PDF Scanner | Document Scan
71
Quality Score
Strong
PDF Scanner | Document Scan
by Rashed Obaid
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PDF Scanner | Document Scan is an iOS app from Rashed Obaid in the Business category, currently rated 4.6★ across 1,110 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Business app, that means healthy traction. 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
$7.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$7.3K – $15.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$9.0K – $27.1K
per month
MID tier
💡 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
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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 ~4 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
$375K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $275K – $500K · 18× MRR multiple
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~5.0× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
72K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
15K
Daily active
4.6K
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 |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$7.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$6.7K – $11.2K
12 months
$7.3K – $15.3K
24 months
$9.0K – $27.1K
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 · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
8.3
Revenue Strength
3.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $10K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.6★ across 1,110 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $127K-$225K. Portfolio play ($21K/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 7 of 7 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 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (1,110 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (38 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| New app (10 months old)METRIC | −$700 |
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 · v3.5
Stability improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PDF Scanner | Document Scan
- Developer
- Rashed Obaid
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AF, AR, BN, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, MR, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, ES, SW, SV, TA, TE, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, 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
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $21.4K/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 growth1,781 ratings+1095% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (25 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (10 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 Quarter7 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline7 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
How do you turn a stack of receipts into organized digital files? What about converting handwritten notes into searchable PDFs? Document Scanner uses advanced image processing and optical character recognition to transform any paper document into high-quality digital files you can search, share, and store.
Whether you are digitizing business receipts for tax season, converting meeting notes for team sharing, or archiving important contracts, this scanner handles everything from single pages to multi-page documents with automatic edge detection and perspective correction.
HOW IT WORKS… View full description on the official store →
Whether you are digitizing business receipts for tax season, converting meeting notes for team sharing, or archiving important contracts, this scanner handles everything from single pages to multi-page documents with automatic edge detection and perspective correction.
HOW IT WORKS… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 23 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v3.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AF, AR, BN, CS, DA +33📂 Business💰 Paid
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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 →
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v3.3 → v3.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +85 high confidence
2026-06
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Shipped update — v3.2 → v3.3
→ 30 days after: revenue +$21.2K/mo · reviews +179 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
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Shipped update — v3.1 → v3.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +167 low · multiple changes
2026-06
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Shipped update — v3.0 → v3.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +190 low · multiple changes
2026-05
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Shipped update — v2.8 → v3.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +185 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
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Shipped update — v2.7 → v2.8
→ 30 days after: reviews +164 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
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Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +133 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.40 → 4.60 (improved 1.20★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.40 (improved 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$142/mo · rating +1.20★ · reviews +1,105 high confidence
2026-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.27★ medium · co-occurring
2026-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.27★ medium · co-occurring
2025-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #7Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
file scanner·#7🇺🇸document scanner·#18🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.50793★ | 63 | 4.50793★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.9★ | 90 | 4.9★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.58222★ | 225 | 4.58222★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.29629★ | 27 | 4.29629★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.38095★ | 42 | 4.38095★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.56701★ | 97 | 4.56701★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.51781★ | 1,769 | 4.51781★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PDF Scanner | Document 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: 1,110 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PDF Scanner | Document Scan make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PDF Scanner | Document Scan earns approximately $21K/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.
What apps are like PDF Scanner | Document Scan?▴
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Who makes PDF Scanner | Document Scan?▴
PDF Scanner | Document Scan is published by Rashed Obaid 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 Scanner | Document Scan's BU Score?▴
PDF Scanner | Document Scan has a BU Score of 71/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.