Smallpdf: Scanner & PDF Editor
75
Quality Score
Strong
Smallpdf: Scanner & PDF Editor
by Smallpdf AG
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Smallpdf: Scanner & PDF Editor is an Android app from Smallpdf AG in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.5★ across 123,373 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 75: Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
🍎Also on iOS
$25.3K/mo · 6K ratings · 4.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5.0y 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 |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$35K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $45K – $75K · 34× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× build cost (under-water)
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% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
34× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
9.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.8M
Daily active
1.2M
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 |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.7
Product Quality
8.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
4.0
Defensibility
6.1
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.45★ across 123,373 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (123,373 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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
- Smallpdf: Scanner & PDF Editor
- Developer
- Smallpdf AG
- Bundle ID
- com.smallpdf.app.android
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- smallpdf.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $551/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $7.99 - $119.99 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.
📈Ratings growth123,373 ratings+44% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (3 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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
<b>Smallpdf: All-In-One PDF Editor and Document Organizer</b>
Smallpdf is your go-to PDF tool, designed to simplify your document management. Whether you need to convert, compress, edit, sign, merge, split, or scan PDFs, our app makes it effortless. Trusted by 1.7 billion people since 2013, Smallpdf offers a seamless PDF experience right at your fingertips.
<b>Key Features:</b>
• Convert PDFs Across All Document Formats Easily:
- PDF to Word doc
- PDF to Excel
- PDF to PPT
- PDF to JPG
- PDF to PNG
- Images to PDF and vice versa!
• Edit PDFs:… View full description on the official store →
Smallpdf is your go-to PDF tool, designed to simplify your document management. Whether you need to convert, compress, edit, sign, merge, split, or scan PDFs, our app makes it effortless. Trusted by 1.7 billion people since 2013, Smallpdf offers a seamless PDF experience right at your fingertips.
<b>Key Features:</b>
• Convert PDFs Across All Document Formats Easily:
- PDF to Word doc
- PDF to Excel
- PDF to PPT
- PDF to JPG
- PDF to PNG
- Images to PDF and vice versa!
• Edit PDFs:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v3.3.0🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Productivity💰 Free💎 IAP $7.99 - $119.99 per item
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 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
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Shipped update — v3.3.0 → v3.3.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +383 high confidence
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +501 high confidence
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Tech & Domain Intel — smallpdf.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Google Workspace · OpenAI · SendGrid
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Smallpdf: Scanner & PDF Editor: 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: 123,373 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Smallpdf make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Smallpdf earns approximately $1.7K/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.
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Who makes Smallpdf?▴
Smallpdf is published by Smallpdf AG 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 Smallpdf's BU Score?▴
Smallpdf has a BU Score of 75/100 (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.