Lupe
60
Quality Score
Solid
Lupe
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Lupe is an iOS app from I-Beam in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.4★ across 159 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 60: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~6 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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 12× MRR multiple
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~2.2× 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 |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
31K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
6.3K
Daily active
1.2K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
19% sticky
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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)
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 32/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
4.6
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.36★ across 159 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2157d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 8.1% refund mentions, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.36 ★ (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. Portfolio play ($8K/mo combined) commands premium. 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 6 of 6 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 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (7 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (159 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.
🆕 What's New · v3.8.1
- We are always improving!
- Under-the-hood stability improvements and bug fixes
- Under-the-hood stability improvements and bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Lupe
- Developer
- I-Beam
- Bundle ID
- com.IBeam.MagnifyingGlass
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $8.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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 growth159 ratings+15800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (16 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 → $1.99 (+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 original and still the best. The New York Times: Gadgetwise - App of the Week!!!
"Of the several [magnification apps] I tried my favorite is Magnifying Glass from I-Beam. The iPhone app is simplicity itself. Turn it on, point the camera at the fine print and then touch the plus button until it is enlarged enough to read...
"Two other built-in features I like about Magnifying Glass: the button that instantly resets the image to low magnification and the camera button which lets you take a photo of your close up." - Roy Furchgott, New York Times… View full description on the official store →
"Of the several [magnification apps] I tried my favorite is Magnifying Glass from I-Beam. The iPhone app is simplicity itself. Turn it on, point the camera at the fine print and then touch the plus button until it is enlarged enough to read...
"Two other built-in features I like about Magnifying Glass: the button that instantly resets the image to low magnification and the camera button which lets you take a photo of your close up." - Roy Furchgott, New York Times… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 36 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v3.8.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +2📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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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
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.60 → 4.50 (improved 0.90★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 3.00 (improved 0.40★)
2009-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2009-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
2009-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 37 reviews across 5 markets● 38% positive · ● 24% neutral · ● 38% negative · Rating drift: -1.36★ (declining — recent 50: 3.0★ vs lifetime: 4.36★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.36
🇺🇸 US
+0.34
🇫🇷 FR
+0.00
🇩🇪 DE
-0.39
🇨🇦 CA
-0.58
Top praise themes
magnifying ×5 zoom ×5 image ×4 useful ×4 works ×3 application ×3 est ×3 version ×3
Top complaint themes
magnifying glass ×4 doesn't work ×3 die ×8 nicht ×5 image ×4 useless ×4 und ×4 mehr ×4
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 8.1% Bug mentions: 8%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.61538★ | 13 | 4.61538★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4★ | 11 | 4★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.49091★ | 220 | 4.49091★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.30435★ | 23 | 4.30435★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.10526★ | 38 | 4.10526★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.85714★ | 7 | 4.85714★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.66667★ | 6 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.35849★ | 159 | 4.35849★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Lupe: 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: 159 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Lupe make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Lupe earns approximately $8.1K/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 Lupe?▴
Lupe is published by I-Beam 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 Lupe's BU Score?▴
Lupe has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.