73
Quality Score
Strong
Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan is an iOS app from TongSoft Information Co., Ltd. in the Business category, currently rated 4.8★ across 898 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Business app, that means healthy traction. 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 tierSUBSCRIPTION
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$170K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $230K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~10 months 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 |
| 📦Asset bundle (196 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙Business complexity ×1.50 | +$45K |
| ⚙5.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$34K |
Total estimate$170K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$350K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $275K – $450K · 21× MRR multiple
💸~2.1× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + 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
| 📺Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅5.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
41K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.1K
Daily active
2.1K
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 |
| 📅5.7y of rating accumulation | -28% |
| 🔁Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React NativeFlutter
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
| 📦App bundle size | 196 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Business |
| 📦Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2025-08-27 · 271 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅9 months since last update | Concerning gap |
VerdictAt risk
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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)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Building · 58/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive build-outRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.3
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.9
Operational Safety
8.7
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
9.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.85★ across 898 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 271d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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. Portfolio play ($16K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (31 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (898 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 196 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v2.9.7🔄 updated 9mo ago🌐 AR, CS, DA, NL, EN +26📂 Business💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2020 (5y old)
📝 About this app
Want a moving scanner?
The Simple Scanner is a PDF document scanner application that turns your phone into a portable scanner. you can scan documents, photos, receipts, reports, or just about anything. The scan will be saved to the device in image or PDF format. Name and organize your scan to a folder, or share it in the following ways:
-Automatically upload JPG and PDF files to the cloud disk
-Backup and restore synchronization files between multiple devices
- E-mail, print, Fax
- Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, WhatsApp, or more
- Wifi connects directly to your computer… View full description on the official store →
The Simple Scanner is a PDF document scanner application that turns your phone into a portable scanner. you can scan documents, photos, receipts, reports, or just about anything. The scan will be saved to the device in image or PDF format. Name and organize your scan to a folder, or share it in the following ways:
-Automatically upload JPG and PDF files to the cloud disk
-Backup and restore synchronization files between multiple devices
- E-mail, print, Fax
- Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, WhatsApp, or more
- Wifi connects directly to your computer… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.9.7
===2.9.7===
—bug fix
—bug fix
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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 →
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2022-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 411 reviews across 8 markets● 70% positive · ● 27% neutral · ● 3% negative · Rating drift: -0.17★ (declining — recent 50: 4.68★ vs lifetime: 4.85★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.69
🇮🇳 IN
+0.66
🇨🇦 CA
+0.63
🇺🇸 US
+0.62
🇦🇺 AU
+0.61
🇫🇷 FR
+0.26
🇩🇪 DE
+0.24
🇧🇷 BR
+0.07
Top praise themes
muito bom ×17 user friendly ×7 très pratique ×6 excellent excellent ×5 easy easy ×5 pratique facile ×5 highly recommended ×4 life easier ×4
Top complaint themes
subscription ×5 work ×5 cancel ×4 pages ×3 die ×3 man ×3 nicht ×3 daten ×3
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84521★ | 898 | 4.84521★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.91406★ | 128 | 4.91406★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.82353★ | 323 | 4.82353★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.83871★ | 279 | 4.83871★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 7 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.84181★ | 177 | 4.84181★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.81538★ | 65 | 4.81538★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.92515★ | 668 | 4.92515★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.81332★ | 300 | 4.81332★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan
- Developer
- TongSoft Information Co., Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- com.tongsoft.SimpleScan
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LT, MS, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $16.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.35★ · 83.7% 5★ · 16.3% 1★
5★41 (84%)
4★0 (0%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★8 (16%)
+60 ratings/week
Praise: great ×20 recommend ×6 excellent ×4 best ×2 amazing ×2Complaints: subscription ×3
Top positive
★★★★★ Great App
Great app to scan your documents ! Recommended…
★★★★★ Great 👍
Nice item to have…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Virus app
This use to be a great document scanning app but lately this app has so many advertisements with viruses. There have been a lot of pertinent information I sent using this app, I hope that any information that sent wasn’t compromised.…
★☆☆☆☆ I can’t cancel my subscription
I can’t cancel my subscription…
📈Ratings growth898 ratings+648% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
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.
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 898 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan earns approximately $16K/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 Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $16K, Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 10 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan have?▴
Estimated audience: ~41K lifetime downloads, ~7K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan?▴
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What is Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan built with?▴
Our heuristic places Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $350K (marketplace range $275K – $450K). Calculated as 21× 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 Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan last updated?▴
Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan last shipped a new version on 2025-08-27 — 9 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan?▴
Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan is published by TongSoft Information Co., Ltd. on the Apple App 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 Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan's BU Score?▴
Simple Scanner - PDF Doc Scan has a BU Score of 73/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.