AI photo and video app, $1.4K MRR: built for short-form creators

Gluely is an iOS app for creating AI photo transformations and short videos with effects, characters, templates, and a built-in editor. Its $1.4K MRR is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (RevenueCat), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

Gluely is an iOS app for creating AI photo transformations, short videos, effects, pranks, and templates. Its stated audience is “Made for short-form creators,” with content made for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. The site reports “32k+ AI creations,” “76+ styles & effects,” and “28 AI characters.”

Founder and engineer Michael Aubry builds Gluely and tunes its prompts, model routing, and templates. The app includes a built-in video editor, automatic captions, still-image animation, My Faces, and individual clip regeneration. My Faces stores a face for reuse across characters, styles, and effects.

How it charges

The product's price could not be identified on the pages we read. The weekly trial provides 50 credits, and the site says that amount is enough for 4-6 full generations before payment.

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

Month	Revenue (USD)
2026-01	$694
2026-02	$2,920
2026-03	$3,311
2026-04	$2,995
2026-05	$3,976
2026-06	$2,844
2026-07	$1,751
2026-08	$1,717
2026-09	$1,800

Where customers come from

SEO is the growth channel listed by the founder. Gluely is available through the App Store, and the founder has TikTok and Instagram accounts for Gluely. The website also publishes comparison articles through its blog, including “Best Glam AI Alternatives in 2026.”

What stands out

The editing workflow stays inside the app: users arrange clips, add captions, and export a finished video. They can regenerate an individual clip with a new prompt while keeping the other clips intact. The site quotes the workflow directly: “Don’t like one clip? Tap it and regenerate with a new prompt. Keep everything else intact.”

From the official site

Made for short-form creators

Don’t like one clip? Tap it and regenerate with a new prompt. Keep everything else intact.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Gluely's $1.4K MRR is higher than 79% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Entertainment” category (351 projects) it is higher than 81% (category median $207). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view is that this needs real work. The buyer is a short-form creator who wants AI-powered visual content for social platforms. Distribution could come from app-store discovery, short-form video, social accounts, comparison content, and SEO.

The hard parts include prompt tuning, model routing, output quality, video generation, editing performance, face-likeness review, and support across many styles, effects, and characters. Building the app is one part; maintaining generation quality and a dependable editing experience is another.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

My view is to focus the product around one creator workflow and make repeated editing practical. Gluely combines generation, characters, effects, templates, captions, face reuse, regeneration, and export inside an iOS app for short-form creators.

Sources

Gluely official website, fetched October 1, 2026
Gluely pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
Gluely about page, fetched October 1, 2026
TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (RevenueCat), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure