PDF Maker: Document Scanner
74
Quality Score
Strong
PDF Maker: Document Scanner
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PDF Maker: Document Scanner is an iOS app from Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.8★ across 1,349 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 74: 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
$16.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$16.6K – $34.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$20.6K – $61.8K
per month
MID tier
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- 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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$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 (53 MB) | +$1K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$55K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $275K · 19× MRR multiple
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~4.1× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
100K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
30K
Daily active
13K
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 CONFIDENCEBaseline
$16.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$15.2K – $25.4K
12 months
$16.6K – $34.8K
24 months
$20.6K – $61.8K
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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.3
Product Quality
8.6
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $11K - $24K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 1,349 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 = $289K-$513K. Portfolio play ($40K/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
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| Low install base (1,349 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (6 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 · v2.6.287
We're excited to introduce AI Insights - our smartest feature yet!
- NEW: AI Insights - Get instant summaries and key insights from your PDF documents
- All AI processing happens offline on your device for maximum privacy
- Your documents are never shared with third parties… Full release notes →
- NEW: AI Insights - Get instant summaries and key insights from your PDF documents
- All AI processing happens offline on your device for maximum privacy
- Your documents are never shared with third parties… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PDF Maker: Document Scanner
- Developer
- Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA.
- Bundle ID
- com.jarustudios.pdfmaker
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, DE, HI, PT, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $11.7K/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth1,349 ratings+134800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (33 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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
A powerful PDF Scanner with a set of tools for every PDF need.
PDF Maker allows you to easily create PDF files from your mobile device. You can either take a picture using the app's scan feature or select images from your device’s camera roll.
— A whole set of tools
PDF Maker comes with a suite of tools to satisfy all PDF needs, you can:
- Rename PDF files
- Merge the contents of PDF files into a new file
- Split contents of a PDF file into a new file
- Reorder pages of a PDF document
- Rotate individual pages or the whole document… View full description on the official store →
PDF Maker allows you to easily create PDF files from your mobile device. You can either take a picture using the app's scan feature or select images from your device’s camera roll.
— A whole set of tools
PDF Maker comes with a suite of tools to satisfy all PDF needs, you can:
- Rename PDF files
- Merge the contents of PDF files into a new file
- Split contents of a PDF file into a new file
- Reorder pages of a PDF document
- Rotate individual pages or the whole document… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 53 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v2.6.287🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, DE, HI, PT, ZH +1📂 Productivity💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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
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Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.39 → 4.70 (improved 0.31★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-04
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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.7416★ | 387 | 4.7416★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.76247★ | 762 | 4.76247★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.75121★ | 414 | 4.75121★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.71185★ | 15,256 | 4.71185★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.54385★ | 57 | 4.54385★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.72574★ | 299 | 4.72574★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.59117★ | 1,360 | 4.59117★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.63636★ | 22 | 4.63636★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78756★ | 1,351 | 4.78756★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PDF Maker: Document Scanner: 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: 1,349 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PDF Maker make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PDF Maker earns approximately $11K/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 Maker?▴
PDF Maker is published by Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. 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 Maker's BU Score?▴
PDF Maker has a BU Score of 74/100 (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.