Smallpdf: Scanner & PDF-Editor
68
Quality Score
Solid
Smallpdf: Scanner & PDF-Editor
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Smallpdf: Scanner & PDF-Editor is an iOS app from Smallpdf in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.8★ across 6,789 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity 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
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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
🤖Also on Android
$1.7K/mo · 122K ratings · 4.4★
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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
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (157 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
505K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
150K
Daily active
67K
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
🔬
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
3.0
Product Quality
8.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.6
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.84★ across 6,789 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (6,789 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (24 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v1.53.79
What’s new?
• We’ve squashed some bugs and improved app stability.
We’re improving your experience with every new release, so stay tuned to get the most out of the Smallpdf Mobile App! :)
We love feedback, so feel free to send yours to support@smallpdf.com.
• We’ve squashed some bugs and improved app stability.
We’re improving your experience with every new release, so stay tuned to get the most out of the Smallpdf Mobile App! :)
We love feedback, so feel free to send yours to support@smallpdf.com.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Smallpdf: Scanner & PDF-Editor
- Developer
- Smallpdf
- Bundle ID
- com.smallpdf.app.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- We make PDF easy.
- Description
- Smallpdf - the platform that makes it super easy to convert and edit all your PDF files. Solving all your PDF problems in one place - and yes, free.
- 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
- $645/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- x.com/smallpdf
- linkedin.com/company/smallpdf
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/smallpdf · linkedin linkedin.com/company/smallpdf · twitter x.com/smallpdf · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCnBx8Kzxocmk44G_…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- smallpdf.com/support
- About page
- smallpdf.com/teams
📈Ratings growth6,789 ratings+37% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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
Smallpdf: All-In-One PDF Editor and Document Organizer
Smallpdf is your go-to PDF tool, designed to simplify your document management. Whether you need to convert, compress, edit, sign, merge, or scan PDFs, our app makes it effortless. Trusted by 2.4 billion people since 2013, Smallpdf offers a seamless PDF experience right at your fingertips.
Key Features:
Convert PDFs Across All Document Formats Easily:
PDF to Word doc
PDF to Excel
PDF to PPT
PDF to JPG
PDF to PNG
Images to PDF and vice versa!
Edit PDFs:
Add text, images, and shapes directly in your PDF files… View full description on the official store →
Smallpdf is your go-to PDF tool, designed to simplify your document management. Whether you need to convert, compress, edit, sign, merge, or scan PDFs, our app makes it effortless. Trusted by 2.4 billion people since 2013, Smallpdf offers a seamless PDF experience right at your fingertips.
Key Features:
Convert PDFs Across All Document Formats Easily:
PDF to Word doc
PDF to Excel
PDF to PPT
PDF to JPG
PDF to PNG
Images to PDF and vice versa!
Edit PDFs:
Add text, images, and shapes directly in your PDF files… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 157 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v1.53.79🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, DA, NL, EN, FR +19📂 Productivity💰 Free
📅
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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.79 → 4.84 (improved 1.05★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 3.79 (dropped 1.01★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.78 → 4.80 (improved 1.02★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2020-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2020-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2020-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.78988★ | 514 | 4.78988★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.92253★ | 4,764 | 4.92253★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.81853★ | 788 | 4.81853★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.82754★ | 2,157 | 4.82754★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.84881★ | 1,680 | 4.84881★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.81935★ | 858 | 4.81935★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.84947★ | 4,039 | 4.84947★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.78308★ | 899 | 4.78308★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83887★ | 6,802 | 4.83887★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Smallpdf: Scanner & PDF-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: 6,789 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Smallpdf make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Smallpdf earns approximately $645/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 Smallpdf?▴
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Who makes Smallpdf?▴
Smallpdf is published by Smallpdf 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 Smallpdf's BU Score?▴
Smallpdf has a BU Score of 68/100 (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.