ 30 days after: reviews +124 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.22.1 → v5.24
→ 30 days after: reviews +220 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +96 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +96 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$26.5K/mo · rating +0.63★ · reviews +458 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.27 → 4.90 (improved 0.63★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$26.5K/mo · rating +0.63★ · reviews +458 high confidence
2025-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$101/mo · rating −0.05★ high confidence
2023-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.30 → 3.85 (dropped 0.45★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$173/mo · rating +0.21★ high confidence
2023-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$221/mo · rating −0.25★ high confidence
2023-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$221/mo · rating −0.25★ high confidence
2023-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$221/mo · rating −0.25★ high confidence
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.65667★ | 300 | 4.65667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.83768★ | 5,058 | 4.83768★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.82935★ | 293 | 4.82935★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.72152★ | 237 | 4.72152★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.75132★ | 189 | 4.75132★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.72165★ | 291 | 4.72165★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.69933★ | 4,919 | 4.69933★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.80147★ | 136 | 4.80147★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.80744★ | 1,828 | 4.80744★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for 17V28: Creative Carousel: 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: 522 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does 17V28 make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, 17V28 earns approximately $6.3K/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 17V28 profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $6.3K, 17V28 looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does 17V28 have?▴
Estimated audience: ~60K lifetime downloads, ~9K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 17V28?▴
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 17V28 built with?▴
Our heuristic places 17V28 on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is 17V28 still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 12 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would 17V28 sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $150K). 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 17V28 last updated?▴
17V28 last shipped a new version on 2026-09-11 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes 17V28?▴
17V28 is published by 17V28 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 17V28's BU Score?▴
17V28 has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.