How much does Portrait Painter make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Portrait Painter earns approximately $31K/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.

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Who makes Portrait Painter?

Portrait Painter is published by JixiPix Software 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 Portrait Painter's BU Score?

Portrait Painter has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.

Portrait Painter

Quality Score

Strong

Portrait Painter

Name: Portrait Painter — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
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License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Medium confidence

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Portrait Painter is an iOS app from JixiPix Software in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 1,589 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Photo & Video 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.

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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💰 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:

Paid app ($0.00)METRIC		+$2,800
Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC		+$2,200
worth every pennyREVIEW		+$2,000
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Low install base (1,589 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Mature app (13y old)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
slowREVIEW		−$1,200

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 · v1.17.37

Optimization, bug fixes and performance improvements.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: Portrait Painter
Developer: JixiPix Software
Bundle ID: Not found
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Photo & Video
Content rating: 4+
Languages: Not found

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

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
ML model estimate / mo: $31.8K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
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 growth1,589 ratings+588% 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.

💰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

Portrait Painter is a professional painting tool that automatically creates a finely painted gallery- style portrait from any image or snapshot then adds color, light and texture, which harmonize intelligently. Artists, Photographers & Hobbyists will love watching their subjects transcend from the living to become immortalized in a timeless masterpiece.

PORTRAIT STYLES
• Portrait Paint — Classic-Style brushes in the original colors from your photo
• Bright & Colorful — Modern-Style replaces brush strokes with bright and colorful ones

Highlights of Portrait Painter… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 24 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v1.17.37🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

9 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

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Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point

2026-03

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Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2013-08

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Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2013-05

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Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2012-11

⭐

Rating ↓ 4.44 → 4.10 (dropped 0.34★)

2012-11

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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2012-10

⭐

Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.33 (improved 0.83★)

2012-10

⭐

Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)

2012-10

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$80K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $60K – $110K

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

📈 Pays back in ~3 months 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
⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55	+$27K

Total estimate $80K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$500K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $400K – $700K · 17× MRR multiple

💸 ~6.2× 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
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%

Final multiple 17× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

220K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

39K

Daily active

11K

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

📲 Photo & Video engagement	~140 installs / rating
🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention	18%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.30

DAU / MAU 29% sticky

📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Portrait Painter: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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