myLightMeter PRO
73
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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myLightMeter PRO is an iOS app from David Quiles in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 1,148 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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
$600K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$635K – $978K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$759K – $1410K
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
167 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
1,148 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$600K
Snapshots tracked
167
since Mar 2013
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (57 MB) | +$2K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7991 |
| ⚙ 13.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$83K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$11.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~85× 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 |
| 📅 13.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
160K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
9.2K
Daily active
1.8K
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 |
| 📅 13.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
Flutter
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 | 57 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-18 · 11 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · 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
| 📅 11 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$591K – $800K
12 months
$635K – $978K
24 months
$759K – $1.4M
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 · 59/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.1
Product Quality
8.6
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 1,148 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $10.8M-$19.2M.
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 ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,148 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v3.2.5
- New: Save photo locations in your sessions and view them on a map. Enable this option in Setup.
- Easier archive navigation: the archive now opens in its own window, which you can close at any time to return to the light meter more quickly.… Full release notes →
- Easier archive navigation: the archive now opens in its own window, which you can close at any time to return to the light meter more quickly.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- myLightMeter PRO
- Developer
- David Quiles
- Bundle ID
- com.dq.myLightMeterPro
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- davidquiles.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $600K/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 growth1,146 ratings+260% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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 → $4.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 releases tracked
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
Designed by a photographer, for photographers.
Built for reliable, precise exposure measurement across film and digital workflows.
myLightMeter PRO gives you full control over exposure through a clean, professional set of tools.
Key Features
• Incident and reflected-light metering
• Classic and Pro interface styles
• Full manual control over aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and exposure compensation in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments
• Exposure range from 4 hours in Long Exposure mode to 1/8000 s, f/1.0 to f/512, and ISO 0.8 to 409,600
• Aperture-priority (Av) and shutter-priority (Tv) modes… View full description on the official store →
Built for reliable, precise exposure measurement across film and digital workflows.
myLightMeter PRO gives you full control over exposure through a clean, professional set of tools.
Key Features
• Incident and reflected-light metering
• Classic and Pro interface styles
• Full manual control over aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and exposure compensation in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments
• Exposure range from 4 hours in Long Exposure mode to 1/8000 s, f/1.0 to f/512, and ISO 0.8 to 409,600
• Aperture-priority (Av) and shutter-priority (Tv) modes… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 57 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v3.2.5🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +3📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
19 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 →
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v3.2 → v3.2.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +24 high confidence
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 4 of 4 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +24 medium · co-occurring
2026-09
💲
Price ↑ $3.99 → $4.99 (+25%)
→ 30 days after: reviews +24 medium · co-occurring
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v2.2 → v3.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +47 low · multiple changes
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v1.9.115 → v2.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +52 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v1.9.109 → v1.9.115
→ 30 days after: reviews +75 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $3.99 price point
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +109 high confidence
2026-03
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.9.109
→ 30 days after: revenue +$19.1K/mo · rating +0.19★ · reviews +638 high confidence
2017-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$71/mo high confidence
2017-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$138/mo high confidence
2015-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$99/mo high confidence
2015-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.56 → 4.20 (dropped 0.36★)
2014-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$104/mo · rating −0.07★ high confidence
2013-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$67/mo · rating −0.50★ medium · co-occurring
2013-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2013-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
4 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-09-17
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-09-17
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-09-17
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-09-17
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.46914★ | 81 | 4.46914★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.89655★ | 29 | 4.89655★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.60748★ | 107 | 4.60748★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.83851★ | 161 | 4.83851★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.64151★ | 53 | 4.64151★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.79324★ | 237 | 4.79324★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.875★ | 8 | 4.875★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.8125★ | 32 | 4.8125★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.7872★ | 1,156 | 4.7872★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for myLightMeter PRO: 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: 1,148 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does myLightMeter PRO make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, myLightMeter PRO earns approximately $600K/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 myLightMeter PRO profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $130K and monthly revenue $600K, myLightMeter PRO looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does myLightMeter PRO have?▴
Estimated audience: ~160K lifetime downloads, ~9K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 myLightMeter PRO?▴
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What is myLightMeter PRO built with?▴
Our heuristic places myLightMeter PRO on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is myLightMeter PRO still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would myLightMeter PRO sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $11.0M (marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M). 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 myLightMeter PRO last updated?▴
myLightMeter PRO last shipped a new version on 2026-10-18 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes myLightMeter PRO?▴
myLightMeter PRO is published by David Quiles 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 myLightMeter PRO's BU Score?▴
myLightMeter PRO has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.