PDF Max Pro
69
Quality Score
Solid
PDF Max Pro
by Mobeera
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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PDF Max Pro is an iOS app from Mobeera in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.3★ across 1,452 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 69: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity 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
$7.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$7.8K – $16.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$9.7K – $29.1K
per month
MID tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 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
96 snapshots on record
Rating
4.3
Reviews
1,452 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$7.6K
Snapshots tracked
96
since Sep 2012
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$185K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $250K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.0y 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 (247 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
| ⚙ 14.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$84K |
Total estimate
$185K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $200K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| 📅 14.0y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
76K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
6.3K
Daily active
2.8K
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 |
| 📅 14.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% 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 | 247 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-03 · 25 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
| 📅 25 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$7.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$7.2K – $12.0K
12 months
$7.8K – $16.4K
24 months
$9.7K – $29.1K
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 · 51/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
6.2
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
7.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
1.6
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $5K - $11K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.3★ across 1,452 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -2.54 ★ (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 = $90K-$166K. Portfolio play ($42K/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 15 of 17 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 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,452 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 |
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 · v27.2.0
PDF Max 27.2 brings more control to drawing, smarter search, and smoother pages.
• Snap Shapes turns a paused stroke into a clean shape.
• Use the movable, rotatable Ruler to keep strokes straight.
• Cover text with Study Tape, then reveal it as you practice.… Full release notes →
• Snap Shapes turns a paused stroke into a clean shape.
• Use the movable, rotatable Ruler to keep strokes straight.
• Cover text with Study Tape, then reveal it as you practice.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PDF Max Pro
- Developer
- Mobeera
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- 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
- $7.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth1,458 ratings+417% 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $9.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
PDF Max Pro is a complete PDF editor for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, trusted by millions of people since 2012.
From signing a form to building research you can verify, PDF Max Pro helps you edit, annotate, organize, understand, study, protect, and deliver PDFs—all in one app.
YOUR PDF. NOW A WORKSPACE.
Collect important passages, highlights, images, tables, formulas, and notes as Cards beside your PDFs. Every Card remembers where it came from, so you can return to the original page whenever you need the full context.
• Search, tag, connect, and arrange your Cards… View full description on the official store →
From signing a form to building research you can verify, PDF Max Pro helps you edit, annotate, organize, understand, study, protect, and deliver PDFs—all in one app.
YOUR PDF. NOW A WORKSPACE.
Collect important passages, highlights, images, tables, formulas, and notes as Cards beside your PDFs. Every Card remembers where it came from, so you can return to the original page whenever you need the full context.
• Search, tag, connect, and arrange your Cards… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 247 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v27.2.0🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
21 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
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 14 of 14 updated
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v27.0.1 → v27.2.0
2026-08
📦
Bundle ↑ 45MB → 225MB — likely major code refresh
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 11 of 14 updated
2026-08
💲
Price ↑ $4.99 → $9.99 (+100%)
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v8.1.0 → v27.0.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$33.9K/mo · reviews +6 high confidence
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.06 → 4.30 (improved 1.24★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$122/mo · reviews +21 medium · co-occurring
2013-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$229/mo · rating +0.22★ · reviews +38 medium · co-occurring
2013-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.14 → 3.51 (improved 0.37★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$93/mo · rating +0.09★ · reviews +16 high confidence
2013-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$93/mo · rating +0.09★ · reviews +16 high confidence
2013-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$119/mo · rating +0.37★ · reviews +20 high confidence
2013-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.43 → 3.14 (improved 0.71★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$119/mo · rating +0.37★ · reviews +20 high confidence
2013-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$119/mo · rating +0.37★ · reviews +20 high confidence
2013-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$168/mo · rating +0.71★ · reviews +30 high confidence
2012-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.80 → 2.17 (improved 0.37★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.26★ high confidence
2012-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ medium · co-occurring
2012-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 2.50 (dropped 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.83★ · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
📸
Store Page History
25 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
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3 ver.
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3 ver.
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3 ver.
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iPhone screenshots
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3 ver.
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3 ver.
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2 ver.
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🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 629 reviews across 9 markets● 51% positive · ● 19% neutral · ● 30% negative · Rating drift: -2.54★ (declining — recent 50: 1.76★ vs lifetime: 4.3★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.42
🇦🇺 AU
+0.34
🇬🇧 GB
+0.34
🇺🇸 US
+0.28
🇯🇵 JP
+0.18
🇨🇦 CA
+0.17
🇫🇷 FR
+0.05
🇧🇷 BR
-0.10
🇩🇪 DE
-0.27
Top praise themes
muito bom ×10 user friendly ×7 iphone ipad ×7 worth money ×6 premier version ×5 please add ×5 highly recommend ×5 mise jour ×5
Top complaint themes
please fix ×11 keeps crashing ×10 new version ×9 latest update ×8 google drive ×8 waste money ×7 free version ×7 upon opening ×6
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.6% Bug mentions: 16% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.8%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.29762★ | 84 | 4.29762★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.56742★ | 178 | 4.56742★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.26973★ | 152 | 4.26973★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.27843★ | 255 | 4.27843★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.43243★ | 333 | 4.43243★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.48864★ | 88 | 4.48864★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.38235★ | 34 | 4.38235★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.96154★ | 26 | 3.96154★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.48902★ | 1,458 | 4.48902★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PDF Max Pro: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,452 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PDF Max Pro make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PDF Max Pro earns approximately $7.6K/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 PDF Max Pro profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $185K and monthly revenue $7.6K, PDF Max Pro looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.0 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does PDF Max Pro have?▴
Estimated audience: ~76K lifetime downloads, ~6K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 PDF Max Pro?▴
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 PDF Max Pro built with?▴
Our heuristic places PDF Max Pro 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 PDF Max Pro still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 25 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would PDF Max Pro sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $150K (marketplace range $100K – $200K). Calculated as 19× 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 PDF Max Pro last updated?▴
PDF Max Pro 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 PDF Max Pro?▴
PDF Max Pro is published by Mobeera 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 PDF Max Pro's BU Score?▴
PDF Max Pro has a BU Score of 69/100 (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.