Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile
36
Quality Score
Emerging
Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile is an iOS app from Sony Corporation in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 1.7★ across 6,624 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 36: 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
$900K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$953K – $1467K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.1M – $2.1M
per month
BIG 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
🤖Also on Android
$1.7K/mo · 100K ratings · 1.7★
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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
📈
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 (53 MB) | +$1K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$28K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
925K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
165K
Daily active
49K
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
$900K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$887K – $1.2M
12 months
$953K – $1.5M
24 months
$1.1M – $2.1M
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 50/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.4
Product Quality
3.0
Revenue Strength
6.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $360K - $1980K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.66★ across 6,624 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $16.2M-$28.8M.
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:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (6,624 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (1.7★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (18 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| 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 · v7.8.3
- compatible with iOS26.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile
- Developer
- Sony Corporation
- Bundle ID
- jp.co.sony.playmemoriesmobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, 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
- $749/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 growth6,624 ratings+14% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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
Imaging Edge Mobile allows images/videos to be transferred to a smartphone/tablet, enables remote shooting, and provides location information to images captured by a camera.
■ Transfer images from a camera to a smartphone
- You can transfer images/videos.
- The selection and transfer of images after shooting are no longer needed as the automatic background transfer function allows images to be transferred to a smartphone as they are captured. *1
- High bit rate video files including 4K can be transferred. *2… View full description on the official store →
■ Transfer images from a camera to a smartphone
- You can transfer images/videos.
- The selection and transfer of images after shooting are no longer needed as the automatic background transfer function allows images to be transferred to a smartphone as they are captured. *1
- High bit rate video files including 4K can be transferred. *2… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 53 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.7+🔖 v7.8.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, ID +13📂 Photo & Video💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.34 → 1.66 (improved 0.32★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 1.90 → 1.34 (dropped 0.56★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.34 → 1.90 (improved 0.56★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2023-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2023-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1.51503★ | 732 | 1.51503★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1.64984★ | 317 | 1.64984★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1.60423★ | 945 | 1.60423★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 1.94619★ | 2,676 | 1.94619★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.06447★ | 636 | 2.06447★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 1.69878★ | 1,308 | 1.69878★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.66222★ | 225 | 2.66222★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1.68608★ | 5,135 | 1.68608★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 1.65686★ | 6,630 | 1.65686★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile: 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: 6,624 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile earns approximately $748/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 Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile?▴
Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile is published by Sony Corporation 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 Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile's BU Score?▴
Sony | Imaging Edge Mobile has a BU Score of 36/100 (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.