Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera
69
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera is an iOS app from Nico Schroeder in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.5★ across 700 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 69: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
79 snapshots on record
Rating
4.5
Reviews
700 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
79
since May 2012
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.2y 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 |
| ⚙ 14.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$86K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 📅 14.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
98K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.0K
Daily active
1.0K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅 14.4y 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 | 5 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-15 · 14 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
| 📅 14 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
Stalled · 38/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.9
Product Quality
4.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
2.9
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.48★ across 700 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 2.7% refund mentions, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.76 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($15K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 8 of 8 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (700 ratings)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 · v5.6
- iOS 27 support
- Performance optimizations
- Misc optimizations
- Performance optimizations
- Misc optimizations
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera
- Developer
- Nico Schroeder
- Bundle ID
- com.clidoapps.nightvision
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV
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
- $5.0K/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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.45★ · 81.6% 5★ · 12.2% 1★
5★40 (82%)
4★3 (6%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★6 (12%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×12 awesome ×9 best ×8 love ×5 recommend ×3Complaints: refund ×1 expensive ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Works well
I really like this app have used it many times as of late and works great in low light conditions…
★★★★★ Best app ever
I’m being using this app for years and is amazing I recommend it to anyone god blessed America…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ No sirve
Pura madre no se ve nada nomas pague 9.99 de por gusto…
★☆☆☆☆ Buttons to change settings are stacked on top of each other, so some settings are inaccessible
I have a 10.5” iPad Pro, and it worked fine at first. But now some settings (like exposure, zoom, and color) are stacked underneath other buttons, so many settings are inaccessible. I’ll update the review when the issue is fixed, but for no…
📈Ratings growth701 ratings+1697% 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 → $9.99 (+0%)
🚀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
Have you ever wanted to take a photo in low light conditions?
Due to complex mathematical algorithms Night Eyes provides residual light amplification in real-time for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch without additional hardware.
The image is illuminated in real-time (without delay). You can also switch the light amplification mode to exposure mode for better quality. With an exposure time of up to one second you will be able to view the smallest details. It's ideal for twilight situations.
The luminance histogram shows you the brightness level in real-time.… View full description on the official store →
Due to complex mathematical algorithms Night Eyes provides residual light amplification in real-time for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch without additional hardware.
The image is illuminated in real-time (without delay). You can also switch the light amplification mode to exposure mode for better quality. With an exposure time of up to one second you will be able to view the smallest details. It's ideal for twilight situations.
The luminance histogram shows you the brightness level in real-time.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 5 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v5.6🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +7📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
17 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 — v5.4 → v5.6
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.3 → v5.4
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.1 → v5.3
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v5.0.1 → v5.1
2026-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $9.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.85 → 4.50 (improved 0.65★)
2019-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$302/mo low · multiple changes
2017-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$707/mo · rating +0.13★ medium · co-occurring
2017-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.1K/mo · rating +0.21★ · reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2012-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$178/mo · rating +0.19★ medium · co-occurring
2012-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.3K/mo · rating −0.10★ · reviews +9 low · multiple changes
2012-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.29 → 2.63 (improved 0.34★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.3K/mo · rating −0.10★ · reviews +9 high confidence
2012-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.60 (improved 0.60★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.2K/mo · rating −0.29★ · reviews +8 medium · co-occurring
2012-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.8K/mo · rating +1.31★ · reviews +12 medium · co-occurring
2012-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$624/mo · rating +1.60★ high confidence
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 256 reviews across 8 markets● 41% positive · ● 39% neutral · ● 20% negative · Rating drift: -0.76★ (declining — recent 50: 3.72★ vs lifetime: 4.48★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.44
🇺🇸 US
+0.31
🇨🇦 CA
+0.20
🇦🇺 AU
+0.20
🇫🇷 FR
+0.18
🇯🇵 JP
+0.01
🇧🇷 BR
-0.16
🇩🇪 DE
-0.17
Top praise themes
low light ×5 vision nocturne ×4 see dark ×3 works ×27 work ×18 camera ×16 one ×13 better ×13
Top complaint themes
waste money ×8 doesn't work ×8 ein mist ×5 mist scheiß ×5 scheiß ein ×4 visão noturna ×4 das geld ×3 als die ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.7% Bug mentions: 4% Fraud / scam mentions: 1.9%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.02325★ | 43 | 4.02325★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3★ | 14 | 3★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.38333★ | 60 | 4.38333★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.46269★ | 67 | 4.46269★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.125★ | 16 | 4.125★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.08696★ | 46 | 4.08696★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.4★ | 5 | 3.4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.15888★ | 107 | 4.15888★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.48074★ | 701 | 4.48074★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera: 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: 700 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera earns approximately $5.0K/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 Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $130K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera have?▴
Estimated audience: ~98K lifetime downloads, ~5K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera?▴
Browse the full Utilities 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 Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera built with?▴
Our heuristic places Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera 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 Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 14 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). 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 Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera last updated?▴
Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera last shipped a new version on 2026-09-15 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera?▴
Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera is published by Nico Schroeder 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 Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera's BU Score?▴
Night Eyes - Nachtsichtkamera has a BU Score of 69/100 (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.