79
BU Score
Strong
Phonto - Text on Photos
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Phonto - Text on Photos is an iOS app from youthhr in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.8★ across 120,620 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 79 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Photo & Video app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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:
| High install base (120,620 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 66 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v4.9.52🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN, JA, ZH, ZH📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (14y old)
📝 About this app
Phonto is a simple app that allows you to add text to pictures.
・ More than 400 fonts are available.
・ You can install other fonts.
・ Text size is changeable.
・ Text color is changeable.
・ Text gradient is changeable.
・ Text's stroke color is changeable.
・ Text's shadow color is changeable.
・ Text's background color is changeable.
・ Text is rotatable.
・ Text kerning is changeable.
・ Line spacing is changeable.
・ Curved text.
・ Perspective text.
・ Parts of text are erasable.
・ Image theme is changeable.
・ Items (Balloon, Rectangle, Star, Heart) are available.
・ Background image is changeable.
・ You can use not only pictures, but also plain images to write text.
・ You can share photos on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
・ URL scheme: phonto://
Try Vont app, if you want to add text to videos. Vont is a free app that is available on the App Store.
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LANGUAGE
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Phonto supports only English (US), Chinese and Japanese, so when the priority of Chinese (or Japanese) in your setting was higher than English, Phonto would be launched as Chinese (or Japanese) mode.
To solve this problem…
1. Open the Settings app.
2. Choose 'English' in 'General' > 'Language & Region' > 'iPhone Language'.
3. Turn back your 'iPhone Language' to your favorite language.
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HOW TO INSTALL FONTS
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Using iTunes, you can copy font files between your computer and Phonto on your iOS device.
1. Select your iOS device from the Devices section of iTunes.
2. Click the Apps tab and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
3. Select "Phonto" in the "File Sharing" section.
4. Drag and drop .ttf or .otf font files into "Documents".
5. Restart Phonto.
More detail about how to install fonts.
https://phon.to/install_fonts
Twitter: @phontograph
Tumblr: http://phontogra.ph
https://phon.to
We obtained new URL which links to Phonto on the App Store. We appreciate if you introduce Phonto to your friends.
・ More than 400 fonts are available.
・ You can install other fonts.
・ Text size is changeable.
・ Text color is changeable.
・ Text gradient is changeable.
・ Text's stroke color is changeable.
・ Text's shadow color is changeable.
・ Text's background color is changeable.
・ Text is rotatable.
・ Text kerning is changeable.
・ Line spacing is changeable.
・ Curved text.
・ Perspective text.
・ Parts of text are erasable.
・ Image theme is changeable.
・ Items (Balloon, Rectangle, Star, Heart) are available.
・ Background image is changeable.
・ You can use not only pictures, but also plain images to write text.
・ You can share photos on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
・ URL scheme: phonto://
Try Vont app, if you want to add text to videos. Vont is a free app that is available on the App Store.
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LANGUAGE
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Phonto supports only English (US), Chinese and Japanese, so when the priority of Chinese (or Japanese) in your setting was higher than English, Phonto would be launched as Chinese (or Japanese) mode.
To solve this problem…
1. Open the Settings app.
2. Choose 'English' in 'General' > 'Language & Region' > 'iPhone Language'.
3. Turn back your 'iPhone Language' to your favorite language.
--------------------------------
HOW TO INSTALL FONTS
--------------------------------
Using iTunes, you can copy font files between your computer and Phonto on your iOS device.
1. Select your iOS device from the Devices section of iTunes.
2. Click the Apps tab and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
3. Select "Phonto" in the "File Sharing" section.
4. Drag and drop .ttf or .otf font files into "Documents".
5. Restart Phonto.
More detail about how to install fonts.
https://phon.to/install_fonts
Twitter: @phontograph
Tumblr: http://phontogra.ph
https://phon.to
We obtained new URL which links to Phonto on the App Store. We appreciate if you introduce Phonto to your friends.
🆕 What's New · v4.9.52
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Phonto - Text on Photos
- Developer
- youthhr
- Bundle ID
- com.youthhr.Phonto
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, JA, ZH, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Phonto - Text on Photos
- Description
- Add Text to Photos
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $3.0K ($1.0K – $5.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $36.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $9.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Photo & Video
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Phonto - Text on Photos" by youthhr is estimated to generate between $1,000 and $4,999 in monthly revenue, with a central estimate of $3,000, leading to an annual estimate of $36,000. This is based on recent public data indicating less than $5,000 in monthly revenue.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, App Store, Google Play
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.94★ · 61.2% 5★ · 14.3% 1★
5★30 (61%)
4★5 (10%)
3★2 (4%)
2★5 (10%)
1★7 (14%)
+56 ratings/week
Praise: love ×12 best ×8 great ×8 favorite ×3 amazing ×3Complaints: bug ×2 hate ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Thank You
Thank you for such a great app. I’m in my 80s and need to watch my spending. Being able to caption old photos helps the grand and great grand kids understand what they are looking at.…
★★★★★ Amazing App
Been using this app for years for graphic designs to promote my social media, twitch, and YT thumbnails!!…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t work
The app literally doesn’t work. I created an account but then when I try to see the images to edit, nothing shows up. It only shows one add for adobe. Weird.…
★☆☆☆☆ Not pleased
App doesn’t give clear direction. When you add text, it’s all on one line. It doesn’t go to another line to fill the image. It makes it an impossible singular line for a quote or something.…
📈Ratings growth120,620 ratings+16% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
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