50
Quality Score
Solid
Unicode Pad
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Unicode Pad is an iOS app from Ziga Kranjec in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.5★ across 8 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$1.2K/mo
In 12 months
$1.1K – $3.9K
In 24 months
$995 – $8958
INDIE tier
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📊 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
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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 ~12 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 (140 MB) | +$36K |
| ⚙Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-12996 |
| ⚙16.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$95K |
Total estimate$170K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 14× MRR multiple
💸~1.2× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅16.0y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple14× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 140 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Utilities |
| 📦Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2018-07-19 · 2865 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
| 📅7y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥Small user base (8 ratings) + 16.0y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| •16y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$1.0K – $2.4K
12 months
$1.1K – $3.9K
24 months
$995 – $9.0K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 38/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Product Quality
2.8
Revenue Strength
3.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $491 - $3072/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.5★ across 8 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2861d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2861d since update).
🎯 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 = $22K-$39K. Portfolio play ($13K/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 7 of 7 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (8 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 →💾 140 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v11.2🔄 updated 7y ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)
📝 About this app
Note: This app supports only in-app custom keyboards! For a fancier version which also supports iOS 8 and later custom keyboards, check out the Unicode Pad Pro app!
• Tested on latest iOS 11
• Support for Unicode 11 standard
• Copy characters to clipboard for use in other apps, like web, mail, chat, notes… practically any iOS app!
• Notepad with customizable keyboards, for your often-used characters and for copying several characters at once. Great for casual writing, too!
• Share your custom keyboards with your friends!
• Send mail and tweets right from within the app!… View full description on the official store →
• Tested on latest iOS 11
• Support for Unicode 11 standard
• Copy characters to clipboard for use in other apps, like web, mail, chat, notes… practically any iOS app!
• Notepad with customizable keyboards, for your often-used characters and for copying several characters at once. Great for casual writing, too!
• Share your custom keyboards with your friends!
• Send mail and tweets right from within the app!… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v11.2
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
• Support for Unicode version 11
• Display glyphs in Private use Areas
• Drag and drop support on iPad
• Improved compatibility with iPhone X… Full release notes →
• Support for Unicode version 11
• Display glyphs in Private use Areas
• Drag and drop support on iPad
• Improved compatibility with iPhone X… Full release notes →
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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
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.40 (dropped 0.60★)
2012-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.33333★ | 3 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4★ | 2 | 4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2★ | 4 | 2★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.5★ | 2 | 2.5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.5★ | 8 | 3.5★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Unicode Pad
- Developer
- Ziga Kranjec
- Bundle ID
- org.ljudmila.iphone.unicode-hd
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $13.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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.
📈Ratings growth8 ratings+700% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (46 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $2.99 (+0%)
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 Unicode Pad: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Unicode Pad make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Unicode Pad earns approximately $13K/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 Unicode Pad profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $13K, Unicode Pad looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 12 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Unicode Pad?▾
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What is Unicode Pad built with?▾
Our heuristic places Unicode Pad on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) 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 Unicode Pad still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Unicode Pad sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $200K (marketplace range $150K – $250K). Calculated as 14× 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 Unicode Pad last updated?▾
Unicode Pad last shipped a new version on 2018-07-19 — more than 7 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Unicode Pad?▾
Unicode Pad is published by Ziga Kranjec 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 Unicode Pad's BU Score?▾
Unicode Pad has a BU Score of 50/100 (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.