QR Reader for iPhone (Premium)
65
Quality Score
Solid
QR Reader for iPhone (Premium)
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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QR Reader for iPhone (Premium) is an iOS app from TapMedia Ltd in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.4★ across 202 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Shopping 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
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3 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 (50 MB) | +$87 |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$300K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $400K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~4.6× 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 |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
20K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.4K
Daily active
430
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
| 📲 Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
🔬
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.2
Product Quality
6.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.39★ across 202 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3027d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (3027d 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 ($33K/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 10 of 10 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (29 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (202 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 · v6.2
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
- Bug fixes and improvements
- Bug fixes and improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- QR Reader for iPhone (Premium)
- Developer
- TapMedia Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.TapMediaLtd.QRReaderPremium
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 9+
- Languages
- AR, CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Scan your world with QR Reader
- Description
- We make amazing FREE apps for the iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac platforms.
- 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
- $21.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇧🇷#57 /100 🇮🇳#62 /100 🇯🇵#74 /100 🇫🇷#84 /100 🇩🇪#91 /100 🇦🇺#99 /100
- 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
- facebook facebook.com/pages/TapMedia/113312658… · instagram instagram.com/TapmediaLtd · twitter twitter.com/tapmedialtd · youtube youtube.com/user/TapmediaLtd
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- tapmedia.co.uk/support.htm
- About page
- tapmedia.co.uk/aboutus.htm
📈Ratings growth202 ratings+110% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank6 countries
🇧🇷BR#57 /100
🇮🇳IN#62 /100
🇯🇵JP#74 /100
🇫🇷FR#84 /100
🇩🇪DE#91 /100
🇦🇺AU#99 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#57 now · best #51 · worst #62
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $2.99 (+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
The most simple & easy QR Reader.
Now scans QR codes, barcodes, puzzles, business cards and documents.
FEATURES
- Scans QR codes and barcodes
- PDF Scanner - turns your iPhone into a portable scanner
- Scan to Share - scan and share photos, files & money
- Auto-detect scanning. Simply point and hold!
- Share using email, MMS, Facebook or Twitter
- Create your own QR codes
- Approve websites before visiting them.
- Export your scans by CSV
- Integrated web browser
- Integrated map view
Now scans QR codes, barcodes, puzzles, business cards and documents.
FEATURES
- Scans QR codes and barcodes
- PDF Scanner - turns your iPhone into a portable scanner
- Scan to Share - scan and share photos, files & money
- Auto-detect scanning. Simply point and hold!
- Share using email, MMS, Facebook or Twitter
- Create your own QR codes
- Approve websites before visiting them.
- Export your scans by CSV
- Integrated web browser
- Integrated map view
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 50 MB🔞 9+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v6.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, CA, CS, DA, NL +24📂 Shopping💰 Paid
📅
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
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 4.39 (dropped 0.31★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.82 → 4.70 (improved 0.88★)
2011-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.40 → 3.00 (dropped 0.40★)
2011-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.40 (dropped 0.60★)
2011-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2011-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
2011-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.66667★ | 12 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.375★ | 8 | 4.375★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.33333★ | 9 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.69737★ | 76 | 4.69737★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.5★ | 10 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.71429★ | 14 | 4.71429★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2★ | 1 | 2★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.8★ | 5 | 3.8★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.4★ | 205 | 4.4★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for QR Reader for iPhone (Premium): 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: 202 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does QR Reader for iPhone (Premium) make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, QR Reader for iPhone (Premium) earns approximately $21K/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.
What apps are like QR Reader for iPhone (Premium)?▴
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Who makes QR Reader for iPhone (Premium)?▴
QR Reader for iPhone (Premium) is published by TapMedia 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 QR Reader for iPhone (Premium)'s BU Score?▴
QR Reader for iPhone (Premium) has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.