57
Quality Score
Solid
Magnifying glass / Telescope
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Magnifying glass / Telescope is an Android app from appli-ne（アプリね） in the Lifestyle category, currently rated 4.3★ across 457 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For a Lifestyle 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$5.0K/mo
In 12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
In 24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
MID tier
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$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 |
| 💎In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙Lifestyle complexity ×1.05 | +$2K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$34K |
| ⚙6.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$36K |
Total estimate$135K
👥 Estimated audience size
35K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.4K
Daily active
680
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
| 📲Lifestyle engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 📅6.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Lifestyle D30 retention | 13% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
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
| 🏷Category context | Lifestyle |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2025-10-29 · 206 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅6 months since last update | Concerning gap |
| 👥Small user base (457 ratings) + 6.2y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictAt risk
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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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.1
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
4.5
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.33★ across 457 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 206d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (457 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.12.0🔄 updated 6mo ago📂 Lifestyle💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.49 - $4.99 per item🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)
📝 About this app
You can read small letters as a magnifying glass or reading glasses.
Of course, you can observe flowers and insects as loupe.
Also, it can be used as a telescope or binoculars! (It can zoom up to 50x)
It has functions such as zoom (enlargement), exposure (brightness), light, and still image.
It looks beautiful because the resolution of the camera is optimized.
All functions are available for free!
◆ Release notes ◆
https://appli-ne.github.io/loupe/changelog/
◆ Main functions ◆
・Guide view added (x1 display)
・Dark theme support… View full description on the official store →
Of course, you can observe flowers and insects as loupe.
Also, it can be used as a telescope or binoculars! (It can zoom up to 50x)
It has functions such as zoom (enlargement), exposure (brightness), light, and still image.
It looks beautiful because the resolution of the camera is optimized.
All functions are available for free!
◆ Release notes ◆
https://appli-ne.github.io/loupe/changelog/
◆ Main functions ◆
・Guide view added (x1 display)
・Dark theme support… View full description on the official store →
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Magnifying glass / Telescope
- Developer
- appli-ne（アプリね）
- Bundle ID
- com.appli_ne.loupe
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- appli-ne.github.io
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $259/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.49 - $4.99 per item
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 growth457 ratings+64% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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.
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Read the article-style breakdown for Magnifying glass / Telescope: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Magnifying glass / Telescope make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Magnifying glass / Telescope earns approximately $259/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 Magnifying glass / Telescope profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $259, Magnifying glass / Telescope 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.
How many users does Magnifying glass / Telescope have?▾
Estimated audience: ~35K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~680 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 Magnifying glass / Telescope?▾
Browse the full Lifestyle 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 Magnifying glass / Telescope built with?▾
Our heuristic places Magnifying glass / Telescope on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Magnifying glass / Telescope still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Magnifying glass / Telescope last updated?▾
Magnifying glass / Telescope last shipped a new version on 2025-10-29 — 6 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Magnifying glass / Telescope?▾
Magnifying glass / Telescope is published by appli-ne（アプリね） on the Google Play 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 Magnifying glass / Telescope's BU Score?▾
Magnifying glass / Telescope has a BU Score of 57/100 (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.