Scanner - Edit PDF & documents
72
Quality Score
Strong
Scanner - Edit PDF & documents
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Scanner - Edit PDF & documents is an iOS app from App Rover in the Business category, currently rated 4.7★ across 11,728 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a Business 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
$8.9K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$9.2K – $19.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.4K – $34.1K
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
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~8 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 |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $200K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~2.0× 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% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
760K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
165K
Daily active
49K
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
$8.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.4K – $14.0K
12 months
$9.2K – $19.2K
24 months
$11.4K – $34.1K
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 · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.3
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $6K - $13K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.65★ across 11,728 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 652d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (652d 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 = $159K-$283K. Portfolio play ($16K/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:
| Mid install base (11,728 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (15 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 · v1.13.02
Fix a crash that impacted few users at start time.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Scanner - Edit PDF & documents
- Developer
- App Rover
- Bundle ID
- com.approver.scanner
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
Company
- Website
- approver-studio.com
- Tagline
- Make everyday tasks simple and fun
- 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
- $8.9K/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
- Socials
- Not found
- support@approver-studio.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- approver-studio.com/contact
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth11,728 ratings+146500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 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 Scanner App to easily scan, convert in PDF instantly, save and quickly send by email any file from your device.
Scanner is your indispensable tool to organize your business and home life from your device with simplicity and quality. Scan business contracts, receipts, book pages, notes, business cards, identity papers, notes and thousands of documents.
Scan is your indispensable tool to organize your business and home life from your device with simplicity and quality. Scan business contracts, receipts, book pages, notes, business cards, identity papers, notes and thousand of documents.… View full description on the official store →
Scanner is your indispensable tool to organize your business and home life from your device with simplicity and quality. Scan business contracts, receipts, book pages, notes, business cards, identity papers, notes and thousands of documents.
Scan is your indispensable tool to organize your business and home life from your device with simplicity and quality. Scan business contracts, receipts, book pages, notes, business cards, identity papers, notes and thousand of documents.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 24 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.1+🔖 v1.13.02🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, DE +10📂 Business💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 5,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.55 → 4.70 (improved 2.15★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.43 → 3.13 (dropped 0.30★)
2019-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.83 → 3.43 (dropped 0.40★)
2019-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.25 → 3.60 (improved 0.35★)
2019-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.25 (dropped 0.42★)
2019-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
2019-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — approver-studio.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- SendGrid · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.53524★ | 1,646 | 4.53524★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.80882★ | 68 | 4.80882★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.49124★ | 1,541 | 4.49124★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.44661★ | 768 | 4.44661★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.48019★ | 3,230 | 4.48019★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.55457★ | 788 | 4.55457★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.57527★ | 3,833 | 4.57527★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.39675★ | 247 | 4.39675★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.65399★ | 11,728 | 4.65399★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Scanner - Edit PDF & documents: 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: 11,728 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Scanner - Edit PDF & documents make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Scanner - Edit PDF & documents earns approximately $8.9K/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.
What apps are like Scanner - Edit PDF & documents?▴
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Who makes Scanner - Edit PDF & documents?▴
Scanner - Edit PDF & documents is published by App Rover 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 Scanner - Edit PDF & documents's BU Score?▴
Scanner - Edit PDF & documents has a BU Score of 72/100 (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.