PicCollage: KI Foto Collage
89
Quality Score
Excellent
PicCollage: KI Foto Collage
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This iOS app targets the creative photo and video collage niche, competing directly with apps like Canva, Layout from Instagram, and various smaller, single-purpose collage makers. Its high rating from over a million users, combined with its consistent revenue, signals strong user traction and a mature product in a sustained growth phase, rather than early-stage discovery. The developer has successfully built a loyal user base willing to pay for its features. In the Photo & Video category, a common monetization observation is the prevalence of subscription models or one-time premium feature unlocks, often offering ad-free experiences, expanded asset libraries, or advanced editing tools. This app’s paid model likely leverages a similar value proposition, given the category's typical willingness to pay for enhanced creative control and output quality.
BU Score 89 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$1.6M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7M – $2.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.1M – $3.8M
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
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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 ~7 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 (214 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$375K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $275K – $475K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~2.7× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
253.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
45.5M
Daily active
13.5M
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
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.6M – $2.2M
12 months
$1.7M – $2.6M
24 months
$2.1M – $3.8M
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 58/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.3
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $648K - $3564K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 1,811,376 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $29.2M-$51.9M.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,811,376 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 |
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 · v8.62.2
New Tape Backgrounds for Text: Give your collages that cozy, scrapbook feel with our new tape-style text backgrounds! Layer them over your favorite photos and make every word feel handmade.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PicCollage: KI Foto Collage
- Developer
- Cardinal Blue
- Bundle ID
- com.cardinalblue.PicCollage
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- piccollage.com
- Tagline
- Create & Celebrate
- Description
- Create and Celebrate. The easiest way to send photo and video greetings to friends and family. Download PicCollage for free now!
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $1.0M ($800.0K – $1.5M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $12.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $19.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇯🇵#14 /100 🇩🇪#17 /100 🇬🇧#18 /100 🇺🇸#22 /100 🇨🇦#25 /100 🇦🇺#25 /100 🇮🇳#52 /100
- 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "PicCollage" by Cardinal Blue is estimated to generate approximately $1 million in monthly revenue. This translates to an estimated annual revenue of $12 million.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty, Growjo, LeadIQ
📈Ratings growth1,811,376 ratings+24% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (7 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇯🇵JP#14 /100
🇩🇪DE#17 /100
🇬🇧GB#18 /100
🇺🇸US#22 /100
🇨🇦CA#25 /100
🇦🇺AU#25 /100
🇮🇳IN#52 /100
🇧🇷BR#57 /100
🇫🇷FR#69 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#14 now · best #13 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
PicCollage - the app that lets you create anything to celebrate everything!
With PicCollage, you can turn your photos and videos into memories you want to save and share. Whether you’re looking to flex your creativity with a freestyle collage, stitch together a photo dump of your adventures, or create a quick card for a birthday. PicCollage is the perfect app for the job. Plus, you can even add videos to your collages and create video collages and slideshows that will make your friends and family say, “OMG, where’d you get that?”
It's easy, fun, and completely free.… View full description on the official store →
With PicCollage, you can turn your photos and videos into memories you want to save and share. Whether you’re looking to flex your creativity with a freestyle collage, stitch together a photo dump of your adventures, or create a quick card for a birthday. PicCollage is the perfect app for the job. Plus, you can even add videos to your collages and create video collages and slideshows that will make your friends and family say, “OMG, where’d you get that?”
It's easy, fun, and completely free.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 214 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v8.62.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +7📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 3.86 (dropped 0.47★)
2026-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2026-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #3Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
collage maker·#3🇺🇸photo editor·#14🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.662★ | 206,313 | 4.662★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.82372★ | 248,996 | 4.82372★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.69808★ | 175,685 | 4.69808★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.65268★ | 135,891 | 4.65268★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.64886★ | 83,699 | 4.64886★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.72726★ | 363,766 | 4.72726★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.65801★ | 83,337 | 4.65801★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.55825★ | 262,526 | 4.55825★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.79469★ | 1,815,754 | 4.79469★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PicCollage: KI Foto Collage: 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 high confidence: 1,811,376 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PicCollage make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PicCollage earns approximately $19K/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 PicCollage?▴
PicCollage is published by Cardinal Blue 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 PicCollage's BU Score?▴
PicCollage has a BU Score of 89/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.