Kino - Pro Video Camera
74
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Kino - Pro Video Camera is an iOS app from Lux Optics Incorporated in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 1,961 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 74: 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
$9.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$9.4K – $19.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.6K – $34.9K
per month
MID tierFREE
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
40 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
1,961 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$9.1K
Snapshots tracked
40
since May 2024
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~6 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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
| ⚙ 2.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$14K |
Total estimate
$55K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $200K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~2.7× 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 |
| 📅 2.3y proven track record | +12% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
345K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
67K
Daily active
13K
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 |
| 📅 2.3y of rating accumulation | -12% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 48 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
30%
Last shipped 2026-06-10 · 111 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
| 📅 3 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$9.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.6K – $14.3K
12 months
$9.4K – $19.6K
24 months
$11.6K – $34.9K
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
Stalled · 36/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.6
Product Quality
7.0
Revenue Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.1
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $6K - $13K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.74★ across 1,961 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 5.2% refund mentions, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.58 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $108K-$199K. Portfolio play ($76K/mo combined) commands premium. 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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($9.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,961 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v1.4.3
Now that Halide Mark III is out, we're going to spend a bit of time digging into how we can make Kino even better. We're starting with a small update that fixes an issue with the VU Meters caused by an iOS update.
- Team Kino
- Team Kino
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Kino - Pro Video Camera
- Developer
- Lux Optics Incorporated
- Bundle ID
- camera.lux.kino
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Have an iPhone? You're a filmmaker.
- Description
- Great, cinematic video made easy. Great with Apple Log. Packed with presets and LUT support and real pro tools.
- 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
- $9.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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
- facebook facebook.com/halidecamera · instagram instagram.com/halideapp · twitter twitter.com/halidecamera
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- shotwithkino.com/support/faq
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth1,970 ratings+11488% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (40 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $9.99 (+0%)
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Make great video easy! Kino lets you just press record and create cinematic video with color presets created by expert filmmakers—no edit required. Plus, with “AutoMotion,” the app automatically creates that smooth "film look" you see at the movies. Shoot great video with no film school required.
Are you an experienced filmmaker? Kino includes all the features you need to shoot like a Pro, such as a full manual mode, focus peaking, color waveform, audio meters, and more.… View full description on the official store →
Are you an experienced filmmaker? Kino includes all the features you need to shoot like a Pro, such as a full manual mode, focus peaking, color waveform, audio meters, and more.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 48 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v1.4.3🔄 updated 3mo ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +7📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2024 (2y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 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 →
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.4.2 → v1.4.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +69 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.05 → 4.73 (improved 1.68★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +34 high confidence
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $9.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +34 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +34 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.04 (dropped 1.46★)
→ 30 days after: revenue −$416K/mo · rating −1.45★ · reviews −1,678 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue −$416K/mo · rating −1.45★ · reviews −1,678 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.06 → 4.50 (improved 1.44★)
→ 30 days after: revenue −$416K/mo · rating −1.45★ · reviews −1,678 medium · co-occurring
2025-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$238/mo high confidence
2025-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.1K/mo · reviews +5 high confidence
2024-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$179/mo high confidence
2024-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.6K/mo · rating −0.11★ · reviews +8 high confidence
2024-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.37 → 3.02 (dropped 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.4K/mo · rating −0.08★ · reviews +7 high confidence
2024-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.6K/mo · rating −0.22★ · reviews +21 low · multiple changes
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.86 → 4.38 (dropped 0.48★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.6K/mo · rating −0.22★ · reviews +21 medium · co-occurring
2024-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.6K/mo · rating −0.22★ · reviews +21 medium · co-occurring
2024-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.6K/mo · rating −0.22★ · reviews +21 low · multiple changes
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 307 reviews across 9 markets● 61% positive · ● 16% neutral · ● 23% negative · Rating drift: -1.58★ (declining — recent 50: 3.16★ vs lifetime: 4.74★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.55
🇦🇺 AU
+0.48
🇺🇸 US
+0.44
🇨🇦 CA
+0.31
🇮🇳 IN
+0.17
🇯🇵 JP
+0.16
🇫🇷 FR
+0.06
🇧🇷 BR
+0.05
🇩🇪 DE
+0.01
Top praise themes
iphone max ×9 please add ×8 apple log ×5 between lenses ×4 custom presets ×4 high quality ×4 next update ×3 nearly perfect ×3
Top complaint themes
waste money ×9 iphone mini ×6 iphone max ×6 white balance ×5 apple log ×4 keine bildstabilisierung ×4 few seconds ×3 please add ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 5.2% Bug mentions: 14%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.51049★ | 143 | 4.51049★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.69519★ | 187 | 4.69519★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.47847★ | 209 | 4.47847★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.49206★ | 252 | 4.49206★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.64539★ | 141 | 4.64539★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.556★ | 250 | 4.556★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.5057★ | 263 | 4.5057★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.67403★ | 181 | 4.67403★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.73574★ | 1,964 | 4.73574★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Kino - Pro Video 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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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 98% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,961 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Kino - Pro Video Camera make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Kino - Pro Video Camera earns approximately $9.1K/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 Kino - Pro Video Camera profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $55K and monthly revenue $9.1K, Kino - Pro Video Camera looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 6 months 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 Kino - Pro Video Camera have?▴
Estimated audience: ~345K lifetime downloads, ~67K monthly active users, and ~13K 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 Kino - Pro Video Camera?▴
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What is Kino - Pro Video Camera built with?▴
Our heuristic places Kino - Pro Video Camera on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 Kino - Pro Video Camera still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Kino - Pro Video Camera sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $150K (marketplace range $125K – $200K). 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 Kino - Pro Video Camera last updated?▴
Kino - Pro Video Camera last shipped a new version on 2026-06-10 — 3 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Kino - Pro Video Camera?▴
Kino - Pro Video Camera is published by Lux Optics Incorporated 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 Kino - Pro Video Camera's BU Score?▴
Kino - Pro Video Camera has a BU Score of 74/100 (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.