How much does PDF Expert make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PDF Expert earns approximately $2.8K/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 PDF Expert?

PDF Expert is published by Readdle Technologies Limited 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 PDF Expert's BU Score?

PDF Expert has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.

PDF Expert: Dateien bearbeiten

Quality Score

Strong

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PDF Expert: Dateien bearbeiten is an iOS app from Readdle Technologies Limited in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.7★ across 215,006 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.

Quality Score is 78: 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

$1.5M

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$1.6M – $2.4M

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$1.9M – $3.5M

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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Rating

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Reviews

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Forecast Revenue / mo

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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 ~3.0y 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
📦 Asset bundle (339 MB)	+$40K
⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10	+$9K

Total estimate $100K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$50K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $40K – $75K · 18× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.5× build cost (under-water)

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%
⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings)	+5%

Final multiple 18× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

16.0M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

4.8M

Daily active

2.1M

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 45% sticky

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$1.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$1.5M – $2.0M

12 months

$1.6M – $2.4M

24 months

$1.9M – $3.5M

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.

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BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 61/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

7.4

Product Quality

9.3

Revenue Strength

6.2

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

7.5

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $600K - $3300K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.67★ across 215,006 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: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $27.0M-$48.0M.

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:

High install base (215,006 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Paid app ($0.00)METRIC		+$2,800
Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC		+$2,200
bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
cancelledREVIEW		−$1,500
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Mature app (12y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Multilingual (10 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 · v7.25.5

We've made some under-the-hood improvements in this update to ensure PDF Expert continues to perform reliably.
Your feedback is always welcome at rdsupport@readdle.com!

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: PDF Expert: Dateien bearbeiten
Developer: Readdle Technologies Limited
Bundle ID: com.readdle.PDFExpert5
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Productivity
Content rating: 4+
Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, RU, ZH, ES, UK

Company

Website: pdfexpert.com
Tagline: The go-to PDF editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Description: Download a free trial of PDF Expert – the best PDF software for your Mac. Enjoy advanced reading layouts, powerful PDF editing and classical annotation tools.
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Available

Revenue

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: $1.0MAI medium
AI annual estimate: $12.0M/yr
ML model estimate / mo: $2.8K/mo
Top-grossing rank: 🇫🇷#27 /100 🇩🇪#34 /100 🇨🇦#49 /99 🇺🇸#56 /100 🇬🇧#60 /100 🇦🇺#61 /100 🇯🇵#65 /100
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: Not found

Founder

Name: Not found
X / Twitter: x.com/PDFExpert_
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/pdf-expert
GitHub: Not found
X followers: Not found
Public statements: Not found

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.

✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM

PDF Expert: Dateien bearbeiten by Readdle Technologies Limited is estimated to generate approximately $1 million in monthly revenue. This translates to an estimated annual revenue of $12 million.

Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty, Zippia, Growjo, Reddit

📈Ratings growth215,006 ratings+21% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (42 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries

🇫🇷FR

#27 /100

🇩🇪DE

#34 /100

🇨🇦CA

#49 /99

🇺🇸US

#56 /100

🇬🇧GB

#60 /100

🇦🇺AU

#61 /100

🇯🇵JP

#65 /100

🇮🇳IN

#77 /100

🇧🇷BR

#95 /100

📊Category Rank Trajectory#27 now · best #25 · worst #100

Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart

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

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App Specs

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💾 339 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v7.25.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +5📂 Productivity💰 Paid

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

10 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

🔄

Monetization changed: paid → free

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 2.71 → 4.50 (improved 1.79★)

2026-03

📈

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

2026-03

📈

Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2024-05

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2024-03

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2024-02

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2024-02

⭐

Rating ↑ 1.67 → 2.50 (improved 0.83★)

2024-02

⭐

Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.00 (dropped 1.00★)

2024-02

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

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ASO Keyword Positions

BEST RANK #5

Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.

pdf reader·#5🇺🇸

Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API

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Tech & Domain Intel — pdfexpert.com

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 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.60754★	17,464	4.60754★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	4.70439★	12,094	4.70439★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.56705★	24,361	4.56705★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.49931★	63,734	4.49931★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.51217★	18,408	4.51217★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.56742★	22,613	4.56742★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	4.54033★	17,256	4.54033★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.51792★	43,588	4.51792★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.67464★	215,231	4.67464★ this version

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