CutStory: Video Schneiden
82
Quality Score
Excellent
CutStory: Video Schneiden
by LLC Sport Star Management
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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CutStory: Video Schneiden is an iOS app from LLC Sport Star Management in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.8★ across 49,920 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
$14.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$14.8K – $30.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$18.3K – $54.8K
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
123 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
49,920 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$14.3K
Snapshots tracked
123
since Jan 2017
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$200K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $150K – $270K
$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 (330 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
| ⚙ 10.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$60K |
Total estimate
$200K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$300K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $375K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~1.5× 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 |
| 📅 10.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
4.8M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
450K
Daily active
135K
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 |
| 📅 10.1y 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 · 55%
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 | 330 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-31 · 34 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
| 📅 34 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$14.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$13.5K – $22.5K
12 months
$14.8K – $30.9K
24 months
$18.3K – $54.8K
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 peersRevenue Strength
4.2
Product Quality
9.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $9K - $21K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 49,920 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $256K-$456K.
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 (49,920 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (18 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 |
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 · v8.5.1
Your track and the AI assistant
A template built around your music. Load any song — we'll find its accents and cut on the beat. Pick the part of the track you want and how fast the cuts go, add your photos and videos, and the rest comes together on its own.… Full release notes →
A template built around your music. Load any song — we'll find its accents and cut on the beat. Pick the part of the track you want and how fast the cuts go, add your photos and videos, and the rest comes together on its own.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- CutStory: Video Schneiden
- Developer
- LLC Sport Star Management
- Bundle ID
- com.highglossy.cutStory
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BN, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TR, UK, UR
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
- $14.3K/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 growth50,012 ratings+11893% 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 Quarter6 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline6 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
CutStory is a video editor, video splitter and automatic subtitle maker for vertical video.
Record video right in the app or import your own. Edit on a multitrack timeline, create captions from speech, edit with AI, and turn one long video into a series of clips for Reels, Stories, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Telegram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and other social media.
SPLIT A LONG VIDEO
Choose a social network or set your own duration — CutStory splits the video into parts of the right length and saves every clip as a separate file.
21 ready presets.… View full description on the official store →
Record video right in the app or import your own. Edit on a multitrack timeline, create captions from speech, edit with AI, and turn one long video into a series of clips for Reels, Stories, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Telegram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and other social media.
SPLIT A LONG VIDEO
Choose a social network or set your own duration — CutStory splits the video into parts of the right length and saves every clip as a separate file.
21 ready presets.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 330 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v8.5.1🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AR, BN, EN, FR, DE +13📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
23 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 →
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v8.4.4 → v8.5.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.4.3 → v8.4.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +19 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
📈
Crossed 50,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +19 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.4.0 → v8.4.3
→ 30 days after: revenue +$11.5K/mo · reviews +55 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v8.3.5 → v8.4.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +62 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v8.3.4 → v8.3.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +26 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +26 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.45 → 4.82 (improved 1.37★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +26 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 3.45 (dropped 1.25★)
→ 30 days after: revenue −$2.4K/mo · rating −1.25★ · reviews −6,975 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.45 → 4.70 (improved 1.25★)
→ 30 days after: revenue −$2.4K/mo · rating −1.25★ · reviews −6,975 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue −$2.4K/mo · rating −1.25★ · reviews −6,975 medium · co-occurring
2018-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +10 high confidence
2018-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.11★ · reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2018-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.10★ · reviews +25 medium · co-occurring
2017-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.52 (dropped 0.48★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.07★ · reviews +8 high confidence
2017-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.08★ · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2017-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.38 → 3.92 (dropped 0.46★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.08★ · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2017-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.38★ · reviews +9 low · multiple changes
📸
Store Page History
8 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.
2026-08-08
2026-09-10
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-08
2026-09-10
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-08
2026-09-10
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-08
2026-09-10
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-08
2026-09-10
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-08
2026-09-10
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #30Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
vlog editor·#30🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.81989★ | 50,033 | 4.81989★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.74659★ | 5,201 | 4.74659★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.7289★ | 7,499 | 4.7289★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.71851★ | 2,739 | 4.71851★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.65651★ | 1,182 | 4.65651★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.77499★ | 3,462 | 4.77499★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.78416★ | 3,271 | 4.78416★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.83954★ | 17,400 | 4.83954★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.66894★ | 1,468 | 4.66894★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for CutStory: Video Schneiden: 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: 49,920 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does CutStory make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, CutStory 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 CutStory profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $200K and monthly revenue $14K, CutStory 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 CutStory have?▴
Estimated audience: ~4.8M lifetime downloads, ~450K monthly active users, and ~135K 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 CutStory?▴
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 CutStory built with?▴
Our heuristic places CutStory on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is CutStory still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would CutStory sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $300K (marketplace range $225K – $375K). 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 CutStory last updated?▴
CutStory last shipped a new version on 2026-08-31 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes CutStory?▴
CutStory is published by LLC Sport Star Management 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 CutStory's BU Score?▴
CutStory 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.