FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner
84
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner is an iOS app from BPMobile in the Business category, currently rated 4.8★ across 162,408 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 84: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Business app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$1.4M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.5M – $2.3M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.8M – $3.3M
per month
BIG tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 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
544 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
162,408 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.4M
Snapshots tracked
544
since Nov 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$150K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $200K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 (73 MB) | +$9K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$29K |
| ⚙ 10.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$60K |
Total estimate
$150K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$33.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25.0M – $43.5M · 24× MRR multiple
💸
~223× 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 |
| 📅 10.0y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
24× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
7.3M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
835K
Daily active
250K
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 |
| 📅 10.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
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
| 📦 App bundle size | 73 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Business |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-02 · 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
$1.4M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$1.4M – $1.9M
12 months
$1.5M – $2.3M
24 months
$1.8M – $3.3M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 67/100BIG TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.9
Product Quality
8.1
Revenue Strength
6.1
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.1
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $560K - $3080K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 162,408 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — 6% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -1.61 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $25.2M-$44.8M.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (162,408 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 |
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.
🆕 What's New · v3.31
Thanks for using Fax! In this version, you can:
— Bug fixes and performance improvements
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— Bug fixes and performance improvements
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner
- Developer
- BPMobile
- Bundle ID
- ifax.fr
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV
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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $1.4M/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#19 /100 🇨🇦#32 /100 🇩🇪#49 /100
- 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 growth172,032 ratings+35371% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank3 countries
🇺🇸US#19 /100
🇨🇦CA#32 /100
🇩🇪DE#49 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#19 now · best #19 · worst #19
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Turn your device into a fax machine! Scan docs with a camera and send faxes worldwide.
Import files from Photos or clouds, sign pages, edit docs, and fax them in a few taps.
FaxFree lets you turn your iPhone or iPad into a powerful fax machine! Scan any document with an advanced integrated document scanner app and fax them anywhere in the world in just a few taps! Send and receive faxes seamlessly. You can scan and fax contracts, receipts, any kinds of documents, paper notes, schedules, timetables – anything you might need in your day to day life using this fax app.… View full description on the official store →
Import files from Photos or clouds, sign pages, edit docs, and fax them in a few taps.
FaxFree lets you turn your iPhone or iPad into a powerful fax machine! Scan any document with an advanced integrated document scanner app and fax them anywhere in the world in just a few taps! Send and receive faxes seamlessly. You can scan and fax contracts, receipts, any kinds of documents, paper notes, schedules, timetables – anything you might need in your day to day life using this fax app.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 73 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v3.31🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +7📂 Business💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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 — v3.30 → v3.31
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,525 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.72 → 4.79 (improved 1.07★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,531 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,531 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$268/mo · reviews +33 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.72 → 4.33 (improved 0.61★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$268/mo · reviews +33 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.4K/mo · rating −0.25★ · reviews +172 high confidence
2025-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.4K/mo · reviews +167 high confidence
2025-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.2K/mo · rating −1.07★ · reviews +143 medium · co-occurring
2025-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.1K/mo · rating −1.11★ · reviews +138 medium · co-occurring
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.50 (dropped 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.1K/mo · rating −1.11★ · reviews +138 medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 671 reviews across 8 markets● 49% positive · ● 24% neutral · ● 26% negative · Rating drift: -1.61★ (declining — recent 50: 3.18★ vs lifetime: 4.79★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.33
🇮🇳 IN
+0.23
🇦🇺 AU
+0.12
🇨🇦 CA
+0.02
🇩🇪 DE
+0.01
🇯🇵 JP
+0.01
🇫🇷 FR
-0.01
🇬🇧 GB
-0.13
Top praise themes
send fax ×11 quick easy ×11 free trial ×9 user friendly ×7 fast easy ×7 highly recommend ×7 easy fast ×7 easy easy ×6
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×28 send fax ×27 free trial ×16 free free ×15 cancel subscription ×10 didn work ×8 fax send ×7 waste money ×7
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.8% Subscription complaints: 6% Fraud / scam mentions: 3.4%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.30732★ | 205 | 4.30732★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.50391★ | 256 | 4.50391★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.60004★ | 5,293 | 4.60004★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.32446★ | 2,179 | 4.32446★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.09776★ | 358 | 4.09776★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.3521★ | 355 | 4.3521★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.61818★ | 165 | 4.61818★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.86321★ | 424 | 3.86321★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78158★ | 173,185 | 4.78158★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 162,408 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner earns approximately $1.4M/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 FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $150K and monthly revenue $1.4M, FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner have?▴
Estimated audience: ~7.3M lifetime downloads, ~835K monthly active users, and ~250K 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 FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner?▴
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What is FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner built with?▴
Our heuristic places FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner 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 FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $33.5M (marketplace range $25.0M – $43.5M). Calculated as 24× 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 FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner last updated?▴
FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner last shipped a new version on 2026-09-02 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner?▴
FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner is published by BPMobile 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 FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner's BU Score?▴
FaxFree - PDF & Foto Scanner has a BU Score of 84/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.