u/EnvironmentalTop9356

I Built an Offline Bug-Bite Classifier for Android

Some time ago I made a small Android project to experiment with image classification.

The idea was simple: take a photo of a suspected bug bite, run a small model directly on the phone, and return the most likely type.

It became Bugbite Identifier, and somehow it has now passed 10K downloads on Google Play, even though I did basically no marketing.

The classifier runs fully offline using TensorFlow Lite. No image needs to be sent to an API, which also means there is basically no inference cost for me.

It currently recognizes mosquito, bed bug, flea, tick, spider, chigger, ant, and “not a bug bite”.

The hardest part was not really MobileNet or Android integration, but the dataset. Bug bites can look very different depending on skin, lighting, camera, how old the bite is, etc. A model can look good on a validation set and still behave quite differently on random real photos.

Now that the app has some users, I'm wondering if there is a small business hidden in this side project.

It currently has ads, but I'm not sure what makes the most sense next. Maybe a small one-time payment to remove ads, or some extra paid features. A subscription feels a bit strange since everything runs locally and there isn't really a recurring cost.

If you had a niche Android utility with 10K+ mostly organic downloads, how would you monetize it?

The app is bugbite identifier Google Play, free for now.

If anyone is interested, I can also write something about the MobileNet/TFLite training and Android side.

Hey Guys, I am joining the struggle. It appears i need to have my app tested in order to be able to publish it in the Play Store.

This app is Picture Cloud, its purpose is simple, it uses any picture you take on your phone and helps you recognise what type of cloud it might be. What's nice is that it doesn't use Google or any other generative ai to do that. This allows you to recognise the type of clouds locally directly on your phone, which is both more secure and private. But more importantly, that means you don't need to have internet for it to work.

Would really appreciate it if you could test it for 14 days. (If you leave a comment with a picture i'll test your app too)

To test it join this Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/testers\_my\_app\_ofc

And install the app with either

- Web link https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.picturecloud.app

- Play Store link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.picturecloud.app

Can't wait to have your opinion as well. Some things might not be perfect yet, feel free to give feedback!!

Hey Guys, I am joining the struggle. It appears i need to have my app tested in order to be able to publish it in the Play Store.

This app is Picture Cloud, its purpose is simple, it uses any picture you take on your phone and helps you recognise what type of cloud it might be. What's nice is that it doesn't use Google or any other generative ai to do that. This allows you to recognise the type of clouds locally directly on your phone, which is both more secure and private. But more importantly, that means you don't need to have internet for it to work.

Would really appreciate it if you could test it for 14 days. (If you leave a comment with a picture i'll test your app too)

To test it join this Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/testers\_my\_app\_ofc

And install the app with either

- Web link https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.picturecloud.app

- Play Store link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.picturecloud.app

Can't wait to have your opinion as well. Some things might not be perfect yet, feel free to give feedback!!