Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor
75
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor is an iOS app from DEEP FLOW SOFTWARE SERVICES in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 50,735 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 75: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$600K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$635K – $978K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$759K – $1410K
per month
BIG tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
541 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
50,735 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$600K
Snapshots tracked
541
since Nov 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 (183 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 3.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$17K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $7.5M – $13.0M · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~105× 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 |
| 📅 3.0y proven track record | +15% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
8.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.6M
Daily active
320K
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 |
| 📅 3.0y of rating accumulation | -15% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
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 | 183 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-04 · 23 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
| 📅 23 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$591K – $800K
12 months
$635K – $978K
24 months
$759K – $1.4M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 63/100BIG TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.6
Product Quality
7.7
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
8.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
4.3
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.61★ across 50,735 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — 3.2% refund mentions, 5% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected.
🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $7.2M-$13.2M. 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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (50,735 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v4.1.6
Bugs are fixed.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor
- Developer
- DEEP FLOW SOFTWARE SERVICES
- Bundle ID
- com.codespaceapps.you
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, ES, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Leading What’s Next In Mobile AI
- Description
- Codeway brings cutting-edge AI to millions of users around the globe. Explore the future with Codeway.
- Founded
- 2019
- HQ / Address
- Sisli
- 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
- $600K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#20 /100 🇧🇷#22 /100 🇬🇧#24 /100 🇫🇷#24 /100 🇩🇪#26 /100 🇨🇦#28 /100 🇦🇺#28 /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
- Socials
- instagram instagram.com/codeway · linkedin linkedin.com/company/codewaystudios · tiktok tiktok.com/@codeway?is_from_webapp=1&… · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCS8d61isDiGYQ3tT…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- codeway.co/contact-us
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth51,284 ratings+10540% 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 Rank8 countries
🇺🇸US#20 /100
🇧🇷BR#22 /100
🇬🇧GB#24 /100
🇫🇷FR#24 /100
🇩🇪DE#26 /100
🇨🇦CA#28 /100
🇦🇺AU#28 /100
🇯🇵JP#79 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#20 now · best #20 · worst #21
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter9 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline8 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
Say goodbye to ordinary photo editing apps, and hello to "Retake" – the game-changer in photography apps. No longer worry about capturing the perfect shot on the first try; "Retake" transforms any snap, be it from three years ago or from your upcoming birthday bash, into a photo you’ll absolutely adore, all with a single tap.
REALISTIC AI RETAKES THAT NO ONE CAN TELL
If you’re thinking this is just another face editing app offering AI-generated avatars delivering artificial results, think again.… View full description on the official store →
REALISTIC AI RETAKES THAT NO ONE CAN TELL
If you’re thinking this is just another face editing app offering AI-generated avatars delivering artificial results, think again.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 183 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.5+🔖 v4.1.6🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +3📂 Utilities💰 Free🚀 Launched 2023 (2y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
18 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 — v4.1.4 → v4.1.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +929 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v4.1.3 → v4.1.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,130 high confidence
2026-07
📈
Crossed 50,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,536 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.1.2 → v4.1.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,536 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.1.0 → v4.1.2
→ 30 days after: revenue −$8.0K/mo · reviews +967 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.3 → v4.1.0
→ 30 days after: revenue −$8.0K/mo · reviews +1,160 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.2 → v4.0.3
→ 30 days after: revenue −$8.0K/mo · reviews +1,187 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.1 → v4.0.2
→ 30 days after: revenue −$8.0K/mo · reviews +1,255 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.0 → v4.0.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,123 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,537 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.79 → 4.62 (improved 0.83★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,537 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$8.0K/mo · rating +0.84★ · reviews +45,715 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.17★ · reviews +227 high confidence
2025-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.32★ · reviews +153 high confidence
2025-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +2.97★ · reviews +118 low · multiple changes
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.33 → 3.75 (improved 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: rating +2.96★ · reviews +111 low · multiple changes
2025-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +2.93★ · reviews +107 medium · co-occurring
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +2.93★ · reviews +107 medium · co-occurring
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #17Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
photo retouch·#17🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 728 reviews across 7 markets● 51% positive · ● 26% neutral · ● 24% negative · Rating drift: -1.33★ (declining — recent 50: 3.28★ vs lifetime: 4.61★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.30
🇯🇵 JP
+0.28
🇨🇦 CA
+0.27
🇺🇸 US
+0.25
🇫🇷 FR
+0.09
🇧🇷 BR
+0.07
🇩🇪 DE
-0.10
Top praise themes
muito bom ×7 free trial ×4 photo editing ×3 only complaint ×3 photos ×34 amazing ×30 easy ×19 super ×17
Top complaint themes
free trial ×55 cancel subscription ×11 doesn work ×8 per week ×8 don waste ×8 trial charged ×5 credit card ×5 trial immediately ×5
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 3.2% Subscription complaints: 5% Fraud / scam mentions: 4.1%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.51186★ | 1,602 | 4.51186★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.70115★ | 11,648 | 4.70115★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.53521★ | 3,096 | 4.53521★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.50509★ | 1,865 | 4.50509★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.4337★ | 1,584 | 4.4337★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.45407★ | 2,656 | 4.45407★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.36193★ | 373 | 4.36193★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.32444★ | 450 | 4.32444★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.61093★ | 51,787 | 4.61093★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor: 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 high confidence: 50,735 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor earns approximately $600K/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 Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $95K and monthly revenue $600K, Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor have?▴
Estimated audience: ~8.6M lifetime downloads, ~1.6M monthly active users, and ~320K 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 Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor?▴
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 Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor built with?▴
Our heuristic places Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 23 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10.0M (marketplace range $7.5M – $13.0M). Calculated as 17× 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 Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor last updated?▴
Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor last shipped a new version on 2026-09-04 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor?▴
Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor is published by DEEP FLOW SOFTWARE SERVICES 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 Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor's BU Score?▴
Retake AI Face & Selfie Editor has a BU Score of 75/100 (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.