How much does Fx Stencil make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Fx Stencil 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 Fx Stencil profitable?

With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Fx Stencil looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Fx Stencil have?

Estimated audience: ~170K lifetime downloads, ~12K monthly active users, and ~3K 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 Fx Stencil?

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 Fx Stencil built with?

Our heuristic places Fx Stencil 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 Fx Stencil still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Fx Stencil sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 15× 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 Fx Stencil last updated?

Fx Stencil last shipped a new version on 2026-05-23 — 4 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Fx Stencil?

Fx Stencil is published by Le Phuong Tien 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 Fx Stencil's BU Score?

Fx Stencil has a BU Score of 39/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Fx Stencil

Quality Score

Emerging

Fx Stencil

Name: Fx Stencil — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Fx Stencil revenue, Fx Stencil app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Photography revenue, Android app revenue

by Le Phuong Tien

Medium confidence

2.3 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Fx Stencil is an Android app from Le Phuong Tien in the Photography category, currently rated 2.3★ across 2,066 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 39: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Photography app, that means early traction worth watching. 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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

2.3

Reviews

2,066 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$170K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $130K – $230K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~2.8y 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
⚙ Photography complexity ×1.35	+$17K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$37K
⚙ 10.8y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$64K

Total estimate $170K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$75K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 15× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.4× 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
📅 10.8y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak)	-18%

Final multiple 15× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

170K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

12K

Daily active

3.0K

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
📅 10.8y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Photography D30 retention	15%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.25

DAU / MAU 25% 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

Slowing

30%

Last shipped 2026-05-23 · 125 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

📅 4 months since last update

Slowing cadence

Verdict Slowing

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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

Stalled · 39/100MID TIERno growth momentum

Revenue Strength

3.7

Product Quality

4.1

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

6.0

Operational Safety

8.0

Founder Strength

3.8

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 2.29★ across 2,066 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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

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 4 of 4 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Low install base (2,066 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Below-average rating (2.3★)METRIC		−$1,500
Mature app (10y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

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: Fx Stencil
Developer: Le Phuong Tien
Bundle ID: com.lpt.fxstencil
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Photography
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: fxstudio.dev
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: $5.0K/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.

📝 About this app

Fx Stencil allows you to easily create stencils from photos you take or choose from your photo album. With just a few taps, you can customize, edit, and share your stencils on social media, save them to your gallery, or send them to friends and family. Stencils can be used to print on walls, clothes, fabric, or to create personalized gifts.

New in version 2.0.0:

- Restored after a long removal period.

- Upgraded user interface for a modern look and feel.

- Compatibility with a wider range of devices and new OS versions.

Features:

- New design UI

- Enhanced core processing… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v2.1.0🔄 updated 4mo ago📂 Photography💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)

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📝 Description

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