Scrivener
69
Quality Score
Solid
Scrivener
by Literature & Latte
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Scrivener is an iOS app from Literature & Latte in the News category, currently rated 4.2★ across 2,602 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 News 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
$8.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$9.1K – $19.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.2K – $33.7K
per month
MID tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
124 snapshots on record
Rating
4.2
Reviews
2,602 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$8.8K
Snapshots tracked
124
since Oct 2019
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~7 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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~2.1× 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 |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
310K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
46K
Daily active
20K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$8.8K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.3K – $13.9K
12 months
$9.1K – $19.0K
24 months
$11.2K – $33.7K
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 · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
7.5
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $6K - $13K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.18★ across 2,602 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1087d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (1087d since update).
🎯 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 = $157K-$280K. Portfolio play ($19K/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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($23.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,602 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 |
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 · v1.2.4
Scrivener 1.2.4 fixes a bug in 1.2.3 whereby creating a new card on the corkboard would cause a crash.
1.2.3 release notes:
• Updated for iOS 17.… Full release notes →
1.2.3 release notes:
• Updated for iOS 17.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Scrivener
- Developer
- Literature & Latte
- Bundle ID
- com.literatureandlatte.scrivener.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, SV
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Literature & Latte
- Description
- Literature & Latte builds writing software trusted by novelists, screenwriters and non-fiction authors worldwide. Discover tools made for serious writers.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $8.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://…
- uk.linkedin.com/company/literature-la…
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/scrivenerapp · instagram instagram.com/scrivenerapp · linkedin uk.linkedin.com/company/literature-la… · tiktok tiktok.com/@scrivenerapp · twitter twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://… · youtube youtube.com/@scrivenerapp
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- literatureandlatte.com/learn-and-support
- About page
- literatureandlatte.com/about-us
📈Ratings growth2,607 ratings+509% 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 → $23.99 (+0%)
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
“The biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.” —Michael Marshall Smith, bestselling author
Typewriter. Ring-binder. Scrapbook. Scrivener combines all the writing tools you need to craft your first draft, from nascent notion to final full stop.
Tailor-made for creating long manuscripts, Scrivener banishes page fright by allowing you to compose your text in any order, in sections as large or small as you like. Got a great idea but don’t know where it fits? Write when inspiration strikes and find its place later. Grow your manuscript organically, idea by idea.… View full description on the official store →
Typewriter. Ring-binder. Scrapbook. Scrivener combines all the writing tools you need to craft your first draft, from nascent notion to final full stop.
Tailor-made for creating long manuscripts, Scrivener banishes page fright by allowing you to compose your text in any order, in sections as large or small as you like. Got a great idea but don’t know where it fits? Write when inspiration strikes and find its place later. Grow your manuscript organically, idea by idea.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 27 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v1.2.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +5📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
20 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 →
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.80 → 4.18 (improved 1.38★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $23.99 price point
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$117/mo low · multiple changes
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 2.81 (dropped 1.19★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$117/mo low · multiple changes
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.80 → 4.00 (improved 1.20★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$135/mo medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$135/mo medium · co-occurring
2020-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$235/mo · reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2020-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$608/mo · rating +0.05★ · reviews +15 low · multiple changes
2020-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$367/mo · rating −0.07★ · reviews +10 high confidence
2020-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$981/mo · rating +0.12★ · reviews +25 high confidence
2019-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.89 → 2.59 (dropped 0.30★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$599/mo · rating −0.06★ · reviews +16 high confidence
2019-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$599/mo · rating −0.06★ · reviews +16 high confidence
2019-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$675/mo · rating −0.30★ · reviews +18 medium · co-occurring
2019-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$675/mo · rating −0.30★ · reviews +18 low · multiple changes
2019-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.20 → 2.83 (dropped 0.37★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$675/mo · rating −0.30★ · reviews +18 low · multiple changes
2019-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.75 → 3.20 (dropped 0.55★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$675/mo · rating −0.30★ · reviews +18 low · multiple changes
2019-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$675/mo · rating −0.30★ · reviews +18 low · multiple changes
2019-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 4.00 (improved 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$675/mo · rating −0.30★ · reviews +18 low · multiple changes
2019-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$675/mo · rating −0.30★ · reviews +18 low · multiple changes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.26733★ | 202 | 4.26733★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.07843★ | 51 | 4.07843★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.25713★ | 315 | 4.25713★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.97753★ | 267 | 3.97753★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.93056★ | 144 | 3.93056★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.17176★ | 524 | 4.17176★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.125★ | 32 | 4.125★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.80488★ | 123 | 3.80488★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.17338★ | 2,607 | 4.17338★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Scrivener: 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: 2,602 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Scrivener make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Scrivener earns approximately $8.8K/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 Scrivener profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $60K and monthly revenue $8.8K, Scrivener looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 7 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Scrivener have?▴
Estimated audience: ~310K lifetime downloads, ~46K monthly active users, and ~20K 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 Scrivener?▴
Browse the full News 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.
How much would Scrivener sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $150K). 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.
Who makes Scrivener?▴
Scrivener is published by Literature & Latte 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 Scrivener's BU Score?▴
Scrivener 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.