FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur
76
Quality Score
Strong
FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur is an iOS app from Ghostwheel in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 6,001 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
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
$12.9K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$13.4K – $28.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$16.6K – $49.7K
per month
MID tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
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 ~5 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
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $375K · 17× MRR multiple
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~3.4× return on build cost
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
840K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
150K
Daily active
45K
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
$12.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$12.3K – $20.5K
12 months
$13.4K – $28.0K
24 months
$16.6K – $49.7K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.1
Product Quality
8.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.4
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $9K - $19K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 6,001 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2290d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2290d 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 = $232K-$413K.
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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (6,001 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v2.0.1
Added localization for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, and Thai.
Fixed some minor bugs and typos
Fixed some minor bugs and typos
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur
- Developer
- Ghostwheel
- Bundle ID
- com.secondverse.fabfocus
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, ZH, ES, TH
Company
- Website
- secondverse.org
- Tagline
- second verse
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- 829 President Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 USA
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $16.2K/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
- linkedin linkedin.com/in/ianl1 · youtube youtube.com/watch?v=hW_WLxseq0o
- info@secondverse.org
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- secondverse.org/contact
- About page
- secondverse.org/about
📈Ratings growth6,001 ratings+2090% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 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 → $3.99 (+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
FabFocus is everything you need to capture and create stunning portrait photos. And the best part is, you don’t need multiple cameras to do it!
FabFocus works on all devices running iOS 12 and forward and uses advanced image recognition to detect people, and intelligently blurring the background, applying beautiful bokeh effects.
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The Big 2.0 Update
FabFocus 2.0 is a complete rewrite and redesign, with the goal of making it as fast and simple as possible to make stunning portraits. Every last detail has been considered and refined to streamline the experience.… View full description on the official store →
FabFocus works on all devices running iOS 12 and forward and uses advanced image recognition to detect people, and intelligently blurring the background, applying beautiful bokeh effects.
————
The Big 2.0 Update
FabFocus 2.0 is a complete rewrite and redesign, with the goal of making it as fast and simple as possible to make stunning portraits. Every last detail has been considered and refined to streamline the experience.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 19 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v2.0.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +3📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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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
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.40 → 4.72 (improved 0.32★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $3.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.92 → 4.40 (improved 0.48★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2016-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
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Tech & Domain Intel — secondverse.org
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.72138★ | 6,001 | 4.72138★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.69578★ | 664 | 4.69578★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.42222★ | 180 | 4.42222★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.48332★ | 120 | 4.48332★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4★ | 13 | 4★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.65675★ | 437 | 4.65675★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.54717★ | 212 | 4.54717★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.7★ | 720 | 4.7★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.51576★ | 349 | 4.51576★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur: 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: 6,001 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur earns approximately $16K/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 FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur?▴
FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur is published by Ghostwheel 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 FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur's BU Score?▴
FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur 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.