YI Smart Dash Camera
36
Quality Score
Emerging
YI Smart Dash Camera
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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YI Smart Dash Camera is an iOS app from Shanghai Xiaoyi Technology Co., Ltd. in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 1.8★ across 474 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
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
$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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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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.7y 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (160 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$49K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 11× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
11× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
66K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
11K
Daily active
3.4K
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: rating drift may slow acquisition
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 36/100MID TIERno growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.8
Product Quality
2.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.76★ across 474 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1671d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (1671d 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 = $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 10 of 10 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 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (1.8★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (11 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (474 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 · v4.4.1
1.Fix known device playback issues
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- YI Smart Dash Camera
- Developer
- Shanghai Xiaoyi Technology Co., Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- com.xiaoyi.car-camera
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CS, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- See What Matters. AI vision solution. Affordable and accessible for any consumer and business
- 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
- $7.0K/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
- instagram instagram.com/yitechnology
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- yitechnology.com/about
📈Ratings growth474 ratings+90% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 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
Connect your mobile with YI Dash Camera remotely to preview the live screen & capture the shot, browse or download the videos stored in dashcam, adjust the settings and also easy to complete the firmware upgrade. Simple video editing function helps you to share video chips with friends.
Supported Equipment：
YI Smart Dash Camera
YI 2.7K Ultra Dash Camera
YI Compact Dash Camera
YI Mirror Dash Camera
YI Mini Dash Camera
Leran more：
https://www.yitechnology.com
Get contact：
supports@yitechnology.com… View full description on the official store →
Supported Equipment：
YI Smart Dash Camera
YI 2.7K Ultra Dash Camera
YI Compact Dash Camera
YI Mirror Dash Camera
YI Mini Dash Camera
Leran more：
https://www.yitechnology.com
Get contact：
supports@yitechnology.com… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 160 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v4.4.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 CS, EN, FR, DE, IT +6📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.60 → 2.00 (improved 0.40★)
2018-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.17 → 2.86 (dropped 0.31★)
2016-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.75 → 3.20 (improved 0.45★)
2016-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.33 → 2.75 (dropped 0.58★)
2016-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
2016-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.00 (improved 1.00★)
2016-02
🚀
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 | 3.16667★ | 6 | 3.16667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1.91566★ | 83 | 1.91566★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 1.86957★ | 23 | 1.86957★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2★ | 8 | 2★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.15★ | 60 | 2.15★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.1★ | 10 | 2.1★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2★ | 8 | 2★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 1.76371★ | 474 | 1.76371★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for YI Smart Dash Camera: 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: 474 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does YI Smart Dash Camera make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, YI Smart Dash Camera earns approximately $7.0K/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 YI Smart Dash Camera?▴
YI Smart Dash Camera is published by Shanghai Xiaoyi Technology Co., Ltd. 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 YI Smart Dash Camera's BU Score?▴
YI Smart Dash Camera 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.