How much does Flashlight ® make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Flashlight ® earns approximately $600K/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 Flashlight ® profitable?

With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $600K, Flashlight ® looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 Flashlight ® have?

Estimated audience: ~2.2M lifetime downloads, ~90K monthly active users, and ~18K 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 Flashlight ®?

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What is Flashlight ® built with?

Our heuristic places Flashlight ® on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).

Is Flashlight ® still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Flashlight ® sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $11.0M (marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M). 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 Flashlight ® last updated?

Flashlight ® last shipped a new version on 2018-05-01 — more than 8 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Flashlight ®?

Flashlight ® is published by i4software 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 Flashlight ®'s BU Score?

Flashlight ® has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.

Flashlight ®

Quality Score

Strong

Flashlight ®

Name: Flashlight ® — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Flashlight ® revenue, Flashlight ® app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

by i4software

High confidence

4.8 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

“

Flashlight ® is an iOS app from i4software in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 16,303 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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

$600K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$635K – $978K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$759K – $1410K

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

104 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.8

Reviews

16,303 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$600K

Snapshots tracked

104

since Sep 2013

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$140K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $105K – $190K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in under a month 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
⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85	$-7575
⚙ 16.2y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$97K

Total estimate $140K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$11.0M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M · 19× MRR multiple

💸 ~79× 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
📅 16.2y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%
🏷 Utilities category multiple	-10%

Final multiple 19× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

2.2M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

90K

Daily active

18K

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

📲 Utilities engagement	~200 installs / rating
📅 16.2y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Utilities D30 retention	20%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

High confidence · 80%

Also possible

Native iOS (SwiftUI)

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	8 MB
🏷 Category context	Utilities
📦 Compact iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

93%

Last shipped 2018-05-01 · 3073 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

📅 8y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
• 16y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$591K – $800K

12 months

$635K – $978K

24 months

$759K – $1.4M

Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Concerning · 53/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarks

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

6.3

Product Quality

9.6

Revenue Strength

5.8

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

6.0

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

7.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 16,303 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3073d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (3073d 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 = $10.8M-$19.2M.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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:

Mid install base (16,303 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
Paid app ($0.00)METRIC		+$2,800
Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC		+$2,200
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Mature app (16y old)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
annoying adsREVIEW		−$1,100
Single-language (English only)METRIC		−$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v6.0

Updated for iOS 11 and iPhone X - The Original Flashlight App With Over 1.5 Million Sold!

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Flashlight ®
Developer: i4software
Bundle ID: com.i4software.flashlight4
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
Content rating: 4+
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: $600K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Outside top 100 in US Utilities
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 growth16,283 ratings+4086% 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

Instant ON • NO ADS • 5 Stars on over 25,000 Ratings! 1.5 Million Sold! NO Annoying Banner Ads or Push Notifications like the free copycats. Light comes on INSTANTLY. Get the ORIGINAL, Best-Selling, Fastest Flashlight today! (UPDATE: New Dimmable LED Slider iOS6).

••• FLASHLIGHT by i4software ® •••
• www.i4flashlight.com •
#1 Top Paid Utility App in U.S. 
#5 Top Paid App Overall in U.S.
• Over 1,400,000 PAID downloads!
• NO ADS like the free copycats!
• No Push Notifications like the free flashlights.
• No gimmicks to slow you down or distract.
• FAST, pure LIGHT in an INSTANT!… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 8 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v6.0🔄 updated 8y ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (16y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

11 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: reviews −14 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

💲

Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point

→ 30 days after: reviews −14 medium · co-occurring

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 4.09 → 4.70 (improved 0.61★)

→ 30 days after: revenue −$148K/mo · rating +0.61★ · reviews −441 high confidence

2026-02

📈

Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: revenue −$148K/mo · rating +0.61★ · reviews −441 high confidence

2013-11

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: revenue +$12.5K/mo · reviews +36 high confidence

2013-11

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: revenue +$25.0K/mo · rating −0.14★ · reviews +72 high confidence

2013-10

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: revenue +$12.5K/mo · rating −0.10★ · reviews +36 high confidence

2013-10

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: revenue +$37.3K/mo · rating −0.07★ · reviews +106 high confidence

2013-10

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: revenue +$24.8K/mo · reviews +70 medium · co-occurring

2013-09

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: revenue +$24.8K/mo · reviews +70 medium · co-occurring

2013-09

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: revenue +$24.8K/mo · reviews +70 medium · co-occurring

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ASO Keyword Positions

BEST RANK #29

Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.

flashlight·#29🇺🇸

Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API

🌍

Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.67939★	524	4.67939★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	5★	6	5★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.76236★	951	4.76236★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.68966★	29	4.68966★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	5★	5	5★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.55931★	59	4.55931★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	3.66667★	3	3.66667★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.83333★	6	4.83333★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.81648★	16,282	4.81648★ this version

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