FILCA - SLR Film Camera
53
Quality Score
Solid
FILCA - SLR Film Camera
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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FILCA - SLR Film Camera is an iOS app from Cheol Kim in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 3.1★ across 2,460 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 53: 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
$8.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$8.9K – $18.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.0K – $33.0K
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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$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 (105 MB) | +$22K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$39K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
340K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
61K
Daily active
18K
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
$8.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.1K – $13.6K
12 months
$8.9K – $18.6K
24 months
$11.0K – $33.0K
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 · 33/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.8
Product Quality
4.1
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
5.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $6K - $12K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.1★ across 2,460 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 7.2% refund mentions, 11% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected.
🎯 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 = $102K-$188K. 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 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (2,460 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 |
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 · v5.06
- bug fixed
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FILCA - SLR Film Camera
- Developer
- Cheol Kim
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- JA, KO
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- 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
- $1.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth2,460 ratings+59% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 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
Moment becomes memory — only with Filca.
Filca is an SLR-style film camera app.
35 film filters and cinematic effects bring your photos to life.
@veteranUser
"Without Filca, you're just collecting moments.
With Filca, you're preserving memories."
Master every shot with expert-level manual controls.
■ Full control over shutter speed, ISO, and white balance
■ 35mm film filters inspired by classic film stocks
Filca is designed to elevate your everyday photography.
Perfect for portraits, selfies, night scenes, and the subtle beauty of daily life.… View full description on the official store →
Filca is an SLR-style film camera app.
35 film filters and cinematic effects bring your photos to life.
@veteranUser
"Without Filca, you're just collecting moments.
With Filca, you're preserving memories."
Master every shot with expert-level manual controls.
■ Full control over shutter speed, ISO, and white balance
■ 35mm film filters inspired by classic film stocks
Filca is designed to elevate your everyday photography.
Perfect for portraits, selfies, night scenes, and the subtle beauty of daily life.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 105 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v5.06🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 JA, KO📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 ↑ 3.10 → 3.79 (improved 0.69★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.06 → 3.10 (improved 1.04★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.13 → 3.78 (dropped 0.35★)
2020-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2020-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2020-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2020-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 856 reviews across 9 markets● 38% positive · ● 22% neutral · ● 40% negative · Rating drift: -1.28★ (declining — recent 50: 1.82★ vs lifetime: 3.1★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇯🇵 JP
+0.10
🇺🇸 US
+0.10
🇫🇷 FR
+0.08
🇦🇺 AU
+0.04
🇬🇧 GB
+0.03
🇧🇷 BR
-0.05
🇨🇦 CA
-0.07
🇮🇳 IN
-0.19
🇩🇪 DE
-0.48
Top praise themes
iphone pro ×6 portrait mode ×5 black white ×5 able take ×3 pro max ×3 different filters ×3 hard shutter ×3 photos ×20
Top complaint themes
waste money ×61 save photos ×44 pro version ×28 doesn work ×26 rip off ×26 pay pay ×23 pay download ×22 don buy ×22
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 7.2% Subscription complaints: 11% Bug mentions: 7% Fraud / scam mentions: 11.7%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.66667★ | 249 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.48201★ | 139 | 3.48201★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.44304★ | 79 | 3.44304★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.13226★ | 310 | 3.13226★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.57762★ | 277 | 3.57762★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.63704★ | 405 | 3.63704★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.94702★ | 151 | 2.94702★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.22695★ | 1,410 | 4.22695★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.78482★ | 2,463 | 3.78482★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for FILCA - SLR Film Camera: 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: 2,460 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FILCA - SLR Film Camera make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, FILCA - SLR Film Camera earns approximately $1.0K/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 FILCA - SLR Film Camera?▴
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Who makes FILCA - SLR Film Camera?▴
FILCA - SLR Film Camera is published by Cheol Kim 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 FILCA - SLR Film Camera's BU Score?▴
FILCA - SLR Film Camera has a BU Score of 53/100 (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.