Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR
84
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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This Adobe offering targets the mobile document scanning and OCR niche, directly competing with solutions like Microsoft Lens, Google Drive’s built-in scanner, and various independent PDF converter apps. Its high rating from millions of users signals strong market traction and a mature product with established user trust, indicating it’s well past the early growth stages. Given its free monetization model, the substantial user base suggests a strategy focused on ecosystem integration and driving adoption of other Adobe services rather than direct app revenue. In this business utility category, a common monetization path for free apps involves premium subscriptions unlocking advanced features like cloud storage, enhanced OCR capabilities, or integration with professional Adobe Creative Cloud tools, which is likely where Adobe Scan generates indirect value.
BU Score 84 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$1.4M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.5M – $2.3M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.8M – $3.3M
per month
BIG 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
5 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
3,032,263 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.4M
Snapshots tracked
5
since May 2026
🍎Also on iOS
$39.6K/mo · 1.6M ratings · 4.9★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$29K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$49K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $37.5M – $65.5M · 36× MRR multiple
💸
~361× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
36× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
197.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
43.0M
Daily active
12.5M
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
29% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.4M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.4M – $1.9M
12 months
$1.5M – $2.3M
24 months
$1.8M – $3.3M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 63/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.9
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
6.1
Monetization Maturity
4.0
Defensibility
9.8
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $560K - $3080K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.63★ across 3,032,263 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $25.2M-$44.8M.
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:
| High install base (3,032,263 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR
- Developer
- Adobe
- Bundle ID
- com.adobe.scan.android
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- helpx.adobe.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $1.4M/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $1.99 - $69.99 per item
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.
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
<h2>Magic eraser for cleaner scans.</h2>
<b>The new Magic eraser tool removes unwanted fingers, shadows, stains, and creases in your scan in one tap. Get cleaner documents without rescanning. Adobe Scan is free to download and turns your mobile device into a powerful document scanner and PDF maker that helps you save and organize your paper documents as digital files.</b>
<h2>6 WAYS TO USE THE ADOBE SCANNER APP</h2>
1) <b>Save time with a fast document scanner app</b>: Use High-speed scan to bulk scan documents and turn stacks into PDFs in seconds.… View full description on the official store →
<b>The new Magic eraser tool removes unwanted fingers, shadows, stains, and creases in your scan in one tap. Get cleaner documents without rescanning. Adobe Scan is free to download and turns your mobile device into a powerful document scanner and PDF maker that helps you save and organize your paper documents as digital files.</b>
<h2>6 WAYS TO USE THE ADOBE SCANNER APP</h2>
1) <b>Save time with a fast document scanner app</b>: Use High-speed scan to bulk scan documents and turn stacks into PDFs in seconds.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Business💰 Free💎 IAP $1.99 - $69.99 per item
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device
→ 30 days after: reviews +6,495 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +6,495 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device
→ 30 days after: reviews +12,659 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
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Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device
→ 30 days after: reviews +6,293 high confidence
2026-06
📸
Replaced 1 store screenshot
→ 30 days after: reviews +6,293 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device
→ 30 days after: reviews +14,865 low · multiple changes
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +8,572 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
17 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
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4 ver.
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2026-06-12
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2026-09-10
Slot 2
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-06
2026-08-11
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3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-06
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3 ver.
3 ver.
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3 ver.
3 ver.
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Slot 6
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-06
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2026-09-10
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 3,032,263 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR earns approximately $1.4M/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 Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $1.4M, Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR have?▴
Estimated audience: ~197.0M lifetime downloads, ~43.0M monthly active users, and ~12.5M 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 Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR?▴
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How much would Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $50.5M (marketplace range $37.5M – $65.5M). Calculated as 36× 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 Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR?▴
Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR is published by Adobe on the Google Play 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 Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR's BU Score?▴
Adobe Scan AI PDF Scanner, OCR has a BU Score of 84/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.