Avatan – Photo Editor
59
Quality Score
Solid
Avatan – Photo Editor
by Avatan Studio, LLC
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Avatan – Photo Editor is an iOS app from Avatan Studio, LLC in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 2.6★ across 41,634 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 59: Solid (established niche player). For a Photo & Video 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
$15.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$15.7K – $32.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$19.4K – $58.2K
per month
MID tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
71 snapshots on record
Rating
2.6
Reviews
41,634 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$15.1K
Snapshots tracked
71
since Jan 2014
🤖Also on Android
$195/mo · 41K ratings · 2.6★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$215K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $160K – $290K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.2y 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 (162 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
| ⚙ 12.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$76K |
Total estimate
$215K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~1.0× build cost (break-even+)
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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
4.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
255K
Daily active
76K
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
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 162 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-20 · 82 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
| 📅 82 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$15.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$14.4K – $23.9K
12 months
$15.7K – $32.8K
24 months
$19.4K – $58.2K
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 · 44/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.2
Product Quality
5.2
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $10K - $22K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.61★ across 41,634 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $272K-$484K.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (41,634 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.6★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (22 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v5.36
In this version, we’ve made performance improvements and fixed a few issues for a smoother and more reliable experience.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Avatan – Photo Editor
- Developer
- Avatan Studio, LLC
- Bundle ID
- ru.avatan
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- AR, BE, EN, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KK, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, UK
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
- $15.1K/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 growth5,761 ratings+24948% 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 Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Avatan is a social photo editor.
It enables people to edit photos interacting with each other, while using their own processing elements.
All the elements are created and added by users to the social network integrated with the photo editor.
EFFECTS
You have the opportunity to create and save your own, customized effects.
To create effects, you can use various tools and resources.
RESOURCES
You can add and use 4 various resources when editing images:
* Stickers
* Textures
* Frames
* Backgrounds
RETOUCHING… View full description on the official store →
It enables people to edit photos interacting with each other, while using their own processing elements.
All the elements are created and added by users to the social network integrated with the photo editor.
EFFECTS
You have the opportunity to create and save your own, customized effects.
To create effects, you can use various tools and resources.
RESOURCES
You can add and use 4 various resources when editing images:
* Stickers
* Textures
* Frames
* Backgrounds
RETOUCHING… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 162 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v5.36🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 AR, BE, EN, FR, DE +17📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
21 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 →
2026-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.61 → 4.70 (improved 2.09★)
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v4.9.9 → v5.36
→ 30 days after: reviews −81 high confidence
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 4 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews −89 high confidence
2026-06
📈
Crossed 10,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews −89 high confidence
2026-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 2.61 (dropped 2.09★)
→ 30 days after: reviews −89 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: revenue −$11.4K/mo · rating −2.09★ · reviews +36,056 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.55 → 4.80 (improved 2.25★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.29 → 2.77 (improved 0.48★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ high confidence
2018-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.86 → 2.48 (dropped 0.38★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ high confidence
2017-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ high confidence
2017-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.38★ · reviews +14 medium · co-occurring
2015-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.18★ high confidence
2015-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2015-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.57 → 3.25 (dropped 0.32★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.25★ medium · co-occurring
2015-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
2014-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 2.75 (improved 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.25★ high confidence
2014-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.42★ high confidence
2014-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −2.67★ high confidence
📸
Store Page History
4 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.
2026-05-13
2026-06-22
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-06-22
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-06-22
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-06-22
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #35Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
photo retouch·#35🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — avatanplus.com
- Mail provider
- Yandex Mail
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.69969★ | 5,764 | 4.69969★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.62683★ | 477 | 4.62683★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.61383★ | 839 | 4.61383★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.65269★ | 1,932 | 4.65269★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.61686★ | 261 | 4.61686★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.61163★ | 533 | 4.61163★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.57447★ | 188 | 4.57447★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.79204★ | 12,459 | 4.79204★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.63225★ | 310 | 4.63225★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Avatan – Photo Editor: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 41,634 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Avatan – Photo Editor make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Avatan – Photo Editor earns approximately $15K/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 Avatan – Photo Editor profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $215K and monthly revenue $15K, Avatan – Photo Editor looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Avatan – Photo Editor have?▴
Estimated audience: ~4.0M lifetime downloads, ~255K monthly active users, and ~76K 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 Avatan – Photo Editor?▴
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What is Avatan – Photo Editor built with?▴
Our heuristic places Avatan – Photo Editor on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) 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 Avatan – Photo Editor still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Avatan – Photo Editor sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $225K (marketplace range $175K – $300K). Calculated as 15× 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 Avatan – Photo Editor last updated?▴
Avatan – Photo Editor last shipped a new version on 2026-08-20 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Avatan – Photo Editor?▴
Avatan – Photo Editor is published by Avatan Studio, LLC 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 Avatan – Photo Editor's BU Score?▴
Avatan – Photo Editor has a BU Score of 59/100 (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.