55
BU Score
Solid
Scratchpad
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Scratchpad is an iOS app from Sindre Sorhus in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.8★ across 25 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 55 — 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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Reviews
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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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($10.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (25 ratings)METRIC | −$300 | |
| Growing app (1y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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
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⭐ 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 →💾 14 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 26.0+🔖 v1.4.0🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2024 (1y old)
📝 About this app
Capture your thoughts instantly in a single, always-accessible note.
Perfect for brain dumps, quick drafts, one-off jots, and fleeting ideas. Your thoughts are just a tap away.
• Clean, distraction-free interface
• Lightning-fast and lightweight
• Sync with iCloud, or not
• Word and character count
• Font settings
• Linkifies URLs
• Support for Shortcuts and share sheet
Plain text only. Simple by design.
Perfect for brain dumps, quick drafts, one-off jots, and fleeting ideas. Your thoughts are just a tap away.
• Clean, distraction-free interface
• Lightning-fast and lightweight
• Sync with iCloud, or not
• Word and character count
• Font settings
• Linkifies URLs
• Support for Shortcuts and share sheet
Plain text only. Simple by design.
🆕 What's New · v1.4.0
- The app now requires iOS 26.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Scratchpad
- Developer
- Sindre Sorhus
- Bundle ID
- com.sindresorhus.Scratchpad
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- sindresorhus.com
- Tagline
- Sindre Sorhus
- Description
- Full-Time Open-Sourcerer & Aspiring Rebel
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://x.com/sindresorhus
- Not found
- GitHub
- https://github.com/sindresorhus
- 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
- https://sindresorhus.com/blog
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- github · instagram · twitter
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- https://sindresorhus.com/contact
- About page
- https://sindresorhus.com/about
📈Ratings growth25 ratings+2400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (12 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (21 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.
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