Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan
65
Quality Score
Solid
Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan is an iOS app from App Initio Limited in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.2★ across 311 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Photo & Video 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 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
📈
Pays back in ~4 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (208 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $375K – $600K · 14× MRR multiple
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~3.6× 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 |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
43K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.8K
Daily active
2.3K
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
29% 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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.3
Product Quality
5.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.24★ across 311 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($36K/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 11 of 11 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (311 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 · v6.29
Improved stability of large backups and exports.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan
- Developer
- App Initio Limited
- Bundle ID
- com.picscannerapp.gold
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, JA, RU, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Home - Photo Scanner
- Description
- Photo scanner app for iPhone and iPad. One touch, multiple photos. https://www.picscannergold.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/scan.mp4 Photo scanner app for iPhone and iPad. One touch, multiple photos. Scan photos or album pages! Pic Scanner Gold scans at your camera's highest resolution; auto-crops accurately, and auto-enhances. No other app does it easier or faster. Scan old photos now and put
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $35.4K/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth342 ratings+220% 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $9.99 (+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
PIC SCANNER GOLD – Photos & Album Scanner
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Stop scanning old photos one by one. Pic Scanner Gold scans multiple photos - or an entire album page - with one click. It auto-crops, auto-enhances, and saves individual photos at 300 DPI. No other app does all this. Read all about our EXCLUSIVE features below.
Pic Scanner Gold is the original multi-photo scanning app (since 2013), trusted by hundreds of thousands of families worldwide. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases or hidden fees. No ads. No watermark. One-time purchase for unlimited, lifetime use.… View full description on the official store →
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Stop scanning old photos one by one. Pic Scanner Gold scans multiple photos - or an entire album page - with one click. It auto-crops, auto-enhances, and saves individual photos at 300 DPI. No other app does all this. Read all about our EXCLUSIVE features below.
Pic Scanner Gold is the original multi-photo scanning app (since 2013), trusted by hundreds of thousands of families worldwide. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases or hidden fees. No ads. No watermark. One-time purchase for unlimited, lifetime use.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 208 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v6.29🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, JA +3📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 $9.99 price point
2020-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 4.36 (dropped 0.34★)
2017-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.57 (dropped 0.43★)
2016-11
🚀
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.22642★ | 53 | 4.22642★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.16438★ | 73 | 4.16438★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.43243★ | 37 | 4.43243★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.4★ | 15 | 4.4★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.35294★ | 51 | 4.35294★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4★ | 4 | 4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.25298★ | 336 | 4.25298★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan: 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: 311 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan earns approximately $35K/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.
What apps are like Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan?▴
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Who makes Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan?▴
Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan is published by App Initio Limited 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 Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan's BU Score?▴
Pic Scanner Gold - Foto Scan has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.