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Acrobat Reader: PDF Editor earns about
$1.32M/month
range $728.7K – $1.92M · $15.90M/year
Live data · refreshed every hour
Per Day
$44.2K
$24.3K – $64.0K
Per Week
$309.1K
$170.0K – $448.2K
Per Month
$1.32M
$728.7K – $1.92M
Per Year
$15.90M
$8.74M – $23.05M
Lifetime
$39.75M
$21.86M – $57.63M
Brand revenue
✓ Verified filing
Adobe - full brand revenue
Annual brand revenue (2024)
$21.5B/year
App Store / Play Store share
1%
≈ $16M/year of in-app revenue
Off-store revenue (everything else)
$21.5B/year
99% of total brand revenue
Adobe earns about $21.5B/year across the whole brand.
Most of that money comes from off-store revenue - trading fees, commissions, payment processing, ad sales, hardware, enterprise contracts - not in-app purchases or subscriptions on the App Store / Google Play.
App store revenue (in-app purchases, subscriptions, ads, paid downloads)
Off-store revenue (trading fees, commissions, web subscriptions, ad sales, enterprise)
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55/100
Opportunity
75/100
Cloneability
$0
Revenue / install
✓ Features to copy
- subscription paywall (~$5.83/mo) - proven monetization
- in-app purchase tier ladder for upsells
⚡ Improve / fix
- faster onboarding · clearer pricing page · richer empty-state
🛠 MVP scope
- core feature loop
- subscription gating
- free-tier limits
- trial period
- analytics
💰 Pricing recommendation
Acrobat Reader: PDF Editor is at $5.83/mo. Consider going slightly lower with a longer free trial (14 days) to win price-aware users.
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Monetization
Subscription (~$5.83/mo) · calibrated by US grossing rank #83Revenue mix (estimated)
- Subscriptions ~72%
- One-time IAP ~22%
- Ads ~6%
Paying users (est.)
94.2M installs · 5.9% active · 2.9% pay
In-App Purchases 9
- Monthly Acrobat Premium - Monthly $3.99 /month
- Monthlyest. Premium - Edit & Create PDF $9.99 /month
- Monthly Acrobat Premium - Monthly $12.99 /month
- Monthly PDF Edit and Convert Monthly $12.99 /month
- Monthly Acrobat Premium - Monthly $14.99 /month
- Monthlyest. Adobe ExportPDF $23.99 /month
- Weeklyest. AI Assistant for Acrobat $6.99 /week ~$30.37/mo
- Annual Acrobat Premium - Yearly $69.99 /year ~$5.83/mo
9 tiers scraped live from the App Store.
App Details
Pulled from the App Store- Current Version
- 26.05.01
- Released
- Oct 17, 2011
- Last Updated
- Jun 18, 2026
- File Size
- 497.4 MB
- Required OS
- 18.3
- Content Rating
- 4+
- Category
- Business
- Price
- Free
- Currency
- USD
- Languages
- Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, NB, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Turkish
- Developer
- Adobe Inc.
What's new in v26.05.01
NEW - UPDATES TO PDF SPACES
PDF Spaces now features a compact, persistent audio player that stays visible while using the Podcast feature. Continue browsing through documents and listen uninterrupted. Also, users can make an exact duplicate of an existing PDF Space podcast and experiment with edits while not altering the original. *
Users can also now add image files to PDF Spaces Overview
*Paid subscribers
NEW - EXPANDED DICTATE FEATURE
Do more without having to type. Search for files, search in text, and make notes and comments with the newly expanded Dictate feature.
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$1
every second
$31
every minute
$1.8K
every hour
$44.2K
every day
- ☕ Buys 9K $5 coffees every day
- 👨💻 Pays for 88 senior engineer salaries per year
- 🚗 Earns enough for 379 Tesla Model 3s annually
- ⏱️ Earns the price of a coffee in 10 seconds
12-Month Revenue Trajectory
Modeled from grossing rank, app score, and update cadence. Hover any point to see the value. Real growth depends on retention, marketing, and seasonality.
Estimated Installs
94.2M
estimated from 627,829 ratings
Active Users (MAU est.)
5.6M
5.9% of installs · default benchmark · iOS large-install decay × 0.5
US Grossing Rank
#83
Live from App Store top-grossing chart
Monetization
Subscription (~$5.83/mo) · calibrated by US grossing rank #83
Rating Distribution
5★
532K
4★
43K
3★
15K
2★
8K
1★
30K
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How much money does Acrobat Reader: PDF Editor make on the App Store? ⌄
Acrobat Reader: PDF Editor has an estimated App Store revenue of $1.32M per month (~$15.90M per year, $44.2K per day) with a likely range of $728.7K to $1.92M. This includes earnings from in-app purchases, subscription revenue, ads and any paid downloads - all directional estimates from public App Store signals, not private Apple financial data.
How many App Store downloads does Acrobat Reader: PDF Editor get? ⌄
Apple does not publish exact App Store download counts. Using public ratings (628K reviews), grossing rank, category position and the standard 1:75 ratings-to-downloads ratio, Rev.now estimates about 94.2M total iOS downloads for Acrobat Reader: PDF Editor - and roughly 5.6M monthly active users on iPhone and iPad.
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