Spectra - Music Visualizer
61
Quality Score
Solid
Spectra - Music Visualizer
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Spectra - Music Visualizer is an iOS app from Spectre Software Inc. in the News category, currently rated 4.6★ across 1,500 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 61: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$8.9K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$9.2K – $19.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.4K – $34.2K
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
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
180K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
27K
Daily active
12K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$8.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.4K – $14.1K
12 months
$9.2K – $19.3K
24 months
$11.4K – $34.2K
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 · 42/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.7
Product Quality
8.2
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.5
Market Position
0.9
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $6K - $13K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.56★ across 1,500 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 585d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (585d 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 = $160K-$284K.
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:
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (1,500 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v1.5.8
Version 1.5.8:
• Added 4K export option
Version 1.5.7:
• Fixed iOS 18.0 bug that didn't let users export videos that have video backgrounds
• Fixed a bug that caused lag between frames resulting in 60 FPS exported videos having a lower frame rate… Full release notes →
• Added 4K export option
Version 1.5.7:
• Fixed iOS 18.0 bug that didn't let users export videos that have video backgrounds
• Fixed a bug that caused lag between frames resulting in 60 FPS exported videos having a lower frame rate… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Spectra - Music Visualizer
- Developer
- Spectre Software Inc.
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, HE, RU, 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
- $517/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth1,500 ratings+843% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 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
Enjoy music at a deeper level with realtime visualization! Spectra is a lightweight music & audio visualizer app that allows you to select and visualize audio in realtime, right on your phone or mac. Want to export your visualization? We have you covered. Simply click the "Create Video" button from within the app. No longer do you need expensive software to create those beautiful animations you've seen on the internet. Want to customize the background image or put a logo in the center? We made that available as well. In fact, you can customize just about all aspects of the visualizer.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 32 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v1.5.8🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, HE +3📂 News💰 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 →
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.84 → 4.56 (improved 0.72★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-04
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Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2021-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2020-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 3 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.7★ | 100 | 4.7★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.46957★ | 115 | 4.46957★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.98361★ | 61 | 3.98361★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Spectra - Music Visualizer: 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: 1,500 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Spectra - Music Visualizer make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Spectra - Music Visualizer earns approximately $516/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 Spectra - Music Visualizer?▴
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Who makes Spectra - Music Visualizer?▴
Spectra - Music Visualizer is published by Spectre Software 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 Spectra - Music Visualizer's BU Score?▴
Spectra - Music Visualizer has a BU Score of 61/100 (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.