Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor
55
Quality Score
Solid
Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor is an iOS app from FANG Inc. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 5.0★ across 1 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Photo & Video 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
$1.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$953 – $3437
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$883 – $7950
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
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~10 months 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 |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 16× MRR multiple
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~1.6× build cost (break-even+)
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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$928 – $2.2K
12 months
$953 – $3.4K
24 months
$883 – $8.0K
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 · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.0
Product Quality
4.0
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $436 - $2727/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 5.0★ across 1 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3558d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (3558d 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 = $19K-$34K. Portfolio play ($21K/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
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (1 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
🆕 What's New · v1.6.0
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
- Support for iOS10.
- Support for iCloud Photo Library
- Updated In-app image editor.… Full release notes →
- Support for iOS10.
- Support for iCloud Photo Library
- Updated In-app image editor.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor
- Developer
- FANG Inc.
- Bundle ID
- jp.co.fang.gradgram
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, JA
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
- $8.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Photo & Video
- 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.
📈Ratings growth1 ratingsShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (15 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $1.99 (+0%)
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
"Aurora by FANG" allows you to make photos more beautiful by applying the smoothest gradient pattern.
The professional photographers Filter-work can be realized by this app. But the operation is extremely simple.
By applying with this app, the beautiful "Memory Colors" you saw will revive vigorously in too plain photos.
“The sky will be more blue"
“The flowers will be more beautiful"
“And your memories will be more hearty"
Gradgram will bring out the creative possibilities hidden in you.
► Fast and Smooth Operation
- Applying effect in real-time.
- Simple and well known UI.… View full description on the official store →
The professional photographers Filter-work can be realized by this app. But the operation is extremely simple.
By applying with this app, the beautiful "Memory Colors" you saw will revive vigorously in too plain photos.
“The sky will be more blue"
“The flowers will be more beautiful"
“And your memories will be more hearty"
Gradgram will bring out the creative possibilities hidden in you.
► Fast and Smooth Operation
- Applying effect in real-time.
- Simple and well known UI.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 20 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v1.6.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, JA📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.08 → 5.00 (improved 0.92★)
2014-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.80 → 3.33 (dropped 0.47★)
2013-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.80 (dropped 0.70★)
2013-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2013-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 1 rating · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor is a very early-stage iOS app in the photo & video space with weak public traction — only 1 rating, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor has only 1 App Store rating, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$8.1K/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor?▴
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Who makes Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor?▴
Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor is published by FANG Inc. on the Apple App 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 Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor's BU Score?▴
Aurora by FANG - Fast Gradient Image Editor 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.