Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art
77
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art is an iOS app from Bytedance Pte. Ltd in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.6★ across 17,148 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 77: 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
$18.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$19.1K – $40.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$23.7K – $71.0K
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
506 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
17,148 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$18.5K
Snapshots tracked
506
since Jul 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$165K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $125K – $225K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~9 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 (530 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
| ⚙ 3.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$22K |
Total estimate
$165K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$350K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $275K – $450K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~2.1× 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 |
| 📅 3.7y proven track record | +19% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.9M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
310K
Daily active
93K
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 |
| 📅 3.7y of rating accumulation | -19% |
| 🔁 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 | 530 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-23 · 5 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 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$18.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$17.5K – $29.2K
12 months
$19.1K – $40.0K
24 months
$23.7K – $71.0K
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 · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
9.2
Revenue Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $12K - $27K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.58★ across 17,148 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $332K-$591K.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (17,148 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (18 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Established app (3y 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.
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art
- Developer
- Bytedance Pte. Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.xt.retouchoversea
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PL, PT, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, 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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $18.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇧🇷#43 /100 🇫🇷#49 /100 🇯🇵#53 /100 🇦🇺#53 /100 🇩🇪#54 /100 🇨🇦#56 /100 🇬🇧#58 /100
- 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 growth17,161 ratings+3739% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank8 countries
🇧🇷BR#43 /100
🇫🇷FR#49 /100
🇯🇵JP#53 /100
🇦🇺AU#53 /100
🇩🇪DE#54 /100
🇨🇦CA#56 /100
🇬🇧GB#58 /100
🇺🇸US#96 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#43 now · best #43 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀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
Transform Your Photos with the Power of AI – Say Hello to Hypic!
Ready to turn everyday selfies into stunning masterpieces? Hypic is your all-in-one photo editor designed to elevate your pictures with the magic of AI. Whether you're going for artsy, aesthetic, or just ultra-polished, Hypic has everything you need.
Why You’ll Love Hypic:
AI Magic in a Tap
Turn photos into artwork instantly. Remove backgrounds, generate avatars, cartoon yourself, or enhance image quality — all powered by cutting-edge AI.
Stylish Filters & Effects… View full description on the official store →
Ready to turn everyday selfies into stunning masterpieces? Hypic is your all-in-one photo editor designed to elevate your pictures with the magic of AI. Whether you're going for artsy, aesthetic, or just ultra-polished, Hypic has everything you need.
Why You’ll Love Hypic:
AI Magic in a Tap
Turn photos into artwork instantly. Remove backgrounds, generate avatars, cartoon yourself, or enhance image quality — all powered by cutting-edge AI.
Stylish Filters & Effects… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 530 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v9.6.0🔄 updated 5d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, ID +13📂 Photo & Video💰 Free🚀 Launched 2023 (3y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
15 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 — v9.1.0 → v9.3.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +168 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.9.0 → v9.1.0
→ 30 days after: rating −0.07★ · reviews +379 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v8.6.0 → v8.9.0
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ · reviews +362 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.80 → 4.69 (improved 0.89★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +151 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +151 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 low · multiple changes
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 3.81 (dropped 0.99★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +12 low · multiple changes
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +14 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.81 → 4.80 (improved 0.99★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +14 medium · co-occurring
2025-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +114 high confidence
2025-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ · reviews +120 high confidence
2025-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +3.51★ · reviews +108 medium · co-occurring
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.60 → 4.27 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +3.51★ · reviews +108 medium · co-occurring
2025-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +3.54★ · reviews +106 medium · co-occurring
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating +3.54★ · reviews +106 medium · co-occurring
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #29Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
photo editor·#29🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.63985★ | 1,902 | 4.63985★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.50649★ | 4,083 | 4.50649★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.59323★ | 2,451 | 4.59323★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.71697★ | 2,975 | 4.71697★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.62793★ | 3,459 | 4.62793★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.55969★ | 3,652 | 4.55969★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.74449★ | 3,264 | 4.74449★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.5803★ | 17,148 | 4.5803★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art: 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 high confidence: 17,148 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art 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.
Is Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $165K and monthly revenue $18K, Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 9 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.9M lifetime downloads, ~310K monthly active users, and ~93K 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 Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art?▴
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 Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art built with?▴
Our heuristic places Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art 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 Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $350K (marketplace range $275K – $450K). 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 Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art last updated?▴
Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art last shipped a new version on 2026-09-23 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art?▴
Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art is published by Bytedance Pte. 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 Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art's BU Score?▴
Hypic - Photo Editor & AI Art has a BU Score of 77/100 (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.