Avatan – Photo Editor
76
Quality Score
Strong
Avatan – Photo Editor
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Avatan – Photo Editor is an iOS app from Avatan Studio, LLC in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 5,747 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 76: Strong (healthy traction). For a Photo & Video app, that means healthy traction. 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
$10.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$8.7K – $31.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$8.1K – $72.9K
per month
INDIE tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 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
🤖Also on Android
$1.4K/mo · 41K ratings · 2.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~12 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (162 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~1.4× 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% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
800K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
140K
Daily active
42K
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
| 📲 Photo & Video engagement | ~140 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Photo & Video D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$10.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.5K – $19.9K
12 months
$8.7K – $31.5K
24 months
$8.1K – $72.9K
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
Early-stage solo · 46/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Product Quality
8.5
Revenue Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 5,747 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 218d 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 = $180K-$320K.
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 10 of 10 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 (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (5,747 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (22 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 |
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 · v5.35
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Avatan – Photo Editor
- Developer
- Avatan Studio, LLC
- Bundle ID
- ru.avatan
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- AR, BE, EN, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KK, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- avatanplus.com
- 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
- $11.4K/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 growth5,747 ratings+4572% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (50 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
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
Avatan is a social photo editor.
It enables people to edit photos interacting with each other, while using their own processing elements.
All the elements are created and added by users to the social network integrated with the photo editor.
EFFECTS
You have the opportunity to create and save your own, customized effects.
To create effects, you can use various tools and resources.
RESOURCES
You can add and use 4 various resources when editing images:
* Stickers
* Textures
* Frames
* Backgrounds
RETOUCHING… View full description on the official store →
It enables people to edit photos interacting with each other, while using their own processing elements.
All the elements are created and added by users to the social network integrated with the photo editor.
EFFECTS
You have the opportunity to create and save your own, customized effects.
To create effects, you can use various tools and resources.
RESOURCES
You can add and use 4 various resources when editing images:
* Stickers
* Textures
* Frames
* Backgrounds
RETOUCHING… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 162 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v5.35🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, BE, EN, FR, DE +17📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.55 → 4.80 (improved 2.25★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.57 → 3.25 (dropped 0.32★)
2015-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
2014-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 2.75 (improved 0.42★)
2014-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2014-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2014-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #35Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
photo retouch·#35🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — avatanplus.com
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Avatan – Photo Editor: 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: 5,747 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Avatan – Photo Editor make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Avatan – Photo Editor earns approximately $11K/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.
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Who makes Avatan – Photo Editor?▴
Avatan – Photo Editor is published by Avatan Studio, LLC 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 Avatan – Photo Editor's BU Score?▴
Avatan – Photo Editor has a BU Score of 76/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.