Photobucket: Private sharing
74
Quality Score
Strong
Photobucket: Private sharing
by Photobucket.com
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Photobucket: Private sharing is an iOS app from Photobucket.com in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.6★ across 3,846 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 74: 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
$11.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$11.8K – $24.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$14.7K – $44.0K
per month
MID 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
87 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
3,846 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$11.4K
Snapshots tracked
87
since May 2019
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$225K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $170K – $305K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.7y 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 (122 MB) | +$28K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$43K |
| ⚙ 17.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$103K |
Total estimate
$225K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~1.0× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅 17.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
375K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
13K
Daily active
4.0K
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 |
| 📅 17.3y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
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 | 122 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-17 · 17 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
| 📅 17 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$11.4K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$10.9K – $18.1K
12 months
$11.8K – $24.8K
24 months
$14.7K – $44.0K
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 · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Product Quality
8.3
Revenue Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $8K - $17K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.61★ across 3,846 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $206K-$366K.
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 12 of 12 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 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Low install base (3,846 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v8.0.36
Photobucket is now Groupsy by Photobucket — same trusted home for your photos and videos, same account, same memories, all safe and right where you left them.
What's new is the experience.… Full release notes →
What's new is the experience.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Photobucket: Private sharing
- Developer
- Photobucket.com
- Bundle ID
- com.photobucket.iphone
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $11.4K/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.
📈Ratings growth3,862 ratings+970% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 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
Groupsy by Photobucket. Trusted by more than 70 million people.
Over 14 billion photos and videos safely stored, protected, and shared. Backed by more than 20 years of helping people preserve what matters most.
Groupsy by Photobucket is the private photo and video sharing app built for real life—not public feeds.
Whether you’re sharing family memories, wedding photos, vacation albums, sports highlights, or pictures from a night out with friends, Groupsy gives every group its own private space to collect, organize, and relive moments together.
No algorithms or strangers. Just your people.… View full description on the official store →
Over 14 billion photos and videos safely stored, protected, and shared. Backed by more than 20 years of helping people preserve what matters most.
Groupsy by Photobucket is the private photo and video sharing app built for real life—not public feeds.
Whether you’re sharing family memories, wedding photos, vacation albums, sports highlights, or pictures from a night out with friends, Groupsy gives every group its own private space to collect, organize, and relive moments together.
No algorithms or strangers. Just your people.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 122 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.4+🔖 v8.0.36🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (17y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 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 — v8.0.16 → v8.0.36
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v7.393.3 → v8.0.16
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v7.365.2 → v7.393.3
→ 30 days after: revenue +$12.3K/mo · reviews +11 high confidence
2026-06
📦
Bundle ↑ 99MB → 139MB — likely major code refresh
→ 30 days after: revenue +$12.3K/mo medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v7.329.0 → v7.365.2
→ 30 days after: revenue +$12.3K/mo low · multiple changes
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.25 → 4.60 (improved 3.35★)
2026-01
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +3.36★ · reviews +3,340 high confidence
2019-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +21 high confidence
2019-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 high confidence
2019-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +16 high confidence
2019-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +27 medium · co-occurring
2019-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +43 medium · co-occurring
2019-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +16 medium · co-occurring
2019-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +16 medium · co-occurring
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — photobucket.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Anthropic · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · SendGrid
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.26316★ | 57 | 4.26316★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 6 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.25234★ | 107 | 4.25234★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.09091★ | 11 | 4.09091★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 7 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.40933★ | 193 | 4.40933★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.8125★ | 16 | 4.8125★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.44444★ | 9 | 4.44444★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.59969★ | 3,862 | 4.59969★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Photobucket: Private sharing: 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: 3,846 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Photobucket make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Photobucket earns approximately $11K/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 Photobucket profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $225K and monthly revenue $11K, Photobucket looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.7 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Photobucket have?▴
Estimated audience: ~375K lifetime downloads, ~13K monthly active users, and ~4K 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 Photobucket?▴
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 Photobucket built with?▴
Our heuristic places Photobucket on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Photobucket still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 17 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Photobucket sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $225K (marketplace range $175K – $300K). 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 Photobucket last updated?▴
Photobucket last shipped a new version on 2026-09-17 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Photobucket?▴
Photobucket is published by Photobucket.com 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 Photobucket's BU Score?▴
Photobucket has a BU Score of 74/100 (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.