Lens: PDF Bearbeiten und Scan
67
Quality Score
Solid
Lens: PDF Bearbeiten und Scan
by Theresa Jackson
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Lens: PDF Bearbeiten und Scan is an iOS app from Theresa Jackson in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.5★ across 259 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 67: 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
21 snapshots on record
Rating
4.5
Reviews
259 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$500
Snapshots tracked
21
since Feb 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (220 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
| ⚙ 0.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$4K |
Total estimate
$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 📅 0.8y proven track record | +4% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
18K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.5K
Daily active
2.4K
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 |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 220 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-08-28 · 30 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
| 📅 30 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
6.3
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.2
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.48★ across 259 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($14K/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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| New app (9 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (259 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 · v1.4.3
Code refinements, minor bug fix
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Lens: PDF Bearbeiten und Scan
- Developer
- Theresa Jackson
- Bundle ID
- com.Scantera593thzp.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, PT, ZH, ES, VI
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
- $500/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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 growth769 ratings+76800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (21 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Our app is a simple yet powerful solution for scanning, editing, and managing your documents in one place. Easily scan receipts, forms, notes, contracts, or ID cards and convert them into clean, high-quality PDF files in seconds.
The app automatically detects edges, enhances clarity, and applies OCR (text recognition) to make scanned documents searchable and easy to share. After scanning, you can edit your PDFs directly — add annotations, highlight text, draw, or make quick adjustments without leaving the app.… View full description on the official store →
The app automatically detects edges, enhances clarity, and applies OCR (text recognition) to make scanned documents searchable and easy to share. After scanning, you can edit your PDFs directly — add annotations, highlight text, draw, or make quick adjustments without leaving the app.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 220 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.4.3🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, DE +7📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2025 (0y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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
📦
Bundle ↓ 413MB → 231MB — likely major code refresh
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v1.3.1 → v1.4.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +97 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v1.3.0 → v1.3.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +182 high confidence
2026-07
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.3K/mo · reviews +133 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2.8 → v1.3.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.3K/mo · reviews +200 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2.3 → v1.2.8
→ 30 days after: reviews +262 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +128 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 4.48 (improved 2.48★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +128 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: revenue −$2.8K/mo · rating −1.00★ · reviews −68 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$60/mo · rating −1.00★ medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$60/mo · rating −1.00★ medium · co-occurring
2026-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$91/mo · rating −3.00★ medium · co-occurring
2026-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$91/mo · rating −3.00★ medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.45652★ | 782 | 4.45652★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.37714★ | 175 | 4.37714★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.27941★ | 68 | 4.27941★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.29114★ | 158 | 4.29114★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.06593★ | 91 | 4.06593★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.50595★ | 168 | 4.50595★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.39286★ | 28 | 4.39286★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.76363★ | 330 | 4.76363★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.51593★ | 659 | 4.51593★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Lens: PDF Bearbeiten und Scan: 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: 259 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Lens make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Lens earns approximately $500/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 Lens profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $105K and monthly revenue $500, Lens looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Lens have?▴
Estimated audience: ~18K lifetime downloads, ~5K 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 Lens?▴
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What is Lens built with?▴
Our heuristic places Lens on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 Lens still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Lens sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 17× 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 Lens last updated?▴
Lens last shipped a new version on 2026-08-28 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Lens?▴
Lens is published by Theresa Jackson 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 Lens's BU Score?▴
Lens has a BU Score of 67/100 (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.