PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor
75
Quality Score
Strong
PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor is an iOS app from Wondershare Technology (Hunan) Co.,Ltd. in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.6★ across 7,507 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 75: 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
$10.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$10.8K – $22.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$13.4K – $40.3K
per month
MID 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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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$703/mo · 35K ratings · 4.2★
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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 ~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 (276 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$800K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $600K – $1.0M · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~8.0× 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
560K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
165K
Daily active
74K
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
$10.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$9.9K – $16.6K
12 months
$10.8K – $22.7K
24 months
$13.4K – $40.3K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.5
Product Quality
8.3
Revenue Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $7K - $15K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.61★ across 7,507 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $188K-$335K. Portfolio play ($70K/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 11 of 11 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 (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (7,507 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (13 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (5y 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 · vV6.1.8
1. Use Siri to access frequently used PDFelement tools
2. Support Apple Pencil Pro shortcut gestures
3. Optimize writing brush pressure sensitivity
4. Improve the quality of original scanned images
2. Support Apple Pencil Pro shortcut gestures
3. Optimize writing brush pressure sensitivity
4. Improve the quality of original scanned images
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor
- Developer
- Wondershare Technology (Hunan) Co.,Ltd.
- Bundle ID
- com.wondershare.PDFelement.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 9+
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Smart PDF Solutions, Simplified by AI.
- Description
- Wondershare PDFelement is a powerful yet easy-to-use PDF editor solution to create, edit, protect, and sign PDFs on desktop, mobile, and web.
- 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
- $43.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇫🇷#92 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/pdfelement
- linkedin.com/showcase/wondershare-pdf…
- 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.
📈Ratings growth7,507 ratings+70% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (47 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇫🇷
FR
Top-grossing rank: #92 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#92 now · best #86 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
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
PDFelement 6.1.0 Major Update: All-New Scan Upgrade
Scan upgraded with optimized core algorithms & UI. New modes for ID,books,invoices,text extraction,whiteboards.Streamlined one-tap workflows,clearer,faster,more efficient scanning.
Tax Season is Here!
March to June – peak tax season.If you're overwhelmed by receipts,statements,forms,PDFelement is the AI-powered solution that brings order to chaos.Turn paper piles into organized digital files in minutes.
Your Tax Season MVP
• Hundreds of paper receipts
Scan + OCR: Scan receipts with your phone.… View full description on the official store →
Scan upgraded with optimized core algorithms & UI. New modes for ID,books,invoices,text extraction,whiteboards.Streamlined one-tap workflows,clearer,faster,more efficient scanning.
Tax Season is Here!
March to June – peak tax season.If you're overwhelmed by receipts,statements,forms,PDFelement is the AI-powered solution that brings order to chaos.Turn paper piles into organized digital files in minutes.
Your Tax Season MVP
• Hundreds of paper receipts
Scan + OCR: Scan receipts with your phone.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 276 MB🔞 9+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 vV6.1.8🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, DE +8📂 Productivity💰 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.78 → 4.61 (improved 0.83★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.78 → 4.60 (improved 0.82★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #32Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
pdf reader·#32🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.57268★ | 571 | 4.57268★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.81274★ | 4,112 | 4.81274★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.58974★ | 1,092 | 4.58974★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.57174★ | 3,722 | 4.57174★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.61896★ | 2,669 | 4.61896★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.56954★ | 1,215 | 4.56954★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.57955★ | 2,514 | 4.57955★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.48853★ | 3,619 | 4.48853★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.61277★ | 7,515 | 4.61277★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor: 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: 7,507 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor earns approximately $43K/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 PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor?▴
PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor is published by Wondershare Technology (Hunan) Co.,Ltd. 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 PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor's BU Score?▴
PDFelement-PDF Reader, Editor has a BU Score of 75/100 (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.