Comic Life 3
60
Quality Score
Solid
Comic Life 3
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Comic Life 3 is an iOS app from plasq LLC in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.3★ across 236 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 60: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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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
🤖Also on Android
$1.3K/mo · 9 ratings · 3.1★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$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 (97 MB) | +$18K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$38K |
Total estimate
$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
33K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.9K
Daily active
1.7K
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
29% sticky
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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)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
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
Stalled · 38/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
5.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
2.2
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.29★ across 236 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 832d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, dormant (832d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 9 of 9 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (9 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (236 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 · v3.5.15
Import from iCloud Drive now supported
PNG export options
Various bug fixes and improvements
PNG export options
Various bug fixes and improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Comic Life 3
- Developer
- plasq LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.plasq.clipad3
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, ZH, ES, ZH
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
- $1.4K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/plasqcom
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- plasq.com/support
- About page
- plasq.com/education/writing-history-s…
📈Ratings growth236 ratings+449% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+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
The Most Powerful Photo Comic Creation App Available.
"Of the comic book apps I’ve used, Comic Life, [...], has the most features and works best on an iPad because of the bigger screen... I love the way the app allows you to edit tiny details, from the shape and style of word bubbles to the size and placement of each story cell." - Kit Eaton, The New York Times
- Introducing an integrated Script Editor*, next generation image filters and built in Instant Alpha tool.
- New graphics features include speedlines, halftones, updated stroke options and more!… View full description on the official store →
"Of the comic book apps I’ve used, Comic Life, [...], has the most features and works best on an iPad because of the bigger screen... I love the way the app allows you to edit tiny details, from the shape and style of word bubbles to the size and placement of each story cell." - Kit Eaton, The New York Times
- Introducing an integrated Script Editor*, next generation image filters and built in Instant Alpha tool.
- New graphics features include speedlines, halftones, updated stroke options and more!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 97 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v3.5.15🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +4📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 $4.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.66 → 4.50 (improved 0.84★)
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.83 → 2.14 (improved 0.31★)
2014-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.40 → 1.83 (improved 0.43★)
2014-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.50 (improved 0.50★)
2014-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 210 reviews across 6 markets● 78% positive · ● 5% neutral · ● 18% negative · Rating drift: -0.21★ (declining — recent 50: 4.08★ vs lifetime: 4.29★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇨🇦 CA
+0.62
🇦🇺 AU
+0.54
🇺🇸 US
+0.54
🇬🇧 GB
+0.47
🇫🇷 FR
+0.32
🇩🇪 DE
-0.01
Top praise themes
desktop version ×8 ios version ×4 learning curve ×3 room improvement ×3 graphic novel ×3 word balloons ×3 ipad pro ×3 mac ipad ×3
Top complaint themes
lost work ×3 keeps crashing ×3 previous version ×3 auf dem ×3 page ×16 crashes ×10 now ×9 save ×8
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.9% Bug mentions: 11%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.04901★ | 102 | 4.04901★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 5 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.30303★ | 66 | 3.30303★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.43137★ | 51 | 4.43137★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.37037★ | 27 | 4.37037★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.06977★ | 86 | 4.06977★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4★ | 4 | 4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.4★ | 5 | 4.4★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.29237★ | 236 | 4.29237★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Comic Life 3: 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: 236 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Comic Life 3 make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Comic Life 3 earns approximately $1.4K/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 Comic Life 3?▴
Comic Life 3 is published by plasq 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 Comic Life 3's BU Score?▴
Comic Life 3 has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.