PDF Scanner App: Scan Document
69
Quality Score
Solid
PDF Scanner App: Scan Document
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PDF Scanner App: Scan Document is an iOS app from Smart Tool Studio in the Business category, currently rated 4.5★ across 6,254 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 69: Solid (established niche player). For a Business app, that means established niche player. 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
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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
$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 ~4.3y 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 (92 MB) | +$16K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$33K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
405K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
89K
Daily active
26K
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
8.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.51★ across 6,254 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 602d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (602d since update).
🎯 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. Portfolio play ($7K/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 7 of 7 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 (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Low install base (6,254 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (11 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 |
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 · v1.8.6
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PDF Scanner App: Scan Document
- Developer
- Smart Tool Studio
- Bundle ID
- super.scanner.pdf.document.ocr
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $1.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- 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 growth6,254 ratings+156250% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 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.
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
"Scanner APP" is the best scanner app that can turn your iPhone into a powerful mobile scanner. It enables you to quickly and easily scan, sign and share any document in PDF, JPEG, PNG or TXT format anywhere and anytime.
Looking for a powerful digital office to help you be more productive?
Scanner APP is a portable document scanner and PDF editor, various editing functions including e-signature to ensure your doc to become more professional! Use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to recognize text in images and quickly convert images to text.… View full description on the official store →
Looking for a powerful digital office to help you be more productive?
Scanner APP is a portable document scanner and PDF editor, various editing functions including e-signature to ensure your doc to become more professional! Use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to recognize text in images and quickly convert images to text.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 92 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v1.8.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, EN, FR, DE, JA +6📂 Business💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.10 → 4.59 (improved 2.49★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.40 → 3.00 (dropped 0.40★)
2019-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.40 (improved 0.40★)
2019-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2018-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
2018-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #35Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
document scanner·#35🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PDF Scanner App: Scan Document: 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: 6,254 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PDF Scanner App make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PDF Scanner App earns approximately $1.9K/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 Scanner App?▴
PDF Scanner App is published by Smart Tool Studio 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 Scanner App's BU Score?▴
PDF Scanner App has a BU Score of 69/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.