Grammarly: AI Keyboard & Notes
83
Quality Score
Excellent
Grammarly: AI Keyboard & Notes
by Grammarly, Inc
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Grammarly: AI Keyboard & Notes is an iOS app from Grammarly, Inc in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.7★ across 214,981 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 83: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Productivity 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
$1.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.6M – $2.4M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.9M – $3.5M
per month
BIG 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
506 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
214,981 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.5M
Snapshots tracked
506
since Dec 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$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 (313 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
| ⚙ 8.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$53K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$33.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25.0M – $43.0M · 22× MRR multiple
💸
~213× 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 |
| 📅 8.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
22× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
11.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.9M
Daily active
855K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 📅 8.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
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 | 313 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-03 · 28 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
| 📅 28 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.5M – $2.0M
12 months
$1.6M – $2.4M
24 months
$1.9M – $3.5M
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
Concerning · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $600K - $3300K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.66★ across 214,981 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $27.0M-$48.0M.
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 15 of 16 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (214,981 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)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 · v14.1.0
Grammarly now fully supports four new languages: French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. Enjoy a localized app interface, plus typing and swiping in your language with the Grammarly AI Keyboard.
This release also includes the following improvements:… Full release notes →
This release also includes the following improvements:… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Grammarly: AI Keyboard & Notes
- Developer
- Grammarly, Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.grammarly.keyboard
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES
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
- $1.5M/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#10 /99 🇨🇦#18 /100 🇬🇧#23 /100 🇮🇳#24 /100 🇦🇺#26 /100 🇩🇪#70 /100 🇧🇷#84 /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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.53★ · 51.0% 5★ · 28.6% 1★
5★25 (51%)
4★5 (10%)
3★4 (8%)
2★1 (2%)
1★14 (29%)
+560 ratings/week
Praise: love ×10 great ×7 best ×4 amazing ×3 excellent ×2Complaints: subscription ×4 terrible ×3 expensive ×2 scam ×1 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Best
The best…
★★★★★ $$$$)
It’s very good sometimes it can be annoying, but it’s just too damn expensive…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ READ WILL CHARGE $150
They will have a scummy service on it just to trick you. It will say words like 12.99 a month but charges you for the whole year. Should be illegal, use language tool over these greedy pigs.…
★☆☆☆☆ Thieves
Paid $30 for the premium service, not giving me premium service. In reviewing my writing, says try premium service for upgraded services. I ALREADY PAID $30. THIEVES.…
📈Ratings growth223,690 ratings+49943% 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 Rank8 countries
🇺🇸US#10 /99
🇨🇦CA#18 /100
🇬🇧GB#23 /100
🇮🇳IN#24 /100
🇦🇺AU#26 /100
🇩🇪DE#70 /100
🇧🇷BR#84 /100
🇯🇵JP#89 /99
📊Category Rank Trajectory#10 now · best #10 · worst #99
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Instantly and easily create smart, polished writing with the Grammarly Keyboard. Designed to deliver real-time writing feedback and provide AI assistance, the Grammarly Keyboard works directly in your iPhone and iPad apps, no copy and paste required.
When you join the millions of people using the Grammarly Keyboard, you'll benefit from:
An easy-to-use AI keyboard that works in all your apps
- Spelling, grammar, and conciseness suggestions in 20+ languages
- Typing in 6 languages
- Voice dictation with automatic cleanup
- Vocabulary and clarity recommendations (Premium only)… View full description on the official store →
When you join the millions of people using the Grammarly Keyboard, you'll benefit from:
An easy-to-use AI keyboard that works in all your apps
- Spelling, grammar, and conciseness suggestions in 20+ languages
- Typing in 6 languages
- Voice dictation with automatic cleanup
- Vocabulary and clarity recommendations (Premium only)… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 313 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 17.4+🔖 v14.1.0🔄 updated 4w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, PT +1📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (8y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 — v13.2.1 → v14.1.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,412 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v13.0.0 → v13.2.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +4,677 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v12.1.0 → v13.0.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$33.9K/mo · reviews +4,601 high confidence
2026-06
📸
Updated 2 store screenshots
→ 30 days after: revenue +$33.9K/mo · reviews +2,336 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v10.2.0 → v12.1.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$33.9K/mo · reviews +4,853 low · multiple changes
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,517 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.93 → 4.66 (improved 0.73★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,517 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.93 → 4.40 (improved 0.47★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$117/mo · reviews +52 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$117/mo · reviews +52 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$537/mo · reviews +233 medium · co-occurring
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$528/mo · rating −0.93★ · reviews +228 low · multiple changes
2025-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$422/mo · rating −0.93★ · reviews +182 medium · co-occurring
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.75 → 4.33 (dropped 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$422/mo · rating −0.93★ · reviews +182 medium · co-occurring
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$412/mo · rating −0.93★ · reviews +178 medium · co-occurring
📸
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.
iPad screenshots
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-15
iPhone screenshots
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-15
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #23Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
spelling·#23🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — grammarly.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Google Workspace · Notion (workspace) · Stripe
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.53024★ | 12,781 | 4.53024★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.67931★ | 1,528 | 4.67931★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.49045★ | 22,465 | 4.49045★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.36325★ | 1,872 | 4.36325★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.43405★ | 963 | 4.43405★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.59225★ | 27,218 | 4.59225★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.61848★ | 17,496 | 4.61848★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.52315★ | 3,628 | 4.52315★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.66306★ | 224,924 | 4.66306★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Grammarly: AI Keyboard & Notes: 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: 214,981 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Grammarly make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Grammarly earns approximately $1.5M/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 Grammarly profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $1.5M, Grammarly 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 Grammarly have?▴
Estimated audience: ~11.0M lifetime downloads, ~1.9M monthly active users, and ~855K 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 Grammarly?▴
Browse the full Productivity category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Grammarly built with?▴
Our heuristic places Grammarly on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Grammarly still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 28 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Grammarly sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $33.0M (marketplace range $25.0M – $43.0M). Calculated as 22× 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 Grammarly last updated?▴
Grammarly last shipped a new version on 2026-09-03 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Grammarly?▴
Grammarly is published by Grammarly, Inc 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 Grammarly's BU Score?▴
Grammarly has a BU Score of 83/100 (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.