How much does Aquarella make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Aquarella 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 Aquarella profitable?

With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Aquarella looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Aquarella have?

Estimated audience: ~11K lifetime downloads, ~590 monthly active users, and ~170 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 Aquarella?

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What is Aquarella built with?

Our heuristic places Aquarella on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.

Is Aquarella still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Aquarella sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 19× 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 Aquarella last updated?

Aquarella last shipped a new version on 2025-12-18 — 9 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Aquarella 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 Aquarella's BU Score?

Aquarella has a BU Score of 58/100 (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.

Aquarella

Quality Score

Solid

Aquarella

Name: Aquarella — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Aquarella revenue, Aquarella app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Photo & Video revenue, iOS app revenue

by JixiPix Software

Medium confidence

4.7 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Aquarella is an iOS app from JixiPix Software in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 116 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 58: Solid (established niche player). For a Photo & Video 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 tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

23 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.7

Reviews

116 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since Jan 2013

🤖Also on Android

Aquarella

$143/mo · 51 ratings · 4.2★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$170K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $130K – $230K

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

📈 Pays back in ~2.8y 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
📦 Asset bundle (62 MB)	+$4K
⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55	+$30K
⚙ 13.7y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$82K

Total estimate $170K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$100K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× 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
📅 13.7y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 19× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

11K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

590

Daily active

170

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
📅 13.7y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention	18%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.30

DAU / MAU 29% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

Medium confidence · 70%

Also possible

Flutter

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	62 MB
🏷 Category context	Photo & Video
📦 Small-mid iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

60%

Last shipped 2025-12-18 · 287 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

📅 9 months since last update	Concerning gap
👥 Small user base (116 ratings) + 13.7y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

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

Below median · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

7.9

Product Quality

6.6

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

7.5

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

9.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.73★ across 116 reviews — solid.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 284d ago — slow cadence.
⚠️ 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($235K/mo combined) commands premium.

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

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 4 of 4 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Paid app ($4.99)METRIC		+$2,800
Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC		+$2,200
Mature app (13y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Early-stage install base (116 ratings)METRIC		+$400

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 · v1.50

Optimization, bug fixes and performance improvements.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: Aquarella
Developer: JixiPix Software
Bundle ID: com.jixipix.Aquarella
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

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 Photo & Video
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 growth116 ratings+2800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (23 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.

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

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Look closely as you render your aquamedia to discover light delicate “blooms” of wet color running throughout your creation and brush strokes of overlapping pigment dried dark along the edges.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 62 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v1.50🔄 updated 9mo ago📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

6 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 →

2026-03

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-03

💲

Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point

2013-10

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2013-10

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2013-01

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

2013-01

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

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Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.42856★	7	4.42856★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	1★	1	1★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	5★	14	5★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	5★	6	5★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	5★	8	5★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.8★	10	4.8★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	5★	1	5★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.8★	5	4.8★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.73276★	116	4.73276★ this version

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

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