55
Quality Score
Solid
Neon Effects
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Neon Effects is an Android app from Anatoly Lapshin in the Photography category, currently rated 3.6★ across 4,976 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Photography 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
$811
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$709 – $2555
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$657 – $5911
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$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 |
| ⚙Photography complexity ×1.35 | +$17K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$37K |
Total estimate$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 14× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× 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 |
| ⭐★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
Final multiple14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
595K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
89K
Daily active
22K
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
| 📲Photography engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁Photography D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.25 |
DAU / MAU25% 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 | Photography |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
72%
Last shipped 2024-12-23 · 518 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
| 📅1y 5mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$811/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$690 – $1.6K
12 months
$709 – $2.6K
24 months
$657 – $5.9K
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
Pre-traction · 35/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
6.5
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $324 - $2027/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.62★ across 4,976 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 518d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (518d 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 = $14K-$25K.
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.
📈 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 →🔖 v8.0.1🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Photography💰 Free
📝 About this app
Forget the boring pictures
Neon is a saturation and acidic colors that will help you embellish any image. The application is inspired by the retro style of 80s. At your disposal a palette of 24 amazing colors. Choose blue to get the ultraviolet effect.
Add more colors
The UV effect looks still more beautiful when paired with other bright colors. Use gradient from several colors and your photo will become even more magical. In the Neon palette, you can select one of the nine gradients or create your own.
Neon filters
In addition to a solid filter, Neon also has others:
- Gradients… View full description on the official store →
Neon is a saturation and acidic colors that will help you embellish any image. The application is inspired by the retro style of 80s. At your disposal a palette of 24 amazing colors. Choose blue to get the ultraviolet effect.
Add more colors
The UV effect looks still more beautiful when paired with other bright colors. Use gradient from several colors and your photo will become even more magical. In the Neon palette, you can select one of the nine gradients or create your own.
Neon filters
In addition to a solid filter, Neon also has others:
- Gradients… 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
- Neon Effects
- Developer
- Anatoly Lapshin
- Bundle ID
- com.lapshinanatoly.maxsaturation
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photography
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $811/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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.
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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Neon Effects: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 4,976 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Neon Effects make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Neon Effects earns approximately $811/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 Neon Effects profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $105K and monthly revenue $811, Neon Effects 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 Neon Effects have?▴
Estimated audience: ~595K lifetime downloads, ~89K monthly active users, and ~22K 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 Neon Effects?▴
Browse the full Photography 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 Neon Effects built with?▴
Our heuristic places Neon Effects 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 Neon Effects still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (72% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Neon Effects sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $10K – $15K). Calculated as 14× 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 Neon Effects last updated?▴
Neon Effects last shipped a new version on 2024-12-23 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Neon Effects?▴
Neon Effects is published by Anatoly Lapshin 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 Neon Effects's BU Score?▴
Neon Effects has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.