How much does Polca - Retro Camera make per month?

Our model estimates Polca - Retro Camera earns roughly $86/mo, but with only 11 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.

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Who makes Polca - Retro Camera?

Polca - Retro Camera is published by ThirtyFive Inc. 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 Polca - Retro Camera's BU Score?

Polca - Retro Camera has a BU Score of 35/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Polca - Retro Camera

Quality Score

Emerging

Polca - Retro Camera

Name: Polca - Retro Camera — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
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License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Low confidence

3.0 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Polca - Retro Camera is an iOS app from ThirtyFive Inc. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 3.0★ across 11 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 35: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Photo & Video app, that means early traction worth watching. 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

$500

per month

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12-mo forecast

$437 – $1575

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$405 – $3644

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$80K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $60K – $110K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost

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
⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55	+$27K

Total estimate $80K

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

6 months

$426 – $993

12 months

$437 – $1.6K

24 months

$405 – $3.6K

Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Pre-traction · 35/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Revenue Strength

2.7

Product Quality

2.4

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

5.7

Operational Safety

5.0

Founder Strength

5.9

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.0★ across 11 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2414d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2414d since update).

🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($16K/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

MODEL

Revenue 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 5 of 5 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
Below-average rating (3.0★)METRIC		−$1,500
Mature app (8y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Single-language (English only)METRIC		−$400
Pre-traction phase (11 ratings)METRIC		−$300

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v3.0

Optimized for iOS 13

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Polca - Retro Camera
Developer: ThirtyFive Inc.
Bundle ID: com.3hirty5ive.Polca
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Photo & Video
Content rating: 4+
Languages: EN

Company

Website: Not found
Tagline: Today
Description: Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
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: $86/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.

⭐Recent App Store Reviews4 latest · avg 2.75★ · 25.0% 5★ · 50.0% 1★

5★

1 (25%)

4★

1 (25%)

3★

0 (0%)

2★

0 (0%)

1★

2 (50%)

+1 ratings/week

Praise: love ×2 great ×1 recommend ×1

Top positive

★★★★★ Overall pleasing experience!

This app is great! For a guy that has 20+ paid and free retro photo and video apps, this was a welcome. Why? Simply put, simplicity! My biggest problem with those other apps is that there are to many choices! To many filters and films. I wa…

★★★★☆ Lovely App

I wish I could edit photos that are on my camera roll! Besides that A+ app!…

Top negative

★☆☆☆☆ Waste of data to even bother downloading

I’m sorry but your app is beyond pointless. If someone is looking to take pics with an app that has a somewhat interesting, retro user interface then that’s about all that it’s good for. No choice of filters, no way to apply filters to othe…

★☆☆☆☆ don’t pay for this

waste of money do not buy. it’s the most basic app that only lets you put a filter on if you take the picture using the app you can’t upload any pictures from your camera roll. would not recommend…

📈Ratings growth11 ratings+1000% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (7 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

Polca is an easy and fun retro camera application.
You can obtain various film photos by 3 stage scene mode.

Pressing shutter for a short time, it is basic scene mode of Polca. 
If you press it a bit longer and let go of the shutter when the 1st stage lamp is turned on, you can make photos with various light leak effect. 

And you can make photos with weak damage effect in the 2nd stage lamp, and strong damage effect like coffee stains in the 3rd stage lamp.

If you turn on the Date switch in the lower right-hand corner, the date will be marked.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 20 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v3.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

7 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-05

💲

Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point

2021-12

⭐

Rating ↓ 2.75 → 2.40 (dropped 0.35★)

2019-02

⭐

Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.75 (improved 0.75★)