RetroFix - Old Picture Restore
65
Quality Score
Solid
RetroFix - Old Picture Restore
by Denys Shevchenko
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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RetroFix - Old Picture Restore is an iOS app from Denys Shevchenko in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.6★ across 6,413 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
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
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📊 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
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (116 MB) | +$26K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$42K |
Total estimate
$120K
👥 Estimated audience size
895K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
160K
Daily active
48K
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)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
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 · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.4
Product Quality
8.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.6
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.64★ across 6,413 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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.
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Low install base (6,413 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (28 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v1.0.36
Faster restoration, smoother experience. We've improved AI photo restoration speed, fixed minor bugs, and made performance enhancements to help you bring old memories back to life even quicker.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- RetroFix - Old Picture Restore
- Developer
- Denys Shevchenko
- Bundle ID
- com.aismartapps.retrofix
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, HR, CS, DA, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, SK, ES, SV, TL, TR, UK, VI
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
- $276/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 growth6,833 ratings+1449% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (25 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (26 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
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
Transform old photos into clear, vibrant memories with RetroFix! This AI-powered photo restoration app makes it easy to enhance, restore, and clean up old photos, so your cherished images look like new again.
RetroFix is the ultimate app for old photo restoration on iPhone, perfect for bringing life back to faded, damaged, or black-and-white photos. Whether you want to remove scratches, repair damaged images, or make old photos clear, RetroFix has all the tools you need.
【Key Features】… View full description on the official store →
RetroFix is the ultimate app for old photo restoration on iPhone, perfect for bringing life back to faded, damaged, or black-and-white photos. Whether you want to remove scratches, repair damaged images, or make old photos clear, RetroFix has all the tools you need.
【Key Features】… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 116 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.5.0+🔖 v1.0.36🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, HR, CS, DA, EN +23📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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 →
2026-07
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Shipped update — v1.0.35 → v1.0.36
→ 30 days after: reviews +69 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
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Shipped update — v1.0.34 → v1.0.35
→ 30 days after: reviews +129 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +312 high confidence
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.62657★ | 316 | 4.62657★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.68848★ | 1,085 | 4.68848★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.55062★ | 405 | 4.55062★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.59677★ | 310 | 4.59677★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.70909★ | 220 | 4.70909★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.69667★ | 600 | 4.69667★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.8★ | 75 | 4.8★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.65035★ | 143 | 4.65035★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.64548★ | 6,812 | 4.64548★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for RetroFix - Old Picture Restore: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 6,413 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does RetroFix - Old Picture Restore make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, RetroFix - Old Picture Restore earns approximately $275/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 RetroFix - Old Picture Restore?▴
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Who makes RetroFix - Old Picture Restore?▴
RetroFix - Old Picture Restore is published by Denys Shevchenko 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 RetroFix - Old Picture Restore's BU Score?▴
RetroFix - Old Picture Restore 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.