Classic Camera by Hipstamatic
76
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Classic Camera by Hipstamatic is an iOS app from Hipstamatic, LLC in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 4,542 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 76: 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
$12.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$12.6K – $26.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$15.6K – $46.8K
per month
MID tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
139 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
4,542 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$12.2K
Snapshots tracked
139
since Jul 2016
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$205K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $155K – $275K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.4y 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 (89 MB) | +$15K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$36K |
| ⚙ 16.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$100K |
Total estimate
$205K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$250K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $325K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~1.2× 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 |
| 📅 16.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
445K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
16K
Daily active
4.8K
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 |
| 📅 16.8y 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 | 89 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
30%
Last shipped 2026-05-01 · 153 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 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$12.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$11.6K – $19.3K
12 months
$12.6K – $26.4K
24 months
$15.6K – $46.8K
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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
8.5
Revenue Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $8K - $18K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.74★ across 4,542 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $219K-$389K. Portfolio play ($31K/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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (4,542 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (15 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 |
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 · v376
New Jimbocho HipstaPak, with a subdued yet bold quality inspired by the book-ish neighborhood of Tokyo
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Classic Camera by Hipstamatic
- Developer
- Hipstamatic, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.syntheticcorp.hipstamatic
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Digital Never Looked So Analog
- Description
- The latest news from Hipstamatic
- 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
- $12.2K/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
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- hipstamatic.app/support
- About page
- hipstamatic.app/about
📈Ratings growth4,543 ratings+879% 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+0%)
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
Hipstamatic is a world-class photography app and Apple’s original App of the Year!
Shoot beautiful authentic photography and become part of the world’s most creative community, exclusively on iPhone.
• Apple’s very first App of the Year
• The original photo filter app
• The inventor of square filtered mobile photos
• Plus, all of the features below :-)
—
CLASSIC CAMERA
Digital photography has never looked so analog. Shooting Classic provides beautifully rendered skeuomorphic cameras that transform your experience as you swipe through lenses, flashes, and films.… View full description on the official store →
Shoot beautiful authentic photography and become part of the world’s most creative community, exclusively on iPhone.
• Apple’s very first App of the Year
• The original photo filter app
• The inventor of square filtered mobile photos
• Plus, all of the features below :-)
—
CLASSIC CAMERA
Digital photography has never looked so analog. Shooting Classic provides beautifully rendered skeuomorphic cameras that transform your experience as you swipe through lenses, flashes, and films.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 89 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v376🔄 updated 5mo ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, ID +10📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (16y 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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.30 → 4.70 (improved 1.40★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.4K/mo · rating +1.40★ · reviews +4,021 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.4K/mo · rating +1.40★ · reviews +4,021 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.4K/mo · rating +1.40★ · reviews +4,021 medium · co-occurring
2016-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$55/mo · reviews +27 medium · co-occurring
2016-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$140/mo · rating −0.13★ · reviews +69 low · multiple changes
2016-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.10★ · reviews +12 high confidence
2016-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.40 → 2.61 (dropped 0.79★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.26★ · reviews +20 high confidence
2016-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.26★ · reviews +20 high confidence
2016-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.79★ · reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
2016-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.29 (dropped 0.38★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.79★ · reviews +13 low · multiple changes
2016-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.40 (improved 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.79★ · reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
2016-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.79★ · reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
2016-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.00 (improved 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.79★ · reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
2016-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.79★ · reviews +13 high confidence
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.7783★ | 424 | 4.7783★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.72614★ | 241 | 4.72614★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.72835★ | 508 | 4.72835★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.6738★ | 1,493 | 4.6738★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.73507★ | 1,423 | 4.73507★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.7062★ | 1,113 | 4.7062★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.73418★ | 79 | 4.73418★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.61224★ | 245 | 4.61224★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.74335★ | 4,547 | 4.74335★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Classic Camera by Hipstamatic: 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: 4,542 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Classic Camera by Hipstamatic make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Classic Camera by Hipstamatic earns approximately $12K/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 Classic Camera by Hipstamatic profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $205K and monthly revenue $12K, Classic Camera by Hipstamatic looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Classic Camera by Hipstamatic have?▴
Estimated audience: ~445K lifetime downloads, ~16K 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 Classic Camera by Hipstamatic?▴
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What is Classic Camera by Hipstamatic built with?▴
Our heuristic places Classic Camera by Hipstamatic 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 Classic Camera by Hipstamatic still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Classic Camera by Hipstamatic sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $250K (marketplace range $200K – $325K). Calculated as 21× 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 Classic Camera by Hipstamatic last updated?▴
Classic Camera by Hipstamatic last shipped a new version on 2026-05-01 — 5 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Classic Camera by Hipstamatic?▴
Classic Camera by Hipstamatic is published by Hipstamatic, LLC 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 Classic Camera by Hipstamatic's BU Score?▴
Classic Camera by Hipstamatic has a BU Score of 76/100 (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.