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Visualize AI: Revenue, team and how it was built

Small teamB2CInterior design

Visualize AI (AI room and garden redesign app for iPhone, United Kingdom): US$63.5K in verified revenue in 12 months, October 2026. Evidence grade A: disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor. Team: 2 to 5 people, as the seller states on TrustMRR; the UK register lists one director, Jack Brown, and no employees in the year to September 2025. Launched 2 September 2025; still running, revenue falling.Added 25 October 2026

Outcome
US$63.5K in verified revenue in 12 months, October 2026Revenue falling
Evidence
A disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor
Launch
2 September 2025
Status
Still running
Team
2 to 5 people, as the seller states on TrustMRR; the UK register lists one director, Jack Brown, and no employees in the year to September 2025
Outside funding
None: TrustMRR lists it as bootstrapped, and the owning company has one share, held by its director
Main channel
Creators and short videos

Visualize AI is an iPhone app that redesigns a room from a photo. The user photographs a living room, a kitchen or a backyard, writes the change in plain words or picks a style, and the app sends the photo and the text to an image-editing model, an AI model that changes an existing picture according to an instruction instead of drawing a new one from nothing. The app's privacy policy says that the photo goes to FAL, a service that runs such models, and that OpenAI's models write short titles for the designs. The app is free to install with in-app purchases, payments made inside an iPhone app and collected by Apple, here a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription from US$5.99 a week to US$39.99 a year.

The App Store names the developer and seller as Jack Brown, whose other apps are a travel tracker, a career log, a breathing-exercise app and a habit tracker. The app's terms of service, updated on 8 June 2026, say the app is provided by Pothos Digital, and the UK company register lists Pothos Digital Limited, formed in September 2024, with Jack Brown as its only director and the holder of its only share. No source shows a sale or a change of owner, so all the revenue on this page came under the same owner. The app was released on 2 September 2025. TrustMRR, a service that reads revenue through the seller's own billing account, shows US$71,522 in total by 25 October 2026, of which US$63,524 came in the last twelve months. The best month was April 2026 with US$8,188; September 2026 brought US$3,097, and monthly recurring revenue (MRR, the monthly value of all active subscriptions) was US$2,847 from 240 subscriptions on 25 October 2026. The app has been listed for sale since 1 August 2026.

The revenue figures are grade A: TrustMRR reads them through an API key from RevenueCat, a subscription-management service that records an app's App Store purchases. whatsthe.app, an app revenue directory, shows figures from RevenueCat as well, but its listing was imported by the site itself and probably reads the same account, so it is not counted as an independent second source. The company facts come from the official UK register. Everything else, including the team size, the marketing channel and how the app is built, comes from the seller's own pages and is grade C. The page also shows earlier companies that sold interior design online, and why they failed.

Visualize AI: US$63.5K in verified revenue in 12 months, October 2026. AI room and garden redesign app for iPhone, United Kingdom, team of 2 to 10, evidence grade A.
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01

How much revenue does Visualize AI 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.

US$63,524 in verified revenue in the twelve months to 25 October 2026 and US$71,522 since a September 2025 launch, from an app whose monthly revenue fell by 62% between April and September 2026
FactValueGradeHow we knowSources
Verified revenue, last 12 months to 25 October 2026US$63,524ATrustMRR, from RevenueCat through an API key, last synced 25 October 2026. The twelve calendar months on the same profile, November 2025 to 25 October 2026, add up to US$62,443 (calculated), because the rolling window and the calendar months do not cover exactly the same days.[1]
Verified revenue since launch, 25 October 2026US$71,522ATrustMRR, all time.[1]
Revenue before late October 2025US$7,998calcCalculated: all-time revenue minus the last twelve months. This covers about the first eight weeks after the release on 2 September 2025.[1]
Best monthUS$8,188, April 2026ATrustMRR monthly timeline. May 2026 was US$7,613. November 2025 to March 2026 averaged US$5,532 a month (calculated).[1]
Revenue, September 2026US$3,097ATrustMRR monthly timeline. 62.2% below April 2026 (calculated). June, July and August 2026: US$4,901, US$4,658 and US$4,172. October 2026 to the 25th: US$2,155.[1]
Revenue, last 30 days to 25 October 2026US$2,566, down 20.8%ATrustMRR. The last three months brought US$10,089, against US$16,958 in the three months before them, a fall of 40.5% (calculated).[1]
Monthly recurring revenue, 25 October 2026US$2,847 from 240 active subscriptionsATrustMRR metric snapshot; MRR growth over the last 30 days shown as -7.9%. About US$11.86 of MRR per subscription (calculated).[1]
Monthly recurring revenue, 1 October 2026US$3,055Awhatsthe.app, "All data is verified through RevenueCat", last updated 1 October 2026. Revenue in the last 28 days: US$2,700. The listing is marked as imported by the site's system, and the seller's picture is stored on the image host that TrustMRR uses, so it probably reads the same account and is not an independent second source.[8]
Yearly value of the October 2026 MRRUS$34,164calcCalculated: US$2,847 times 12. The last 30 days of revenue times 12 give US$30,792. Both are about half the twelve-month total of US$63,524.[1]
Profit margin, last 30 days to 25 October 202690.0%CA TrustMRR metric snapshot. The profile does not say how the costs were read.[1]
Seller's own summary"$50k+ in 11 months (lifetime). Almost completely passive with 0-1 hour per week."CSeller-written text on the TrustMRR profile, undated. The verified totals agree with the first part.[1]
Release2 September 2025CApp Store version history (version 1.0, 09/02/2025) and whatsthe.app ("Worldwide Release Date: September 2, 2025"). TrustMRR gives 1 September 2025 as the founding date.[2, 8, 1]
App Store developer and sellerJack Brown, 5 appsCThe App Store page shows "Seller Jack Brown" and "Copyright © 2025 Jack Brown"; the app's bundle identifier is com.jackbrown.visualize. His newest app, a travel tracker, shows "Copyright © 2026 Pothos Digital" under the same seller.[2, 3, 4, 1]
Company that provides the appPothos DigitalCTerms of service and privacy policy, both "Last updated: June 8, 2026".[6, 7]
Pothos Digital LimitedUK private company formed 19 September 2024; one director, Jack Brown; one shareAUK company register. The register of persons with significant control lists him with 75% or more of the shares and votes, notified 19 September 2024 and still active on 25 October 2026. The confirmation statement of 18 September 2026 still shows one share.[9]
Company accounts to 30 September 2025cash of £221, net liabilities of £971, no employeesAUnaudited small-company accounts, signed by the director on 11 June 2026. They end four weeks after the app's release and do not include a profit-and-loss account.[10]
Team2 to 5 peopleCSeller-written field on TrustMRR ("Team size: 2–5 people"). The company accounts record an average of no employees in the year to September 2025. The TrustMRR and whatsthe.app account that lists the app for sale uses the first name "Felix", which is not the developer's name; no source says who that is.[1, 8, 10]
Outside fundingnoneCTrustMRR: "Funding: Bootstrapped". The register shows one share held by the director.[1, 9]
For saleasking US$39,500, listed since 1 August 2026CTrustMRR shows a revenue multiple of 1.3x and 7 offers; whatsthe.app shows the price cut from US$49,500. The asking price is 0.62 times the last twelve months of revenue (calculated).[1, 8]
App Store ratings3.7 from 66 ratings in the US storeCUS App Store page, 25 October 2026. whatsthe.app counts 93 ratings across seven storefronts.[2, 8]
Time from release to the October 2026 figure13 monthscalcCalculated: September 2025 to October 2026.[1, 2]

How to read this table: a grade A value was read by TrustMRR from the app's RevenueCat account, or comes from the official UK company register. A grade C value is what the seller, the App Store page or the app's own website states. A "calc" value was computed on this page from the rows above it.

Visualize AI in-app purchases on the US App Store, read 25 October 2026 (grade C)
PlanPer month, billed yearly (US$)Per month, billed monthly (US$)Limit
Pro Yearly3.33US$39.99 a year; design limits not shown
Monthly17.99design limits not shown
Pro WeeklyUS$8.99 a week
WeeklyUS$7.99 a week; a second weekly price of US$5.99 is also listed

The App Store lists five subscription prices, and whatsthe.app shows the same five. The store page does not say how many designs each plan includes; the terms of service say that "included generation credits" are shown before purchase. Two weekly prices for one plan name usually mean that the app shows different offers to different users. The yearly plan is US$39.99 a year, about US$3.33 a month (calculated). One App Store review from July says the app gave "exactly one sparse image before requiring payment". Apple collects the payments and keeps its commission; the TrustMRR profile does not say whether its figures are before or after that commission.

02

When did Visualize AI launch, and how did it grow?

From a one-person company formed in September 2024 to US$71,522 of verified app revenue 13 months after the app's release, with a peak in April 2026 and a fall since. Each entry carries its grade.

  1. 19 September 2024APothos Digital Limited is formed in England with one share. Jack Brown is its only director and its person with significant control. [9]
  2. 2025CJack Brown's App Store account carries a breathing-exercise app, a career log and a habit tracker, each with a small subscription, all with a 2025 copyright line in his name. [3]
  3. 2 September 2025CVisualize AI version 1.0 is released on the App Store. [2, 8]
  4. 8 September 2025CVersion 1.1.0 adds preset styles and colours and taking a photo inside the app. [2]
  5. 30 September 2025AEnd of the company's first accounting year: £221 in the bank and no employees. [10]
  6. November 2025AUS$4,792 in verified revenue, the first month in the public part of the TrustMRR timeline. About US$7,998 had come in before late October (calculated). [1]
  7. 8 January 2026CVersion 1.3.3 adds "Shop for products", which opens Google Lens with the generated image. [2, 7]
  8. 7 April 2026AVersion 2.0.0: a new interface, editing of generated images and subscription management. April 2026 becomes the best month, with US$8,188. [2, 1]
  9. 8 June 2026CNew terms of service and privacy policy name Pothos Digital as the provider and list FAL and OpenAI as the AI providers. [6, 7]
  10. 9 June 2026CVersion 2.0.2, the last update on the App Store page in October 2026. [2]
  11. 1 August 2026CThe app is first listed for sale on TrustMRR. [1]
  12. September 2026AUS$3,097 in the month, 62% below April. [1]
  13. 1 October 2026AMRR US$3,055 on whatsthe.app, where the asking price is now US$39,500, down from US$49,500. [8]
  14. 25 October 2026AMRR US$2,847 from 240 subscriptions on TrustMRR. US$63,524 in the last twelve months and US$71,522 since launch. Jack Brown is still the company's director and owner on the register. [1, 9]
03

Why did Visualize AI work?

Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.

01

One photo, one sentence, one result

The app asks for two things: a photo and a description. The App Store text gives examples such as a "tropical backyard oasis", and the home page lists four steps: snap a photo, describe the style, generate ideas, save and compare. The work that an interior designer or a 3D modeller once did is one call to an image-editing model.

02

Rented models, small costs

The privacy policy says that FAL processes the photo and hosts the generated image, and that OpenAI writes short titles. The developer runs no model of his own. TrustMRR shows a 90% profit margin for the last 30 days, which the seller does not explain; it would fit a product whose main cost is model time paid per image.

03

A subscription before the result

Generating designs needs a weekly, monthly or yearly plan, and one July review complains that the app gave one image before asking for payment. Weekly plans at US$5.99 to US$8.99 let a user who wants a few redesigns for one renovation pay for a week instead of a year.

04

Short videos as the marketing channel

The seller's TrustMRR profile lists TikTok as the marketing channel. The privacy policy says that the Meta SDK is used for purchase attribution and app event measurement, which advertisers use to measure paid ads, but no source says that the app paid for ads. No source gives the number of downloads.

How it was built

These details come from the app's terms of service and privacy policy, the App Store page and the seller's TrustMRR profile. They are grade C, except the RevenueCat connection, which TrustMRR confirms. [6, 7, 2, 1, 5]

  • Image generation: the photo and the prompt go to the app's backend and then to FAL, which runs the image-editing model and hosts the output images. The privacy policy says that the original photos are not kept after processing.
  • OpenAI generates "short design metadata such as titles" for each design.
  • The terms list Expo, a framework for building iPhone and Android apps in JavaScript and React Native, and Convex, a hosted backend database, among the services the app uses.
  • Subscriptions are sold through Apple's in-app purchases and recorded in RevenueCat, which TrustMRR reads through an API key.
  • PostHog measures how the app is used; the Meta SDK and RevenueCat measure purchase attribution. The App Store privacy labels declare device identifiers used for third-party advertising and say that the app contains advertising.
  • The Shop feature opens Google Lens with the generated image so that Google shows shopping results; the privacy policy does not say whether the app earns a commission from it.
  • The website visualizeai.app is a one-page site with a download link, a privacy policy and terms. An Android download link is in the page code but commented out, and the App Store lists the app for iPhone only.
  • The seller published 11 versions between 2 September 2025 and 9 June 2026.

Tools named in the sources

Each one opens its page in the Tools tab, with every story that uses it.

04

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

Four companies in the Loot Drop database promised to make interior design affordable through software or an online service. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

Died 2015 to 2022Burned US$72.7M

Modsy

The promise

Upload photos of a room and receive photorealistic 3D renderings with furniture to buy from partner retailers.

Why it died

Each room needed hours of human designer work behind the software, so gross margins stayed thin while paid social ads made customers expensive.

Unit EconomicsLoot Drop entry ↗
Died 2014 to 2019Burned US$25M

Laurel & Wolf

The promise

Flat-fee online interior design by professional designers.

Why it died

The flat fees did not cover the cost of finding customers, and quality fell as the designer network grew.

Unit EconomicsLoot Drop entry ↗
Died 2012 to 2015Burned US$1.5M

Tastemaker

The promise

Affordable online interior design for middle-income households.

Why it died

A distributed workforce of designers gave uneven service, customers were costly to win, and better-funded rivals took the market.

Died 2011 to 2025Burned US$550M

Kujiale

The promise

Design your home in 3D in the browser and buy the furniture you placed.

Why it died

Consumers played with the tool and then left, because they wanted experts to design for them, and AI image tools made its technology obsolete.

No Market NeedLoot Drop entry ↗

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

Modsy, Laurel & Wolf and Tastemaker sold a design made by people, and the database records that the designers' time was the cost that did not shrink as they grew. Kujiale replaced the designer with a 3D editor, and the database records that most consumers did not want to do the design work themselves. Visualize AI asks for one sentence and returns a picture, with no designer and no 3D model, so one more customer costs a model call rather than hours of work.

The predecessors raised between US$1.5 million and US$550 million. Visualize AI is run by a company with one share and no employees on its last accounts, and it rents its model from FAL. What it does not solve is what the predecessors' customers also wanted: the actual furniture and the actual renovation. The app makes a picture; the Shop feature hands the picture to Google Lens. TrustMRR's verified figures show the revenue falling from April 2026, while Apple's own page for the app suggests ten similar apps.

05

Can one person copy Visualize AI now?

Yes, easily, which is also the main risk.

The whole product is a photo upload, a prompt box, a call to a hosted image-editing model and a subscription paywall. One developer built it next to four other small apps. The same simplicity lets anyone build the same app: the App Store page of Visualize AI suggests ten other AI home-design apps, and an older iPad app by another developer has almost the same name.

Where it is still open: Redesign apps for one narrow buyer, such as landlords who want listing photos, gardeners, shop owners planning a shop window, or tradespeople who show a client a finished bathroom before quoting.

  1. 1Pick a job where people pay a professional for a picture of a possible result: a room, a garden, a facade, a haircut.
  2. 2Use a hosted image-editing model (FAL, OpenAI or similar) instead of training one, and keep the photos only as long as processing needs.
  3. 3Sell weekly, monthly and yearly plans through Apple's in-app purchases and record them in RevenueCat.
  4. 4Keep shipping features that bring users back, such as editing a result again and shopping for the items in it, because revenue falls when the updates stop.

What could go wrong for Visualize AI?

The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.

Revenue is falling

TrustMRR shows US$8,188 in April 2026, US$3,097 in September and US$2,155 in the first 25 days of October. The last 30 days are down 20.8%, and the last three months are 40.5% below the three before them (calculated). The last app update was on 9 June 2026, and the seller describes the app as almost passive, at 0 to 1 hour of work a week.

Who is "Felix"?

The App Store developer, the copyright line, the bundle identifier and the company register all point to Jack Brown and his company Pothos Digital. The TrustMRR and whatsthe.app account that lists the app for sale uses the first name "Felix". No source says whether that is a partner, an agent or another name, and the team size of 2 to 5 people is the seller's own statement, while the company's accounts record no employees in the year to September 2025.

Listed for sale

The app has been for sale since 1 August 2026, now at US$39,500, about 0.6 times its last twelve months of revenue. A sale would change the owner, and nothing on this page says what a new owner would do. No sale had happened by 25 October 2026: the App Store seller and the register still name Jack Brown.

User complaints

The US rating is 3.7 from 66 ratings. Reviews from February and July complain that saving images failed, that a paid subscription was not recognised, and that the app changed the size of a room. One review says the user installed it after an Apartment Therapy review, but an older iPad app by YMDevs, LLC is called "Visualize AI: Interior Design" too, and no downloaded source shows which app the magazine covered.

Many near-copies

Apple's suggestions on the app's page list ten other AI home-design apps. All of them can rent the same image models, so the product has no technical advantage over them; its revenue depends on being found and on its price.

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.

  1. A TrustMRR profile of Visualize AI, as read on 25 October 2026
    Read the markdown profile in full, live on 25 October 2026 (synced 17:21 UTC), and compared it with a copy read six hours earlier: the revenue figures were the same. Revenue, monthly timeline, daily revenue, MRR and subscription counts are read from RevenueCat through an API key and are grade A. The description, team size, funding, marketing channel, sale details and profit-margin snapshot are seller-written or not explained, grade C.
  2. C App Store page: Visualize AI - Interior Design, US storefront
    Read in full on 25 October 2026. Source for the description, the in-app purchase prices, the version history and release notes, the ratings and reviews, the age rating, the seller and copyright lines, the privacy labels and Apple's list of similar apps.
  3. C App Store developer page: Jack Brown
    Read in full on 25 October 2026, with the App Store pages of the seller's other apps: Climb, Nasalflow and Habit Tracker - Grow. Source for the list of five apps, their purpose and their prices.
  4. C App Store page: Stamped: Travel Tracker & Map
    Read in full on 25 October 2026. Source for "Copyright © 2026 Pothos Digital" under the seller Jack Brown, which ties the App Store account to the company.
  5. C Visualize AI website, home page
    Read in full on 25 October 2026. Source for the four steps of the product and the iOS download link; the Android link is commented out in the page code. The site's robots.txt contains only content-signal comments and no rules.
  6. C Visualize AI terms and conditions, last updated 8 June 2026
    Read in full on 25 October 2026. Source for Pothos Digital as the provider, the generation credits and the list of third-party services.
  7. C Visualize AI privacy policy, last updated 8 June 2026
    Read in full on 25 October 2026. Source for the use of FAL and OpenAI, the photo retention rule, the Google Lens shop feature and the analytics and attribution tools.
  8. A whatsthe.app page for Visualize AI
    Read in full on 25 October 2026, including its page data. Revenue figures "verified through RevenueCat", last updated 1 October 2026; the page data marks the listing as imported by the site, so it probably reads the same account as TrustMRR. Also the release date, the ratings per storefront, the in-app prices, the seller name "Felix" and the price cut (grade C).
  9. A UK company register: Pothos Digital Limited, company 15966268
    Read the overview, the officers, the persons with significant control, the filing history and the confirmation statement of 18 September 2026 on 25 October 2026. Official register entries.
  10. A Pothos Digital Limited, unaudited financial statements for 19 September 2024 to 30 September 2025
    Read the filed accounts in full (iXBRL version), filed 19 June 2026. Source for the cash, the net liabilities and the number of employees.
  11. C App Store page: Visualize AI: Interior Design by YMDevs, LLC
    Read the header and seller lines on 25 October 2026. A different, older app with almost the same name, from another developer.
  12. C Loot Drop database export, 1,749 failed startups
    Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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