Scribd: 170M+ documents
45
Quality Score
Emerging
Scribd: 170M+ documents
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Scribd: 170M+ documents is an iOS app from Scribd in the News category, currently rated 2.8★ across 244 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 45: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$4.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.6K – $12.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$3.3K – $29.8K
per month
INDIE 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
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.2y 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 (148 MB) | +$39K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$17K |
Total estimate
$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$45K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $35K – $50K · 11× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
11× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
29K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.3K
Daily active
1.9K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$4.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$3.5K – $8.1K
12 months
$3.6K – $12.9K
24 months
$3.3K – $29.8K
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 · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.6
Product Quality
3.9
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.2
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $10K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.79★ across 244 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $73K-$130K. Portfolio play ($30K/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 8 of 8 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 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.8★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Localized (9 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (244 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Growing app (2y 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 · v16.10
This update includes general performance improvements across the app.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Scribd: 170M+ documents
- Developer
- Scribd
- Bundle ID
- com.scribd.docs
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, PT, RO, RU, ES
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
- $4.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇮🇳#20 /100 🇧🇷#46 /100 🇫🇷#81 /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 growth244 ratings+1062% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (29 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank3 countries
🇮🇳IN#20 /100
🇧🇷BR#46 /100
🇫🇷FR#81 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#20 now · best #19 · worst #32
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
Home to the world’s documents. Specialized knowledge, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Get to the source with over 200 million documents [and counting] on every topic and niche, including:
Official government documents
Research papers
Academic dissertations
Medical reports
DIY hobbies
User manuals
Case studies
And more
You’ve seen it all, now understand it all. Make sense of anything with information on just about everything, shared by a global community of thinkers. All content on Scribd can be synced across multiple devices.
Features for the document reader:… View full description on the official store →
Official government documents
Research papers
Academic dissertations
Medical reports
DIY hobbies
User manuals
Case studies
And more
You’ve seen it all, now understand it all. Make sense of anything with information on just about everything, shared by a global community of thinkers. All content on Scribd can be synced across multiple devices.
Features for the document reader:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 148 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v16.10🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, ID, IT +4📂 News💰 Free
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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
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.82 → 2.79 (improved 0.97★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.20 → 1.82 (dropped 1.38★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.79 → 3.20 (improved 1.41★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.80 → 2.33 (improved 0.53★)
2023-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2023-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2023-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2023-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.77778★ | 252 | 2.77778★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.6★ | 25 | 2.6★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3★ | 18 | 3★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.14286★ | 7 | 2.14286★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.63333★ | 30 | 2.63333★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.10713★ | 28 | 2.10713★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.16667★ | 30 | 3.16667★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Scribd: 170M+ 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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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 100% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 244 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Scribd make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Scribd earns approximately $4.1K/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 Scribd?▴
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Who makes Scribd?▴
Scribd is published by Scribd 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 Scribd's BU Score?▴
Scribd has a BU Score of 45/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.