64
Quality Score
Solid
Focalware
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Focalware is an iOS app from Warner Photography, Inc. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 5.0★ across 6 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 64: 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$878/mo
In 12 months
$768 – $2768
In 24 months
$711 – $6403
INDIE tierFREE
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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
$185K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $250K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~8 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 |
| ⚙17.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$104K |
Total estimate$185K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$450K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $325K – $600K · 19× MRR multiple
💸~2.4× 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 |
| 📅17.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple19× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦App bundle size | 6 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-04-29 · 24 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅24 days since last update | Active development |
| 👥Small user base (6 ratings) + 17.4y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$878/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$748 – $1.7K
12 months
$768 – $2.8K
24 months
$711 – $6.4K
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
Pre-traction · 36/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
2.5
Revenue Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
6.1
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $351 - $2196/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 5.0★ across 6 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.04 ★ (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 = $15K-$28K. Portfolio play ($23K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 | |
| Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (6 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 6 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v2.6🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2008 (17y old)
📝 About this app
Focalware calculates sun and moon position for a given location and date. Use the interactive compass to determine the path and height of the sun or moon. Photographers and filmmakers who are always asked by their clients for the sun, moon and stars, can now deliver.
Features
- Support for compass on devices that have one
- Integrated map for custom locations
- Sun/Moon rise and set times
- Sun/Moon azimuth and elevation
- Moon phase
- Magnetic declination
- Results shown graphically or on a list
- Location list of major world cities
- Manually create and save a list of custom locations… View full description on the official store →
Features
- Support for compass on devices that have one
- Integrated map for custom locations
- Sun/Moon rise and set times
- Sun/Moon azimuth and elevation
- Moon phase
- Magnetic declination
- Results shown graphically or on a list
- Location list of major world cities
- Manually create and save a list of custom locations… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.6
Updated for latest iOS, modernized UI for current iPhones, refreshed magnetic declination data.
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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
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Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.06 → 5.00 (improved 0.94★)
2009-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2008-12
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 51 reviews across 5 markets● 88% positive · ● 0% neutral · ● 12% negative · Rating drift: -1.04★ (declining — recent 50: 3.96★ vs lifetime: 5.0★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.92
🇦🇺 AU
+0.77
🇺🇸 US
+0.69
🇨🇦 CA
+0.54
🇩🇪 DE
+0.10
Top praise themes
sun moon ×16 rise set ×5 position sun ×4 simple easy ×4 sunrise sunset ×3 tool photographer ×3 location ×17 locations ×9
Top complaint themes
find location ×3 altitude ×6 iphone ×5 work ×4 cannot ×4 compass ×4 sunrise ×4 ios ×3
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 6%
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Tech & Domain Intel — warnerphotography.com
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 5★ | 6 | 5★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Focalware
- Developer
- Warner Photography, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.spiraldev.focalware
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Home - Warner Photography
- Description
- John Warner is an innovative, multi-faceted, cutting edge, photographer. He has spent his forty-year career shaping light on location and in the studio.
- 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
- $23.0K/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
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- 28801 (828) 254-03
- Contact page
- warnerphotography.com/contact
- About page
- warnerphotography.com/about-us
⭐Recent App Store Reviews35 latest · avg 4.03★ · 57.1% 5★ · 8.6% 1★
5★20 (57%)
4★5 (14%)
3★4 (11%)
2★3 (9%)
1★3 (9%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×14 perfect ×4 awesome ×3 amazing ×3 best ×3Complaints: expensive ×2 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Very useful
What a handy gadget to have ready to go when photographing. Works well and is easy to use.
One idea for improvement might be an azimuth estimator - if there was a couple of bubble levels at the top of the screen to insure that the iPhone w…
★★★★★ Amazing App!!!
Put away the charts and lists and calculators, this incredible tool is any photographer or filmaker's best pal.
I could not believe how simple and easy to use it is! I am confident now in setting up outdoor shots. Night shots? Want the…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn't work.....:(
Sorry, but can't find ANY location on my iPhone 6 with latest system upgrade. Really disappointed. Hopefully they can get this corrected.…
★☆☆☆☆ Can't find my location, so semi-worthless
I was excited to see this app, but it cannot find my location. I don't want to constantly have to type in my gps coordinates manually to get this to work. Very disappointing.…
📈Ratings growth6 ratings+200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (34 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.
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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Focalware: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Focalware make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Focalware earns approximately $23K/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.
Is Focalware profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $185K and monthly revenue $23K, Focalware looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 8 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Focalware?▾
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What is Focalware built with?▾
Our heuristic places Focalware on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is Focalware still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 24 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Focalware sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $450K (marketplace range $325K – $600K). Calculated as 19× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Focalware last updated?▾
Focalware last shipped a new version on 2026-04-29 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Focalware?▾
Focalware is published by Warner Photography, 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 Focalware's BU Score?▾
Focalware has a BU Score of 64/100 (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.