FamilyAlbum: Share Baby Photos
77
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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FamilyAlbum: Share Baby Photos is an iOS app from MIXI, Inc., currently rated 4.9★ across 377,574 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 77: Strong (healthy traction). For an app like this, 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
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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
1 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
377,574 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
1
since Oct 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$160K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $120K – $215K
$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 (240 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ 11.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$71K |
Total estimate
$160K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $11.5M – $20.0M · 22× MRR multiple
💸
~94× 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 |
| 📅 11.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
22× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
39.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.4M
Daily active
480K
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
| 📲 category engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 📅 11.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 category D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% 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 | 240 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | category |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-19 · 17 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
| 📅 17 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
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 · 58/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.87★ across 377,574 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (377,574 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v23.1.0
This app version includes the following updates.
• Minor fixes
If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us at support@family-album.com. Stay tuned for more improvements, and thank you for using FamilyAlbum!
• Minor fixes
If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us at support@family-album.com. Stay tuned for more improvements, and thank you for using FamilyAlbum!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FamilyAlbum: Share Baby Photos
- Developer
- MIXI, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- jp.co.mixi.MayChannel
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Not found
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Cherish Every Moment
- Description
- The best way to safely share and organize your family’s photos and videos. Unlimited storage and it’s free! Now with 11 free photo prints every month.
- 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
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇯🇵#2 /100 🇦🇺#46 /100 🇫🇷#48 /100 🇨🇦#49 /100 🇩🇪#50 /99 🇺🇸#57 /100 🇬🇧#68 /100
- 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/FamilyAlbumApp · instagram instagram.com/familyalbumapp · twitter twitter.com/familyalbumapp
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- family-album.com/en/support
- About page
- Not found
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank7 countries
🇯🇵JP#2 /100
🇦🇺AU#46 /100
🇫🇷FR#48 /100
🇨🇦CA#49 /100
🇩🇪DE#50 /99
🇺🇸US#57 /100
🇬🇧GB#68 /100
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
FamilyAlbum: Share all your baby photos in one private family album.
From everyday smiles to unforgettable milestones, FamilyAlbum makes it easy to save and share your baby’s precious moments with the whole family. Create a secure album where parents, grandparents, and loved ones can stay connected and watch your baby grow.
Every baby moment becomes a treasured family memory. First smiles, first steps, birthdays, and quiet moments at home—all beautifully organized with FamilyAlbum.
Babies grow up quickly.… View full description on the official store →
From everyday smiles to unforgettable milestones, FamilyAlbum makes it easy to save and share your baby’s precious moments with the whole family. Create a secure album where parents, grandparents, and loved ones can stay connected and watch your baby grow.
Every baby moment becomes a treasured family memory. First smiles, first steps, birthdays, and quiet moments at home—all beautifully organized with FamilyAlbum.
Babies grow up quickly.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 240 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v23.1.0🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, JA, KO +3💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — family-album.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · AWS SES
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.81764★ | 39,746 | 4.81764★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.90069★ | 1,309 | 4.90069★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.82101★ | 65,430 | 4.82101★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.72698★ | 22,178 | 4.72698★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.75027★ | 51,436 | 4.75027★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.84324★ | 58,809 | 4.84324★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.77193★ | 1,026 | 4.77193★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.64832★ | 1,544,762 | 4.64832★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.87362★ | 380,433 | 4.87362★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for FamilyAlbum: Share Baby Photos: 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: 377,574 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FamilyAlbum make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, FamilyAlbum earns approximately $700K/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 FamilyAlbum profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $700K, FamilyAlbum 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 FamilyAlbum have?▴
Estimated audience: ~39.5M lifetime downloads, ~2.4M monthly active users, and ~480K 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 is FamilyAlbum built with?▴
Our heuristic places FamilyAlbum 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 FamilyAlbum still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 17 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would FamilyAlbum sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $15.0M (marketplace range $11.5M – $20.0M). Calculated as 22× 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 FamilyAlbum last updated?▴
FamilyAlbum last shipped a new version on 2026-10-19 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes FamilyAlbum?▴
FamilyAlbum is published by MIXI, Inc. 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 FamilyAlbum's BU Score?▴
FamilyAlbum has a BU Score of 77/100 (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.