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AI tattoo previews, $1.8K MRR — visualise before you ink

Ombra Tattoo is an AI app for previewing tattoo cover-ups and trying new tattoo designs on a photo. Its $1.8K MRR is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (RevenueCat), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

Ombra Tattoo sells an AI app for previewing tattoo cover-ups and trying new tattoo designs on a photo. Users can upload an existing tattoo photo for cover-up exploration and see how a new tattoo could look on their body before committing.

How it charges

The pages we read do not state a price. They describe Ombra Tattoo as an app for exploring tattoo cover-ups and new tattoo directions, with final feasibility confirmed with a tattoo artist.

Month by month

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

MonthRevenue (USD)
2026-06$255
2026-07$1,236
2026-08$2,412
2026-09$2,326

Where customers come from

Ombra Tattoo targets people considering tattoo cover-ups or visualising a new tattoo before consulting an artist. The founder lists Instagram, Meta Ads and App store optimization as growth channels, and the site publishes research about tattoo cover-up requests and its limitations.

What stands out

The product focuses on shaping concepts around a tattoo’s placement, density and scale. It also turns loose tattoo ideas into visual directions for artist discussion, while making clear that final feasibility is confirmed with a tattoo artist.

From the official site

Explore a direction in Ombra, then take it to the artist who will make the final call.
See how a tattoo could sit on your body before committing.

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

Where it sits in the data

Ombra Tattoo's $1.8K MRR is higher than 82% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Design Tools” category (452 projects) it is higher than 89% (category median $118). 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 the buyer is a person with an existing tattoo they want to cover up, or someone with a tattoo idea they want to visualise before speaking with an artist. Distribution would need to reach those people through social channels, app stores and search or discovery surfaces.

My view is that the hard parts are producing useful previews on different bodies and tattoos, managing support when a preview does not match expectations, and handling questions about what an artist can actually execute. The product also competes with other ways people visualise tattoo ideas and cover-ups.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

A focused visual tool can sit between a rough tattoo idea and a conversation with an artist. Ombra Tattoo’s pages show the product moving from an uploaded photo to a visual direction shaped around placement, density and scale.

Sources

  1. Ombra Tattoo official website, fetched October 1, 2026
  2. 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

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