41
Quality Score
Emerging
iPrint
✍️ bumetric analysis
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iPrint is an iOS app from Shenzhen Forg To Sea Technology Co., LTD in the News category, currently rated 3.0★ across 137 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 41: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$5.0K/mo
In 12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
In 24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
MID tierFREE
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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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 (174 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙5.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$32K |
Total estimate$140K
👥 Estimated audience size
11K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.3K
Daily active
580
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
| 📲News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅5.4y of rating accumulation | -27% |
| 🔁News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU45% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React NativeFlutter
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 | 174 MB |
| 🏷Category context | News |
| 📦Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-05-22 · 1 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
| 📅1 day since last update | Active development |
| 👥Small user base (137 ratings) + 5.4y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
Stalled · 30/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
2.7
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.4
Operational Safety
3.2
Founder Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.01★ across 137 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -0.85 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $60K-$110K. 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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (26 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (137 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 →💾 174 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v1.6.4🔄 updated 1d ago🌐 AR, DA, NL, EN, FI +21📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2020 (5y old)
📝 About this app
Super-Resolution Grayscale Algorithm Industry-first & independently developed patent, enhances image details through super-resolution scaling, making grayscale printing more refined.
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• Art Photo Creation: Easily create artistic photos with various themes and styles featuring you as the main character.
• Doodle Practice: Generate image outlines and add sticker elements for simplified drawing practice.
• Line Art: Transform complex images into simple line drawings for a minimalist art experience.… View full description on the official store →
7 AI Image Applications for More Fun Learning
• Art Photo Creation: Easily create artistic photos with various themes and styles featuring you as the main character.
• Doodle Practice: Generate image outlines and add sticker elements for simplified drawing practice.
• Line Art: Transform complex images into simple line drawings for a minimalist art experience.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.6.4
Optimization, upgrade and version update
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.66 → 2.30 (dropped 0.36★)
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2021-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 146 reviews across 9 markets● 38% positive · ● 35% neutral · ● 27% negative · Rating drift: -0.85★ (declining — recent 50: 2.16★ vs lifetime: 3.01★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.67
🇫🇷 FR
+0.28
🇯🇵 JP
+0.15
🇮🇳 IN
+0.15
🇺🇸 US
+0.12
🇨🇦 CA
+0.08
🇬🇧 GB
+0.02
🇧🇷 BR
-0.05
🇩🇪 DE
-0.42
Top praise themes
black white ×3 printer ×15 print ×14 reviews ×6 works ×6 printing ×6 notes ×5 super ×5
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×10 work doesn ×4 internet access ×4 waste money ×4 mini impressora ×4 não consigo ×4 doesn let ×3 connect phone ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.4% Bug mentions: 6%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.0146★ | 137 | 3.0146★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.35135★ | 37 | 2.35135★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.59375★ | 32 | 2.59375★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.73077★ | 26 | 2.73077★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.375★ | 8 | 2.375★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.09091★ | 11 | 2.09091★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.5★ | 8 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.4★ | 45 | 2.4★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.71875★ | 32 | 2.71875★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- iPrint
- Developer
- Shenzhen Forg To Sea Technology Co., LTD
- Bundle ID
- com.frogtosea.smartprint
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- office.frogtosea.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- 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
- $459/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.69★ · 22.4% 5★ · 40.8% 1★
5★11 (22%)
4★5 (10%)
3★11 (22%)
2★2 (4%)
1★20 (41%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: love ×5 perfect ×3 great ×2 amazing ×2 awesome ×1Complaints: crash ×3 bug ×2 refund ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Great app and printer
Used this for my nadamoo printer from Amazon and this app works pretty great for it, still learning how to use it a little but other than that perfect app…
★★★★★ Worked perfectly first time
Did what the instructions said and works well.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Crashes and freezes phone
This app is easy to use with the printer and I love all the options, however it keeps crashing and freezing my phone which makes me really uncomfortable and just makes it harder to accomplish anything. They need LOTS of fixes…
★☆☆☆☆ Trash
Like doesn’t even let me use guest so I’m forced to use Apple ID. Makes account and still doesn’t even let me passed the original screen, garbage printer doesn’t connect to my phone either with BT…
📈Ratings growth137 ratings+13600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (51 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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 iPrint: 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 iPrint make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, iPrint earns approximately $459/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 iPrint profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $459, iPrint looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does iPrint have?▾
Estimated audience: ~11K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~580 daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like iPrint?▾
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What is iPrint built with?▾
Our heuristic places iPrint on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is iPrint still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was iPrint last updated?▾
iPrint last shipped a new version on 2026-05-22 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes iPrint?▾
iPrint is published by Shenzhen Forg To Sea Technology Co., LTD 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 iPrint's BU Score?▾
iPrint has a BU Score of 41/100 (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.