52
BU Score
Solid
MapScribe
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MapScribe is an iOS app from Daniel Eskridge in the Productivity category, currently rated 3.3★ across 46 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 52: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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 ($2.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.3★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Pre-traction phase (46 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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
Dec 24
Jul 25
Aug 25
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 36 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.1+🔖 v2.0🔄 updated 7y ago📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (8y old)
📝 About this app
MapScribe is an IOS App that lets you draw maps on your IPad or IPhone. It has an easy to use interface that lets you quickly "paint" antique styled maps with finger swipes and taps using its map feature "brushes", such as mountains and trees.
Are you an author who needs to create a map for your fantasy novel?
Perhaps you are a video game designer who needs to create a map for players to use to navigate through your game?
Or maybe you are an artist looking to create a unique kind of decor?
...AND You want to do it on your IPad or IPhone
Then, MapScribe is for you.
--Map Resolutions--
MapScribe let's you create maps as jpg files with the following resolutions both vertically(portrait) and horzontally(landscape) oriented:
• 500 x 700
• 800 x 1000
• 850 x 1100
• 900 x 1200
• 1100 x 1400
• 1200 x 1600
--Fonts--
MapScribe let's you write on your maps with the following fonts:
• Ariel
• Bradley Hand
• Noteworthy
• Papyrus
• Snell Roundhand
• Zapfino
--Brushes--
These brushes allow you to paint features on your map
Mountains
Hills
Trees
Fir Trees
Palm Trees
Dead Trees
Bridge
Castle
Town
House
Swamp
Dunes
Water
Compass
Sea Monster
Volcano
3 Kinds of grasses
Roads
Tower
Shop
Classic Building
Mine
Jail
Tavern
Mill
City Hall
Church
Townhouse
Arena
- Color Brushes -
Green (for grass)
Blue (for water)
White (for snow)
Snow capped Mountains
Green Hills
Green Trees
Green Fir Trees
Are you an author who needs to create a map for your fantasy novel?
Perhaps you are a video game designer who needs to create a map for players to use to navigate through your game?
Or maybe you are an artist looking to create a unique kind of decor?
...AND You want to do it on your IPad or IPhone
Then, MapScribe is for you.
--Map Resolutions--
MapScribe let's you create maps as jpg files with the following resolutions both vertically(portrait) and horzontally(landscape) oriented:
• 500 x 700
• 800 x 1000
• 850 x 1100
• 900 x 1200
• 1100 x 1400
• 1200 x 1600
--Fonts--
MapScribe let's you write on your maps with the following fonts:
• Ariel
• Bradley Hand
• Noteworthy
• Papyrus
• Snell Roundhand
• Zapfino
--Brushes--
These brushes allow you to paint features on your map
Mountains
Hills
Trees
Fir Trees
Palm Trees
Dead Trees
Bridge
Castle
Town
House
Swamp
Dunes
Water
Compass
Sea Monster
Volcano
3 Kinds of grasses
Roads
Tower
Shop
Classic Building
Mine
Jail
Tavern
Mill
City Hall
Church
Townhouse
Arena
- Color Brushes -
Green (for grass)
Blue (for water)
White (for snow)
Snow capped Mountains
Green Hills
Green Trees
Green Fir Trees
🆕 What's New · v2.0
*Added some higher resolution papers (2200x2800, 2800x2200, 2400x3000, 3000x2400, 2400x3600, and 3600x2400)
*Added many new brushes and stamps including colored lines, road, grasses, volcano, sea monster, mountains2, fir trees2, towers, and mines, as well as a whole set for town buildings.
*Rearranged the Brush menu to accommodate new Brushes
*Fixed a memory issue that cause the app to crash on high res maps
*Added main menu item to delete a map
*Added cancel button to main menu so iPhone users can dismiss it without making a selection
*Updated the help/quick reference page
*Increase undo limit from the last 10 to the last 20 actions.
*Added automatic saving so that progress won't be lost if the app is terminated.
*Added many new brushes and stamps including colored lines, road, grasses, volcano, sea monster, mountains2, fir trees2, towers, and mines, as well as a whole set for town buildings.
*Rearranged the Brush menu to accommodate new Brushes
*Fixed a memory issue that cause the app to crash on high res maps
*Added main menu item to delete a map
*Added cancel button to main menu so iPhone users can dismiss it without making a selection
*Updated the help/quick reference page
*Increase undo limit from the last 10 to the last 20 actions.
*Added automatic saving so that progress won't be lost if the app is terminated.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- MapScribe
- Developer
- Daniel Eskridge
- Bundle ID
- com.danieleskridge.mapscribe
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.antiquecartography.com
- 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
- $11.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth46 ratings+4500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (33 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for MapScribe: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.