AI Trendmaker by Pika
63
Quality Score
Solid
AI Trendmaker by Pika
by Mellis, Inc.
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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AI Trendmaker by Pika is an iOS app from Mellis, Inc. in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.6★ across 271 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 63: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
57 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
271 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$500
Snapshots tracked
57
since Jul 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$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 (173 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$63K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 16× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
24K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
6.0K
Daily active
3.3K
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
| 📲 Social Networking engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% sticky
🔬
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
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
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
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
6.5
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.3
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.62★ across 271 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 ($8K/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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (271 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (1y 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- AI Trendmaker by Pika
- Developer
- Mellis, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- art.pika.nova
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
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 Social Networking
- 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 growth275 ratings+27400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 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.
🚀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
Turn your selfies into viral AI videos. Pika is the AI video app that makes it easy to create, remix, and share scroll-stopping content. Join the next trend, or start your own — with just a few taps.
Why Pika?
AI VIDEO MAKER
Pika transforms your photos into unreal videos, GIFs, and memes. A selfie is all you need.
REMIX TEMPLATES & TRENDS
Pika lets you remix trending styles, sounds, and lipsync templates in seconds.
AI LIPSYNC
Pika allows you to sing or say anything with perfect sync to music or speech.
COMMUNITY… View full description on the official store →
Why Pika?
AI VIDEO MAKER
Pika transforms your photos into unreal videos, GIFs, and memes. A selfie is all you need.
REMIX TEMPLATES & TRENDS
Pika lets you remix trending styles, sounds, and lipsync templates in seconds.
AI LIPSYNC
Pika allows you to sing or say anything with perfect sync to music or speech.
COMMUNITY… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 173 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 17.6+🔖 v1.1.7🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 — v1.1.6 → v1.1.7
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.10 → 4.62 (improved 0.52★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$7.4K/mo · rating +1.04★ · reviews +233 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.06 → 4.10 (improved 1.04★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$7.4K/mo · rating +1.04★ · reviews +233 high confidence
2025-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$193/mo · rating +0.09★ · reviews +6 high confidence
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$124/mo · rating −0.80★ medium · co-occurring
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$124/mo · rating −0.80★ medium · co-occurring
2025-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$124/mo · rating −0.80★ medium · co-occurring
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.58333★ | 12 | 4.58333★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.95385★ | 65 | 4.95385★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.52941★ | 17 | 4.52941★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4★ | 27 | 4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.07692★ | 13 | 4.07692★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.38889★ | 36 | 4.38889★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.15789★ | 19 | 4.15789★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.76923★ | 13 | 4.76923★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.59124★ | 274 | 4.59124★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for AI Trendmaker by Pika: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 271 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does AI Trendmaker by Pika make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, AI Trendmaker by Pika 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 AI Trendmaker by Pika profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $500, AI Trendmaker by Pika 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 AI Trendmaker by Pika have?▴
Estimated audience: ~24K lifetime downloads, ~6K monthly active users, and ~3K 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 AI Trendmaker by Pika?▴
Browse the full Social Networking 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.
How much would AI Trendmaker by Pika sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 16× 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.
Who makes AI Trendmaker by Pika?▴
AI Trendmaker by Pika is published by Mellis, Inc. 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 AI Trendmaker by Pika's BU Score?▴
AI Trendmaker by Pika has a BU Score of 63/100 (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.