Microsoft OneNote: Save Notes
81
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Microsoft OneNote: Save Notes is an Android app from Microsoft Corporation in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.5★ across 1,494,586 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 81: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Productivity app, that means strong product-market fit. 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.
💰 Forecast monthly revenue
—/mo
Founder-confirmed monthly revenue
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
5 snapshots on record
Rating
4.5
Reviews
1,494,586 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
—
Snapshots tracked
5
since May 2026
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$24.6K/mo · 1.0M ratings · 4.7★
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BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 51/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
8.2
Product Quality
9.1
Revenue Strength
0.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Pre-revenue or unknown — $0 - $0/mo · BIG tier · high confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.55★ across 1,494,586 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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: No verified revenue — acquisition only makes sense for tech / userbase / brand.
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:
| High install base (1,494,586 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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
- Microsoft OneNote: Save Notes
- Developer
- Microsoft Corporation
- Bundle ID
- com.microsoft.office.onenote
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.onenote.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
- $86/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.
🚀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
Supercharge your productivity with OneNote. Organize your thoughts and ideas, and simplify planning important moments with your digital note-taking. Secure notes on your phone can sync across all smart devices with Microsoft OneNote.
Start your week off strong by organizing your work tasks on Monday. Turn your task organizer into action points to take charge of your productivity. Take smart notes and capture every detail with voice transcription. Our note-taking tools make it easy to review your content later or access AI studying.… View full description on the official store →
Start your week off strong by organizing your work tasks on Monday. Turn your task organizer into action points to take charge of your productivity. Take smart notes and capture every detail with voice transcription. Our note-taking tools make it easy to review your content later or access AI studying.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v16.0.20326.20108🔄 updated 3w ago📂 Productivity💰 Free🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2026-08
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Shipped update — v16.0.20131.20126 → v16.0.20326.20108
→ 30 days after: reviews +6,017 high confidence
2026-08
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Shipped update — v16.0.20026.20090 → v16.0.20131.20126
→ 30 days after: reviews +10,758 high confidence
2026-05
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Shipped update — v16.0.19822.20114 → v16.0.19929.20122
→ 30 days after: reviews +5,638 high confidence
2026-05
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +5,638 high confidence
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$175K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $235K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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 |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$30K |
| ⚙ 14.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$87K |
Total estimate
$175K
👥 Estimated audience size
78.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.7M
Daily active
2.5M
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 📅 14.6y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
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
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-08-30 · 26 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
| 📅 26 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Microsoft OneNote: Save Notes: 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: 1,494,586 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow many users does Microsoft OneNote have?▴
Estimated audience: ~78.0M lifetime downloads, ~5.7M monthly active users, and ~2.5M 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 Microsoft OneNote?▴
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What is Microsoft OneNote built with?▴
Our heuristic places Microsoft OneNote on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Microsoft OneNote still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 26 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Microsoft OneNote last updated?▴
Microsoft OneNote last shipped a new version on 2026-08-30 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Microsoft OneNote?▴
Microsoft OneNote is published by Microsoft Corporation 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 Microsoft OneNote's BU Score?▴
Microsoft OneNote has a BU Score of 81/100 (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.