Scan QR Code Now
76
Quality Score
Strong
Scan QR Code Now
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Scan QR Code Now is an iOS app from Sparktonic, LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 10,242 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 76: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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
$10.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$8.7K – $31.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$8.1K – $72.9K
per month
INDIE 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 (91 MB) | +$16K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-10051 |
Total estimate
$55K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~3.2× 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% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
400K
Daily active
80K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$10.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$8.5K – $19.9K
12 months
$8.7K – $31.5K
24 months
$8.1K – $72.9K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 46/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.4
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.63★ across 10,242 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 = $180K-$320K.
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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (10,242 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (1y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v2.0.2
Bug fixes and stability improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Scan QR Code Now
- Developer
- Sparktonic, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.sparktonic.qrcode
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- sparktonic.co
- 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
- $11.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#22 /100 🇦🇺#38 /100 🇬🇧#50 /100 🇨🇦#64 /100 🇯🇵#83 /100 🇧🇷#85 /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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth10,242 ratings+1413% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (29 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (22 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank6 countries
🇺🇸US#22 /100
🇦🇺AU#38 /100
🇬🇧GB#50 /100
🇨🇦CA#64 /100
🇯🇵JP#83 /100
🇧🇷BR#85 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#22 now · best #18 · 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
Scan QR codes fast and easy with our trusted QR code scanner for iPhone – download for FREE now!
Quickly scan QR codes and barcodes. Whether you're looking up a restaurant menu, leaving a review, or making your own QR codes, this app makes it super easy!
FEATURES:
- QR Code Reader & Barcode Scanner – Scan any code in seconds.
- Create & Share QR Codes – Make your own codes to share with friends or for business.
- Auto Scan – Just point your camera and it scans!
- Find Deals & Coupons – Scan to discover discounts.
- Safe Browsing – See where links go before clicking.… View full description on the official store →
Quickly scan QR codes and barcodes. Whether you're looking up a restaurant menu, leaving a review, or making your own QR codes, this app makes it super easy!
FEATURES:
- QR Code Reader & Barcode Scanner – Scan any code in seconds.
- Create & Share QR Codes – Make your own codes to share with friends or for business.
- Auto Scan – Just point your camera and it scans!
- Find Deals & Coupons – Scan to discover discounts.
- Safe Browsing – See where links go before clicking.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 91 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.0.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 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
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.58 → 4.19 (dropped 0.39★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2025-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #27Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
qr scanner·#27🇺🇸barcode scanner·#36🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — sparktonic.co
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Scan QR Code Now: 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 high confidence: 10,242 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Scan QR Code Now make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Scan QR Code Now 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 Scan QR Code Now?▴
Scan QR Code Now is published by Sparktonic, LLC 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 Scan QR Code Now's BU Score?▴
Scan QR Code Now has a BU Score of 76/100 (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.