Stringers
Mobile App · Android · written 11-6
Mira · Orestad Pakke Shop

A "fastest courier service" app hit the US Top Grossing chart: Mira and three twin AI face-swap apps

What it is An AI face-swap and photo-retouching mobile app: face-swap templates, cartoon avatars, background removal, object removal, age effects, ID photos. In-app purchases run $5.99 to $169.99, with ads too.

Why it took off It's the latest number on a reskin production line. It ran a round of ads, added high-priced in-app purchases, and pushed into the low-bar US category grossing chart tail and an aggregate chart shared by a dozen small countries.

DWhat you can do about it Indie devs shouldn't follow this one. If you really want to build an AI photo app, don't ship this generic feature list again. Pick a narrow audience or a specific use case (say, passport photo specs for one country) and go deep. What's worth learning is how to see through the water in "charted in many countries" Top Grossing lists.

Grade D: no product differentiation. The category is crowded with Remini, Reface and big-company free features. The play depends on borrowed developer accounts, constant paid acquisition and inaccurate data disclosures, which followers can't replicate and which can get the app pulled at any time. Hardly anyone knows about it yet
Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-10-08 · 11-07 installs 3,691
Android · Total installs worldwide
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Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.

Mira is an AI face-swap and photo-retouch app, launched Oct 8. By Nov 6 it had 3,691 installs in total, yet it sat at #79–83 on the US Google Play Art & Design Top Grossing chart, and it also appeared on same-category Top Grossing charts in a dozen-plus countries. It looks like few installs but big earnings. It isn't. It's the newest of four identical apps that the same group released in ten days under four borrowed developer accounts, each one running for two or three weeks before fizzling and being swapped for the next. It charted because of paid ads, and because those charts have a very low bar. Below: what it is, how it got onto the charts, where the money comes from, and why it's not worth copying.

Nov 4, #79 on the US chart

On Nov 2026, 4, Mira hit #79 on the US Google Play Art & Design Top Grossing chart, its best rank to date. That day it had only 3,416 installs in total, no ratings and no reviews (Google Play install count, 11-04).

Click the developer name and you get Orestad Pakke Shop. The developer page opens with "Welcome to Orestad Pakke Shop.. We are Fastest Delivery Service!" The address is Else Alfelts Vej 59, Copenhagen, but the phone number is a UK +44 number. This account previously published "Fresh Earn: Earn Money Job" and "Florie," an AI copywriting app. Both are gone from the store. The account now has two apps listed: the parcel shop's own, and Mira.

A Danish parcel-pickup shop built an AI face-swap app that made it onto the US Top Grossing chart. The shop isn't the story, and neither is the app itself.

What it is: a standard feature list

The store listing title is just "Mira" and the first line reads "Your photo. Reimagined." The features are the standard AI photo app set:

  • pick a face-swap template, upload a front-facing photo, generate a "new look";
  • turn photos into cartoon avatars;
  • remove backgrounds and clutter;
  • age effects, to see how you'd look older or as a child;
  • ID photos.

It's listed as "Contains ads" plus in-app purchases, $5.99 to $169.99. The listing doesn't say what the IAPs are. The description of a sister app has a line saying "some features and downloads require VIP, generation counts are limited, watch ads to earn more." So it's most likely a VIP subscription plus credit packs (inferred).

One detail to note: the Data safety section says "No data collected, no data shared with third parties," yet the core function is uploading your face photos for AI processing. That mismatch between disclosure and reality is a common reason Google Play pulls apps.

Four names, one template

Matching Mira's description, package names and website turns up the same app four times:

AppBundle IDWhat the developer accounts used to beLaunchedIn-app purchasesInstalls (11-06)
Ambli: AI Face Swap & Photoscom.am.bliA Pakistani individual account9-30$5.99–199.9910,425
Vona: Swap & Photoscom.va.noAn Indonesian leather factory10-03$5.99–169.998,237
Corvia: AI Face Swap & Photoscom.cor.viaAn Indonesian packaging company10-06$1.99–199.99153
Miracom.mi.raA Danish parcel-pickup shop10-08$5.99–169.993,691

Signs that it's one group:

  • The package names split the brand name in the middle: am.bli, va.no, cor.via, mi.ra.
  • All four websites (mirapp.app, ambli.link, vona.win, corvia.link) show only "Hello World!", and the page titles are all "Title" (open 11-06).
  • The descriptions are the same feature list reworded: face-swap templates, cartoons, background removal, object removal, age effects. Ambli and Mira both include ID photos. Mira, Vona and Corvia all say "no data collected" under Data safety.
  • Privacy policies are hosted on Google Sites, and the contact emails are randomly named Gmail addresses.
  • The curves look identical: Ambli had about 14 installs a day on Oct 15 and 2,000, nearly zero a week later, and only about 5 a day by Nov 40. Vona ran 20–27 installs a day from Oct 650 to 870, then dropped to single digits on 28. Mira started ramping in Oct 30 (third-party estimates of daily installs).

Four accounts in ten days, with each one going dead as the next took over. The developer accounts look like old accounts belonging to unrelated small businesses (a parcel shop, a leather factory, a packaging firm), which suggests they were bought or rented (inferred). If one gets banned, they lose one account.

How "charted in a dozen-plus countries" happens

Mira's chart record needs a big discount.

First, many of those country charts are the same chart. The app ranks in the Art & Design Top Grossing charts for the UAE, Argentina, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Malaysia, Nigeria, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and South Africa, 17 markets in all. Its daily rank differs by only 1 to 10 places across them and moves in lockstep. On Nov 3 it sat between #83 and #95 in every one. Small-market category charts are often just the aggregate chart, so one listing counts as a dozen-plus.

Second, the US Art & Design Top Grossing chart has a very low bar around #80. On Nov 6 on that chart, #66 illumibot had only 4,000 installs in total, #78 Vidfig had under 6,000, and #82 BlingKing added only 46 installs in a week. A few thousand installs and a handful of IAP purchases of $5.99 or more are enough to chart.

So Mira charting means someone paid, but not that it converts especially well or earns a lot. Its only independent signals are: US Top Grossing #4–79 from Nov 83, and on Nov 6 it hit the free Art & Design charts in the UK (#48), France and Canada (#74), the UAE (#76), Australia (#84), Germany (#93) and South Korea (#103), all in one day.

Where the traffic comes from, where the money comes from

Installs come in bursts: Oct 31 +573, Nov 3 +1,163, Nov 4 +473, with several flat days in between (Google Play install counts). Then on Nov 6 it suddenly appeared on free charts in 7 Western markets. Word of mouth and search don't turn on and off like that, and they don't show up in seven countries on the same day. This looks like ads switched on and expanded geographically (inferred; the specific networks, Google versus Meta or TikTok, aren't confirmed, and no creatives turned up in public ad libraries).

Organic reach is close to zero. A TikTok search for "Mira face swap" turns up no relevant videos. On X, posts mentioning it or this developer over the past 30 days number 0. What you can find online are APK download sites and auto-generated app aggregator pages. The title is just "Mira" with no keywords like "face swap," which tells you it isn't trying to win store search.

The money logic is simple: ads bring people in, a paywall with IAPs from $5.99 up to $169.99 lets the few who pay cover the spend, and some ad revenue sits on top. Each account only has to break even within two or three weeks. It doesn't need retention, ratings or a brand. How much it actually makes is invisible from outside.

Who it's competing with

AI face-swap and AI avatar apps are among the most crowded categories on Google Play, and Mira is the smallest fish in it:

CompetitorsScale (Google Play installs, 11-06)Compared with Mira
Remini(Bending Spoons)625MOrders of magnitude bigger on avatar templates and quality enhancement
FaceApp587MThe leader in age, gender and expression editing
Reface155MThe face-swap pioneer, with video face swap too
Mivo: Face Swap Video117MVideo face swap
Photoroom / Picsart180M / 1.45BHead-focused background and object removal; Mira just includes these as extras
Photo Editor - AI Face Swap(burmacorp)6.65M, 7 days +299kA new account from June this year, also driven by paid acquisition, but concentrating spend on one app
Pixit4.63MLaunched last November, similar features

There's a harder layer too: Google Photos, Gemini and ChatGPT image generation, and templates in CapCut and Meitu, all offer cartoonization, style transfer and background removal for free. None of Mira's features is something you can't get elsewhere.

If it were you

One-line verdict: Don't follow it. Mira isn't a product that grew on its own. It's one listing in a reskin pipeline. Its category is already saturated, and charting here is inflated by the chart's low bar.

Who it fits: teams already doing AI photo tools for global markets, with a ready backend and reliable paid acquisition. For you, the only thing worth borrowing is the playbook: one codebase, several brands and accounts, small tests, and money moved to whichever one pays back fastest. Be clear about the cost, though: borrowed accounts and inaccurate data disclosure get apps pulled sooner or later, and this account's two earlier apps went exactly that way.

Who it doesn't fit: indie devs and small teams. You don't have a pool of developer accounts to rotate, you don't have a budget that can survive apps dying in two weeks, and the product doesn't offer anything Remini, Reface or big-company free features don't. Copying it gets you another face-swap app with a few thousand installs and no ratings.

If you just want to learn: take two things. First, how to read the charts: when you see "charted in a dozen countries," first check whether it's the same aggregate chart, then check how low the bar is at the tail of the US category chart, where a few thousand installs can get you to #80. Second, the price points: face swap, cartoons, background removal, age effects and ID photos as a bundle, where some people will pay $5.99 or more. Many apps have proven that point repeatedly. If you build in this space, find a narrow audience or a specific use case (such as one country's passport photo specs) instead of repackaging this same feature list.

How to get users: to grow like Mira you'd have to buy ads. This category has no organic content, and store search is dominated by big players.

When would it have been better to get in earlier: there's no window left. AI face-swap apps have been getting crowded since 2019, and new ones launched every month in 2026.

What would mean I got this wrong: if Mira is still growing a month from now, picks up ratings and reviews, ships updates, and its website stops showing "Hello World!", it may be getting run as a real product. If it goes flat within two weeks like Ambli and Vona, or gets pulled, and another face-swap app with a split package name appears, that confirms the read here.

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Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report
Competitors
NameWhereLaunchedScaleHow it differs from this one
Reface: Face Swap AI GeneratorAndroid2019-12Play 155M installsThe face-swap pioneer, brand-building and video face swap. Mira is just static template face-swap plus a packaged toolset.
FaceAppAndroid2017-02587M Play installs, best chart rank #43 (tr)The leader in age, gender and expression editing. Mira's age effect is a same-category feature.
Remini (Bending Spoons)Android2019-07Play 625M installsAI quality enhancement and avatar templates, orders of magnitude bigger
Photo Editor - AI Face Swap (burmacorp)Android2026-06Play 6.66M installs, +299k in 7 daysA new face-swap app from the same period that scaled one listing through heavy paid acquisition. Mira rotates many accounts, each reaching only a few thousand installs.
Pixit: AI Face Swap & FiltersAndroid2025-11Play 4.63M installsSimilar features, far bigger scale
Photoroom / PicsartAndroid2020 / 2011Play 181M / 1.45B installsBackground removal and object removal tools are the headliners; Mira just bundles them
Ambli / Vona / Corvia (same matrix)Android2026-09-30 / 10-03 / 10-0610.4k / 8,237 / 153 installsNearly identical products and copy, just different brand names and developer accounts
Google Photos / Gemini, ChatGPT image generation, CapCut / Hypic templatesBig-company features2024–2026Hundreds of millions of usersThe free options already cover cartoonizing, style swaps and background removal; Mira has nothing irreplaceable
Where users come from
  • Inferred paid acquisition (most likely Google UAC or a Meta/TikTok ad network): installs come in pulses (+573 / +1,163 / +473, with zero-growth days in between), 11-06 hit the free category charts in 7 stores at once (UK, France, Canada, UAE, Australia, Germany, South Korea); Ambli and Vona from the same matrix also went to zero after two weeks of pulses; no organic discussion at all
  • Inferred Ad libraries: the metaads, tiktokads and googleads libraries don't index these apps or developers (they aren't on our tracking list, so no results doesn't mean no spend).
  • Inferred Store category chart exposure: once they charted on free category charts (UK #48) and US Top Grossing #79–83, they picked up a bit of organic traffic.
  • Inferred Creators and content (TikTok / X / Reddit): TikHub and x-radar searches returned nothing relevant.
  • Confirmed A matrix of borrowed older developer accounts: a Danish parcel shop, an Indonesian leather factory, an Indonesian packaging company and a Pakistani individual account. Package names split the brand name into two parts (mi.ra / am.bli / va.no / cor.via), and all four websites show the same "Hello World!" placeholder page.

Mira (com.mi.ra): why it charted

Channel: Google Play | Developer: Orestad Pakke Shop | Store launch 2026-10-08 | Category Art & Design | Research day 2026-11-06

Bottom line

Mira isn't a product that organically took off. It's the latest release from a reskin matrix: the same group, from late September to early October, used 4 unrelated "borrowed" developer accounts (a Danish parcel collection shop, an Indonesian leather factory, an Indonesian packaging company, and a Pakistani individual account) to publish 4 nearly identical AI face-swap apps one after another (Ambli → Vona → Corvia → Mira). Each one got a wave of a few thousand paid installs, briefly charted at the tail of the Art & Design top grossing list, then went quiet and was replaced by the next. The recap calls it a "15 country top grossing chart," but that is really one small-country roll-up chart counted 15 times; the bar for US category top grossing #83 is also low. The product has no differentiation. Its charting came from paid acquisition plus high in-app purchase prices ($5.99–$169.99), along with a low bar at the tail of category top grossing charts.

1. Basic data (googleplay library, 2026-10-29 → 11-06)

DateTotal installsDaily increaseCharts
10-291,207—The Art & Design top grossing roll-up across 17 small countries sat around #125–138
10-311,780+573First US Art & Design free chart appearance: #171
11-032,943+1,163Roll-up top grossing #83–95; version 1.0.2 (updated 11-03)
11-043,416+473US Art & Design top grossing #79 (best)
11-063,691+275UK free category chart #48, France and Canada #74, UAE #76, Australia #84, Germany #93, South Korea #103; US top grossing #83
  • 7 days of new 2,484. AppstoreSpy's estimated daily installs: 10-30 about 573,10-31 to 11-03 about 409/day, 11-04 to 11-05 about 138/day (app_day_ext).
  • In-app purchases $5.99 – $169.99 per item, store page labeled "Contains ads." No ratings and no reviews.
  • "15 country top grossing" is one chart: across ae, ar, hk, id, in, mx, my, ng, nl, ph, pl, sa, sg, th, tr, vn and za (17 storefronts), daily rankings differ by only 1–10 places and move together (e.g. 11-03 all sit at #83–95). This matches the tool notes that small-country category charts are often the same roll-up chart. Only two signals are actually independent: US Art & Design top grossing #79–83 (starting 11-04), and the sudden appearance of free category charts in the UK, France, Canada, UAE, Australia and Germany around 11-06.
  • The US category top grossing bar is low, #80: on the same day (11-06), illumibot ranked #66 on US Art & Design top grossing with 4,000 total installs, Vidfig ranked #78 with 5,994, and BlingKing ranked #82 despite only 46 new installs in a week (googleplay library v_chart). So a few thousand installs and a handful of $5.99+ in-app purchases can get an app onto the chart. It shows Mira has paying users, but not that conversion was unusually high.

2. Who it actually is: a matrix of 4 reskinned apps

Cross-checking by app description copy, package name format and website format in the googleplay library turns up the same family of apps:

AppBundle IDDeveloper account (what it originally was)LaunchedWebsiteIn-app price rangeInstalls (latest)
Ambli: AI Face Swap & Photoscom.am.bliDeveloper Iftikhar Ahmad (individual account)2026-09-30ambli.link$5.99–199.9910,425
Vona: Swap & Photoscom.va.noPT YOUNGIL LEATHER INDONESIA (Indonesian leather factory)2026-10-03vona.win$5.99–169.998,237
Corvia: AI Face Swap & Photoscom.cor.viaPT INDOCORR PACKAGING CIKARANG (Indonesian packaging company)2026-10-06corvia.link$1.99–199.99153
Miracom.mi.raOrestad Pakke Shop (Danish parcel shop)2026-10-08mirapp.app$5.99–169.993,691

Evidence it's the same group:

  • Package names all split the brand name into two parts: am.bli, va.no, cor.via, mi.ra.
  • All four websites open to just "Hello World!", with the title "Title" on each (Jina reads mirapp.app / ambli.link / vona.win / corvia.link, 2026-11-06). It's the same placeholder template.
  • The descriptions are the same feature list reworded: face-swap templates, cartoon avatars, background removal, object removal, age effects, and Mira and Ambli both also have passport photos.
  • In-app purchase ranges are nearly identical, starting around $5.99, capped at $169.99 or $199.99; privacy policies are hosted on Google Sites, and contact emails are random Gmail addresses (restadpakkeshop99@, pirdayufaniya@, vsvehejhekroror@, ifh9860@).
  • The install curves follow one template: Ambli had about 2,000 installs each on 10-14 and 10-15, went to zero after a week, and by 11-05 was down to about 41/day. Vona went from about 650–870,10-28 per day from 10-20 to 10-27, dropped to single digits, and after 11-02 slid from roll-up top grossing #120 to #165. Mira then picked up volume from 10-30 to 11-04 (app_day_ext, AppstoreSpy estimates).
  • An earlier one, Mylora: AI Img Generator (com.mylora.android, developer "الهدي للبرمجيات", website mylora.link, 2026-07-21, in-app purchases $4.99–169.99, about 7,000 installs, also on the roll-up Art & Design top grossing chart), may be the previous generation from the same group, but this is unverified.

The developer account itself: the Play developer page reads "Welcome to Orestad Pakke Shop.. We are Fastest Delivery Service!" with a Copenhagen address at Else Alfelts Vej 59, but a UK +44 phone number and the email [email protected]. The account previously published "Fresh Earn: Earn Money Job" (Softonic records 2026-01 versions) and "Florie–Turn idea to AI Content" (com.florie.a, AppBrain records 5,000+ downloads, Softonic records 2026-04 versions). Now the store page only shows Mira and the parcel shop's own app (Play developer page, 2026-11-06). This matches the recap's point: this is a bought or borrowed old account, with apps published one by one under new package names.

3. Competitors

The AI face-swap / AI photo category is extremely crowded, and Mira sits at the bottom by scale:

  • Reface (NEOCORTEXT, 2019-12): 155M Play installs, the face-swap pioneer.
  • FaceApp (2017-02): 587M on Play, best top grossing rank #43 (tr).
  • Remini (Bending Spoons): 625M on Play, with AI avatar and face-swap templates.
  • Mivo: Face Swap Video: 117M on Play.
  • FaceLab / Lyrebird: 88.3M on Play, age and hairstyle effects.
  • Photoroom / Picsart: the headliners for background and object removal tools (180M / 1.45B).
  • New face-swap entrants from the past 2025–26 years: Photo Editor - AI Face Swap (burmacorp, 2026-66.7M, +299k in 7 days), Pixit (2025-115M), Face Swap AI: Photo Generator (Craft Star Lab, 2026-4.21M), FaceTool (SuTV, 2026-06, US Photography top grossing #200).
  • Big-company features: Google Photos and Gemini image editing, ChatGPT image generation, and CapCut / Hypic templates can all do cartoonizing, background removal and style swaps.

All figures come from the googleplay library app_profile, 2026-11-06.

Compared with these products, Mira has no functional difference; it's just a bundle of the same features. What sets it apart is how it's launched: one account per app, each app run for two to three weeks, rather than building one brand up.

4. Where users come from

ChannelEvidenceConfirmed?
Paid acquisition (most likely Google App Campaigns or Meta/TikTok ad networks)Installs come in pulses (+573 / +1,163 / +473) with zero-growth days in between, and there is no organic discussion. 11-06 hit free category charts in 7 countries (UK, France, Canada, UAE, Australia, Germany and South Korea) within a single day, which only happens with targeted spend. Every app in the matrix follows the same pattern: a two-week pulse, then zero.Inferred; no specific creatives found in ad libraries
Meta / TikTok (Europe) / Google ad librariesOur metaads, tiktokads and googleads libraries don't index these apps or developers (they aren't on our tracking list, so no results doesn't mean no spend).Not verified
Store search and category chart exposureCharting on free category charts (UK #48) brought some organic traffic afterward. The title is just "Mira" with no keywords, so store search contributes very little.Partial
TikTok / X / Reddit and other contentTikHub searched "Mira face swap app" and "mira ai face swap": no related videos. x-radar searched "com.mi.ra", "Orestad Pakke", "Mira face swap": 0 results in the last 30 daysConfirmed none
Media / celebritiesJina search only turned up auto-aggregator pages like AppBrain, Softonic, APKPureConfirmed none

Where the money comes back from: in-app purchases starting at $5.99 and going up to $169.99 (most likely weekly subscriptions or credit packs; the store only shows a range), plus ad monetization marked "Contains ads". The bet is that a heavy paywall and high-priced packs let a few paying users cover paid acquisition, so each app only needs to pay back within a few weeks. Once Play gets complaints or delists, they swap accounts and start over (that's how Florie and Fresh Earn vanished).

5. Why it "got through" (made the charts)

  1. The tail of category grossing charts has a low bar: the US Art & Design grossing chart at #66–82 has apps with 4,000–54,000 installs and dozens of weekly adds. A few thousand installs plus occasional IAP is enough to chart (googleplay library 11-06).
  2. Aggregate charts amplify the signal: 17 small-country category grossing charts are the same aggregate chart, so one run was enough to get it listed in "15".
  3. Short burst paid acquisition: from 10-30 to 11-04, 400–1,100 daily installs, 11-06 charting in the Top Free category charts of 7 Western markets at once, which looks like paid campaigns just switched on or a store expansion.
  4. High-priced IAP: starts at $5.99 and caps at $169.99, so a handful of payers can push the rank up.
  5. Clone rotation: Ambli → Vona → Corvia → Mira, a new skin every 3–8 days. When one goes cold, they switch to the next, spreading ban risk across many borrowed accounts.

6. Differentiation

No product differentiation. The feature list matches modules in Reface, FaceApp, Remini, and Picsart, and it is nearly word-for-word identical to 3 of its own sibling apps. What actually differs is the operating model: one codebase, multiple borrowed developer identities, a two-part brand package name, placeholder websites, and rotating launches. Its chart presence comes from that playbook, not from the product.

7. How many people know about it

  • Revenue is not public. No press coverage. 0 discussion on X and TikTok. Online there are only auto-aggregator pages like AppBrain, Softonic, APKPure, and chrome-stats.
  • But this category (AI face swap plus high-priced subscriptions) is already crowded, and it has been mass-produced into clone matrices by skin-swap crews. Mira is itself one of the copycats.

8. What others can learn

  • Small-country aggregate category charts plus the US category grossing tail is where you can cheaply fake a "charting in many countries" look. Discount for this inflation when evaluating.
  • The full clone-matrix playbook: one AI photo app template, a brand name split in two for the package ID, privacy policy hosted on Google Sites, placeholder websites only, and old Play developer accounts bought or borrowed from small businesses and individuals (parcel shops, leather factories, packaging firms), each pushed for two weeks and then replaced. Compliance risk is high: Mira's data safety section says "no data collected", yet it uploads face photos for AI processing, which does not match, and that mismatch is a common reason for Play delisting.
  • From a product-selection angle: the willingness to pay for the face swap plus cartoon plus background removal plus age plus ID photo combination has been validated repeatedly, but it is not worth chasing as a standalone product direction.

9. Uncertain

  • Specific ad channels and creatives: our ad libraries don't track these apps, and no creatives were found.
  • Actual revenue: the money behind category grossing #80 was not verified.
  • Whether Mylora is the same operator was not verified.
  • The 10-08 to 10-28 period was not observed, so how it went from 0 to 1,207 in the first three weeks after launch is unclear.
  • The operator (nationality, company) is unknown. Several accounts point to Indonesia, Pakistan, and Denmark, plus a UK phone number.

Sources

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.