Focos
76
Quality Score
Strong
Focos
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Focos is an iOS app from Mosaic S.r.l. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 51,400 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
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
$900K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$953K – $1467K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.1M – $2.1M
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
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
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$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 (332 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$30K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $40K · 17× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
7.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.2M
Daily active
375K
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
$900K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$887K – $1.2M
12 months
$953K – $1.5M
24 months
$1.1M – $2.1M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 60/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
6.0
Product Quality
9.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.2
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
7.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $360K - $1980K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 51,400 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $16.2M-$28.8M.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (51,400 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (34 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$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 · v2.11.38
Hello creators!
We are glad you enjoy using our app to make your photos even greater! To let you enjoy the app even more, we needed to fix some minor bugs, and.. that's what we have diligently done!
We are glad you enjoy using our app to make your photos even greater! To let you enjoy the app even more, we needed to fix some minor bugs, and.. that's what we have diligently done!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Focos
- Developer
- Mosaic S.r.l.
- Bundle ID
- com.focos
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BG, CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SL, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- We acquire and improve iconic products
- Description
- We acquire and improve iconic products. Supported by dozens of proprietary technologies and an elite team of engineers, scientists, and designers
- 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
- $1.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Photo & Video
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/bendingspoons
- linkedin.com/company/bendingspoons
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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/bendingspoons · instagram instagram.com/bendingspoons · linkedin linkedin.com/company/bendingspoons · medium medium.com/bendingspoons · twitter twitter.com/bendingspoons · youtube youtube.com/watch?v=uLSXhmRHpFU&t=30s
- partnerships@bendingspoons.com
- Phone
- 13368510965
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth51,400 ratings+47% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 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.
📝 About this app
Focos is a big step into the future of computational photography and light-field camera, bringing DSLR-like photography to your iPhone and iPad Pro, with beautiful bokeh effects usually achievable only with professional large aperture cameras. With the technology of computational photography, you can make unlimited changes to your photos, focus after the fact, change the aperture repeatedly, and add multiple lights in 3D space, exceeding the limits of any editing tools you’ve known before. The creative potential unleashed by Focos is endless.
The Verge,… View full description on the official store →
The Verge,… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 332 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v2.11.38🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, BG, CA, CS, DA +29📂 Photo & Video💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 ↑ 2.68 → 4.72 (improved 2.04★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.60 → 2.68 (dropped 1.92★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.68 → 4.60 (improved 1.92★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.29 (dropped 0.38★)
2022-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.40 (dropped 0.60★)
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2022-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2022-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
2022-11
🚀
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.72285★ | 51,412 | 4.72285★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.61343★ | 5,554 | 4.61343★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.60742★ | 7,573 | 4.60742★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.61767★ | 7,096 | 4.61767★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.64182★ | 20,395 | 4.64182★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.63866★ | 3,451 | 4.63866★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.70017★ | 2,735 | 4.70017★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.82652★ | 55,615 | 4.82652★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.60771★ | 21,854 | 4.60771★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Focos: 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 high confidence: 51,400 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Focos make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Focos earns approximately $1.9K/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 Focos?▴
Focos is published by Mosaic S.r.l. 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 Focos's BU Score?▴
Focos 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.