PDF Editor: Edit PDF, Sign PDF
68
Quality Score
Solid
PDF Editor: Edit PDF, Sign PDF
by A1Apps-co
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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PDF Editor: Edit PDF, Sign PDF is an Android app from A1Apps-co in the Business category, currently rated 4.2★ across 132,288 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a Business app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
6 snapshots on record
Rating
4.2
Reviews
132,288 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
6
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$175K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $235K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.9y at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$29K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$49K |
| ⚙ 5.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$35K |
Total estimate
$175K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 39× MRR multiple
💸
~1.1× build cost (break-even+)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| 📅 5.9y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
39× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
6.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.0M
Daily active
300K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 📅 5.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷 Category context | Business |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-13 · 22 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 22 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Product Quality
8.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.19★ across 132,288 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (132,288 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PDF Editor: Edit PDF, Sign PDF
- Developer
- A1Apps-co
- Bundle ID
- com.xsdev.pdfreader.pdfeditor.pdf.document
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- a1apps.co
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $1.99 - $69.99 per item
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter6 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline6 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Looking for an all-in-one PDF Editor app to sign, scan, fill forms, create, view, convert, read, and edit PDF files? Want to create PDF files by Scanning images using a PDF editor app?
Here is a PDF expert to give you some extra features -
✅ Free PDF Reader, PDF viewer, Ebook Reader.
✅ PDF Editor - Text editor, image editor, edit existing text, write on PDF, Add Text.
✅ Scan to PDF - PDF Scanner: Scan anything to PDF, Scan Image to PDF.
✅ PDF Fill & Sign - Create signature, Add sign, Fill PDF forms, Tap to fill forms
✅ Electronic signature maker, sign documents PDF… View full description on the official store →
Here is a PDF expert to give you some extra features -
✅ Free PDF Reader, PDF viewer, Ebook Reader.
✅ PDF Editor - Text editor, image editor, edit existing text, write on PDF, Add Text.
✅ Scan to PDF - PDF Scanner: Scan anything to PDF, Scan Image to PDF.
✅ PDF Fill & Sign - Create signature, Add sign, Fill PDF forms, Tap to fill forms
✅ Electronic signature maker, sign documents PDF… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 vpdfviewer-6.27.0🔄 updated 3w ago📂 Business💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.99 - $69.99 per item🚀 Launched 2020 (5y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — vpdfviewer-6.23.0 → vpdfviewer-6.26.0
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ · reviews +1,993 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — vpdfviewer-6.22.0 → vpdfviewer-6.23.0
→ 30 days after: rating +0.11★ · reviews +2,486 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.70 → 4.01 (improved 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.11★ · reviews +2,486 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — vpdfviewer-6.21.1 → vpdfviewer-6.22.0
→ 30 days after: rating +0.31★ · reviews +1,797 high confidence
2026-07
📸
Updated 2 store screenshots
→ 30 days after: rating +0.31★ · reviews +1,797 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — vpdfviewer-6.20.1 → vpdfviewer-6.21.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,303 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — vpdfviewer-6.19.1 → vpdfviewer-6.20.1
→ 30 days after: reviews −1,190 high confidence
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews −1,190 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
2 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-10
2026-07-13
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-10
2026-07-13
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — a1apps.co
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · Zoho
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PDF Editor: Edit PDF, Sign PDF: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 132,288 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PDF Editor make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PDF Editor earns approximately $5.0K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is PDF Editor profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $175K and monthly revenue $5.0K, PDF Editor looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.9 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does PDF Editor have?▴
Estimated audience: ~6.0M lifetime downloads, ~1.0M monthly active users, and ~300K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like PDF Editor?▴
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What is PDF Editor built with?▴
Our heuristic places PDF Editor on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is PDF Editor still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 22 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would PDF Editor sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $200K (marketplace range $150K – $250K). Calculated as 39× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was PDF Editor last updated?▴
PDF Editor last shipped a new version on 2026-10-13 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes PDF Editor?▴
PDF Editor is published by A1Apps-co on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is PDF Editor's BU Score?▴
PDF Editor has a BU Score of 68/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.