Adobe Digital Editions
39
Quality Score
Emerging
Adobe Digital Editions
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Adobe Digital Editions is an iOS app from Adobe Inc. in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 1.2★ across 2,520 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 39: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$2.2M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.3M – $3.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.8M – $5.2M
per month
BIG tierFREE
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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 Android
$969/mo · 12K ratings · 1.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (74 MB) | +$9K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$6K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $200K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~2.3× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
250K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
35K
Daily active
7.0K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.2M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$2.2M – $2.9M
12 months
$2.3M – $3.6M
24 months
$2.8M – $5.2M
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
Concerning · 42/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.6
Product Quality
2.1
Revenue Strength
6.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
2.9
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $880K - $4840K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.16★ across 2,520 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2102d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, dormant (2102d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $26.4M-$48.4M. Discount applied for operational risk..
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:
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (2,520 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (1.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (7 languages)METRIC | +$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.
🆕 What's New · v4.5.11.2
• Compatible with iOS SDK 13.x.
• Fix for epub3 crash issue.
• Fix for epub3 crash issue.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Adobe Digital Editions
- Developer
- Adobe Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.adobe.ADE
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Transform how you share information.
- Description
- Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. We help our customers create, deliver and optimize content and applications.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $13.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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.
📈Ratings growth2,520 ratings+-4% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
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
One eBook reader for all your Adobe DRM protected books across your iPad, Mac or PC. Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) is free-to-download and use, and completely ad-free. Use it to read EPUB and PDF books, both online and offline. Borrow ebooks from many public libraries for use with ADE. Extend your reading experience by transferring books from your personal computer to your iPad. Organize your books into a beautiful custom library.
Experience gorgeous media rich books filled with interactive features, videos, and more.… View full description on the official store →
Experience gorgeous media rich books filled with interactive features, videos, and more.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 74 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v4.5.11.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +2📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
2022-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 836 reviews across 9 markets● 18% positive · ● 18% neutral · ● 64% negative · Rating drift: -0.08★ (stable — recent 50: 1.08★ vs lifetime: 1.16★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇫🇷 FR
-0.10
🇮🇳 IN
-0.13
🇯🇵 JP
-0.13
🇧🇷 BR
-0.17
🇨🇦 CA
-0.22
🇬🇧 GB
-0.22
🇩🇪 DE
-0.32
🇦🇺 AU
-0.33
🇺🇸 US
-0.39
Top praise themes
better ×4 please ×3 books ×3 bottom ×3 org ×3 see ×3 ade ×3
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×64 read book ×32 blank pages ×28 zero stars ×18 one star ×17 give zero ×16 cannot read ×16 star reviews ×15
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.8% Bug mentions: 6%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1.19512★ | 410 | 1.19512★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1.2243★ | 107 | 1.2243★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1.17517★ | 725 | 1.17517★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 1.20842★ | 998 | 1.20842★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 1.29325★ | 474 | 1.29325★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 1.17284★ | 648 | 1.17284★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 1.46341★ | 41 | 1.46341★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1.36★ | 50 | 1.36★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 1.16495★ | 2,528 | 1.16495★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Adobe Digital Editions: 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 medium confidence: 2,520 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Adobe Digital Editions make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Adobe Digital Editions earns approximately $13K/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.
What apps are like Adobe Digital Editions?▴
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Who makes Adobe Digital Editions?▴
Adobe Digital Editions is published by Adobe Inc. 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 Adobe Digital Editions's BU Score?▴
Adobe Digital Editions has a BU Score of 39/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.