Gallery - Album, Photo Vault vs Instagram
Gallery - Album, Photo Vault
Akashkumar Akabari
App Store
$28/mo
~$333/yr · 400 installs
VS
Instagram, Inc.
App Store
$12.20M/mo
~$146.45M/yr · 1.6B installs
Revenue winner
Instagram wins
+43585543% vs other
Installs winner
Instagram wins
+399176686% vs other
MAU winner
Instagram wins
+20803902% vs other
Rating winner
Instagram wins
+8% vs other
Why Instagram is winning
Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Instagram earns roughly 435856× more per month than Gallery - Album, Photo Vault - $12.20M vs $28.
- Premium pricing. Instagram charges $14.99/mo vs Gallery - Album, Photo Vault's $6.99/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
- Bigger install base. Instagram has ~1.6B lifetime installs vs Gallery - Album, Photo Vault's ~400 - 3991767.9× the funnel top.
- Better app store reviews. Instagram sits at 4.69★ vs 4.33★ - store algorithms reward higher-rated apps with more impressions.
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Side-by-side metrics
Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.
Gallery - Album, Photo Vault
vs
Instagram
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$28
▶
$12.20M
Annual revenue (est.)
$333
▶
$146.45M
Lifetime installs (est.)
400
▶
1.6B
Monthly active users (est.)?
122.8
▶
25.5M
App Store rating
4.33★
▶
4.69★
Total ratings
3
▶
29.0M
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
$6.99
▶
$14.99
IAP tiers detected
3 tiers
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2 tiers
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Dec 2, 2025
- Last updated
- Dec 2, 2025
- File size
- 22.1 MB
- Content rating
- 4+
- Version
- 1.0
- Languages
- Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian +5 more
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Oct 6, 2010
- Last updated
- May 11, 2026
- File size
- 547.1 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 429.0.0
- Languages
- Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish +25 more
Gallery - Album, Photo Vault trajectory
Instagram trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Gallery - Album, Photo Vault or Instagram? v
Instagram earns about $12.20M per month, while Gallery - Album, Photo Vault earns about $28. That is a 435856.4× revenue gap (~$12.20M more per month for Instagram). Annual revenue: Gallery - Album, Photo Vault ≈ $333/year, Instagram ≈ $146.45M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Gallery - Album, Photo Vault or Instagram? v
Instagram leads with about 1.6B estimated downloads vs 400 for Gallery - Album, Photo Vault - a 3991767.9× gap. Gallery - Album, Photo Vault's App Store downloads are estimated from 3 ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Instagram's App Store downloads are estimated from 29.0M ratings.
Are Gallery - Album, Photo Vault and Instagram in the same App Store category and competing for the same money? v
Yes - both apps sit in the Photo & Video category, which means they compete directly for the same paying users and category-level wallet share. Direct competitors, head-to-head.
What in-app purchases and subscription pricing do Gallery - Album, Photo Vault and Instagram offer? v
Gallery - Album, Photo Vault: IAP range 3 tiers detected. Instagram: IAP range 2 tiers detected. Gallery - Album, Photo Vault runs a "Subscription (~$6.99/mo)" monetization model; Instagram runs "Subscription (~$14.99/mo)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, Gallery - Album, Photo Vault or Instagram? v
Instagram edges ahead with ★ 4.7 vs ★ 4.3 (gap of 0.4 stars). Rating volume: Gallery - Album, Photo Vault 3 ratings, Instagram 29.0M ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Gallery - Album, Photo Vault vs Instagram revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $28 for Gallery - Album, Photo Vault and $12.20M for Instagram are derived from App Store grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings volume and category benchmarks (Photo & Video) - net of the 15-30% Apple/Google store cut. Real revenue depends on country mix, retention, refunds and ad fill rate, none of which Apple or Google publish.
How do I compare Gallery - Album, Photo Vault or Instagram to a different App Store app? v
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