How much does iA Writer make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, iA Writer earns approximately $29K/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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iA Writer is published by Information Architects AG 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 iA Writer's BU Score?

iA Writer has a BU Score of 71/100 (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.

iA Writer

Quality Score

Strong

iA Writer

Name: iA Writer — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
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Medium confidence

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iA Writer is an iOS app from Information Architects AG in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.6★ across 1,489 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.

Quality Score is 71: 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

$8.5K

per month

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12-mo forecast

$8.8K – $18.5K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$10.9K – $32.8K

per month

MID tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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🤖Also on Android

iA Writer: The Markdown Writing App

$301/mo · 386 ratings · 2.6★

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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 ~2 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 (60 MB)	+$4K
⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10	+$5K

Total estimate $60K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$500K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $400K – $700K · 18× MRR multiple

💸 ~8.3× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷 Productivity category multiple	+8%

Final multiple 18× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

110K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

33K

Daily active

14K

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

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$8.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$8.1K – $13.5K

12 months

$8.8K – $18.5K

24 months

$10.9K – $32.8K

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.

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BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Revenue Strength

3.9

Product Quality

8.2

Market Position

0.9

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

6.0

Operational Safety

10.0

Founder Strength

5.6

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $5K - $12K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.56★ across 1,489 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 = $153K-$272K. Portfolio play ($35K/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

MODEL

Revenue 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 13 of 13 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Paid app ($19.99)METRIC		+$2,800
Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC		+$2,200
worth every pennyREVIEW		+$2,000
bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Low install base (1,489 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Mature app (12y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Multilingual (11 languages)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
too expensiveREVIEW		−$1,000
support teamREVIEW		+$900

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v7.3.4

This update fixes a few small bugs. It includes all the great features in iA Writer 7.3:

# AI in Technicolor

Whether you proofread with Apple Intelligence, or paste from Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT, the generated text now bursts onto the page with a colorful gradient.… Full release notes →

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: iA Writer
Developer: Information Architects AG
Bundle ID: pro.writer
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Productivity
Content rating: 4+
Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH

Company

Website: ia.net
Tagline: Home
Description: iA builds products for focus and flow.
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: $29.8K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Outside top 100 in US Productivity
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

Socials: linkedin linkedin.com/company/information-arch… · tiktok tiktok.com/@iadotnet · youtube youtube.com/@iAInc101
Email: Not found
Phone: Not found
Contact page: ia.net/writer/support
About page: ia.net/about-us

📈Ratings growth1,489 ratings+33% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (54 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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 → $19.99 (+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

“Leaving life’s mess for an ideal realm of words.” —The New Yorker

“My favorite iOS app for writing in Markdown, without question, is iA Writer. iA Writer is just beautiful. To me, it’s the gold standard for Markdown syntax styling... an elegant champagne flute. That’s iA Writer for me.” —John Gruber

“iA Writer creates a clean, simple and distraction-free writing environment for when you really need to focus on your words.” —The New York Times

“iA Writer is an example of how powerful simplicity and accessibility can be.” —The Guardian… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 60 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v7.3.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +6📂 Productivity💰 Paid

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

13 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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

💲

Went paid — introduced $19.99 price point

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 3.85 → 4.70 (improved 0.85★)

2026-03

📈

Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-02

📈

Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2017-11

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2016-09

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2015-11

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2015-11

⭐

Rating ↑ 2.67 → 3.00 (improved 0.33★)

2015-11

⭐

Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.67 (dropped 0.33★)

2015-11

⭐

Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.00 (dropped 0.50★)

2015-10

⭐

Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.50 (dropped 0.50★)

2015-10

⭐

Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)

2015-10

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

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Tech & Domain Intel — ia.net

Mail provider: Google Workspace
Tech stack: Google Workspace

Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).

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Multi-Country Performance

Available in 3 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇺🇸 US	4.55675★	1,489	4.55675★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.6265★	166	4.6265★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.21256★	207	4.21256★ this version

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📝 Description

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Full revenue analysis

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