Boothie made $54.8K in 30 days from TikTok accounts with 3,295 followers between them
A solo-built AI photo app from Türkiye, 140 days after launch: verified revenue, weekly subscriptions, and four TikTok accounts where a handful of posts did almost all of the reach.
Product at a glance
Summary
What this business is
Boothie is an AI photo app built by one founder in Türkiye. It went live on the App Store on June 23, 2026 and on Google Play on September 15. Filters that run on the phone are free; the AI looks, which send a photo to Google’s Gemini model and return it restyled, are paid. The founder says he spent nothing on ads and that every customer came from TikTok accounts made for the purpose. The app has been listed for sale since October 9.
Why these scores? See the reasons in Key takeaways →
Momentum
Rising. Revenue: last three complete months +41% on the three before.Derived
Best suited for
Creator (main). The daily work is making short posts for TikTok, in the language of the market you want.
Builder (second). The app is a thin layer over a rented image model, and it reached version 1.6 in 16 weeks.
What you need to start. No audience and no ad budget. You pay for every AI image generated, and you need to post natively in your target market.Our read
Key findings
Product overview
One selfie in, one styled photo out. The free part runs on the phone and the paid part is rented from Google.
Boothie sells a look that is already popular on TikTok and Instagram: the hard flash of a 2000s compact camera, plus film tones and photobooth frames. The landing page lists eleven looks by name, among them Canon G7X, Cybershot, Nikon Coolpix, Night flash and Backlight, and promises that the result “keeps you looking like you”[2]. There is no account to create. The App Store listing is in English only, with release notes translated into German, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish[3].
“Launched in June no money, no paid ads. … All from TikTok carousels posted by almost a dozen persona accounts across the US, Germany and Turkey.”
The seller’s message · TrustMRR listing · Read Nov 10, 2026
The store listing sells the before and after
App Store listing · Read 2026-11-10 · Screenshots: Boothie
The free editor is local and the paid looks are rented
| Free | Paid | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Film filters, adjustment tools, a beauty editor | AI looks that restyle the whole photo |
| Where it runs | On the phone. The photo is not sent anywhere | Google’s Gemini, or fal.ai if Gemini is unavailable |
| How it is sold | Included | Weekly subscription or credit packs |
From the App Store description[3] and the terms of service, last updated Nov 8, 2026[6].
The founder lists Swift, React Native and RevenueCat as the stack[1]. The iOS app reached version 1.6 on Oct 12, 16 weeks after launch, and the Android app followed on Sep 15 and shows 10,000+ downloads[3][4]. On Nov 4 the same developer released a second app, a photo cleaner called Swipezy[10].
The landing page is built for traffic arriving from TikTok
Captured Nov 11, 2026 · Screenshots: boothieapp.com
What to look for
- 1One page and one job: send the visitor to the App Store or Google Play.Fact
- 2No pricing page, no blog and no account to create.Fact
- 3The dark note at the top is the fallback described below: “TikTok’s browser can’t open the store.” It showed up because our capture was taken by an automated browser.Our read
boothieapp.com is a single page with no pricing page and no blog, first archived on Oct 9, 2026[2][9]. Its script checks whether the visitor is inside the TikTok, Instagram or Facebook in-app browser. If so, it rewrites the App Store button into a link that hands off to Safari, and if the visitor is still on the page 1.5 seconds after tapping, it shows a note telling them to open the page in their browser[2].
Revenue analysis
About $1,900 a day, with a weekly pulse: every Saturday and Sunday in the window sits above the weekdays around it.
Hover or tap a bar, or pick a weekend. Verified daily revenue, Oct 12 – Nov 9, 2026 (UTC), from TrustMRR[1]. Blue: Saturdays and Sundays. Nov 10 is left out because the day was not complete at sync.
Eight weekend days, 36.4% of the 29-day total.Derived
Twenty-one weekdays.Derived
$52,520 MRR ÷ 2,244 subscriptions.Derived
$54,805 in 30 days against $52,520 MRR.Derived
Monthly revenue: three rises and one flat month
Hover or tap a bar. Monthly verified revenue from TrustMRR[1]. June covers eight days from launch on June 23; November covers Nov 1–10.
Our arithmetic on the verified data in this report. Revenue ÷ MRR uses the last 30 days; the share of all-time revenue counts the months in the chart above; the swing is the median change between complete months.
Revenue rose 60.1% from July to August, slipped 0.4% in September, then rose 29.6% in October to a record $56,477[1]. In our sample, the September posts were all small and the next post above a million plays came on Oct 9 (§05). The two things happened in the same period; we cannot show that one caused the other.Our read
TrustMRR lists a 55.0% profit margin for the last 30 days[1]. That figure is entered on the listing and is not part of the payment data, so we treat it as the founder’s.Our read
The founder’s own numbers, checked
| Claim | Checked against | Result |
|---|---|---|
| “Three months later: $38K MRR” | $37,592 MRR on Oct 1, 2026 | 1.1% apart |
| “8,200 paying users” | 1,402 active subscriptions on Oct 1, 2026 | Different measures: everyone who ever paid, against those subscribed that day |
| “No paid ads” | Ad spend is not public | Could not be checked |
Claims from the seller’s text on two sale listings[1][7]; Oct 1 figures from the second listing, which also reads RevenueCat[7]. That listing’s MRR series does not line up with TrustMRR’s, most likely because the two convert weekly plans to monthly differently, so we use it only for this table.
Where the users are
| App Store storefront | Ratings | Share of 366 | Photo & Video chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Türkiye | 257 | 70.2% | #10 free · #35 grossing |
| United States | 37 | 10.1% | Outside top 100 |
| Germany | 19 | 5.2% | Outside top 100 |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 2.5% | Outside top 100 |
| Ten other storefronts | 44 | 12.0% | Not checked |
Rating counts for 14 storefronts from Apple’s lookup data[3]; chart positions from Apple’s top charts feed[8]. Both read Nov 10, 2026.
The seller’s message names the US, Germany and Turkey. What we can count points mostly at Türkiye. Ratings are not revenue, and prices differ by country, so the split of money may look different from the split of users.Our read
Market and competitors
See all numbers
| App | US App Store ratings | First released |
|---|---|---|
| Prequel | 347,333 | Mar 2018 |
| Dazz Cam | 117,766 | Aug 2018 |
| Tezza | 47,799 | Jul 2018 |
| WayShot | 4,781 | Aug 2025 |
| Pecra: G7X Digital Camera | 1,293 | Jan 2026 |
| flag7x | 201 | Jun 2025 |
| Boothie | 37 | Jun 2026 |
US rating counts and release dates from Apple’s search data, read Nov 10, 2026[10]. Rating counts measure how many people rated an app, not what it earns. None of these apps has named, verified revenue on TrustMRR, so revenue is not compared. The first four are the apps the seller’s message names as the category.
Crowded. The leaders are eight years old and hundreds of times larger by ratings, and at least six apps released since mid-2025 sell the same G7X or digicam-flash look[10]. Boothie’s opening was a channel and a home market, not the product.Our read
For buyers: the listing, checked
Priced at about 2.3 times a year of revenue, on a pace that is holding, for an app category that can fade fast.
On every revenue base the price lands near 2.3–2.4 times a year: 2.3 times 30-day revenue × 12, 2.4 times MRR × 12, 2.3 times a year at November’s daily pace[1].Derived The app is five months old, so the buyer pays for a year that has not happened yet, and for 7.7 times everything it has earned so far.Derived
Other AI photo apps for sale
| Business | What it does | Recent revenue | On sale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boothie | Selfie re-rendered in a chosen look; weekly plans and credits | $56,477 (Oct) | Since Oct 9 at $1,500,000 (2.3x) |
| Stealth Company[12] | AI app for creating and editing images | $1,215,858 (Oct) | Since Oct 5 at $4,000,000 (0.4x) |
| Pro Photo[13] | AI clones from selfies in photo styles | $815 (Oct), was $7,361 (Dec 2025) | Since May 31 at $50,000 (4.5x) |
Monthly verified revenue from each TrustMRR page, read Nov 11, 2026. Multiples as TrustMRR shows them (ask ÷ 30-day revenue × 12).
The two ends of the category sit side by side: a much larger visual AI app asks only 0.4 times its run rate[12], and an older selfie-style app fell 89% from December to October and asks $50,000[13].Derived Selfie looks are trends; Boothie’s flat November pace is a good sign, but one that has lasted ten days.Our read
Checking the seller’s note
| Claim | What we found |
|---|---|
| No money, no paid ads; growth from TikTok carousels by almost a dozen persona accounts[1] | Our report found four of the accounts, with 3,295 followers between them. The rest are not public. |
| You get the accounts, playbooks and generators[1] | Accounts made to look like separate people carry platform-rule risk; whether they can transfer is a question for the seller. |
| Same category as Tezza ($26M/yr), Prequel ($26M/yr), Dazz Cam ($11M/yr)[1] | Those figures are the seller’s; none of these apps is verified on TrustMRR. |
| Six figures a month is the next stop[1] | A forecast, not a fact. October was $56,477.[1] |
From the seller’s message on TrustMRR[1], set against what we could check.
What running it involves
| Area | What we can see | What a buyer must find out |
|---|---|---|
| Costs | 55% margin; AI generations are paid per image[1] | Cost per generation and how it scales with users |
| Stores | iOS since June, Google Play since September; RevenueCat-verified[1] | Share of revenue by store and country |
| Plans | Weekly subscriptions and credit packs; MRR per subscription about $23.40[1] | Weekly churn and how long a subscriber stays |
| Stack | Swift and React Native, RevenueCat[1] | Which AI providers and how prompts and styles are kept |
From the TrustMRR profile and listing[1].
Questions to ask the seller
| # | Ask | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weekly churn and the share of revenue from credit packs | Weekly plans can turn over fast |
| 2 | Revenue by TikTok account, and what happens if an account is restricted | All growth is said to come from these accounts |
| 3 | Whether the accounts, generators and content rights transfer legally | Persona accounts and platform rules |
| 4 | AI cost per paying user, by month | Margin is 55% and depends on generation costs |
| 5 | Installs and conversion by country | The seller names the US, Germany and Turkey |
| 6 | Refund and chargeback rates | Consumer AI apps see disputes |
Our list, built from what the public data cannot show.
This is information for due diligence, not investment advice. Oddig has no relationship with the seller or TrustMRR and receives nothing from any sale.
Pricing: weekly plans and credit packs
Two subscription plans that include daily credits, and three credit packs for people who will not subscribe.
| Item | US price | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Boothie Plus | $6.99 | Subscription, includes daily credits |
| Boothie Gold | $9.99 | Higher-priced subscription, includes daily credits |
| 10 credits | $2.99 | One-time pack |
| 25 credits | $5.99 | One-time pack |
| 60 credits | $11.99 | One-time pack |
Item names and US prices as shown on a third-party sale listing, data dated Oct 1, 2026[7]. Google Play shows the same $2.99–$11.99 range for in-app purchases[4]. The founder describes the subscriptions as weekly[1]. There is no price history: the site has no pricing page and was first archived on Oct 9, 2026[9].
Dividing MRR by active subscriptions gives $23.40 a month per subscription, or about $5.40 a week ($52,520 ÷ 2,244 ÷ 4.33)[1]. That is below the $6.99 US price of the cheaper plan, which fits a customer base that pays lower local prices outside the US.Our read
How many credits each plan gives per day is not stated on the store pages or the site. One App Store review of a paid plan mentions five a day[3]; we could not confirm it.
Where customers come from
TikTok accounts made to post photo edits. We found four of them; their follower counts are tiny and a few of their posts are huge.
The founder’s description is “almost a dozen persona accounts across the US, Germany and Turkey”[1]. Searching the #boothie tag turned up four accounts whose bios name the app. Two share the same opening line word for word, “Just a girl who love photo editing and digicams”, and a third uses a variant of it[5].
Created Jun 17, six days before launch. 126 posts. The bio links to boothieapp.com with a TikTok tracking tag.[5]
FactCreated Jul 2. 161 posts, the most of the four.[5]
FactFour posts did almost all of the reach
Every post from the four accounts on the #boothie tag.Derived
5.8M of the 6.3M plays.Derived
17 of the 32 stayed under 10,000 plays.Derived
13 posts, 5.06M plays.Derived
| Date | Account | Plays | Likes | Saves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | @emma.koah | 1.3M | 36.4K | 69,030 |
| Jun 28, 2026 | @emma.koah | 1.2M | 66.5K | 37,192 |
| Jul 25, 2026 | @bennett.miaa | 1.0M | 98.5K | 33,249 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | @emma.koah | 2.3M | 90.6K | 85,339 |
The four posts above a million plays in our sample, as shown on each post’s public page on Nov 10, 2026[5]. TikTok rounds large counts. The sample is the 32 posts these accounts have on the #boothie tag, out of 372 posts in total, so it is not the whole picture.
Photo & Video category on Nov 10. A chart position brings its own browsing traffic.[8]
FactOne page whose job is to get a TikTok visitor into the App Store.[2]
FactWhat we could not find
We found no German-language account and no trace of the remaining accounts the founder counts. They may not use the tag. The founder calls the posts carousels; the 32 we read appear on the web as videos. The founder’s X account has about 60 followers and is not a channel for this product[11]. The site is a single landing page, so we did not estimate its traffic.
Growth strategies
Five moves explain how a new app with no audience and no budget reached paying users. Four of them are about distribution.
Timeline
- Jun 172026MarketingFirst TikTok account, @emma.koah, is created.[5]
- Jun 232026ProductBoothie goes live on the App Store.[3]
- Jun 242026MarketingA Turkish post reaches 1.3M plays.[5]
- Jun 282026MarketingA second Turkish post reaches 1.2M plays.[5]
- Jun2026Revenue$4,727 in the first eight days.[1]
- Jul 22026MarketingFirst English account, @bennett.miaa, is created.[5]
- Jul 252026MarketingAn English post reaches 1.0M plays.[5]
- Jul2026Revenue$27,329 for the month.[1]
- Aug2026Revenue$43,748 for the month, up 60.1%.[1]
- Sep 152026ProductAndroid version released on Google Play.[4]
- Sep2026Revenue$43,593 for the month, down 0.4%.[1]
- Oct 12026SaleListed on another marketplace with a $2,000,000 asking price.[7]
- Oct 92026SaleListed for sale on TrustMRR. The asking price there is now $1,500,000.[1]
- Oct 92026MarketingA Turkish post reaches 2.3M plays, the largest in our sample.[5]
- Oct 122026ProductVersion 1.6: more film looks and a beauty editor.[3]
- Oct2026Revenue$56,477 for the month, a record, up 29.6%.[1]
- Nov 42026ProductThe same developer releases a second app, Swipezy.[10]
Key takeaways
Boothie shows that a new consumer app can reach paying users through short-form posts alone, and that the result rests on a small number of hits in one market.
Why we scored it this way
Copy
- Start the account before the product. The first account was six days old on launch day. P1
- Run several accounts on one template and expect most posts to do little. The hits pay for the rest. P2
- Win your own language first. The Turkish account brought 80.4% of the plays we sampled. P3
- Fix the in-app browser hand-off on your landing page before you send social traffic to it. P4
Avoid
- Reading weekly subscriptions as stable MRR. They renew or lapse four times a month. §04
- Building on one channel you do not control. One change on TikTok reaches every customer at once. §05
- Leaving out who runs the account. Undisclosed promotion is a platform-rule risk, and the one account that said “my own app” still had the biggest hits. §05
Our predictions
Three claims with dates. We mark each one right or wrong on its date and keep the result on the page.
Track record: the predictions in the bytemail, Post Bridge and Postiz reports are still open; the first checks land Dec 1, 2026. We mark each prediction right or wrong on its date and keep the result on the page.
What could prove us wrong
Things that would change our read, and how to check them.
- The accounts we did not find may tell a different story. We read four of the “almost a dozen”. If the others are large and aimed at Germany or the US, the Türkiye-first reading is wrong.Check: revenue by country. Not public; only the founder or a buyer could confirm it.
- Paid ads may be in the mix. “No paid ads” is the founder’s statement, and we could not test it.Check: TrustMRR tracks ad spend for connected accounts but shows it only after login.
- Ratings are not revenue. Türkiye has 70.2% of the ratings, but a subscriber in the US or Germany may pay several times more in local pricing. The money could be more Western than the audience.Check: not public.
- The channel depends on how TikTok treats undisclosed promotion. Three of the four accounts post as ordinary users and their bios do not say who runs them. A change in enforcement would reach all of them together.Check: whether the four accounts are still live and posting on Dec 31, 2026.
Appendix
FAQ
How much does Boothie make?
$54,805 in the 30 days to Nov 10, 2026 and $193,502 since launch, verified through RevenueCat on TrustMRR. MRR is $52,520 from 2,244 active subscriptions.
Is Boothie for sale?
Yes. It has been listed on TrustMRR since Oct 9, 2026 with an asking price of $1,500,000, about 2.3× its annualised 30-day revenue. The listing shows 31 offers received.
How does Boothie get users without ads?
Through TikTok accounts made to post before-and-after photo edits. The founder says there are almost a dozen. We found four that name Boothie in their bios; they have 3,295 followers between them and about 1.04M likes.
What AI model does Boothie use?
Its terms of service say photos used for AI features are sent to Google’s Generative AI (Gemini), or to fal.ai if Gemini is unavailable. Free filters run on the phone and do not send the photo anywhere.
Sources
- [1]TrustMRR: Boothie — revenue, MRR, subscriptions, daily and monthly data, sale listing and seller’s message. Verified through RevenueCat. Synced 2026-11-10 12:03 UTC.
- [2]boothieapp.com — landing page copy and page source. Read 2026-11-10.
- [3]App Store listing, Apple’s lookup data for 14 storefronts and the public review feed — release dates, version, ratings by country, 17 written reviews. Read 2026-11-10.
- [4]Google Play listing — release date, downloads, in-app price range. Read 2026-11-10.
- [5]TikTok public profile and post data for @emma.koah, @bennett.miaa, @madison.saier and @haileyy.blake, and the #boothie tag — followers, likes, post counts, and plays for 32 posts. Read 2026-11-10, logged out.
- [6]Boothie Terms of Service — operator and AI providers. Last updated 2026-11-08.
- [7]whatsthe.app: Boothie — a sale listing on another marketplace: prices, Oct 1 metrics, asking price, seller’s text. Third-party retelling, medium confidence. Data dated 2026-10-01.
- [8]Apple top charts feed, Photo & Video, for Türkiye, the US, Germany and the UK — read 2026-11-10.
- [9]Wayback Machine capture index for boothieapp.com — one capture of the homepage, dated 2026-10-09. Read 2026-11-10.
- [10]Apple search data for comparable apps — US rating counts and release dates. Read 2026-11-10.
- [11]TrustMRR founder page — X follower count. Read 2026-11-10.
- [12]TrustMRR: Stealth Company (consumer AI visual app) — monthly revenue, MRR, sale listing. App Store-verified. Read 2026-11-11.
- [13]TrustMRR: Pro Photo — AI selfie styles, monthly revenue, sale listing. Stripe-verified. Read 2026-11-11.
App icon and screenshots © Boothie, used for commentary. Oddig has no business relationship with Boothie. Numbers change daily; check the sources for the latest. Account names are given as they appear publicly on TikTok.
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