# Bad reviews dragged the rating to 1.3 stars, so they just renamed it and relaunched: a Vietnamese studio shipped three "AI car makeover" apps in one month

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> A Vietnamese studio re-skinned an already-proven concept from ModsTune and Mody, monetized with ads, paid acquisition in cheap markets like South Africa, Nigeria, Turkey and Indonesia, and charted in a dozen-plus countries on the same day.

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CarDes - AI Car Designer · Midas Studio App

# Reviews dropped to 1.3 stars, so they just changed the name and relaunched: a Vietnamese studio shipped three "AI car makeover" apps in one month

**What it is** : upload a photo of a car, and AI generates modification mockups for wider body kits, new wheels, and color changes. It's a free Android app that unlocks generations by watching ads.

**Why it took off** : a Vietnamese studio reskinned an idea ModsTune and Mody had already validated, used ad monetization, and bought installs in cheap markets like South Africa, Nigeria, Turkey, and Indonesia. It hit category charts in more than ten countries on the same day.

**C** **How you could approach it** : don't copy the reskin. If you build here, do what it doesn't do well: precisely modify only the specified parts on the user's own car, match real parts that are actually for sale, sell subscriptions to car owners and body shops, and get customers from before-and-after modification videos in car communities.

C grade: the traction comes from the studio's production line, multiple accounts, and paid acquisition budget, while the product has no differentiation. The category has well-reviewed subscription leaders on Play and iOS, and it is also crowded with free image edits from ChatGPT, Gemini, and CapCut, so following them isn't worth it. The playbook is worth understanding. Few people know about it yet

Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-10-27 · 11-07 installs 47,235

Android · Total installs worldwide

Data 2026-10-30 → 2026-11-07 (9 days, 7 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.

CarDes - AI Car Designer is an Google Play app that lets you "upload a car photo and let AI add wider body kits, new wheels, and color changes." It launched in Oct 27, reached 47k installs cumulatively by Nov 6, and was listed on free Art & Design charts in 24 countries at once. It is not a new idea, and it is not the work of an indie developer: it is the third nearly identical app that a Hanoi utility-app studio shipped in one direction within a single month. Below we cover how it took off, where the money comes from, and what this means for anyone building a single-feature AI tool.

### "It gave me a different car"

In Oct 13, a user named Chris Dry left a review on Google Play for an app called "Midas: AI Car Modification":

> I uploaded a photo of my car, chose modification options and a color, and it generated a completely different car. Wrong color, nothing like what I asked for. lol

10 people found it helpful, the most-liked review on that app. The next two were "Too many ads, you watch them before it modifies anything, and it turned it into a totally different car. Garbage, the free AI tools are much better" and "After 6-7 long ads, it gives you a random image from the web as the modification result. Don't waste your time." By Nov 6, the app's rating was 1.3,344, and the vast majority of its ratings were one star (Google Play, 11-06).

Two weeks later, in Oct 26, "Car Modify: AI Car Designer" appeared on Play, and on Oct 27, CarDes showed up. The three apps have nearly identical features and copy, their package names contain midas or carmodification, and they share a single contact email, admin@medici.com.vn. The three developer accounts carry different names: Echola AI, MEDICI TECHNOLOGY GROUP, and Midas Studio App.

### What it is

The store listing says: upload a car photo, pick styles like JDM, sport, luxury, or off-road, and AI generates an image with a wide body kit, front lip, rear spoiler, side skirts, wheels, and wraps. You can also describe what you want in text or provide a reference image. The one-line summary reads "Customize vehicle appearance with AI, instantly preview modification kits and paint jobs."

It has no in-app purchases. The store page is marked "Contains ads" and has no ratings or reviews.

### Why it reached 47k in just ten days

The numbers jumped in stages (cumulative Google Play installs): in Oct 30 it had only 4, then in Nov 2 it suddenly reached 19k, Nov 3 27.6k, Nov 5 39k, Nov 6 47.2k.

On the jump day, Nov 2, it appeared on free Art & Design charts in 19 countries at once. By Nov 6 it had expanded to 24 countries. Its best ranks were South Africa #27, Turkey #37, Nigeria #41, Saudi Arabia #54, Indonesia #62, while the US only reached beyond #170.

Taken together, these signs point strongly to paid acquisition (an inference with high confidence; the ad platform and spend were not verified):

- **There was no slow ramp.** The first three days were almost 0, then it jumped to nearly 20,000 in a single day.

- **Charting in more than ten countries on the same day** , mainly in places where an install is cheap, like South Africa, Nigeria, Turkey, and Indonesia. Category charts in these countries have a low bar, so a #27 rank doesn't mean much volume. A "charting in many countries" look is more often the result of spreading paid installs across storefronts.

- **47k installs, zero ratings** . Apps that grow through organic traffic and word of mouth usually get some ratings within a few thousand installs.

- **Three car-modification apps from the same company jumped together** : Oct 31, Nov 3, and Nov 5 rose in sync. The older apps grew less and less while the newer ones grew more, as if budget were moving from old store listings to new ones.

- The studio's website midasstudio.app calls itself an "AI mobile app studio", its process lists "ASO & growth" as step four, and it is hiring remote "User Acquisition" (paid acquisition) roles.

On the content side, the sister app Car Modify has its own Facebook page, which posted a Reel in Nov 2 titled "Give Your Car an INSANE Makeover with AI!". Searching TikTok for "ai car modification" or "ai car designer app" turns up small apps from other companies such as ModsTune and Modsnap, along with many CapCut "JDM car modification" template tutorials. None of the videos are from this company.

### Where the money comes from

Monetization is ads only: watch a rewarded video to unlock one generation, with several ad screens inserted along the way. The older apps' reviews describe the flow clearly: you have to watch six or seven long ads to get one image.

In South Africa, Nigeria, and Indonesia, the cost of an install is likely only a few cents to a dozen-odd cents (estimated), so one user watching a few ads can pay it back. This is the old playbook of Vietnamese utility-app studios: don't count on users staying, don't count on subscriptions, buy one install, show a few ads, and keep spending while it's profitable. The older app later added in-app purchases priced at $9.99–49.99, but it never appeared on the grossing charts, and there is no sign of meaningful IAP revenue.

### What this studio is like

Under the same email and website, Google Play has 11 apps across 4 developer accounts: lock screen zipper themes (1.57M installs), car wallpapers (430k), 4K live wallpapers (390k), IPTV player (250k), AR drawing, anime wallpapers, phone cleaner... plus three AI car modifiers (157k, 55k, 47k). One of the accounts AppBrain tracks has been active since 2025, with about 2M installs.

This is a pipeline: find a single-feature need someone has already proven, build a good-enough version, launch across multiple accounts and package names, buy traffic to climb the charts, and when reviews pile up, swap in a clean store page and keep spending.

### Who it's competing with

The "AI car modification" need is real, but it has already been validated by others and is crowded (Google Play / App Store, 11-06):

| Product | Platform | Launched | Scale | Approach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ModsTune – AI Car Designer | Android | 2026-07 | 624k installs, +7k in 68 days, rating 4.5 (30k ratings) | Subscription $9.99–29.99, the top of Play |
| AI Car Designer Modify & Tune (Turkish developer Mobiversite) | Android | 2025-05 | 353k, rating 4.2 | In-app purchases, growth has stalled |
| RevMod AI (Beijing team) | Android + iOS | 2026-04 | Android 336k, rating 4.4 | Subscription, up to $119.99 |
| Posely: AI Car Photo & Video | Android | 2026-05 | 190k | Focuses on beautifying car photos and making videos |
| Mody: AI Car Modifications | iOS | 2024-08 | 6,260 ratings | One of the earliest top apps on iOS |
| Modyfy, Mods: AI Car Designer, etc. | iOS | 2025-11 to 2026-05 | Each has over a thousand ratings, best category rank #5 | Subscription |
| Web tools like ModMyCar | Web | 2025–2026 | Unknown | Pay per use, about $1 for 4 images |
| ChatGPT / Gemini image edits, CapCut "JDM car mod" template | big tech | 2025–2026 | huge | Free |

The last line is the biggest problem for this category. TikTok videos teaching the CapCut car template get hundreds of thousands of views each (one Oct 24 Spanish video, "turn your car into JDM style," got 380k views); reviews on older apps also say "free AI works much better." A single-step generation feature can be had for free in big-company products.

Compared with these products, CarDes has no functional difference. Its only difference is free with ads, so it buys traffic in low-price countries where subscriptions don't sell.

Almost nobody knows it outside: no media coverage, no discussion on X or Reddit, no disclosed revenue, only automated listing pages like AppBrain and APKPure. That doesn't mean there's an open slot; the category is already full.

### If it were you

**C** has lessons, but I don't recommend copying it. CarDes got up through a studio pipeline and paid-acquisition budget, not the product. This category has well-reviewed subscription leaders on both Play and iOS, with big-company free features pressing from below.

**Who it suits** : tool-app teams already monetizing with ads, who understand install costs in low-price countries and have multiple developer accounts. For them, AI car modification is just another category to re-skin, and they earn the spread on ad spend.

**Who it doesn't suit** : indie developers who want to build a product people use long-term and pay for; people with no ad budget relying on organic store traffic; solo developers with one account who get reset to zero by one Google "repetitive content / spam app" ban.

**If you still want this niche, do the part it does badly** : the reviews on all three of this studio's apps say the same thing: it generates a car that isn't mine. The real need is "precise edits on my own car": keep the body and plate angle, swap only specified parts, ideally matching real wheel and body-kit models on sale, giving body shops and owners an image they can quote from. This is what a subscription can sell, and what free image edits do poorly.

**How to get users** : without paid acquisition, go to car-modding circles on TikTok and Instagram, make before-and-after videos of fans' own cars (this content already gets hundreds of thousands of views), then partner with body shops and make the app a tool they show customers.

**When the window closes** : there's no clear deadline. The window isn't about time, it's about big companies: once ChatGPT and Gemini can reliably keep original car details in edits, single-step generation apps will be harder to sell.

**What would show I'm wrong** : ① CarDes or a sister app accumulates several thousand ratings above 4 stars within a month or two and keeps growing, showing the ad-supported version can also keep users and the low-price-country path is wider than it looks; ② weekly growth of a leader like ModsTune drops below a few thousand, showing the need itself is receding and even a good version isn't worth building.

[Android store page ↗](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.midas.ai.cardes.cardesigner.carmodification)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ModsTune – AI Car Designer(Mara Apps) | Android | 2026-07-23 | 624k installs, +7k in 68 days, rating 4.5 (30,437 ratings), in-app purchases $9.99–29.99 | The category leader on Play, well-reviewed and subscription-based; CarDes is its ad-supported re-skin |
| AI Car Designer Modify & Tune(Mobiversite) | Android | 2025-05-15 | 353k installs, rating 4.2 | An earlier pioneer, on in-app purchases, growth has already stopped |
| RevMod AI – Car Tuning & Design(Easterly / Beijing Tiger Creative) | Android | 2026-04-23 | 336k installs, rating 4.4, in-app purchases up to $119.99 | A subscription version from a Chinese team, on both iOS and Android |
| Posely: AI Car Photo & Video | Android | 2026-05-04 | 190k installs | Focuses on beautifying car photos and making videos |
| Mody: AI Car Modifications(Scate) | iOS | 2024-08-07 | 6,260 ratings, best category rank #15 | One of the earliest top apps on iOS, subscription |
| Modyfy / Mods: AI Car Designer, etc. | iOS | 2025-11 to 2026-05 | Each has 1,300–1,500 ratings, best category rank #5 | iOS subscription version, no ad monetization |
| ModMyCar / Car Editor / Pincel AI Car Tuner | Web | 2025–2026 | Unknown | Web, pay per use (about $1 for 4 images) |
| ChatGPT/Gemini image editing, CapCut JDM car mod templates | Big-company features | 2025–2026 | Huge; TikTok videos teaching the CapCut template get 380k views each | Free to do, no separate app install needed |

Where users come from

- Inferred **Paid acquisition (likely Google App Campaigns / ad networks, targeting low-price countries like ZA, NG, TR, SA, ID)** : 10-30 has only 4 installs, 11-02 in one day 19k, charted in 19 countries on the same day; 47k installs with zero ratings; sister apps jump at the same pace; the studio is hiring User Acquisition; not on our ad library tracking list, so nothing to find

- **Confirmed** **Multi-account matrix / re-skin and republish** : under the same email admin@medici.com.vn, within one month 3 AI car apps were published across 3 developer accounts; after the older one reached 1.3 ratings, 10-26 and 10-27 launched two new ones back to back

- **Confirmed** **Facebook page Reels** : the Facebook page of sister app Car Modify: AI Car Designer posted a Reel "Give Your Car an INSANE Makeover with AI" 11-02

- **Confirmed** **ASO / store search** : titles and descriptions are stuffed with AI car designer / car modification / body kit / JDM keywords; the website states they do ASO

- Inferred **TikTok content / creators** : no CarDes or Midas-family videos appeared across 4 keyword searches

## Why CarDes - AI Car Designer (com.midas.ai.cardes.cardesigner.carmodification) broke out

### Verdict

CarDes is not a standalone hit. It is the third **back-to-back clone** from Medici Technology Group in Hanoi, Vietnam, a tool-app studio (publicly known as Midas Studio App / Echola AI), in an already proven niche ("upload a car photo, AI modification"). It reached 47k installs 10 days after launch, almost certainly through a **paid acquisition + ad monetization** playbook: charting in 24 countries on the same day, stepped install jumps, 47k installs with zero ratings or reviews, no in-app purchases and ads only. All fit paid buying. A sister app from the same company is also complained about in reviews for "watching 6-7 long ads to get one image." Differentiation is basically absent: features, copy and category match ModsTune and Mody, and are much like the company's own two other apps. It broke out because of the studio's **pipeline and ad spend** , not because of the product itself.

### 1. Basic data (googleplay library, 2026-11-06)

- Developer account Midas Studio App; developer site ecola.ai, email admin@medici.com.vn, privacy policy hosted under sites.google.com/medici.com.vn (`app` table in the googleplay library).

- Launched 2026-10-27, version 1.0.3; **no in-app purchases (offers_iap = False), with ads (ad_supported = True)** ; no ratings or reviews yet.

- Cumulative installs (global): 10-30 was 4 → 11-02 was 19,043 → 11-03 was 27,590 → 11-05 was 39,000 → 11-06 was 47,235 (`app_snap`). Some days show 0; this comes from Play refreshing install counts in batches and doesn't mean nobody installed that day.

- Charts: 10-30 only hit #158 on the India ART_AND_DESIGN Top Free chart. **11-02 charted the same day in 19 countries' ART_AND_DESIGN Top Free charts** , 11-06 then spread to 24 countries, with best ranks of #27 in South Africa, #35-49 in Turkey, #33-41 in Nigeria, #54 in Saudi Arabia, and #62 in Indonesia; the US only reached #176-194 (`chart_rank`).

- Category charts in small countries have a low bar, so a #27 rank says little. What matters is "a dozen countries spiking on the same day."

### 2. Who it is: a multi-account tool-app factory

Using email admin@medici.com.vn and websites ecola.ai and midasstudio.app, the googleplay library matches 11 apps, spread across 4 developer accounts (Midas Studio App, Echola AI, MEDICI TECHNOLOGY GROUP, Office Master Studio):

| App | Account | Launched | Installs | Monetization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zipper Lock Screen Customizer | Midas Studio App | 2026-07-16 | 1,569,263 | IAP $1.99–14.99 |
| Car Wallpaper HD & 4K Live | Midas Studio App | 2026-08-06 | 428,313 | In-app purchases |
| 4K HD Live Wallpapers & Themes | Midas Studio App | 2025-11-25 | 390,049 | In-app purchases |
| IPTV: Smart Player | Office Master Studio | 2026-09-24 | 245,665 | In-app purchases |
| **Midas: AI Car Modification** | Echola AI | 2026-09-10 | 157,320 | In-app purchases $9.99–49.99 + ads, **rating 1.3 (344 ratings, 303 of them one-star)** |
| Arteasy: AR Draw & Trace | Midas Studio App | 2026-09-11 | 103,380 | — |
| Anipic: Anime Live Wallpaper | MEDICI TECHNOLOGY GROUP | 2026-10-21 | 85,495 | — |
| SweepAI: Phone Storage Cleaner | Echola AI | 2026-10-21 | 69,341 | — |
| **Car Modify: AI Car Designer** | MEDICI TECHNOLOGY GROUP | 2026-10-26 | 55,298 | No in-app purchases |
| **CarDes - AI Car Designer** | Midas Studio App | 2026-10-27 | 47,235 | No in-app purchases, with ads |
| Silly Smile: 4K Live Wallpaper | MEDICI TECHNOLOGY GROUP | 2026-10-14 | 21,788 | — |

(Source: googleplay library `app` + `app_profile` + `app_snap`, 2026-11-06)

- Their site midasstudio.app calls itself an "AI mobile app studio." On Play it has 10 apps, and step 4 of its workflow reads "ASO & growth." It is hiring "User Acquisition (remote)" and "Product Designer/Owner (Hanoi)." User acquisition is the company's core function. AppBrain logs the account at "8 apps, active since 2025, about 2M installs."

- In the "AI car modification" niche it **shipped three nearly identical apps in one month** : 9-10 Midas: AI Car Modification (Echola AI), 10-26 Car Modify: AI Car Designer (MEDICI), 10-27 CarDes (Midas Studio App). The package names all include midas / carmodification. The three apps' installs step up on the same rhythm: 10-31, 11-03, 11-05 jumping together (Car Modify 10-31 +12,675, 11-03 +29,536, 11-05 +13,041; the older Midas over the same period +21,450, +16,322, +2,457). The spend has clearly moved from the old app to the new ones.

- Inference: the old Midas: AI Car Modification was wrecked by one-star reviews (rating 1.3, with reviews saying "after watching 6-7 long ads, it generated a random car picture from the web"). So they switched to a new package name and a new account and re-launched, pushing paid traffic to a fresh store page with no bad reviews yet. This is a classic "small-account matrix + reskin and relaunch."

### 3. Where users came from (growth tactics)

| Channel | Evidence | Confirmed? |
|---|---|---|
| Paid acquisition (most likely Google App Campaigns / ad networks) | 10-30 had only 4 installs, then 11-02 jumped to 19k in a single day, charted in 19 countries' category charts the same day, and reached 24 countries 4 days later. It targets markets where installs are cheap, like ZA/NG/TR/SA/ID/VN. It has 47k installs and zero ratings (organic apps usually pick up ratings at a few thousand installs). Sister apps jumped on the same schedule, and the company is hiring UA. Our Meta / Google / TikTok ad libraries don't have it (it isn't on our tracking list, so no record isn't proof of no spend). | Unconfirmed (strong inference) |
| Facebook owned page posting Reels | The sister app "Car Modify: AI Car Designer" has its own Facebook page (id 61595770417796), and 11-02 posted a Reel titled "Give Your Car an INSANE Makeover with AI!". We couldn't find whether CarDes has its own page. | Partly confirmed (sister app) |
| Store search / ASO | Title and description are stuffed with AI Car Designer / car modification / body kit / JDM keywords, competing for the same terms as ModsTune and Mody. The official site states they do ASO. | Confirmed they're doing it; effect size unknown |
| TikTok content / creators | We searched "ai car modification," "ai car designer app," "car modify ai," and "modify my car ai app." The results were small iOS apps outside ModsTune (AI Car Designer - Tuner, Modsnap, Rollers.ai, modproai) and CapCut's JDM car-mod templates. **No CarDes or Midas-family videos.** | No evidence found |
| Media / X / Reddit | No coverage at all. What's searchable online is only auto-generated pages from AppBrain, apkpure, Similarweb, and appfigures. | None |

Where the money comes back: CarDes now has no in-app purchases and relies only on ads (most likely watch-a-rewarded-video to unlock generations, which is how the sister app's reviews describe it). The sister app later added in-app purchases at $9.99–49.99. In countries like South Africa, Nigeria, and Indonesia, paid acquisition per install is cheap, so interstitial and rewarded-video ad revenue can cover the cost. This is the standard playbook of Vietnamese tool-app studios. There is no evidence of meaningful IAP revenue (it doesn't appear on the Top Grossing chart at all).

### 4. Competitors

People have been doing this niche for 2024 years, and it was crowded by 2026.

| Product | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from CarDes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ModsTune – AI Car Designer(Mara Apps) | Android | 2026-07-23 | 624k installs, +68k in 7 days, rating 4.5 (30,437 ratings), in-app purchases $9.99–29.99, ranked #6 in the Mexico category chart | The top of the category on Play: strong reviews and monetized through subscriptions. CarDes is the ad-monetized version of it. |
| AI Car Designer Modify & Tune (Mobiversite, Turkey) | Android | 2025-05-15 | 353k installs, rating 4.2, in-app purchases | An earlier mover that charted in only one country, and its growth has already stalled. |
| RevMod AI – Car Tuning & Design (Easterly / Beijing Tiger Creative) | Android + iOS | 2026-04 | Android 336k installs, rating 4.4, in-app purchases up to $119.99 | A subscription version from a Chinese team. Growth has stopped. |
| Posely: AI Car Photo & Video(Broverse) | Android | 2026-05-04 | 190k, rating 4.3 | Leans toward "car photo beautifying / making videos" rather than purely modification. |
| Mody: AI Car Modifications(Scate) | iOS | 2024-08-07 | 6,260 ratings, best category rank #15 | One of the earliest top apps on iOS |
| Modyfy: AI Car Designer (Papcorns, Turkey) | iOS | 2026-05-24 | 1,470 ratings, best category rank #5 | iOS subscription version |
| Mods: AI Car Designer & Tuning(MARKET2I) | iOS | 2025-11-22 | 1,359 ratings, best category rank #5 | Same as above |
| In-house: Midas: AI Car Modification / Car Modify: AI Car Designer | Android | 2026-09-10 / 10-26 | 157k / 55k | The same company's identical product, with new accounts and package names. |
| ModMyCar, Car Editor, Pincel AI Car Tuner, phygital.plus | Web / iOS | 2025–2026 | Unknown | Web products charge per use (ModMyCar is about $1 for 4 images at once). |
| 3DTuning | Web | Very early | Long-established | A 3D configurator, not editing on your own car photo. |
| ChatGPT / Gemini image editing, CapCut's "JDM car modification" template | Big-company features | 2025–2026 | huge | Free to do; TikTok videos teaching the CapCut template reach hundreds of thousands of views (@kimberlihayes1 2026-10-24, the one at 380k) |

(Sources: googleplay library, appstore library (rating count taken as the max from app_profile), getstarrd.app category review articles, TikHub search, all as of 2026-11-06)

### 5. Differentiation

Basically none. The features (upload a car photo → pick JDM / sport / off-road / luxury style → wide body, wheels, paint color, text prompts) are the same as ModsTune and Mody, and nearly word-for-word the same as the company's two other versions. The only "difference" is the business model: **free + ads** , instead of the subscriptions the leaders use. That lets it spend heavily on paid acquisition in low-priced countries where subscriptions don't monetize (South Africa, Nigeria, Indonesia, Turkey), where category chart entry is easy, so it climbed quickly. So the reason it worked is **the distribution playbook** (reskin + multiple accounts + paid acquisition + ad monetization), not product differentiation.

### 6. How many people know about it

Hardly anyone knows about it yet. No media, no X or Reddit discussion, and revenue is not public. Only auto-generated pages from AppBrain, apkpure, and Similarweb exist online. But the **category** is already crowded (on Play, ModsTune has 620k installs and RevMod has 340k; on iOS there are at least 10 similar apps; people are also writing review posts titled "2026 best AI car modification apps").

### 7. What others can learn

- Wait for others (ModsTune / Mody) to validate the demand, then enter cheaply with a reskin, switch to ad monetization, and buy installs in low-priced countries where subscriptions don't work.

- Run several accounts and several package names for one opportunity at the same time. When negative reviews pile up, switch to a new store page and keep spending.

- In small countries the category chart bar is low, so a dozen countries climbing together looks from the outside like "charting in many countries."

- Risks: poor product quality and collapsing ratings (the sister app is at 1.3 stars), violation of Google Play's repetitive content / spam app policies, and a real risk of the whole developer account being banned.

### 8. Still unclear

- No direct evidence of paid acquisition: it isn't on our Meta / Google / TikTok ad tracking list, and none of the three libraries has a record. The specific platforms and spend are unknown.

- Retention and ad revenue are unknown. CarDes has no ratings yet, so user satisfaction can't be judged.

- We did not verify which model generates the images (a sister-app review says "it generated another car from the web").

- Whether Medici Technology Group is the same as the Vietnamese health insurance tech company Medici (My Medici) with the same name is unverified. The emails both use the medici.com.vn domain, but this was not checked.

### Sources

- googleplay library (agent-im server, DuckDB): app / app_profile / app_snap / app_day / chart_rank, 2026-10-29 through 11-06

- appstore library app_profile (iOS competitors)

- metaads / googleads / tiktokads libraries: searched by package name, developer, and domain, no records found (2026-11-06)

- Play store pages (via r.jina.ai): CarDes, Midas: AI Car Modification (reviews)

- [www.midasstudio.app/](https://www.midasstudio.app/) (studio official site)

- [www.appbrain.com/dev/Midas+Studio+App/](https://www.appbrain.com/dev/Midas+Studio+App/)

- [www.facebook.com/61595770417796/](https://www.facebook.com/61595770417796/) (Car Modify: AI Car Designer page, 11-02 Reel)

- [www.getstarrd.app/blog/best-ai-car-customization-apps](https://www.getstarrd.app/blog/best-ai-car-customization-apps) (category review)

- TikHub TikTok search, 2026-11-06

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