# AI Renamer

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**In short.** AI Renamer (Desktop app that renames files from their content with AI, Turkey): US$7.7K verified revenue all time, November 2026. Evidence grade A: disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor. Team: 1 founder, the only person named by TrustMRR, GitHub, npm and Product Hunt. Launched 9 February 2025; still running, revenue falling.

Desktop app that renames files from their content with AI · Turkey · AI-native · solo founder · still running, revenue falling · group: Documents, data and slides

- Outcome: US$7.7K verified revenue all time, November 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: A; headline in US dollars: 7666)
- Launch: 9 February 2025; months from launch to the outcome: 21
- Team: 1 founder, the only person named by TrustMRR, GitHub, npm and Product Hunt
- Outside funding: None found; no source names an investor
- Main factor: Open source
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 3, copyable pattern 3, capital needed 1
- Tags: AI-native, Solo founder, Bootstrapped, Running, B2C, Productivity software

Links:

- Visit airenamer.app: https://airenamer.app/
- Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/ai-renamer
- Verified revenue on TrustMRR: https://trustmrr.com/startup/ai-renamer

**The product.** A desktop app for Mac and Windows. You drop images or documents into it, an AI model looks at each file's content and suggests a descriptive file name, and you preview the names before you apply them. It works with models that run on your own computer through Ollama or LM Studio, with your own OpenAI or Google key, or with paid cloud credits.

**Why it worked.** The founder first published the same idea as a free command-line tool on GitHub and npm in July 2024, and it collected about 2,100 GitHub stars and a Product Hunt launch. The paid desktop app then sold to people who wanted the result without a terminal: a US$19 one-time license for local models, or credits for cloud models. Revenue peaked in November and December 2025 and fell when the founder moved his time to another product.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

AI Renamer is a desktop app that gives files new names from their content. It sends each image or document to a vision-language model, an AI model that reads both pictures and text and answers in words, and turns the answer into a file name such as "sunset-paris-2025.jpg" in place of "IMG_001.jpg". The model can run on the user's own computer through Ollama or LM Studio, two free programs that download open AI models and serve them on the local machine, so the files never leave it. Users who do not want to set that up buy cloud credits instead.

Ozgur Ozer, a developer from Turkey, published the free command-line version as an npm package on 7 July 2024 and on GitHub under the GPL-3.0 license. A command-line tool is a program that one runs by typing a command in a terminal window. TrustMRR gives 9 February 2025 as the founding date of the paid app. TrustMRR, which reads revenue from the payment provider, shows US$7,666 in verified revenue all time on 3 November 2026, with the best month at US$1,010 in November 2025 and US$110 in October 2026. The founder listed the business for sale at US$18,000 on 20 June 2026.

The headline number is grade A: TrustMRR reads it from the founder's Polar account through an API key, not from a screenshot. The reasons for the decline are the founder's own words in his sale listing, grade C. The page also shows four failed startups that tried to bring order to scattered photos and files.

## Pricing

AI Renamer prices on 3 November 2026, from the pricing section of the home page (grade C)

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Mode | 19 one-time |  | unlimited renames with your own models; no file size limit |
| Cloud Mode credits | 10 for 200 credits |  | 1 credit per rename; 10 MB per file |
| Free trial | 0 | 0 | 10 credits on sign-up |

There is no subscription. Local Mode is a one-time license for the user's own models (Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI and custom models), with unlimited renames. Cloud Mode sells credits for a curated set of hosted models: 1 credit for each rename, credits never expire, files up to 10 MB. New accounts get 10 free credits.

## How much revenue does AI Renamer make? The numbers, graded

A US$19 desktop app that grew out of a free open-source tool, verified by its payment provider at US$7,666 in total revenue, with monthly sales now about one tenth of the peak

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verified revenue, all time, 3 November 2026 | US$7,666 | A | TrustMRR, revenue synced from Polar on 3 November 2026. On 27 October 2026 the same profile showed US$7,647. | [1, 2] |
| Best month | US$1,010 in November 2025 | A | TrustMRR monthly revenue timeline in the 27 October 2026 copy. December 2025 was US$992. | [2] |
| Revenue in November and December 2025 | US$2,002 | calc | Calculated: US$1,010 plus US$992. | [2] |
| Revenue in October 2026 | US$110 | A | TrustMRR monthly timeline. May to October 2026 ranged from US$70.61 to US$143 a month. | [1, 2] |
| Fall from the best month to October 2026 | about 89% | calc | Calculated: 1 minus US$110 divided by US$1,010. | [2] |
| Verified revenue, last 12 months | US$4,715 on 27 October 2026; US$4,564 on 3 November 2026 | A | TrustMRR rolling twelve-month total. | [1, 2] |
| Revenue before November 2025 | about US$3,038 | calc | Calculated from the 27 October 2026 copy: US$7,647 all time minus the twelve monthly values from November 2025 to October 2026 (US$4,608.61). | [2] |
| Recurring revenue | US$0; no active subscriptions | A | TrustMRR metric snapshot. The app sells one-time licenses and credit packs, not subscriptions. | [1] |
| Payment provider | Polar, connected by API key | A | TrustMRR "Verification Sources" section. Not Stripe. Polar is listed as not the merchant of record. | [1] |
| Visitors in the last 30 days, 27 October 2026 | 646 | A | TrustMRR, from Google Analytics, which the founder connected. Revenue per visitor US$0.30 and a profit margin of 95% in the same snapshot. | [2] |
| Asking price | US$18,000, first listed 20 June 2026 | C | TrustMRR acquisition section, set by the seller. One offer received by 27 October 2026. | [1, 2] |
| Asking price divided by twelve-month revenue | about 3.8 times (US$4,715) to 3.9 times (US$4,564) | calc | Calculated. TrustMRR shows 7.8 times, which matches US$18,000 divided by twelve times the last-30-day revenue of US$192. | [1, 2] |
| Founder's reason for selling | his time moved to Grape, an AI note-taking app | C | Seller message on TrustMRR: he said he made no marketing in 2026 and that new customers still came. | [1] |
| First release of the free command-line tool | 7 July 2024, npm version 1.0.0 | C | npm registry record; author Ozgur Ozer; 24 versions by 21 July 2024; GPL-3.0 license. | [5] |
| GitHub repository | about 2,100 stars and 146 forks | C | Repository page read on 3 November 2026. The readme sends desktop users to airenamer.app. | [4] |
| Product Hunt launch of the free tool | 19 July 2024, 14th of the day, 160 points | C | Product Hunt product page, tagged Open Source and Free. | [6] |
| Founding date of the paid app | 9 February 2025 | C | Entered by the founder on his TrustMRR profile. | [1] |
| Latest desktop version | v1.8.0, 10 December 2025 | C | Changelog page: dark mode and a fix for a vulnerability in React Server Components. v1.7.5 on 4 October 2025 added Google AI Studio. | [7] |
| Estimated users | 100 | C | Founder-written field on TrustMRR. The home page says "Loved by hundreds of users". | [1, 3] |
| Outside funding | none found | C | No source names an investor. | [1] |
| Months from the founding date to the headline figure | 21 | calc | Calculated: February 2025 to November 2026. | [1] |

How to read this table: a grade A value comes from TrustMRR's "Verification Sources" section, which reads the founder's payment records from Polar through an API key. A grade C value is a founder statement, the product's own pages or a public registry record. A grade X value was computed on this page from the rows it names.

## When did AI Renamer launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From a free command-line tool in July 2024 to a paid desktop app that is now for sale, in about two years. Each entry carries its grade.

- **7 July 2024** (grade C [5, 4]): Ozgur Ozer publishes ai-renamer 1.0.0 on npm: a free Node.js command-line tool that renames images, videos and files with Ollama, LM Studio or OpenAI models. The code is on GitHub under GPL-3.0.
- **19 July 2024** (grade C [6]): Product Hunt launch of the free tool: 14th product of the day with 160 points.
- **9 February 2025** (grade C [1]): Founding date of the paid desktop app, as the founder entered it on TrustMRR.
- **12 July 2025** (grade C [8]): The product blog describes the two modes: Local Mode for one's own models and Cloud Mode with credits.
- **27 September and 4 October 2025** (grade C [7]): Versions 1.7.4 and 1.7.5: cancelling files in progress, and Google AI Studio as a model provider.
- **November 2025** (grade A [2]): Best month: US$1,010 in verified revenue. December follows with US$992.
- **10 December 2025** (grade C [7]): Version 1.8.0 with dark mode, the last version on the changelog.
- **January to April 2026** (grade A [2, 1]): Revenue falls from US$679 to US$233 a month. The founder later wrote that his focus had moved to Grape, an AI note-taking app.
- **20 June 2026** (grade C [1]): Listed for sale on TrustMRR at US$18,000.
- **3 November 2026** (grade A [1, 2]): US$7,666 in verified revenue all time; US$110 in October 2026.

## Why did AI Renamer work?

### Free open-source tool first

The command-line version came first, free on GitHub and npm, and it gathered about 2,100 GitHub stars and a Product Hunt launch. Its readme now sends desktop users to airenamer.app, so the free tool works as a permanent link to the paid one.

### Charge for convenience, not for the model

Local Mode costs US$19 once and uses models the customer runs or pays for, so each rename costs the founder nothing. Cloud Mode sells credits for people who do not want to install Ollama, and the price covers the hosted model.

### Search pages that keep selling

The site has dozens of blog posts aimed at one search each, such as renaming PDFs for accountants or photos for real estate agents. TrustMRR lists blog, SEO, content marketing and Reddit as its channels. The founder wrote in his sale listing that customers kept coming in 2026 although he did no marketing.

### One-time sales need new buyers every month

With no subscriptions, monthly revenue depends on new buyers. When the founder's attention moved to another product, revenue fell from about US$1,000 a month to about US$100, according to the TrustMRR data.

## How it was built

These details come from the GitHub readme, the npm record, the product's own pages and the founder-written part of the TrustMRR profile. They are grade C.

- The free tool is a Node.js command-line program. It calls Ollama by default, or LM Studio, or OpenAI with the user's key, and uses ffmpeg to take frames from videos.
- Options set the case style of names (for example kebab-case), the maximum length, the output language and a custom prompt, and they are saved in a config file in the user's home folder.
- The desktop app is built with Electron, Next.js and Tailwind CSS, according to the TrustMRR tech stack field.
- Payments run through Polar, which TrustMRR reads by API key.
- Supported files: images (JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP and more), PDFs and text-based files. Names are shown for preview before they are applied, and files can be renamed in batches.

Sources: [4, 5, 1, 3, 8]

## Who tried this before AI Renamer, and why did they fail?

Four companies in our database of failed startups promised to bring order to scattered photos and documents and failed. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### Everalbum (2013 to 2019; funding US$19.2M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Unlimited photo storage and AI organization across all devices.
- Why it died: It charged subscriptions for features that Google Photos gave away free.
- Record: 

### Snapjoy (2011 to 2014; funding US$500K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: All scattered digital photos in one tidy interface.
- Why it died: Bought by Dropbox and shelved, without a unique edge or a way to make money against the large platforms.
- Record: 

### Documents.Me (2012 to 2015; funding US$120K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: All cloud documents in one app.
- Why it died: Large productivity platforms and users who expected free tools left no room for it.
- Record: 

### Springpad (2008 to 2014; funding US$7.5M; cause: Unit Economics)

- Promise: Collect and organize web articles, recipes and notes in one place.
- Why it died: Users liked the free product, but the company did not find what they would pay for before the money ran out.
- Record: 

## What changed

The four predecessors raised money to build a home for all of a user's photos or documents, and each lost to a free product from a large platform. They needed millions of users to cover servers and staff. Organizing files by content also needed image recognition that was expensive to build.

AI Renamer does one small job on files that stay where they are, and the image understanding comes from open models that run free on the customer's computer. That let one person build it and charge US$19 once with almost no running cost. It also shows the limit of the model: the TrustMRR data show that a one-time-price utility earned about US$1,000 a month while the founder worked on it and about US$100 a month after he stopped marketing it.

## Can one person copy AI Renamer now?

**Verdict: Yes, as a small side income.**

The method is simple to repeat: publish a free open-source tool that wraps a local AI model, then sell a desktop app with a one-time license to people who do not use a terminal. The TrustMRR figures show the scale to expect: about US$7,700 in total over roughly twenty months, and a fall when the founder stopped working on it.

1. Write a small command-line tool that uses Ollama or LM Studio for one narrow file task, and publish it free on GitHub and npm.
2. Launch it on Product Hunt and point its readme to a paid desktop version.
3. Sell a one-time license for local models and credits for hosted models, so you never pay for a customer's model use.
4. Write one search page for each type of user (accountants, photographers, lawyers), and keep marketing, because one-time sales stop when new visitors stop.

**What is still open.** Other single file jobs that a local vision or language model can do: sorting downloads into folders, tagging photo libraries, writing alt text for images, or naming scanned receipts.

## What could go wrong for AI Renamer?

- **Revenue is falling.** Monthly verified revenue fell from US$1,010 in November 2025 to US$110 in October 2026. The founder wrote in his sale listing that he made no marketing in 2026 because he was building Grape, an AI note-taking app.
- **The business is for sale.** It was listed on TrustMRR at US$18,000 on 20 June 2026. The seller's message says "AI Renamer made $6k in the last 12 months"; the verified twelve-month figure was US$4,715 on 27 October 2026, so the message was written earlier or rounds up. A buyer would get a product whose sales depend on new visitors.
- **Easy to copy, and free versions exist.** The founder's own command-line tool is free and open source, and Product Hunt lists similar renaming apps such as RenameClick and NudgeFile. The paid app sells convenience, not a secret method.
- **Small user base.** The founder estimates 100 users on TrustMRR, while the home page says "Loved by hundreds of users". The testimonials on the home page are named Product Hunt comments from the July 2024 launch of the free tool, not reviews of the paid app.
- **Other products of the same founder.** The home page lists his other projects, among them Grape (AI notes), Pixelshot (AI product photos), LLM Translator and ExactMRR (startup revenues). None of them is part of this story.

## Sources

1. TrustMRR markdown profile: AI Renamer, revenue synced 3 November 2026 — https://trustmrr.com/startup/ai-renamer.md (grade A). Read the markdown profile, downloaded 3 November 2026. Verified revenue from Polar; founder-written fields, the asking price and the seller's message are grade C.
2. TrustMRR markdown profile: AI Renamer, copy with revenue synced 27 October 2026 — https://trustmrr.com/startup/ai-renamer.md (grade A). Read the markdown profile in the copy the pipeline downloaded on 27 October 2026. Source for the monthly timeline from November 2025 and the visitor snapshot.
3. AI Renamer home page: Rename Your Files with AI — https://airenamer.app/ (grade C). Read in full, downloaded 3 November 2026. Source for the features, the prices, the testimonials and the list of other projects.
4. GitHub: ozgrozer/ai-renamer — https://github.com/ozgrozer/ai-renamer (grade C). Read in full: the repository page and readme, with stars, forks, license and usage.
5. npm registry record for the ai-renamer package — https://registry.npmjs.org/ai-renamer (grade C). Read the release dates, the author and the license fields.
6. Product Hunt: AI Renamer, Rename your files with AI by their contents — https://www.producthunt.com/products/ai-renamer (grade C). Read in full. Source for the launch date, the day rank and the points.
7. AI Renamer changelog — https://airenamer.app/changelog (grade C). Read in full. Only the three latest versions are in the page; older entries load by script and were not read.
8. AI Renamer blog, 12 July 2025: What is AI Renamer? — https://airenamer.app/blog/what-is-ai-renamer (grade C). Read in full. Source for the two modes and the file types.
9. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.