Texifier : LaTeX editor
67
Quality Score
Solid
Texifier : LaTeX editor
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Texifier : LaTeX editor is an iOS app from Valletta Ventures (UK) Ltd in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.3★ across 688 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 67: 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 – $10.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.3K
per month
MID tierFREE
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📊 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
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~6 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 (61 MB) | +$4K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $200K · 15× MRR multiple
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~2.5× 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 |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
51K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
15K
Daily active
6.7K
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
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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)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$4.8K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.9K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.3K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 32/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
4.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.27★ across 688 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 2.3% refund mentions, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.45 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($10K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (688 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 · v1.9.33
- Misc. stability improvements and bug fixes
- Minor iOS 26 issues addressed
- Menu display issue fixed
- Minor iOS 26 issues addressed
- Menu display issue fixed
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Texifier : LaTeX editor
- Developer
- Valletta Ventures (UK) Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.vallettaventures.texpadm
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CA, EN, DE, IT, JA, PT, RU, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Texifier
- Description
- LaTeX editor for macOS, iOS and Windows with syntax highlighting, multi-file support and integrated PDF (formerly called Texpad)
- 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
- $10.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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
- twitter twitter.com/texifier
- mailto:
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- texifier.com/support
- About page
- texifier.com/aboutus
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.71★ · 24.5% 5★ · 38.8% 1★
5★12 (24%)
4★6 (12%)
3★6 (12%)
2★6 (12%)
1★19 (39%)
+30 ratings/week
Praise: great ×9 love ×6 best ×5 excellent ×2 favorite ×1Complaints: crash ×7 bug ×3 broken ×1 hate ×1 expensive ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Best on-the-go LaTeX app
Easily the best app for writing LaTeX on the go, with an excellent desktop counterpart available as well…
★★★★★ CTEX XeLaTeX
中文格式经常需要用到CTEX包和XeLaTeX格式。但离线编译不支持，只能在线编译。iPad使用不方便。希望作者能不能加入一下bundle。…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Not support Chinese
When I use “\usepackage{ctex}” it will report an error: “engine not supported”. The app claim that it support Chinese, but it does not support indeed. Cunning developer!…
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t display the pdf output
It compiles and show the pdf on the side but doesn’t generate it automatically and the option to export the file doesn’t work for the pdf! I searched much and there is no help to find out how to solve this issue!…
📈Ratings growth688 ratings+388% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $29.99 (+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
Edit and typeset LaTeX, Plain TeX and Markdown on your iPad or iPhone, no internet connection required, using Texifier, formerly known as Texpad.
Texifier is a LaTeX editor designed for straightforward navigation, editing and typesetting of projects of any size. Open a LaTeX root file, and Texifier will scan it, open any referenced files, extract the document structure for display in the outline view, and configure the typesetter according to the packages and tools used by your document.… View full description on the official store →
Texifier is a LaTeX editor designed for straightforward navigation, editing and typesetting of projects of any size. Open a LaTeX root file, and Texifier will scan it, open any referenced files, extract the document structure for display in the outline view, and configure the typesetter according to the packages and tools used by your document.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 61 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v1.9.33🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 CA, EN, DE, IT, JA +3📂 Productivity💰 Paid
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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 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $29.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.31 → 4.30 (improved 0.99★)
2016-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.83 → 3.14 (improved 0.31★)
2012-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.40 → 2.83 (improved 0.43★)
2012-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.75 → 2.40 (dropped 0.35★)
2012-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.00 (improved 0.50★)
2012-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)
2012-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 437 reviews across 9 markets● 60% positive · ● 14% neutral · ● 26% negative · Rating drift: -1.45★ (declining — recent 50: 2.82★ vs lifetime: 4.27★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.52
🇺🇸 US
+0.45
🇦🇺 AU
+0.42
🇮🇳 IN
+0.34
🇫🇷 FR
+0.33
🇨🇦 CA
+0.19
🇧🇷 BR
+0.10
🇯🇵 JP
-0.01
🇩🇪 DE
-0.32
Top praise themes
ipad pro ×14 tex files ×9 dropbox integration ×9 bluetooth keyboard ×8 mac version ×7 icloud drive ×7 auf dem ×7 dark mode ×6
Top complaint themes
ipad pro ×13 tex file ×9 tex files ×8 waste money ×8 doesn't work ×8 doesn work ×7 ipad version ×7 crashes try ×6
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.3% Bug mentions: 16%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.17856★ | 56 | 4.17856★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.4★ | 35 | 4.4★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.90123★ | 81 | 3.90123★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.3125★ | 400 | 4.3125★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.32558★ | 129 | 4.32558★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.12195★ | 164 | 4.12195★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.31667★ | 60 | 4.31667★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.27019★ | 322 | 4.27019★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.27576★ | 689 | 4.27576★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Texifier : LaTeX 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: 688 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Texifier make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Texifier earns approximately $10K/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 Texifier?▴
Texifier is published by Valletta Ventures (UK) 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 Texifier's BU Score?▴
Texifier has a BU Score of 67/100 (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.