BlackCam - Black&White Camera
65
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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BlackCam - Black&White Camera is an iOS app from pierre gougelet in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 568 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 65: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
47 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
568 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
47
since Dec 2014
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$150K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $200K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.5y 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 |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 11.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$71K |
Total estimate
$150K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.7× build cost (under-water)
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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
55K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.0K
Daily active
1.2K
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 |
| 📅 11.9y 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)
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 | 11 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2019-08-26 · 2637 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
| 📅 7y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| • 12y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.2
Product Quality
6.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.65★ across 568 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2632d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2632d since update).
🎯 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($35K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (17 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Early-stage install base (568 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 · v1.43
- Bug fixed
If you enjoy BlackCam, please take a few seconds to publish a review. Your feedback is very important to our work.
Help us to improve it by sending your bugs or requests on contact@xnview.com. Thank you very much.
If you enjoy BlackCam, please take a few seconds to publish a review. Your feedback is very important to our work.
Help us to improve it by sending your bugs or requests on contact@xnview.com. Thank you very much.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- BlackCam - Black&White Camera
- Developer
- pierre gougelet
- Bundle ID
- com.xnview.BlackCam
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, EN, FI, FR, DE, ID, JA, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Image Viewer
- Description
- XnView — best free photo viewer for Windows. View 500+ image formats, batch convert, resize and organize your photos. Fast, lightweight, no adware.
- Founded
- 1991
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 99 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/xnview
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- xnview.com/en/about
📈Ratings growth571 ratings+5610% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (47 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 → $1.99 (+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
BlackCam the Professional Black&White Camera
BlackCam helps you to take stunning black and white photographs with live preview
Features:
- Very simple to use
- Different colored lens filters
- Different professional conversion set filters
- Filters are shown live on camera screen
- Live contrast, brightness & exposure slider
- Add simulated film grain
- Add black vignetting
- Custom EXIF Artist Credit entry
- Export your photos to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and email
- Outputs images in full resolution
- Add black and white filters to your existing photos… View full description on the official store →
BlackCam helps you to take stunning black and white photographs with live preview
Features:
- Very simple to use
- Different colored lens filters
- Different professional conversion set filters
- Filters are shown live on camera screen
- Live contrast, brightness & exposure slider
- Add simulated film grain
- Add black vignetting
- Custom EXIF Artist Credit entry
- Export your photos to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and email
- Outputs images in full resolution
- Add black and white filters to your existing photos… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 11 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v1.43🔄 updated 7y ago🌐 DA, EN, FI, FR, DE +12📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 $1.99 price point
2026-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.90 → 4.47 (dropped 0.43★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$85/mo high confidence
2014-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$713/mo · rating −0.43★ · reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2014-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$713/mo · rating −0.43★ · reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2014-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$713/mo · rating −0.43★ · reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.47825★ | 23 | 4.47825★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.86364★ | 66 | 4.86364★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.3913★ | 46 | 4.3913★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.48★ | 100 | 4.48★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.64634★ | 82 | 4.64634★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.71154★ | 52 | 4.71154★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.55556★ | 9 | 4.55556★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.54237★ | 118 | 4.54237★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.6521★ | 572 | 4.6521★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for BlackCam - Black&White Camera: 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 medium confidence: 568 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does BlackCam - Black&White Camera make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, BlackCam - Black&White Camera earns approximately $5.0K/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 BlackCam - Black&White Camera profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $150K and monthly revenue $5.0K, BlackCam - Black&White Camera looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.5 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does BlackCam - Black&White Camera have?▴
Estimated audience: ~55K lifetime downloads, ~4K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 BlackCam - Black&White Camera?▴
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 BlackCam - Black&White Camera built with?▴
Our heuristic places BlackCam - Black&White Camera 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 BlackCam - Black&White Camera still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would BlackCam - Black&White Camera sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 18× 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 BlackCam - Black&White Camera last updated?▴
BlackCam - Black&White Camera last shipped a new version on 2019-08-26 — more than 7 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes BlackCam - Black&White Camera?▴
BlackCam - Black&White Camera is published by pierre gougelet 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 BlackCam - Black&White Camera's BU Score?▴
BlackCam - Black&White Camera has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.