45
BU Score
Emerging
CovertCam
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CovertCam is an iOS app from Adrian Moorhouse in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 3.5★ across 96 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 45: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Photo & Video app, that means early traction worth watching.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 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 7 of 7 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.5★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (96 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.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 8 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v4.0.2🔄 updated 6y ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)
📝 About this app
The original black screen camera app. No nonsense app with no silly gimmicks.
Take a photo or video with a touch of the blacked out screen.
Made for concert and festival goers
Features include:
- Discrete preview window that can be hidden
- Live photos available
- Burst mode
All settings can be uniquely set to your preferences and saved.
CovertCam v4.0.2 features:
- Single tap anywhere on screen for photo
- Swipe right to toggle video mode, then double tap anywhere on screen for video (double tap again to stop)
- Swipe left to toggle front/rear cameras
- Swipe right to toggle photo/video mode
- Press and hold (3+ seconds) for settings/removing settings menu
- Burst mode - Takes a photo every x seconds
Coming soon:
- Integration with Apple Watch
PLEASE NOTE:
In order to take video you need to be in 'video mode' - Swipe right and you toggle between photo and video mode. An indication that you are in 'video mode' will be that the view finder will slightly enlarge. Once in 'video mode' you can double tap to start the video.
It is currently not possible to auto-disable the shutter sound of the camera when taking a photo. It is against the iOS Developer Program License Agreement.
It is against iOS Developer Program License Agreement to not have indications on the screen when taking a photo and/or video.
Take a photo or video with a touch of the blacked out screen.
Made for concert and festival goers
Features include:
- Discrete preview window that can be hidden
- Live photos available
- Burst mode
All settings can be uniquely set to your preferences and saved.
CovertCam v4.0.2 features:
- Single tap anywhere on screen for photo
- Swipe right to toggle video mode, then double tap anywhere on screen for video (double tap again to stop)
- Swipe left to toggle front/rear cameras
- Swipe right to toggle photo/video mode
- Press and hold (3+ seconds) for settings/removing settings menu
- Burst mode - Takes a photo every x seconds
Coming soon:
- Integration with Apple Watch
PLEASE NOTE:
In order to take video you need to be in 'video mode' - Swipe right and you toggle between photo and video mode. An indication that you are in 'video mode' will be that the view finder will slightly enlarge. Once in 'video mode' you can double tap to start the video.
It is currently not possible to auto-disable the shutter sound of the camera when taking a photo. It is against the iOS Developer Program License Agreement.
It is against iOS Developer Program License Agreement to not have indications on the screen when taking a photo and/or video.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- CovertCam
- Developer
- Adrian Moorhouse
- Bundle ID
- AdrianMoorhouse.CovertCam
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- 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
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/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
- https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1701453284
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.9★ · 12.2% 5★ · 65.3% 1★
5★6 (12%)
4★3 (6%)
3★3 (6%)
2★5 (10%)
1★32 (65%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×6 love ×3 best ×1 amazing ×1 recommend ×1Complaints: bug ×3 terrible ×2 scam ×1 refund ×1 broken ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Very good
Works very well hard to figure out at first but then you will get it.…
★★★★★ Yup
Seems great to me. Both video and audio come in clean. It’s quick. It’s easy if you follow the controls provided above. I am wondering if there’s a way to get rid of the tiny red marker that’s there in video mode. Hardly noticeable though I…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Not a real black screen
It has a bright red dot on the screen when recording video.…
★☆☆☆☆ This app is difficult to use
I was able to switch to video mode and also to settings, but return from setting to the black screen make it disappear the preview window from the bottom and I can’t make it reappear again until I close and reopen the app. I wish you could …
📈Ratings growth96 ratings+9500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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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