Scanner App: Genius Scan
90
Quality Score
Transcendent
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Scanner App: Genius Scan is an iOS app from The Grizzly Labs in the Business category, currently rated 4.9★ across 1,329,898 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 90: Transcendent (category-leading momentum). For a Business app, that means category-leading momentum. 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
$10.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$10.3M – $13.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.4M – $17.2M
per month
MEGA 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
🤖Also on Android
$545/mo · 592K ratings · 4.9★
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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 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 (97 MB) | +$18K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$34K |
Total estimate
$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$1.1M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $900K – $1.5M · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~10× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
86.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
18.5M
Daily active
5.5M
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
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$10.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$9.8M – $12.0M
12 months
$10.3M – $13.6M
24 months
$11.4M – $17.2M
Compound growth at +1.5% MoM (tier baseline for MEGA). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±10% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 63/100MEGA TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.8
Product Quality
9.8
Revenue Strength
7.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Strong — $4.0M - $20.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.9★ across 1,329,898 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 32-48× monthly = $320.0M-$480.0M.
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 15 of 17 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,329,898 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (20 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 |
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 · v8.13.1
We're always making changes and improvements to Genius Scan. Install this new update to get the latest new features and bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Scanner App: Genius Scan
- Developer
- The Grizzly Labs
- Bundle ID
- com.geniussoftware.GeniusScan
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, HE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $55.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#16 /100 🇮🇳#25 /100 🇺🇸#32 /100 🇫🇷#33 /100 🇨🇦#39 /100 🇦🇺#47 /100 🇬🇧#63 /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
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- apps.apple.com/us/app/foxtale-self-he…
- About page
- apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1896…
📈Ratings growth1,329,898 ratings+-11% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (43 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇩🇪DE#16 /100
🇮🇳IN#25 /100
🇺🇸US#32 /100
🇫🇷FR#33 /100
🇨🇦CA#39 /100
🇦🇺AU#47 /100
🇬🇧GB#63 /100
🇯🇵JP#81 /100
🇧🇷BR#83 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#16 now · best #16 · worst #16
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Genius Scan is a document scanner app in your pocket. Quickly scan your paper documents on the go and export them as multi-page PDF files.
*** Apple App of the Week *** 20+ million users *** 1000s of small businesses ***
Place any document in front of your device’s camera: our scanner app automatically recognizes the paper against the background, crops it, and cleans up the result. You obtain a crisp, legible scan. Batch scanning lets you scan dozens of pages in a matter of seconds. Powerful tools help you organize, share, or archive your documents.… View full description on the official store →
*** Apple App of the Week *** 20+ million users *** 1000s of small businesses ***
Place any document in front of your device’s camera: our scanner app automatically recognizes the paper against the background, crops it, and cleans up the result. You obtain a crisp, legible scan. Batch scanning lets you scan dozens of pages in a matter of seconds. Powerful tools help you organize, share, or archive your documents.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 97 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v8.13.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, DA, NL, EN, FR +15📂 Business💰 Paid
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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 →
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.13 → v8.13.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +5,130 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.12.1 → v8.13
→ 30 days after: revenue +$28.7K/mo · reviews +7,371 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v8.12 → v8.12.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +9,406 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v8.11 → v8.12
→ 30 days after: reviews +9,391 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +8,125 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +18 high confidence
2025-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +60 high confidence
2025-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.16★ · reviews +72 high confidence
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.57 (dropped 0.43★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +71 medium · co-occurring
2025-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +71 medium · co-occurring
2025-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.39★ · reviews +65 medium · co-occurring
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #3Ranked for 3 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
file scanner·#3🇺🇸document scanner·#4🇺🇸business card scanner·#30🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — thegrizzlylabs.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · Microsoft 365
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 | 4.83964★ | 78,203 | 4.83964★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.89463★ | 41,919 | 4.89463★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.84511★ | 130,947 | 4.84511★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.79826★ | 117,271 | 4.79826★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.78805★ | 172,568 | 4.78805★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.8357★ | 99,625 | 4.8357★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.77994★ | 18,168 | 4.77994★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.65255★ | 10,056 | 4.65255★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.89964★ | 1,348,913 | 4.89964★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Scanner App: Genius Scan: 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: 1,329,898 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Scanner App make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Scanner App earns approximately $55K/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 Scanner App?▴
Scanner App is published by The Grizzly Labs 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 App's BU Score?▴
Scanner App has a BU Score of 90/100 (Transcendent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.