Facemakr
50
Quality Score
Solid
Facemakr
by Dadako
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Facemakr is an iOS app from Dadako in the Social Networking category, currently rated 3.7★ across 35 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$2.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.9K – $7.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.8K – $16.1K
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
17 snapshots on record
Rating
3.7
Reviews
35 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$2.2K
Snapshots tracked
17
since Apr 2010
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$235K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $175K – $315K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$55K |
| ⚙ 16.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$98K |
Total estimate
$235K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 📅 16.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
🛠 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 | Social Networking |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2024-04-16 · 891 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
| 📅 2y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (35 ratings) + 16.4y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 16y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.2K/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
$1.9K – $4.4K
12 months
$1.9K – $7.0K
24 months
$1.8K – $16.1K
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
Pre-traction · 37/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
3.0
Revenue Strength
3.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $884 - $5525/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.74★ across 35 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 888d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (888d since update).
🎯 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 = $39K-$70K.
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 4 of 4 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 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (35 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.
🆕 What's New · v2.2
We have removed ads.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Facemakr
- Developer
- Dadako
- Bundle ID
- com.dadako.facemakr
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- 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
- $2.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- 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 growth35 ratings+1650% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (17 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 → $2.99 (+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
Definitely check it out. - Appolicious / AppVee
Facemakr is a clever toolkit for making faces & avatars. Its intelligent multitouch controls and vast number of parts make it ideal for creating unique high quality faces, quickly.
"The genius in Facemakr is that it lets you customise your faces to an infinite degree." - T3
Here's a run down of Facemakr:
Multi-touch scale & rotate from over 600 parts for detailed Avatars.
Position and color parts like: eyes, hair, ears, hats, piercings etc.
Save faces.… View full description on the official store →
Facemakr is a clever toolkit for making faces & avatars. Its intelligent multitouch controls and vast number of parts make it ideal for creating unique high quality faces, quickly.
"The genius in Facemakr is that it lets you customise your faces to an infinite degree." - T3
Here's a run down of Facemakr:
Multi-touch scale & rotate from over 600 parts for detailed Avatars.
Position and color parts like: eyes, hair, ears, hats, piercings etc.
Save faces.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 122 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.5+🔖 v2.2🔄 updated 2y ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (16y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.74 (improved 0.74★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.89 → 3.00 (dropped 0.89★)
2011-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2010-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.14 → 3.75 (dropped 0.39★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.14★ high confidence
2010-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.67 → 4.14 (dropped 0.53★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.39★ high confidence
2010-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.53★ medium · co-occurring
2010-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$166/mo · rating −0.33★ medium · co-occurring
2010-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$166/mo · rating −0.33★ medium · co-occurring
2010-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$166/mo · rating −0.33★ medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3★ | 3 | 3★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.33333★ | 3 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4★ | 4 | 4★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3★ | 9 | 3★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3★ | 6 | 3★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2★ | 1 | 2★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.57143★ | 7 | 3.57143★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.74286★ | 35 | 3.74286★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 35 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Facemakr make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Facemakr earns approximately $2.2K/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 Facemakr profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $235K and monthly revenue $2.2K, Facemakr looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Facemakr?▴
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What is Facemakr built with?▴
Our heuristic places Facemakr 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 Facemakr still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Facemakr sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $35K (marketplace range $25K – $45K). Calculated as 16× 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 Facemakr last updated?▴
Facemakr last shipped a new version on 2024-04-16 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Facemakr?▴
Facemakr is published by Dadako 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 Facemakr's BU Score?▴
Facemakr has a BU Score of 50/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.