Background Eraser 〜 Stickers
75
Quality Score
Strong
Background Eraser 〜 Stickers
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Background Eraser 〜 Stickers is an iOS app from handyCloset Inc. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 39,811 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 75: 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
$900K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$953K – $1467K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.1M – $2.1M
per month
BIG tierFREE
💡 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
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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
$4.8K/mo · 985K ratings · 4.8★
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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 ~1.8y 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 |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $45K – $75K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.9× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
5.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
995K
Daily active
295K
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
$900K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$887K – $1.2M
12 months
$953K – $1.5M
24 months
$1.1M – $2.1M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 55/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.5
Product Quality
8.0
Revenue Strength
6.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
1.8
Operational Safety
7.7
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $360K - $1980K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.73★ across 39,811 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -0.49 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $16.2M-$28.8M.
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:
| Mid install base (39,811 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| 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.
🆕 What's New · v26.0.0
- Optimized for iOS 26
- Minor improvements
- Minor improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Background Eraser 〜 Stickers
- Developer
- handyCloset Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.handycloset.ios.eraser2
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, JA
Company
- Website
- apps.handycloset.com
- Tagline
- handyCloset Inc.
- 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
- $3.6K/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 growth39,811 ratings+33% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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
◇ Background Eraser helps you cut pictures and make a picture’s background transparent.
◇ Use the results as stickers in other apps, such as PhotoLayers, for photomontage, collage, and composite photos.
◇◇◇ Features ◇◇◇
◇ Automatic AI cutout for background transparent images.
◇ “Star” mode
- Detects image edges to erase more easily and accurately.
◇ “Auto” mode
- Erases similar pixels automatically.
Accurate background transparent cutouts are essential when you want to superimpose photos and create high-quality composite photos.
This app helps you make clean cutouts quickly and easily.
◇ Use the results as stickers in other apps, such as PhotoLayers, for photomontage, collage, and composite photos.
◇◇◇ Features ◇◇◇
◇ Automatic AI cutout for background transparent images.
◇ “Star” mode
- Detects image edges to erase more easily and accurately.
◇ “Auto” mode
- Erases similar pixels automatically.
Accurate background transparent cutouts are essential when you want to superimpose photos and create high-quality composite photos.
This app helps you make clean cutouts quickly and easily.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 8 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v26.0.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, JA📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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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
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.22 → 4.73 (improved 0.51★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 4.22 (dropped 0.58★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.23 → 4.80 (improved 0.57★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.75 → 3.20 (improved 0.45★)
2019-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.33 → 2.75 (dropped 0.58★)
2019-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.50 (dropped 1.50★)
2019-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #1Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
background eraser·#1🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 731 reviews across 6 markets● 70% positive · ● 20% neutral · ● 10% negative · Rating drift: -0.49★ (declining — recent 50: 4.24★ vs lifetime: 4.73★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.69
🇨🇦 CA
+0.65
🇮🇳 IN
+0.57
🇺🇸 US
+0.54
🇧🇷 BR
+0.03
🇯🇵 JP
+0.02
Top praise themes
super easy ×13 muito bom ×11 please fix ×8 easy free ×8 highly recommend ×7 erase backgrounds ×7 free easy ×5 gacha life ×5
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×6 saves white ×4 save transparent ×3 didn erase ×3 access photos ×3 please fix ×3 don ×16 now ×14
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 6 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.59327★ | 1,426 | 4.59327★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.84581★ | 39,191 | 4.84581★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.73015★ | 2,772 | 4.73015★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.61598★ | 15,252 | 4.61598★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.69925★ | 147,469 | 4.69925★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.72551★ | 40,009 | 4.72551★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Background Eraser 〜 Stickers: 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 high confidence: 39,811 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Background Eraser 〜 Stickers make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Background Eraser 〜 Stickers earns approximately $3.6K/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 Background Eraser 〜 Stickers?▴
Background Eraser 〜 Stickers is published by handyCloset 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 Background Eraser 〜 Stickers's BU Score?▴
Background Eraser 〜 Stickers has a BU Score of 75/100 (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.