How much does Parchment make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Parchment 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 Parchment profitable?

With estimated build cost $75K and monthly revenue $500, Parchment 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 Parchment have?

Estimated audience: ~50K lifetime downloads, ~10K 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 Parchment?

Browse the full Utilities 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 Parchment built with?

Our heuristic places Parchment on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 Parchment still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Parchment sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $5.0K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 14× 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 Parchment last updated?

Parchment last shipped a new version on 2026-09-18 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Parchment is published by Chris Lawley 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 Parchment's BU Score?

Parchment has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.

Parchment: Agenda & Daily Note

Quality Score

Solid

Parchment: Agenda & Daily Note

Name: Parchment: Agenda & Daily Note — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Parchment: Agenda & Daily Note revenue, Parchment: Agenda & Daily Note app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

by Chris Lawley

Medium confidence

4.8 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Parchment: Agenda & Daily Note is an iOS app from Chris Lawley in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 253 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 60: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

4 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.8

Reviews

253 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$500

Snapshots tracked

since Jul 2026

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

📈 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 (138 MB)	+$35K
⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85	$-12831

Total estimate $75K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$5K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 14× 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
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%
🏷 Utilities category multiple	-10%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 14× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

50K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

10K

Daily active

2.0K

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

📲 Utilities engagement	~200 installs / rating
🔁 Utilities D30 retention	20%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (SwiftUI)

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	Utilities
📦 Mid-large iOS bundle	→ Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Active

Last shipped 2026-09-18 · 8 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

📅 8 days since last update

Active development

Verdict Active

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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 · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tier

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

3.0

Product Quality

6.7

Revenue Strength

2.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

2.0

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 219 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.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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 ($4.99)METRIC		+$2,800
Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC		+$2,200
Multilingual (11 languages)METRIC		+$1,500
New app (2 months old)METRIC		−$700
Early-stage install base (253 ratings)METRIC		+$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v1.2.1

Bug fixes for the sync system and start up

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Parchment: Agenda & Daily Note
Developer: Chris Lawley
Bundle ID: com.christopherlawley.TheUntitledJournal
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
Content rating: 4+
Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, ZH

Company

Website: parchmentagenda.app
Tagline: Your day, on one page.
Description: Parchment brings reminders, calendar events, and your daily note together in one calm place for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
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 Utilities
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

Socials: youtube youtu.be/cgG9abre3wM
Email: christopher.lawley@theuntitled.site
Phone: Not found
Contact page: parchmentagenda.app/support
About page: Not found

🌍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.

🚀Version Release Timeline2 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

Parchment is a private daily journal that brings your writing, plans, calendar, and reminders together in one quiet place. It uses Apple's Reminders and the system calendar to bring your task and events together.

Open today and start writing immediately. Your calendar events and due or overdue reminders can appear above your journal entry, giving you the context of the day without switching apps. Capture notes, reflect on what happened, plan what comes next, or use Parchment as a simple daybook for work and life.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 138 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 26.0+🔖 v1.2.1🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 AR, EN, FR, DE, IT +6📂 Utilities💰 Free🚀 Launched 2026 (0y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

3 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 →

2026-08

🔧

Shipped update — v1.0.4 → v1.1.2

→ 30 days after: reviews +76 high confidence

2026-08

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +145 high confidence

2026-07

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +145 high confidence

🌍

Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.72727★	22	4.72727★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	5★	7	5★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.84★	25	4.84★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.62962★	27	4.62962★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.33333★	6	4.33333★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.96969★	33	4.96969★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	3.625★	8	3.625★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	5★	2	5★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.76★	250	4.76★ this version

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Parchment: Agenda & Daily Note: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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