Helios Location Light Pre-Vis
46
Quality Score
Emerging
Helios Location Light Pre-Vis
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Helios Location Light Pre-Vis is an iOS app from Chemical Wedding in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 3.5★ across 20 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 46: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Photo & Video app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$1.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.1K – $3.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$995 – $8958
per month
INDIE tier
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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
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$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 (99 MB) | +$19K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$38K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 11× 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% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
11× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.2K/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
$1.0K – $2.4K
12 months
$1.1K – $3.9K
24 months
$995 – $9.0K
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 · 37/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
2.8
Revenue Strength
3.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.7
Market Position
0.9
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $491 - $3072/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.45★ across 20 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 385d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (385d 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 18-32× monthly = $22K-$39K. Portfolio play ($22K/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 8 of 8 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 | |
| Below-average rating (3.5★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (20 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.
🆕 What's New · v3.8
New to Helios Pro are a number of advances that are invaluable when doing night photography.
The new Milky Way section gives you three different ways of visualizing the stars at any location, including maps showing light pollution and where the densest clusters of start will be.
The new Milky Way section gives you three different ways of visualizing the stars at any location, including maps showing light pollution and where the densest clusters of start will be.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Helios Location Light Pre-Vis
- Developer
- Chemical Wedding
- Bundle ID
- com.chemicalwedding.HeliosPro
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- EMPOWERING FILMMAKERS WITH CUTTING EDGE TOOLS
- 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
- $1.2K/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
- facebook facebook.com/ChemicalWedding.tv · instagram instagram.com/chemicalwedding.tv/?igs…
- wotcha@chemicalwedding.tv
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- chemicalwedding.tv/support.php
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth20 ratings+1900% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (15 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 → $17.99 (+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 greatest challenge faced ny photographers and cinematographers when shooting on location is predicting where the sun, moon or stars might be at any given moment, to create the best visual effect. It's a time critical process, to be in exactly the right place, at exactly the right time.
It might be predicting where the sun will set behind a wide shot of Manhattan on a particular day...
It might be planning when to shoot the moon so it perfectly backlights the ocean...
It might be to schedule where the Milky Way might be at its brightest at the edge of the Sahara Desert...… View full description on the official store →
It might be predicting where the sun will set behind a wide shot of Manhattan on a particular day...
It might be planning when to shoot the moon so it perfectly backlights the ocean...
It might be to schedule where the Milky Way might be at its brightest at the edge of the Sahara Desert...… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 99 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.6+🔖 v3.8🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Free
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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 ↓ 4.00 → 3.45 (dropped 0.55★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $17.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.31 → 4.00 (improved 0.69★)
2021-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.25 → 3.89 (dropped 0.36★)
2019-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 4.17 (dropped 0.63★)
2017-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 3 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3★ | 2 | 3★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4★ | 2 | 4★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.45★ | 20 | 3.45★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 20 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Helios Location Light Pre-Vis is a small / niche iOS app in the photo & video space with weak public traction — only 20 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Helios Location Light Pre-Vis make per month?▴
Our model estimates Helios Location Light Pre-Vis earns roughly $1.2K/mo, but with only 20 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like Helios Location Light Pre-Vis?▴
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Who makes Helios Location Light Pre-Vis?▴
Helios Location Light Pre-Vis is published by Chemical Wedding 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 Helios Location Light Pre-Vis's BU Score?▴
Helios Location Light Pre-Vis has a BU Score of 46/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.