Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen
82
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen is an iOS app from Alan Cushway in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.8★ across 55,071 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Photo & Video app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$900K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$953K – $1467K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.1M – $2.1M
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
146 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
55,071 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$900K
Snapshots tracked
146
since Jun 2017
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$170K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $230K
$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 (72 MB) | +$8K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$32K |
| ⚙ 12.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$76K |
Total estimate
$170K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$18.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $14.0M – $24.0M · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~109× 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 |
| 📅 12.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
5.3M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
340K
Daily active
100K
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
| 📲 Photo & Video engagement | ~140 installs / rating |
| 📅 12.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
29% 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 | 72 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2026-02-25 · 211 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
| 📅 7 months since last update | Concerning gap |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$900K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$887K – $1.2M
12 months
$953K – $1.5M
24 months
$1.1M – $2.1M
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 · 70/100BIG TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
8.1
Product Quality
8.2
Revenue Strength
6.0
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.1
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $360K - $1980K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.84★ across 55,071 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 210d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -0.60 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 18-32× monthly = $16.2M-$28.8M.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (55,071 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (16 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v1.77.0
• Minor Bug Fixes and Improvements
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen
- Developer
- Alan Cushway
- Bundle ID
- com.cushwayapps.PhotoCollageElite
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
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
- $900K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Photo & Video
- 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 growth55,924 ratings+11953% 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.
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
Quickly combine multiple photos into one beautifully framed picture. Join over 3 million users who love to tell their story with collage and share with friends & family via social media or email!
Photo Collage Creator packs a simple design with a powerful editor to give you everything you could possibly want to make your photo's simply amazing. All 1000+ layouts are FREE!!! In fact almost all the features are FREE! You'll really love the creativity with endless combinations of patterns, stickers, text, borders, filters, shapes,frames and more.… View full description on the official store →
Photo Collage Creator packs a simple design with a powerful editor to give you everything you could possibly want to make your photo's simply amazing. All 1000+ layouts are FREE!!! In fact almost all the features are FREE! You'll really love the creativity with endless combinations of patterns, stickers, text, borders, filters, shapes,frames and more.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 72 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.77.0🔄 updated 7mo ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, ID, IT +11📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (12y 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
📈
Crossed 50,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +200 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +200 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$12.0K/mo · rating +0.26★ · reviews +31,960 high confidence
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$12.0K/mo · rating +0.26★ · reviews +31,961 high confidence
2017-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2017-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +27 high confidence
2017-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +25 high confidence
2017-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +32 medium · co-occurring
2017-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +32 medium · co-occurring
2017-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.60 (dropped 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +32 medium · co-occurring
2017-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +32 medium · co-occurring
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #10Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
collage maker·#10🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 609 reviews across 6 markets● 81% positive · ● 9% neutral · ● 10% negative · Rating drift: -0.60★ (declining — recent 50: 4.24★ vs lifetime: 4.84★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.73
🇦🇺 AU
+0.67
🇮🇳 IN
+0.67
🇺🇸 US
+0.62
🇧🇷 BR
+0.11
🇩🇪 DE
+0.10
Top praise themes
user friendly ×8 highly recommend ×6 easy options ×5 friends family ×5 edit photos ×5 super easy ×5 being able ×5 photo maker ×4
Top complaint themes
free trial ×7 das premium ×4 access photos ×3 after charged ×3 trial only ×3 subscription ×10 ich ×10 die ×9
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.77166★ | 11,251 | 4.77166★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.88021★ | 1,653 | 4.88021★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.77611★ | 6,579 | 4.77611★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.72271★ | 10,408 | 4.72271★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.74207★ | 22,576 | 4.74207★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.81461★ | 33,394 | 4.81461★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.68415★ | 14,605 | 4.68415★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.63579★ | 324 | 4.63579★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84023★ | 56,043 | 4.84023★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen: 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: 55,071 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen earns approximately $900K/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 Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $900K, Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen 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 Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen have?▴
Estimated audience: ~5.3M lifetime downloads, ~340K monthly active users, and ~100K 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 Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen?▴
Browse the full Photo & Video 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 Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen built with?▴
Our heuristic places Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen 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 Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $18.5M (marketplace range $14.0M – $24.0M). Calculated as 21× 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 Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen last updated?▴
Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen last shipped a new version on 2026-02-25 — 7 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen?▴
Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen is published by Alan Cushway 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 Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen's BU Score?▴
Foto-Collage Bilder Erstellen has a BU Score of 82/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.