TreeBarkID: Revenue, team and how it was built
TreeBarkID (AI tree identification app, Spain): US$2.9K verified revenue from 1 to 25 October, October 2026. Evidence grade A: disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor. Team: 1 named founder-developer at Fluxer Labs SL; the App Store account is in another person's name; headcount not published. Launched July 2025; still running, revenue growing.Added 25 October 2026
- Outcome
- US$2.9K verified revenue from 1 to 25 October, October 2026Revenue growing
- Evidence
- A disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor
- Launch
- July 2025
- Status
- Still running
- Team
- 1 named founder-developer at Fluxer Labs SL; the App Store account is in another person's name; headcount not published
- Outside funding
- None reported
- Group
- Learning and study
- Main channel
- Not stated
TreeBarkID is a phone app that identifies a tree from a photo. It uses a multimodal model, an AI model that reads images as well as text, through an API, a paid interface that lets an app send a picture to a model that another company runs. The app's privacy policy says that Google's Gemini API "analyses photos to produce the identification", and that species facts come from a botanical database called Perenual. Older tree apps needed a team that trained its own image recognition.
The app is published by Fluxer Labs SL, a small software company in the Canary Islands, Spain. Its website names Germán Hernández del Rosario as "fundador y desarrollador" (founder and developer) and lists TreeBarkID as one of its own apps, next to client work that starts at 3,000 euros. The App Store shows version 1.1.0 on 15 July 2025, so the app is at least 15 months old. TreeBarkID connected its RevenueCat account to TrustMRR. RevenueCat is a service that manages in-app subscriptions for the App Store and Google Play, and TrustMRR reads the revenue from it through an API key. That record starts in July 2026 and shows US$150 in July, US$1,370 in August, US$1,735 in September and US$2,936 from 1 to 25 October 2026.
The headline number is grade A because TrustMRR reads it from the payment records and not from a founder's statement. It is also a month that has not ended: October is the only month in the record above US$2,000, and the current monthly recurring revenue (MRR, the value of all active subscriptions spread over one month) is US$1,612. The October revenue came from many small payments, the largest single day being 10.7% of the month. The page also shows five failed startups that sold image recognition or gardening advice before a rented model could do the hard part.
How much revenue does TreeBarkID make?
Each row shows the evidence grade and the source numbers from the list at the end of this page. The grades are explained in How Aiolum verifies.
| Fact | Value | Grade | How we know | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verified revenue, 1 to 25 October 2026 | US$2,936 | A | TrustMRR monthly timeline, RevenueCat API key, synced 25 October 2026 at 17:44 UTC. The daily rows for 1 to 25 October add up to US$2,936.12; 25 October still shows US$0.00 because the day was not over. | [1] |
| Verified revenue, September 2026 | US$1,735 | A | Last full month in the record. Below the site's floor of US$2,000 a month. | [1] |
| Verified revenue, August 2026 | US$1,370 | A | [1] | |
| Verified revenue, July 2026 | US$150 | A | First month in the record. The app sold subscriptions since at least July 2025, so this is when the RevenueCat record starts, not when sales started. | [1, 4] |
| Growth from September to October 2026 | 69% | calc | Calculated: 2,936 divided by 1,735 equals 1.692. October still had 6 days to go. | [1] |
| Average revenue per day, 1 to 24 October 2026 | about US$122 | calc | Calculated: 2,936.12 divided by 24 complete days equals 122.34. | [1] |
| Largest single day in October 2026 | US$315 on 6 October, 10.7% of the month | calc | Calculated: 315 divided by 2,936.12. No day dominates, so the month did not come from one or two large payments. | [1] |
| Minimum number of payments in October 2026 | at least 42 | calc | Calculated: 2,936 divided by 69.99, the highest price in the listing, equals 41.9. With the US$39.99 yearly plan it would be at least 74. | [1, 2] |
| Verified revenue, last 30 days | US$3,235, up 88.1% | A | TrustMRR's own last-30-days figure and growth rate. | [1] |
| Monthly recurring revenue, 25 October 2026 | US$1,612 | A | Below US$2,000. The value of the active subscriptions spread over one month. | [1] |
| Active subscriptions, 25 October 2026 | 376 | A | [1] | |
| All verified revenue in the record | US$6,191 | A | July to 25 October 2026 only. Below US$25,000. | [1] |
| Profit margin, last 30 days | 90% | C | A TrustMRR snapshot. The profile does not say how the costs were measured, so it is not treated as verified. | [1] |
| App Store ratings | 75 ratings, average 4.2 (October 2026); 3 ratings, average 3.7 (July 2025) | B | US storefront. | [2, 4] |
| Earliest dated release seen | version 1.1.0, 15 July 2025 | B | From the earliest archived copy of the listing, 20 July 2025. The first version may be older. | [4] |
| Releases from 4 March to about 21 October 2026 | 25 | B | Counted in the version history of the current listing, from version 2.3.8 to version 3.0.0. | [2] |
| Languages | English and 35 more | B | [2] | |
| People named behind the business | 1 founder-developer | C | Fluxer Labs' home page: "Soy Germán Hernández, fundador y desarrollador de Fluxer Labs". The App Store developer account is in the name of another individual, whose role is not stated. | [2, 9] |
| Outside funding | none reported | C | No source mentions an investor. Fluxer Labs also sells app development to clients from 3,000 euros. | [9] |
How to read this table: a grade A value was read by TrustMRR from the app's RevenueCat account, which records the App Store and Google Play payments. A grade B value comes from Apple's App Store pages or their archived copies. A grade C value is a statement by the company or a founder-written profile field. A "calc" value was computed on this page from the rows above it.
| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | 0 | 1 identification a day |
| Pro Yearly | 3.33 | US$39.99 a year, also listed at US$49.99; unlimited identifications, nature guide, map | |
| Pro Weekly | 9.99 a week | Also listed at 7.99 a week | |
| Pro Lifetime | 69.99 one-time | Also listed as a Lifetime Offer at 29.99 |
The listing shows six in-app purchase prices and does not say which are current offers. TrustMRR's founder-written profile gives Pro Yearly at US$39.99 and Pro Weekly at US$9.99 as the pricing model. A weekly price of US$9.99 equals about US$43.29 a month (9.99 × 52 ÷ 12). The free limit of one identification a day comes from a user review of February 2026 and the developer's reply to it. Archived listings show earlier prices: US$5.99 a week, US$29.99 a year and US$64.99 for life in July 2025; US$7.99 a week, US$14.99 a year and US$49.99 for life in November 2025; US$49.99 a year and US$79.99 for life in March 2026.
When did TreeBarkID launch, and how did it grow?
From a small listing with 3 ratings in July 2025 to US$2,936 of verified revenue in 25 days of October 2026. Each entry carries its grade.
- 15 July 2025BVersion 1.1.0 is in the App Store with 3 ratings. The seller is a private individual. Pro costs US$5.99 a week, US$29.99 a year or US$64.99 for life. [4]
- November 2025BVersion 2.0.2. The yearly plan is listed at US$14.99 and the lifetime plan at US$49.99. [5]
- December 2025CFluxer Labs SL, of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, last updates its legal notice. [10]
- 18 February 2026CTreeBarkID's terms take effect. They say the app is operated by Fluxer Labs and warn not to rely on it for edible or poisonous decisions. [7]
- March 2026BVersion 2.4.0 adds more than 10,000 species to the nature guide. The listing now shows US$49.99 a year and US$79.99 for life. The seller is still the individual. [2, 5]
- July 2026AFirst month in the RevenueCat record on TrustMRR: US$150. [1]
- August 2026AVerified revenue of US$1,370. [1]
- September 2026AVerified revenue of US$1,735. [1]
- 3 October 2026CThe privacy policy names Fluxer Labs SL as data controller and lists Google's Gemini API, Supabase, Vercel and RevenueCat as providers. [6]
- About 21 October 2026BVersion 3.0.0, with a new identify button and the option to pin trees on the map. [2]
- 25 October 2026AUS$2,936 of verified revenue in October so far, 376 active subscriptions, US$1,612 MRR. The App Store now names Fluxer Labs SL as the seller. [1, 2]
Why did TreeBarkID work?
Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.
A rented vision model
The privacy policy says Google's Gemini API analyses each photo and that species facts come from the Perenual botanical database. The company's terms mention its own "prompts, routing, or backend logic", which means the work is in the instructions sent to the model and in the app around it. No source shows that Fluxer Labs trained a model, although its product page claims a model "trained with millions of images".
One free scan a day, then a subscription
The free version allows one identification a day, according to a user review and the developer's reply. Pro removes the limit and adds the nature guide and the map. The listing shows weekly, yearly and lifetime prices, and the archived copies show that they changed at least three times between July 2025 and October 2026.
A studio of identifier apps
The same App Store account sells apps that identify snakes, mushrooms, birds, rocks and stamps, a trading card scanner and a food scanner. Each uses the same pattern: a photo, a model answer, a reference guide and a paywall. Fluxer Labs also built AdsBuddy, a web tool for Apple Ads campaigns, and the privacy policy says the app records Apple Ads attribution through RevenueCat.
Many small releases
The listing shows 25 releases between 4 March and about 21 October 2026, and the app is translated into 36 languages. Most releases are small fixes; a few add features such as folders, share cards, an in-app camera and the map.
How it was built
These details come from the app's privacy policy and terms, the App Store listing and Fluxer Labs' website. They are grade B and C. No interview with the founder was found. [6, 2, 8, 9]
- Google's Gemini API identifies the tree in each photo. The botanical database Perenual supplies species facts; only species names are sent to it.
- Supabase, a hosted Postgres database with file storage, keeps the photos in Ireland for up to 35 days. Vercel hosts the service.
- RevenueCat manages the App Store and Google Play subscriptions and records Apple Ads attribution. Apple and Google take the payments.
- The saved collection, notes and tree locations stay on the phone and are not sent to the servers, according to the privacy policy.
- For client work, Fluxer Labs says it uses cross-platform technology with one code base for iOS, Android and web; it does not name the framework used for TreeBarkID.
- The marketing site tree-identifier.com has field guides on identifying trees by bark, without leaves and from a photo, in English and Japanese.
Tools named in the sources
Each one opens its page in the Tools tab, with every story that uses it.
Who tried this before TreeBarkID, and why did they fail?
Five companies in the Loot Drop database sold image recognition on phones or gardening advice before a rented AI model could identify a plant from one photo. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.
Moodstocks
The promisePoint the phone camera at an object or image and get information about it instantly.
Why it diedIt had to build its own image recognition and could not reach enough users. Google bought it in 2016, which ended the independent product.
Blippar
The promisePoint the phone at a product or poster and see videos, 3D models and links on top of it.
Why it diedBrands paid only if people used the app, and people used it only if there was something to scan. Most users opened it once. It spent US$130 million and pivoted several times, including to visual search.
Jetpac
The promiseCity guides built by machine learning that analysed public Instagram photos.
Why it diedIt depended on Instagram's data and competed with Google and Yelp. Google bought it in 2014 and closed the service in 2016.
Edyn
The promiseA solar-powered garden sensor and valve that told gardeners how to care for their plants.
Why it diedThe hardware was expensive to make, gardening demand is seasonal, and competitors had larger scale. It ran out of cash.
Garden.com
The promiseOnline gardening advice for your climate zone, sold together with plants and tools.
Why it diedIt sold perishable, low-margin goods with expensive shipping, spent heavily to find customers, and customers bought only in spring. It spent US$65 million.
The failed startups come from Loot Drop, a free database of dead startups, retold here in our own words. Loot Drop describes its entries as AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so these cards carry no evidence grade.
What changed
Before general vision models, identifying an object from a phone photo meant building the recognition yourself. Moodstocks spent eight years and US$5 million on that technology and was absorbed by Google. Edyn and Garden.com tried to sell gardening knowledge through hardware and shipping, and both had costs that a seasonal hobby could not carry.
In 2026 a small company sends the photo to a model it rents by the request, adds a species database and a paywall, and ships the same pattern for snakes, mushrooms and stamps. The hard part that Moodstocks had to invent is now a line in TreeBarkID's privacy policy. What remains hard is being chosen among ten similar tree apps in the same store.
Can one person copy TreeBarkID now?
Easy to copy, and many have.
The App Store page of TreeBarkID itself lists ten other tree identifier apps under "You Might Also Like". The model is rented, the species data is licensed, and the app shell is the same for every identifier. TreeBarkID's verified record shows a small, growing app, not a large one: US$1,612 of MRR in October 2026.
Where it is still open: Identifiers for professional users are less crowded: arborists, foresters, firewood sellers and insurance inspectors, who need reports and records, not only a name. One TreeBarkID reviewer used it to choose firewood for heating a home.
- 1Pick a question people ask about something in front of them (a tree, a snake, a mushroom) and answer it from one photo with a rented vision model.
- 2Add a reference database so the answer has facts beyond the name, and a collection or map so users come back.
- 3Give one free use a day and sell weekly, yearly and lifetime plans through the app stores, then test the prices.
- 4Reuse the same app shell for the next subject, and translate the store listing into many languages.
What could go wrong for TreeBarkID?
The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.
October is not finished
The headline covers 1 to 25 October 2026. Every full month in the record is below US$2,000, and the MRR on 25 October is US$1,612. The full October figure may end higher, and November could be lower.
The record starts in July 2026
The app sold subscriptions since at least July 2025, but TrustMRR's RevenueCat record starts in July 2026. The all-time figure of US$6,191 therefore covers only four months, and nothing is known about the first year's revenue.
Who runs the app
Fluxer Labs SL operates the app according to its terms and privacy policy, and is the seller in the App Store since some time between March and October 2026. Before that, the seller was a private individual, who still holds the App Store developer account. Fluxer Labs' website names one founder-developer, while the developer's replies to reviews speak of "our team". The headcount is not published.
Accuracy claims and safety
Fluxer Labs' product page claims 95% accuracy and a model trained on millions of images; no test supports these figures, and the privacy policy says Google's Gemini API makes the identification. Reviews report wrong identifications. The terms warn against using the app for edible or poisonous decisions, and the same account sells a mushroom identifier described as "Edible & Toxic".
Crowded store and platform risk
Ten similar tree apps appear on the same App Store page. The app depends on Apple and Google for payments and discovery and on Google for every identification, so a price change for the model or a store policy change affects it directly.
Sources
The grade next to each source is the best grade that the source can support. "Read in full" means that the text of the page was downloaded and the numbers were checked in it.
- A TrustMRR profile of TreeBarkID, RevenueCat-verified metrics, synced 25 October 2026Read the markdown profile on 25 October 2026. The revenue, MRR and subscription figures are read by TrustMRR from the app's RevenueCat account through an API key; the description, pricing model and profit margin are founder-written or unexplained and graded C. Source for the monthly and daily revenue.
- B App Store listing: Tree Identifier: TreeBarkId, US storefront, read 25 October 2026Read in full. Apple shows the seller, ratings, prices, languages and version history; the description and review replies are written by the developer. Source for the prices, the 25 releases and the other apps.
- B App Store developer page of the account that publishes TreeBarkIDRead in full. Lists the eight apps of the account: identifiers for trees, snakes, mushrooms, birds, rocks and stamps, a trading card scanner and a food scanner. Used for the purpose check.
- B Archived App Store listing of TreeBarkID, 20 July 2025Read in full at web.archive.org. Earliest archived copy. Source for version 1.1.0 of 15 July 2025, the 3 ratings, the individual seller and the 2025 prices.
- B Archived App Store listings of TreeBarkID, 8 November 2025 and 16 March 2026Read both archived pages (timestamps 20251108115201 and 20260316111304). Source for the price changes and for the seller, still the individual in March 2026.
- C TreeBarkID privacy policy, last updated 3 October 2026Read in full. Source for the data controller (Fluxer Labs SL), the AI model (Google Gemini API), Perenual, Supabase, Vercel, RevenueCat and Apple Ads attribution.
- C TreeBarkID terms and conditions, effective 18 February 2026Read in full. States that the app is operated by Fluxer Labs, mentions AI model providers and proprietary prompts, and warns against safety-critical use.
- C TreeBarkId website home pageRead in full. Source for the features, the 10,000-species nature guide and the field guides. It has no pricing section.
- C Fluxer Labs home page (Spanish)Read in full. Names Germán Hernández del Rosario as founder and developer, lists TreeBarkID among the company's own apps, and gives the client-work prices.
- C Fluxer Labs legal notice, last updated December 2025Read in full. Names the owner as Fluxer Labs SL, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, under Spain's e-commerce law (LSSI-CE).
- C Fluxer Labs product portfolioRead in full. Lists nine products, including an eye color identifier and AdsBuddy. Used for the purpose check.
- C Fluxer Labs product page for TreeBarkIDRead in full. Source for the company's own claims of 95% accuracy, 1,000+ species and a model trained on millions of images, which this page does not treat as verified.
- C Loot Drop database export, 1,749 failed startupsLocal export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.