Solocator - GPS Field Camera
56
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Solocator - GPS Field Camera is an iOS app from Civi Corp in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.3★ across 418 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 56: 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
$5.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$6.0K – $12.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$7.5K – $22.4K
per month
MID tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
99 snapshots on record
Rating
4.3
Reviews
418 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.8K
Snapshots tracked
99
since Jun 2013
🤖Also on Android
$401/mo · 992 ratings · 3.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.8y 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 |
| ⚙ 13.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$82K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 15× 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 |
| 📅 13.8y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
58K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.4K
Daily active
680
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 |
| 📅 13.8y 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 | 29 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
40%
Last shipped 2026-04-04 · 173 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
| 📅 5 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
| 👥 Small user base (418 ratings) + 13.8y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.8K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$5.5K – $9.2K
12 months
$6.0K – $12.6K
24 months
$7.5K – $22.4K
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
Below median · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.8
Product Quality
6.0
Revenue Strength
3.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $8K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.28★ across 419 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 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 = $104K-$186K.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (418 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)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 · v2.26
- Bug Fix: Resolved a camera capture issue affecting some devices on iOS 18 after updating to v2.25.
- Improvement: Refined the "Wi-Fi Only" upload alerts for better clarity and control.
- Improvement: Refined the "Wi-Fi Only" upload alerts for better clarity and control.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Solocator - GPS Field Camera
- Developer
- Civi Corp
- Bundle ID
- .com.solocator.solocator
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- solocator.com
- 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
- $5.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇦🇺#44 /100 🇮🇳#68 /100 🇨🇦#82 /100 🇬🇧#88 /100
- 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 growth419 ratings+417% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank4 countries
🇦🇺AU#44 /100
🇮🇳IN#68 /100
🇨🇦CA#82 /100
🇬🇧GB#88 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#44 now · best #44 · worst #75
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $0.99 (+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
Solocator – The GPS Camera for Fieldwork and Photo Proof evidence. Overlay and stamp photos with location, direction, altitude, date & time taken. With the Industry Pack (in-app purchase), capture field notes including project name, photo description, company or username, and company logo.
Solocator is trusted by professionals, government agencies, and industries worldwide for reliable photo documentation.
TAILOR OVERLAY INFORMATION TO YOUR NEEDS
Capture & stamp on your photos:
+ GPS position (Latitude & Longitude in various formats) ± accuracy
+ UTM/MGRS coordinates (Industry Pack)… View full description on the official store →
Solocator is trusted by professionals, government agencies, and industries worldwide for reliable photo documentation.
TAILOR OVERLAY INFORMATION TO YOUR NEEDS
Capture & stamp on your photos:
+ GPS position (Latitude & Longitude in various formats) ± accuracy
+ UTM/MGRS coordinates (Industry Pack)… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 29 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.26🔄 updated 5mo ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.58 → 4.27 (improved 0.69★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +10 high confidence
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v2.26
→ 30 days after: revenue +$155/mo · rating +0.68★ · reviews +229 medium · co-occurring
2019-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.17★ · reviews +17 high confidence
2015-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 4.05 (dropped 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.22★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2013-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.13 (dropped 0.37★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ high confidence
2013-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2013-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.00 (improved 0.50★)
2013-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.50 (dropped 1.50★)
2013-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.0641★ | 78 | 4.0641★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.33333★ | 9 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.98387★ | 62 | 3.98387★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.4★ | 5 | 4.4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3★ | 2 | 3★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.81081★ | 37 | 3.81081★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3★ | 2 | 3★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3★ | 1 | 3★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.27684★ | 419 | 4.27684★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Solocator - GPS Field Camera: 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: 418 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Solocator - GPS Field Camera make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Solocator - GPS Field Camera earns approximately $5.8K/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 Solocator - GPS Field Camera profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $5.8K, Solocator - GPS Field Camera looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Solocator - GPS Field Camera have?▴
Estimated audience: ~58K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~680 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 Solocator - GPS Field Camera?▴
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 Solocator - GPS Field Camera built with?▴
Our heuristic places Solocator - GPS Field Camera 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 Solocator - GPS Field Camera still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (40% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Solocator - GPS Field Camera sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 15× 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 Solocator - GPS Field Camera last updated?▴
Solocator - GPS Field Camera last shipped a new version on 2026-04-04 — 5 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Solocator - GPS Field Camera?▴
Solocator - GPS Field Camera is published by Civi Corp 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 Solocator - GPS Field Camera's BU Score?▴
Solocator - GPS Field Camera has a BU Score of 56/100 (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.