Cartoon Photo Editor: Photo AI
61
Quality Score
Solid
Cartoon Photo Editor: Photo AI
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Cartoon Photo Editor: Photo AI is an iOS app from Creative Mobile Software Inc in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 639 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 61: 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
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
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (134 MB) | +$33K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$46K |
Total estimate
$130K
👥 Estimated audience size
89K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
16K
Daily active
4.8K
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
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
6.6
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.68★ across 639 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $9K-$16K.
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:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Multilingual (29 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (639 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Growing app (1y old)METRIC | +$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 · v7.0
Turn your photos into anything you can imagine with the power of AI!
Here's what's new in this update:
- We've added many new models, try new careers, luxury lifestyle moments, body and face transformations, and sweet photos with pets or a partner.… Full release notes →
Here's what's new in this update:
- We've added many new models, try new careers, luxury lifestyle moments, body and face transformations, and sweet photos with pets or a partner.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Cartoon Photo Editor: Photo AI
- Developer
- Creative Mobile Software Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.thecreativemobile.photoai
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- The Creative Mobile creates unique and fun mobile applications!
- 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
- $86/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 growth639 ratings+63800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (16 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (14 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
Cartoon Photo Editor: PhotoAI is one of the original AI cartoon photo editors on the market! This ultimate cartoon-style app transforms your photos into charming creations full of animation magic and unmistakable hand-drawn flair.
Inspired by classic anime and cartoon artistry, the app blends an intuitive AI cartoon editor with powerful tools like the PhotoAI Avatar Generator, helping you create unique, personalized illustrations with ease.… View full description on the official store →
Inspired by classic anime and cartoon artistry, the app blends an intuitive AI cartoon editor with powerful tools like the PhotoAI Avatar Generator, helping you create unique, personalized illustrations with ease.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 134 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v7.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, HR, CS, DA, NL +24📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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 ↑ 3.30 → 4.68 (improved 1.38★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.56 (dropped 0.94★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.75 → 4.50 (improved 0.75★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.57 (dropped 0.43★)
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.80 (dropped 0.70★)
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2025-05
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.27451★ | 51 | 4.27451★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.77778★ | 144 | 4.77778★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.425★ | 120 | 4.425★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.18462★ | 65 | 4.18462★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.30769★ | 91 | 4.30769★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.5★ | 82 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.55591★ | 313 | 4.55591★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.45902★ | 61 | 4.45902★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.67825★ | 662 | 4.67825★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Cartoon Photo Editor: Photo AI: 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: 639 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Cartoon Photo Editor make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Cartoon Photo Editor earns approximately $86/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.
What apps are like Cartoon Photo Editor?▴
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Who makes Cartoon Photo Editor?▴
Cartoon Photo Editor is published by Creative Mobile Software 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 Cartoon Photo Editor's BU Score?▴
Cartoon Photo Editor has a BU Score of 61/100 (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.