PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You!
28
Quality Score
Niche
PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You!
by Stone Studio Co., Ltd.
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! is an iOS app from Stone Studio Co., Ltd. in the Productivity category, currently rated 1.9★ across 72 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 28: Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a Productivity app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage. 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO tier
💡 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
48 snapshots on record
Rating
1.9
Reviews
72 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$200
Snapshots tracked
48
since Feb 2015
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$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 |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙ 11.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$70K |
Total estimate
$125K
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 26 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2020-06-01 · 2356 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
| 📅 6y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (72 ratings) + 11.7y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 12y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 28/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.2
Product Quality
1.5
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.88★ across 72 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2354d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2354d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $3K-$6K.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($2.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (1.9★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (72 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v6.0.0
Bug Fixed
Compatible for iOS 13
Compatible for iOS 13
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You!
- Developer
- Stone Studio Co., Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- com.golden.cruzycar
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 12+
- 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
- $200/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 growth72 ratings+3500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (48 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 → $2.99 (+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
Photo Chop is still the best "photoshop like" app that allows you to make hilarious pics in unbelievable places. It's so EASY TO USE, with its Photo Chop Background Adjuster to Superimpose yr images and with its WIDE range of backgrounds and AMAZING features, you can go to so many places and occasions in a snap. Fooling your friends just became a bit more wicked!
Dear Customers: If you have any questions, please email us to this address: iosuppor@gmail.com
Dear Customers: If you have any questions, please email us to this address: iosuppor@gmail.com
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 26 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v6.0.0🔄 updated 6y ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 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 $2.99 price point
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.30 → 1.88 (improved 0.58★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.02 → 1.30 (dropped 0.72★)
2021-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.88 → 3.08 (dropped 0.80★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ medium · co-occurring
2015-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ medium · co-occurring
2015-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.68★ · reviews +7 low · multiple changes
2015-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.88 → 3.56 (dropped 0.32★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.68★ · reviews +7 high confidence
2015-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.29 → 3.88 (dropped 0.41★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.80★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2015-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.83 → 4.29 (dropped 0.54★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ high confidence
2015-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.20★ high confidence
2015-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.20★ high confidence
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 72 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! earns approximately $200/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 PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $200, PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! 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.
What apps are like PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You!?▴
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What is PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! built with?▴
Our heuristic places PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! last updated?▴
PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! last shipped a new version on 2020-06-01 — more than 6 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You!?▴
PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! is published by Stone Studio Co., Ltd. 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 PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You!'s BU Score?▴
PhotoChop - Edit Pics For You! has a BU Score of 28/100 (Niche). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.