AR Book Scanner
44
Quality Score
Emerging
AR Book Scanner
by Robert Gannard
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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AR Book Scanner is an iOS app from Robert Gannard in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.0★ across 6 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 44: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO 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
10 snapshots on record
Rating
4.0
Reviews
6 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$200
Snapshots tracked
10
since Jun 2022
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙ 4.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$25K |
Total estimate
$80K
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 34 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2022-07-18 · 1544 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
| 📅 4y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (6 ratings) + 4.3y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 33/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.9
Product Quality
3.2
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.1
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.0★ across 6 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1540d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (1540d 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($746/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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Good rating (4.0★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (6 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.
🆕 What's New · v3.0
Wait time for search results when scanning or manually searching for books has been greatly reduced!
Now with lightning fast scan and search results!!!
Now with lightning fast scan and search results!!!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- AR Book Scanner
- Developer
- Robert Gannard
- Bundle ID
- com.rjgdigitalcreations.arscanner
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- 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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $200/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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 Reviews4 latest · avg 3.5★ · 50.0% 5★ · 25.0% 1★
5★2 (50%)
4★0 (0%)
3★1 (25%)
2★0 (0%)
1★1 (25%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: love ×1 great ×1 fantastic ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Love it!
I love that it will search similar spellings even if my child isn’t sure how to spell it!!!!!…
★★★★★ Fantastic tool for teachers and parents!
This is so helpful in my classroom to level books for AR! One feature that I really appreciate is the ability to see the quiz type (whether it is read aloud or not). For parents it is a great tool as well. You can add books to your “bookshe…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Disappointed
Juat bought it to scan one book and it didnt even recognize it. What a waste…
📈Ratings growth6 ratings+200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (10 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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.
📝 About this app
This app will allow you to scan a book's ISBN barcode and get AR data for that book. You can also search for books by title, author or isbn. In addition you can save books to easily access them later.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 34 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v3.0🔄 updated 4y ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (4y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 3.50 (dropped 0.83★)
2023-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2022-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2022-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4★ | 6 | 4★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 6 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
AR Book Scanner is a early-stage iOS app in the food & drink space with weak public traction — only 6 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does AR Book Scanner make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. AR Book Scanner has only 6 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$200/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like AR Book Scanner?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink 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 AR Book Scanner built with?▴
Our heuristic places AR Book Scanner on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 AR Book Scanner still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was AR Book Scanner last updated?▴
AR Book Scanner last shipped a new version on 2022-07-18 — more than 4 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes AR Book Scanner?▴
AR Book Scanner is published by Robert Gannard 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 AR Book Scanner's BU Score?▴
AR Book Scanner has a BU Score of 44/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.