AD HelpDesk
55
Quality Score
Solid
AD HelpDesk
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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AD HelpDesk is an iOS app from Sajid Khan in the Business category, currently rated 3.8★ across 20 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Business 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$1.9K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.6K – $5.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.5K – $13.6K
per month
INDIE tierFREE
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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
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~3 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 |
| ⚙Business complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
Total estimate$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$350K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $275K – $450K · 14× MRR multiple
💸~4.7× 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 |
| ⭐★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple14× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$1.6K – $3.7K
12 months
$1.6K – $5.9K
24 months
$1.5K – $13.6K
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 · 32/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
3.0
Revenue Strength
3.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
1.9
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $746 - $4662/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.8★ across 20 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3159d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, dormant (3159d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $22K-$41K. Portfolio play ($25K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 9 of 9 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 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (20 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 →💾 30 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v4.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, JA, PT +3📂 Business💰 Paid
📝 About this app
AD Help Desk allows secure administrator of Microsoft's Active Directory from your iOS device. This application will work “Out of the box”, requiring absolutely no modifications to your Active Directory infrastructure. The only requirement is that you have connectivity to your domain from your iOS device (often times requiring a VPN if you are not on an internal network).
AD Help Desk is 100% secure. All traffic between the domain controller and the iOS device is encrypted.
AD Help Desk strives to give you the ease of ADUC or ADAC and the power of ADSI.
With AD Help Desk you can:… View full description on the official store →
AD Help Desk is 100% secure. All traffic between the domain controller and the iOS device is encrypted.
AD Help Desk strives to give you the ease of ADUC or ADAC and the power of ADSI.
With AD Help Desk you can:… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v4.5
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
Fixes for crashes introduced by iOS11
Fixes for crashes introduced by iOS11
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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 →
2011-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2010-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2010-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 63 reviews across 5 markets● 86% positive · ● 5% neutral · ● 10% negative · Rating drift: +0.04★ (stable — recent 50: 3.84★ vs lifetime: 3.8★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.79
🇺🇸 US
+0.71
🇨🇦 CA
+0.51
🇬🇧 GB
+0.36
🇩🇪 DE
-0.13
Top praise themes
active directory ×5 help desk ×4 life saver ×3 it's simple ×3 works ×15 support ×15 i'm ×11 tool ×10
Top complaint themes
ios ×8 crashes ×7 now ×6 ipad ×4 unusable ×4 working ×3 search ×3 die ×3
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 13%
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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 | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 1★ | 3 | 1★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.8★ | 20 | 3.8★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- AD HelpDesk
- Developer
- Sajid Khan
- Bundle ID
- com.adhelpdesk.mobileadhelpdesk
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, JA, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $25.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- 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 Reviews42 latest · avg 4.19★ · 73.8% 5★ · 14.3% 1★
5★31 (74%)
4★1 (2%)
3★3 (7%)
2★1 (2%)
1★6 (14%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×19 recommend ×4 love ×3 awesome ×3 best ×2Complaints: crash ×4
Top positive
★★★★★ This app is UNDER-Rated
I have used this app for years over native VPN and it is the best app in the App Store for SysAdmins to make changes to AD objects, with NO need for any agent on domain controllers.
This app should be #1 and Apple recommended.…
★★★★★ Good on the go
Everything works great, Easy to reset passwords and unlock accounts while not at my desk…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Is this a broke for the IPAD?
Any Search kicks you right out of the app. 15.2…
★☆☆☆☆ Unusable in iPadOS 15
Crashes when searching for a user in iPadOS 15. Now unusable. I tried to report this to the developer privately, but wasn’t successful in doing so.…
📈Ratings growth20 ratings+1900% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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 → $14.99 (+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.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 20 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
AD HelpDesk is a small / niche iOS app in the business space with weak public traction — only 20 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
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does AD HelpDesk make per month?▴
Our model estimates AD HelpDesk earns roughly $25K/mo, but with only 20 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like AD HelpDesk?▴
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Who makes AD HelpDesk?▴
AD HelpDesk is published by Sajid Khan 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 AD HelpDesk's BU Score?▴
AD HelpDesk has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.