Adobe Sign
47
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Adobe Sign is an iOS app from Adobe Inc. in the Business category, currently rated 2.3★ across 635 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Business 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
170 snapshots on record
Rating
2.3
Reviews
635 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
170
since Dec 2011
🤖Also on Android
$275/mo · 4K ratings · 2.3★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$215K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $160K – $290K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.6y 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 (138 MB) | +$35K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$42K |
| ⚙ 14.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$88K |
Total estimate
$215K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| 📅 14.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
28K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.4K
Daily active
420
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 |
| 📅 14.8y 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 · 60%
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 | 138 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Business |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
30%
Last shipped 2026-05-12 · 137 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
| 📅 4 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 41/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
1.7
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
4.3
Founder Strength
7.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.27★ across 635 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — 6% subscription complaints, rating drift -0.81 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($162K/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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.3★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (19 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (635 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 · v3.33.6
Bug fixes
Improved stability and performance
Improved stability and performance
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Adobe Sign
- Developer
- Adobe Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.adobe.echosign.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR
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
- $5.0K/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.
📈Ratings growth641 ratings+136% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 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
Get documents and forms signed. Easily. Securely. Anywhere.
This app is a mobile companion for the Adobe Acrobat Sign e-signature service. With it, you’ll get an electronic signature solution you can trust, from the global leader in secure digital documents for over 25 years. Adobe Acrobat Sign is used by businesses of all sizes — including Fortune 1000 companies, healthcare organizations and financial institutions — to accelerate critical business processes in Sales, HR, Legal, and Operations.… View full description on the official store →
This app is a mobile companion for the Adobe Acrobat Sign e-signature service. With it, you’ll get an electronic signature solution you can trust, from the global leader in secure digital documents for over 25 years. Adobe Acrobat Sign is used by businesses of all sizes — including Fortune 1000 companies, healthcare organizations and financial institutions — to accelerate critical business processes in Sales, HR, Legal, and Operations.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 138 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v3.33.6🔄 updated 4mo ago🌐 CS, DA, NL, EN, FI +14📂 Business💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (14y 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 →
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.89 → 2.20 (improved 0.31★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2012-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.09 → 2.78 (dropped 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.07★ high confidence
2011-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2011-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.14★ · reviews +5 low · multiple changes
2011-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.60 (dropped 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.14★ · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2011-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.14★ · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 71 reviews across 2 markets● 30% positive · ● 24% neutral · ● 46% negative · Rating drift: -0.81★ (declining — recent 50: 1.46★ vs lifetime: 2.27★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇨🇦 CA
+0.04
🇩🇪 DE
-0.28
Top praise themes
und ×6 ist ×4 ich ×3 kann ×3 nicht ×3 eine ×3 nur ×3 ios ×3
Top complaint themes
die signatur ×3 für die ×3 kein login ×3 login wird ×3 ist nicht ×3 nicht nutzbar ×3 die website ×3 desktop version ×3
Risk signals
Subscription complaints: 6%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.23602★ | 644 | 2.23602★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 1.96629★ | 89 | 1.96629★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.1791★ | 67 | 2.1791★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.26667★ | 30 | 2.26667★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.81481★ | 27 | 2.81481★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.21569★ | 51 | 2.21569★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.17072★ | 41 | 2.17072★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.92857★ | 28 | 2.92857★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.72222★ | 18 | 2.72222★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Adobe Sign: 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 medium confidence: 635 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Adobe Sign make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Adobe Sign earns approximately $5.0K/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 Adobe Sign profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $215K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Adobe Sign looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.6 years 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 Adobe Sign have?▴
Estimated audience: ~28K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~420 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 Adobe Sign?▴
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What is Adobe Sign built with?▴
Our heuristic places Adobe Sign on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Adobe Sign still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Adobe Sign sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 15× 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 Adobe Sign last updated?▴
Adobe Sign last shipped a new version on 2026-05-12 — 4 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Adobe Sign?▴
Adobe Sign is published by Adobe 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 Adobe Sign's BU Score?▴
Adobe Sign has a BU Score of 47/100 (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.