PhotoPills vs Retro - Photos with Friends
PhotoPills
PhotoPills S.L.
App Store
$35.5K/mo
~$426.0K/yr · 121K installs
VS
Retro - Photos with Friends
Lone Palm Labs, Inc.
App Store
$20.4K/mo
~$244.3K/yr · 661K installs
Revenue winner
PhotoPills wins
+74% vs other
Installs winner
Retro - Photos with Friends wins
+446% vs other
MAU winner
Retro - Photos with Friends wins
+449% vs other
Rating winner
Retro - Photos with Friends wins
+2% vs other
Why PhotoPills is winning
Top 1 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- PhotoPills earns roughly 2× more per month than Retro - Photos with Friends - $35.5K vs $20.4K.
→ Find more apps with this revenue gap · Full PhotoPills report
Side-by-side metrics
Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.
PhotoPills
vs
Retro - Photos with Friends
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$35.5K
◀
$20.4K
Annual revenue (est.)
$426.0K
◀
$244.3K
Lifetime installs (est.)
121K
▶
661K
Monthly active users (est.)?
38K
▶
210K
App Store rating
4.71★
▶
4.80★
Total ratings
2K
▶
8K
US grossing rank
-
=
-
Cheapest monthly sub
No sub
▶
$4.99
IAP tiers detected
0 tiers
▶
6 tiers
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Price
- USD10.99
- Released
- Mar 21, 2013
- Last updated
- Apr 16, 2026
- File size
- 51.0 MB
- Content rating
- 17+
- Version
- 2.13.25
- Languages
- Catalan, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese +3 more
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Jul 13, 2023
- Last updated
- Jul 1, 2026
- File size
- 139.0 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 111.0
- Languages
- Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian +9 more
PhotoPills trajectory
Retro - Photos with Friends trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, PhotoPills or Retro - Photos with Friends? v
PhotoPills earns about $35.5K per month, while Retro - Photos with Friends earns about $20.4K. That is a 1.7× revenue gap (~$15.1K more per month for PhotoPills). Annual revenue: PhotoPills ≈ $426.0K/year, Retro - Photos with Friends ≈ $244.3K/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, PhotoPills or Retro - Photos with Friends? v
Retro - Photos with Friends leads with about 661K estimated downloads vs 121K for PhotoPills - a 5.5× gap. PhotoPills's App Store downloads are estimated from 2K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Retro - Photos with Friends's App Store downloads are estimated from 8K ratings.
Are PhotoPills and Retro - Photos with Friends 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 PhotoPills and Retro - Photos with Friends offer? v
PhotoPills: no IAP detected on the public listing. Retro - Photos with Friends: IAP range 6 tiers detected. PhotoPills runs a "Paid app ($10.99)" monetization model; Retro - Photos with Friends runs "Subscription (~$3.00/mo)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, PhotoPills or Retro - Photos with Friends? v
Retro - Photos with Friends edges ahead with ★ 4.8 vs ★ 4.7 (gap of 0.1 stars). Rating volume: PhotoPills 2K ratings, Retro - Photos with Friends 8K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these PhotoPills vs Retro - Photos with Friends revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $35.5K for PhotoPills and $20.4K for Retro - Photos with Friends 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 PhotoPills or Retro - Photos with Friends to a different App Store app? v
Use the search box at the bottom of this page or paste any two App Store links into the homepage tool. We auto-generate a permanent comparison URL with revenue, downloads, IAP tiers, subscription pricing and grossing rank for both apps.