Rarevision VHS: Retro Cam
76
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Rarevision VHS: Retro Cam is an iOS app from Rarevision in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 6,731 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 76: 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
$14.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$15.2K – $31.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$18.8K – $56.3K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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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
105 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
6,731 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$14.6K
Snapshots tracked
105
since Nov 2022
🤖Also on Android
$287/mo · 12K ratings · 4.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~8 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 |
| ⚙ 11.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$67K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$250K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $325K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~2.3× 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 |
| 📅 11.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
940K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
83K
Daily active
16K
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 |
| 📅 11.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% 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 | 31 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
77%
Last shipped 2025-11-07 · 367 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
| 📅 1y 0mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| • 11y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$14.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$13.9K – $23.2K
12 months
$15.2K – $31.7K
24 months
$18.8K – $56.3K
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 · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.1
Product Quality
8.4
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $10K - $21K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.66★ across 6,731 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 363d 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 = $263K-$468K. 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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($5.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (6,731 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 |
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 · v1.7.1
Guaranteed worst video quality in the business! Here's what we fixed:
• Fixed a bug with the titler text style
• Video stabilization preference now remembered
• Fixed a bug with the titler text style
• Video stabilization preference now remembered
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Rarevision VHS: Retro Cam
- Developer
- Rarevision
- Bundle ID
- com.rarevision.vhs-camcorder
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, JA, KO, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Creators of the original Rarevision VHS mobile app and visual effects superstars.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $14.6K/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/rarevisionvhs · instagram instagram.com/rarevision · twitter x.com/rarevision
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- rarevision.com/contact.php
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth6,730 ratings+1402% 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $5.99 (+0%)
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
Used by Kendall Jenner, Snoop Dogg, BTS, Ariana Grande, Khloe Kardashian, Wiz Khalifa, Victoria Beckham, Die Antwoord and featured on SNL (S41E01) and in countless TV shows and music videos!
Covered by WIRED, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Mechanics, The Independent, Macworld, TMZ, TechCrunch, Mashable and many others!
App of the Day for Friday, Dec 22, 2017
It's 1984, and you've got a VHS camcorder! It'll look that way when you record and send old, messed up-looking retro videos to friends. They'll swear you built a time machine: "OMG, how'd you shoot that?"… View full description on the official store →
Covered by WIRED, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Mechanics, The Independent, Macworld, TMZ, TechCrunch, Mashable and many others!
App of the Day for Friday, Dec 22, 2017
It's 1984, and you've got a VHS camcorder! It'll look that way when you record and send old, messed up-looking retro videos to friends. They'll swear you built a time machine: "OMG, how'd you shoot that?"… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 31 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v1.7.1🔄 updated 1y ago🌐 EN, JA, KO, ES📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $5.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +15 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$18.1K/mo · rating +0.12★ · reviews +6,195 high confidence
2025-11
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.7.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2023-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +14 high confidence
2023-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$94/mo · rating +0.07★ · reviews +32 high confidence
2023-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.12★ · reviews +11 high confidence
2023-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$82/mo · rating −0.24★ · reviews +29 high confidence
2022-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$55/mo · reviews +19 high confidence
2022-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$56/mo · rating −0.17★ · reviews +19 high confidence
2022-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$56/mo · rating −0.17★ · reviews +19 medium · co-occurring
2022-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$56/mo · rating −0.17★ · reviews +19 medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.46121★ | 232 | 4.46121★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.47674★ | 258 | 4.47674★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.53978★ | 465 | 4.53978★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.6506★ | 249 | 4.6506★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.43046★ | 151 | 4.43046★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.53042★ | 526 | 4.53042★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.47917★ | 48 | 4.47917★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.59321★ | 472 | 4.59321★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.6636★ | 6,730 | 4.6636★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Rarevision VHS: Retro Cam: 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 medium confidence: 6,731 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Rarevision VHS make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Rarevision VHS earns approximately $14K/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 Rarevision VHS profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $110K and monthly revenue $14K, Rarevision VHS looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 8 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 Rarevision VHS have?▴
Estimated audience: ~940K lifetime downloads, ~83K monthly active users, and ~16K 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 Rarevision VHS?▴
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What is Rarevision VHS built with?▴
Our heuristic places Rarevision VHS 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 Rarevision VHS still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (77% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Rarevision VHS sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $250K (marketplace range $200K – $325K). 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 Rarevision VHS last updated?▴
Rarevision VHS last shipped a new version on 2025-11-07 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Rarevision VHS?▴
Rarevision VHS is published by Rarevision 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 Rarevision VHS's BU Score?▴
Rarevision VHS has a BU Score of 76/100 (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.