Picta x CVS Photo
85
Quality Score
Excellent
Picta x CVS Photo
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Picta x CVS Photo is an iOS app from Pictarine in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.9★ across 166,621 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 85: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Photo & Video app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
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- 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
🤖Also on Android
$774/mo · 12K ratings · 4.8★
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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 ~5 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 (137 MB) | +$34K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$46K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$450K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $350K – $600K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~3.5× 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 (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
23.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.1M
Daily active
1.2M
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.7
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.2
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.87★ across 166,621 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($47K/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:
| High install base (166,621 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)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 · v3.26.10
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Picta x CVS Photo
- Developer
- Pictarine
- Bundle ID
- com.pictarine.Photo-Print.cvs
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- She's seen every photo. Now print her favorites!
- Description
- Your photos deserve more than just sitting behind a phone screen! Prints, gifts, decor & more from your favorite memories. Pick up at a nearby store the same-day or delivered right to your doorstep.
- 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
- $24.9K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/pictaphotoapp · instagram instagram.com/pictaphotoapp · linkedin linkedin.com/showcase/pictaphoto · tiktok tiktok.com/@pictaphoto · youtube youtube.com/@pictaphotoapp/shorts
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- picta.com/us/p/storybooks/storybook_h…
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available data does not provide specific revenue estimates for the iOS app "Picta x CVS Photo." While Pictarine, the developer, has an estimated annual revenue of $1.5 million, this figure encompasses all their photo printing partner apps, not solely the CVS Photo app. The app's business model involves users ordering prints through the app and paying at CVS stores, making direct app revenue difficult to ascertain from public sources.
Sources mentioned: Prospeo, PitchBook, Tracxn, Reddit, App Store, Google Play, Bitrise, WRAL
📈Ratings growth166,621 ratings+39% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 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.
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
Minute Photo: CVS Photo Printing
Printing photos at CVS just got easy. Download our free Picta Minute Photo app and start turning your favorite moments into prints today!
Choose your photos, your print size (4x6, 5x7, square, and more), and quantity. Or transform them into wall art, gifts, and personalized cards.
Select your nearest CVS store for 1-hour pickup. It's that simple!
THE EASIEST AND FASTEST WAY TO PRINT PHOTOS AT CVS
Order prints on your phone in seconds, then pick up and pay in 1 hour.* Turn your favorite moments into photo prints and gifts with the Minute Photo app by Picta.… View full description on the official store →
Printing photos at CVS just got easy. Download our free Picta Minute Photo app and start turning your favorite moments into prints today!
Choose your photos, your print size (4x6, 5x7, square, and more), and quantity. Or transform them into wall art, gifts, and personalized cards.
Select your nearest CVS store for 1-hour pickup. It's that simple!
THE EASIEST AND FASTEST WAY TO PRINT PHOTOS AT CVS
Order prints on your phone in seconds, then pick up and pay in 1 hour.* Turn your favorite moments into photo prints and gifts with the Minute Photo app by Picta.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 137 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v3.26.10🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 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: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.55 → 4.90 (improved 0.35★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2022-12
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — picta.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Picta x CVS Photo: 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: 166,621 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Picta x CVS Photo make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Picta x CVS Photo earns approximately $24K/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 Picta x CVS Photo?▴
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Who makes Picta x CVS Photo?▴
Picta x CVS Photo is published by Pictarine 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 Picta x CVS Photo's BU Score?▴
Picta x CVS Photo has a BU Score of 85/100 (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.