Rarevision VHS Lite: Retro Cam
71
Quality Score
Strong
Rarevision VHS Lite: Retro Cam
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Rarevision VHS Lite: Retro Cam is an iOS app from Rarevision in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.7★ across 7,546 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Photo & Video 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
$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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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
$14.0K/mo · 11K ratings · 4.7★
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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
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Pays back in ~2.8y 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 |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$40K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $30K – $50K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× build cost (under-water)
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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.1M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
185K
Daily active
55K
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
$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 · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.3
Product Quality
8.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.6
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.65★ across 7,546 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 660d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (660d since update).
🎯 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 ($37K/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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (7,546 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$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 · v1.7
• Awesome new audio glitches!
• Choice of video filters
• Choice of video filters
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Rarevision VHS Lite: Retro Cam
- Developer
- Rarevision
- Bundle ID
- com.rarevision.vhs-camcorder-lite
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, JA, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Creators of the original Rarevision VHS mobile app and visual effects superstars.
- 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
- $2.4K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/rarevisionvhs · instagram instagram.com/rarevision · twitter x.com/rarevision
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- rarevision.com/contact.php
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth7,546 ratings+46% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (47 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.
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
Used by Kendall Jenner, Snoop Dogg, Ariana Grande, Khloe Kardashian, Victoria Beckham, Wiz Khalifa, BTS, Die Antwoord and featured on SNL (S41E01) and in countless TV shows and music videos!
Covered by WIRED, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Mechanics, The Independent, Macworld, TMZ, TechCrunch, Mashable and many others!
It's 1984, and you've got a VHS camcorder! It'll look that way when you record and send old, messed up-looking retro videos to friends. They'll swear you built a time machine: "OMG, how'd you shoot that?"… View full description on the official store →
Covered by WIRED, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Mechanics, The Independent, Macworld, TMZ, TechCrunch, Mashable and many others!
It's 1984, and you've got a VHS camcorder! It'll look that way when you record and send old, messed up-looking retro videos to friends. They'll swear you built a time machine: "OMG, how'd you shoot that?"… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 30 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v1.7🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, JA, ES📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.88 → 4.44 (dropped 0.44★)
2021-08
🚀
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 | 4.6158★ | 367 | 4.6158★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.46364★ | 550 | 4.46364★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.58485★ | 660 | 4.58485★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.51281★ | 312 | 4.51281★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.64803★ | 304 | 4.64803★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.64024★ | 845 | 4.64024★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.6805★ | 241 | 4.6805★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.50061★ | 817 | 4.50061★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.65496★ | 7,602 | 4.65496★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Rarevision VHS Lite: Retro Cam: 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: 7,546 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Rarevision VHS Lite make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Rarevision VHS Lite earns approximately $2.4K/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 Rarevision VHS Lite?▴
Rarevision VHS Lite is published by Rarevision 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 Rarevision VHS Lite's BU Score?▴
Rarevision VHS Lite has a BU Score of 71/100 (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.