Photo Mate R3
50
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Photo Mate R3 is an Android app from TS Systems in the Photography category, currently rated 3.4★ across 1,400 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 50: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
2 snapshots on record
Rating
3.4
Reviews
1,400 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
2
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$190K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $255K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.2y 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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Photography complexity ×1.35 | +$20K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$44K |
| ⚙ 10.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$64K |
Total estimate
$190K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 28× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| 📅 10.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
Final multiple
28× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
115K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
8.2K
Daily active
2.0K
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 |
| 📅 10.7y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Photography D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.25 |
DAU / MAU
24% 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
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-19 · 7 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
| 📅 7 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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 · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.4
Product Quality
6.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
8.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.39★ across 1,400 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (1,400 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.4★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Photo Mate R3
- Developer
- TS Systems
- Bundle ID
- com.tssystems.photomate3
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photography
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.photo-mate.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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $1.50 - $15.99 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
Starting with version 3.2, a lot of features can be used for free!
The app still provides in-app purchases for unlocking all features and an ad-free experience!
This is the latest version of Photo Mate, an image organizer, library and non-destructive raw-editor for android.
Organize your images!
Photo Mate offers a photo library where you can filter and sort all your files based on metadata like camera, aperture or ISO as well as custom ratings, labels and keywords.
The library can handle jpg as well as almost any camera-raw format.… View full description on the official store →
The app still provides in-app purchases for unlocking all features and an ad-free experience!
This is the latest version of Photo Mate, an image organizer, library and non-destructive raw-editor for android.
Organize your images!
Photo Mate offers a photo library where you can filter and sort all your files based on metadata like camera, aperture or ISO as well as custom ratings, labels and keywords.
The library can handle jpg as well as almost any camera-raw format.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v4.3.0🔄 updated 1w ago📂 Photography💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.50 - $15.99 per item🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
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Store Page History
4 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Photo Mate R3: 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: 1,400 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Photo Mate R3 make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Photo Mate R3 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 Photo Mate R3 profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $190K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Photo Mate R3 looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.2 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Photo Mate R3 have?▴
Estimated audience: ~115K lifetime downloads, ~8K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 Mate R3?▴
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 Photo Mate R3 built with?▴
Our heuristic places Photo Mate R3 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 Mate R3 still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Photo Mate R3 sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $150K (marketplace range $100K – $175K). Calculated as 28× 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 Mate R3 last updated?▴
Photo Mate R3 last shipped a new version on 2026-10-19 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Photo Mate R3?▴
Photo Mate R3 is published by TS Systems 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 Mate R3's BU Score?▴
Photo Mate R3 has a BU Score of 50/100 (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.