How much does Photo Vault - hide & lock file make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Photo Vault - hide & lock file earns approximately $500/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 Photo Vault - hide & lock file profitable?

With estimated build cost $115K and monthly revenue $500, Photo Vault - hide & lock file 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 Photo Vault - hide & lock file have?

Estimated audience: ~17K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~540 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 Photo Vault - hide & lock file?

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What is Photo Vault - hide & lock file built with?

Our heuristic places Photo Vault - hide & lock file 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 Photo Vault - hide & lock file still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 10 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Photo Vault - hide & lock file sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $15K (marketplace range $10K – $20K). Calculated as 31× 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 Photo Vault - hide & lock file last updated?

Photo Vault - hide & lock file last shipped a new version on 2025-11-17 — 10 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Photo Vault - hide & lock file?

Photo Vault - hide & lock file is published by Auto Message 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 Photo Vault - hide & lock file's BU Score?

Photo Vault - hide & lock file 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.

Photo Vault - hide & lock file

Quality Score

Solid

Photo Vault - hide & lock file

Name: Photo Vault - hide & lock file — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Photo Vault - hide & lock file revenue, Photo Vault - hide & lock file app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Tools revenue, Android app revenue

by Auto Message

Medium confidence

4.6 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Photo Vault - hide & lock file is an Android app from Auto Message in the Tools category, currently rated 4.6★ across 130 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For a Tools 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

$500

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$437 – $1575

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$405 – $3644

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.6

Reviews

130 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$500

Snapshots tracked

since Jun 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$115K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $85K – $155K

$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
⚙ Tools complexity ×0.90	$-5949
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$29K
⚙ 5.4y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$32K

Total estimate $115K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$15K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 31× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.1× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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

💎 IAP / freemium model base	28× MRR
📅 5.4y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷 Tools category multiple	-8%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 31× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

17K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

3.0K

Daily active

540

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

📲 Tools engagement	~190 installs / rating
📅 5.4y of rating accumulation	-27%
🔁 Tools D30 retention	22%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.18

DAU / MAU 18% 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	Tools
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

60%

Last shipped 2025-11-17 · 311 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

📅 10 months since last update	Concerning gap
👥 Small user base (130 ratings) + 5.4y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$426 – $993

12 months

$437 – $1.6K

24 months

$405 – $3.6K

Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Early-stage solo · 49/100INDIE TIERexpected for tier

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

4.0

Product Quality

6.4

Revenue Strength

2.7

Monetization Maturity

5.0

Defensibility

7.3

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

9.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.6★ across 130 reviews — solid.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 307d 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($975/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

MODEL

Revenue 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:

Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC		+$2,200
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
securityREVIEW		+$1,800
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
Established app (5y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Early-stage install base (130 ratings)METRIC		+$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Photo Vault - hide & lock file
Developer: Auto Message
Bundle ID: com.heavenecom.filevault
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Tools
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: heavenecom.com
Tagline: Not found
Description: Not found
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Reported revenue signal / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
Model estimate / mo: $500/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $3.99 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.

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

Photo Vault - hide pictures - hide photos - encrypt and hide photo locker app.

Photo Vault - Simple to encrypt file - hide file - protect and secure your hidden file app.

Photo Vault is an app developed for secure app that lets you protect any private folder on your Android smartphone quickly and easily. With Photo Vault, you can hide, encrypt and create a PIN or password to stand between your personal files and prying eyes.

Photo Vault relies on secure safe folder to create a private, encrypted space on the device.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v252🔄 updated 10mo ago📂 Tools💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $3.99 per item🚀 Launched 2021 (5y old)

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📝 Description

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