64
Quality Score
Solid
Focalware
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Focalware is an iOS app from Warner Photography, Inc. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 5.0★ across 6 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 64: 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$878/mo
In 12 months
$768 – $2768
In 24 months
$711 – $6403
INDIE tierFREE
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Snapshots tracked
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$878/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$748 – $1.7K
12 months
$768 – $2.8K
24 months
$711 – $6.4K
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 · 36/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
2.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
6.1
Founder Strength
5.4
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $351 - $2196/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 5.0★ across 6 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.04 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $15K-$28K. Portfolio play ($23K/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.
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Voice of Customer
Based on 51 reviews across 5 markets● 88% positive · ● 0% neutral · ● 12% negative · Rating drift: -1.04★ (declining — recent 50: 3.96★ vs lifetime: 5.0★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.92
🇦🇺 AU
+0.77
🇺🇸 US
+0.69
🇨🇦 CA
+0.54
🇩🇪 DE
+0.10
Top praise themes
sun moon ×16 rise set ×5 position sun ×4 simple easy ×4 sunrise sunset ×3 tool photographer ×3 location ×17 locations ×9
Top complaint themes
find location ×3 altitude ×6 iphone ×5 work ×4 cannot ×4 compass ×4 sunrise ×4 ios ×3
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 6%
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Tech & Domain Intel — warnerphotography.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 5★ | 6 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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 (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (6 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 6 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v2.6🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2008 (17y old)
📝 About this app
Focalware calculates sun and moon position for a given location and date. Use the interactive compass to determine the path and height of the sun or moon. Photographers and filmmakers who are always asked by their clients for the sun, moon and stars, can now deliver.
Features
- Support for compass on devices that have one
- Integrated map for custom locations
- Sun/Moon rise and set times
- Sun/Moon azimuth and elevation
- Moon phase
- Magnetic declination
- Results shown graphically or on a list
- Location list of major world cities
- Manually create and save a list of custom locations… View full description on the official store →
Features
- Support for compass on devices that have one
- Integrated map for custom locations
- Sun/Moon rise and set times
- Sun/Moon azimuth and elevation
- Moon phase
- Magnetic declination
- Results shown graphically or on a list
- Location list of major world cities
- Manually create and save a list of custom locations… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.6
Updated for latest iOS, modernized UI for current iPhones, refreshed magnetic declination data.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Focalware
- Developer
- Warner Photography, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.spiraldev.focalware
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.warnerphotography.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $23.0K/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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews35 latest · avg 4.03★ · 57.1% 5★ · 8.6% 1★
5★20 (57%)
4★5 (14%)
3★4 (11%)
2★3 (9%)
1★3 (9%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×14 perfect ×4 awesome ×3 amazing ×3 best ×3Complaints: expensive ×2 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Very useful
What a handy gadget to have ready to go when photographing. Works well and is easy to use.
One idea for improvement might be an azimuth estimator - if there was a couple of bubble levels at the top of the screen to insure that the iPhone w…
★★★★★ Amazing App!!!
Put away the charts and lists and calculators, this incredible tool is any photographer or filmaker's best pal.
I could not believe how simple and easy to use it is! I am confident now in setting up outdoor shots. Night shots? Want the…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn't work.....:(
Sorry, but can't find ANY location on my iPhone 6 with latest system upgrade. Really disappointed. Hopefully they can get this corrected.…
★☆☆☆☆ Can't find my location, so semi-worthless
I was excited to see this app, but it cannot find my location. I don't want to constantly have to type in my gps coordinates manually to get this to work. Very disappointing.…
📈Ratings growth6 ratings+200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (33 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Focalware: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.