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Apple App StoreObserved metadata

Simply B&W

James MoorePhoto & Video5.00 · 1 ratings
Open store
Publisher
James Moore
Category
Photo & Video
Version
3.0
Last updated
Dec 23, 2019
Public page · no login requiredMetadata observed Sep 7, 2026, 11:16 PM

Research answer

What AppTrendKit can say about Simply B&W today

Simply B&W has no estimate-backed download or gross-consumer-spend figure that meets the public evidence contract yet.

Observed App Store metadata, chart positions, and history are shown below. Missing, non-finite, undefined-currency, or undefined-metric evidence stays missing rather than becoming zero.

Performance intelligence

Observed trajectory and estimates

Store ranks are observations. Downloads and gross store consumer spend are AppTrendKit estimates and only appear when persisted evidence exists.

Estimated downloads · 30D

Modeled

No persisted estimate

The page does not turn missing evidence into zero.

Estimated App Store gross consumer spend · 30D

Modeled

No persisted estimate

The page does not turn missing evidence into zero.

Estimated downloads · 7D

Modeled

No persisted estimate

The page does not turn missing evidence into zero.

Estimated App Store gross consumer spend · 7D

Modeled

No persisted estimate

The page does not turn missing evidence into zero.

Revenue growth · 30D
Download growth · 30D
Grossing rank
Free rank

Evidence history

Collected daily performance

No daily metric history has been persisted yet.

No backfilled days
Daily metrics will appear here after the estimator has persisted more than one observation.

Rank history

Observed chart positions

Lower rank is better. Only collected observations are shown.

No positive rank observations are stored for this storefront yet.

Coverage note

What the ranks mean

A missing rank is not treated as zero downloads or zero revenue. Apple chart feeds are bounded and may return censored or not-ranked observations outside the visible chart depth.

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Storefront mix

Top countries by estimated contribution

Country estimates are aggregated only after country-level predictions exist.

No country-level economics have been persisted for this app yet.

Monetization

Observed store economics signals

Classification
Free listing
Price
Free
In-app purchases
Not observed
Subscriptions
Not observed

These are listing and product observations. They are not company revenue, subscriber counts, or advertising revenue.

App details

Store metadata

Version
3.0
Released
Feb 22, 2013
Last updated
Dec 23, 2019
Content rating
4+
Default storefront
ID

Public IAP observations

Validated in-app purchase prices

Only persisted rows with an explicit public publication boundary are shown. Missing price, currency, country, or date values stay unknown.

Unavailable
No validated public IAP price observations have been persisted for this app yet.

Listing detail

What the store says

Simply Photography. Simply B&W. An easy and simple way to turn your colour shots into dramatic black and white photos. Explore tone, brightness and contrast to re-visualise your images on your iOS device. Learn to look in monochrome and develop your own interpretation of reality. Try SimplyB&W Today! -------------------------------------------------- Features: * Classic SLR style editing controls in a single view.  * Tap or dial in adjustments to the exposure, brightness and contrast of the image. * Add simulated film grain. * Select from 6 different coloured lens filters to enhance certain colours and shades in a photo. * Preserve EXIF and Geolocation data. * Outputs images in full resolution. -------------------------------------------------- What App Reviewers say: LifeInLoFi "With minimal fuss, Simply B&W quickly creates rich, great looking black and white photos." AppAdvice "This sleek and simple app provides a minimalistic user interface that is intuitive and filled with plenty of powerful features. It also stays out of the way so that the focus is all on your images rather than the app itself. Weve been enjoying making classy black-and-white photos with SimplyB&W over the past few days. If you feel like seeing the world through black-and-white, then you need to give SimplyB&W a try for yourself." Mashable.com "This well-designed, capable app provides just what you need to create stunning, classic black-and-white photos on your iPhone" ComboApps Blog "If you want to make beautiful black and whites with one app, then Simply B&W is the only app you will ever need" appotography.com "Given the overabundance of black and white converters in the App Store, Simply B&W can easily go unnoticed. As a matter of fact, although I am mostly devoted to black and white photography, I had overlooked this app myself. However, as far as the value of Simply B&W is concerned, I am quite sure iPhone black and white enthusiasts will enjoy this app quite a bit" icommephoto.com "In a few words: app creation of black and white as simple and elegant, Simply B & W produces natural results and well balanced. An excellent choice of its kind!" iosphotoapps.com "The beauty of this app is the simplicity. You just choose from one of the five color filters, and then tweak brightness/contrast" iphoneography.com "Simply B&W is definitely a simple to use app that is very capable of producing some really nice black and white images, either directly from the camera itself, or existing photos. Whilst it doesn't offer the features found in some of the more advanced black and white apps, what it does offer, it does well" Babble.com #9 in the Top 25 iPhone Photo Apps for Parents of 2011 "This app provides helpful advice on which filter to choose and easily has the best image quality of any other app of its kind. It also has a magical power to make a wild, screaming child look serious, astute, and brooding..."

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Store creative

Screenshots

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Competitive set

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Methodology and provenance

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Metadata source: Apple iTunes Search API; observed Sep 7, 2026, 11:16 PM.

Rankings: collected chart positions from the listed storefront. Missing ranks are not zeros.

Economics: downloads and gross store consumer spend are estimated, not official Apple or publisher figures.

Model: No persisted model version.

Confidence: ; intervals widen when evidence or history is limited.

Last observation: Sep 7, 2026, 11:16 PM.

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