Pixa - My Year in Pixels
71
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Pixa - My Year in Pixels is an iOS app from Tulip Tech AB in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.6★ across 955 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE 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
107 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
955 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$500
Snapshots tracked
107
since Sep 2024
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (91 MB) | +$16K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$6K |
| ⚙ 2.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$12K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 📅 2.0y proven track record | +10% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
64K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
19K
Daily active
8.5K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 📅 2.0y of rating accumulation | -10% |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% 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 | 91 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-20 · 36 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
| 📅 36 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Validating · 58/100INDIE TIERSUBSCRIPTIONfinding product-market fitGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
6.4
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
6.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.1
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.57★ across 955 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($22K/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
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:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Multilingual (16 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (955 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| 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.
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pixa - My Year in Pixels
- Developer
- Tulip Tech AB
- Bundle ID
- com.pixa.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, IT, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV
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
- $500/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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 growth1,331 ratings+1917% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
With Pixa you can log your year in pixels. The app helps you get an overview of your year and organize your life. You can customize your log however you like by changing the title, keys and colors. You can also add notes and photos to your day and see statistics for your year. The app also offers widgets and the ability to export your data.
The FREE version of the app allows you to create two logs. If you want to create more logs, you'll need to upgrade to the Premium version.
The app offers subscription plans that give you unlimited access to all of the app's features.… View full description on the official store →
The FREE version of the app allows you to create two logs. If you want to create more logs, you'll need to upgrade to the Premium version.
The app offers subscription plans that give you unlimited access to all of the app's features.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 91 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.4+🔖 v1.7.1🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AR, DA, NL, EN, FI +11📂 Productivity💰 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 →
2026-09
📦
Bundle ↑ 62MB → 96MB — likely major code refresh
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v1.6.8 → v1.7.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +74 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v1.6.5 → v1.6.8
→ 30 days after: reviews +100 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +113 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v1.6.3 → v1.6.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +113 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.25 → 4.57 (improved 0.32★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +102 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +102 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$112/mo · reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$131/mo · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$956/mo · rating +0.12★ · reviews +51 high confidence
2025-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.95 (dropped 1.05★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$74/mo · rating +0.05★ medium · co-occurring
2025-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$74/mo · rating +0.05★ medium · co-occurring
2025-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.40 (dropped 0.60★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$288/mo · rating −1.05★ · reviews +16 medium · co-occurring
2025-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$288/mo · rating −1.05★ · reviews +16 medium · co-occurring
2024-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
8 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-08
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-08
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-08
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-08
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-08
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-08
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 290 reviews across 7 markets● 92% positive · ● 4% neutral · ● 4% negative · Rating drift: -0.05★ (stable — recent 50: 4.52★ vs lifetime: 4.57★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.79
🇺🇸 US
+0.77
🇬🇧 GB
+0.74
🇫🇷 FR
+0.67
🇮🇳 IN
+0.64
🇩🇪 DE
+0.54
🇧🇷 BR
+0.48
Top praise themes
two logs ×62 logs two ×55 keep track ×19 only two ×11 helps keep ×6 free version ×6 without paying ×5 super easy ×5
Top complaint themes
two logs ×3 pay ×14 only ×13 premium ×5 idea ×5 free ×5 boards ×4 money ×4
Risk signals
Subscription complaints: 3%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.5023★ | 217 | 4.5023★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.75★ | 32 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.43635★ | 220 | 4.43635★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.32609★ | 322 | 4.32609★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.54676★ | 139 | 4.54676★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.33467★ | 998 | 4.33467★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.21429★ | 28 | 4.21429★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.58323★ | 1,610 | 4.58323★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Pixa - My Year in Pixels: 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 82% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 955 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Pixa - My Year in Pixels make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Pixa - My Year in Pixels earns approximately $500/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 Pixa - My Year in Pixels profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $85K and monthly revenue $500, Pixa - My Year in Pixels looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Pixa - My Year in Pixels have?▴
Estimated audience: ~64K lifetime downloads, ~19K monthly active users, and ~8K 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 Pixa - My Year in Pixels?▴
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What is Pixa - My Year in Pixels built with?▴
Our heuristic places Pixa - My Year in Pixels 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 Pixa - My Year in Pixels still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Pixa - My Year in Pixels sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 18× 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 Pixa - My Year in Pixels last updated?▴
Pixa - My Year in Pixels last shipped a new version on 2026-08-20 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Pixa - My Year in Pixels?▴
Pixa - My Year in Pixels is published by Tulip Tech AB 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 Pixa - My Year in Pixels's BU Score?▴
Pixa - My Year in Pixels has a BU Score of 71/100 (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.