SkySafari
68
Quality Score
Solid
SkySafari
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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SkySafari is an iOS app from Simulation Curriculum Corp., currently rated 4.7★ across 17,693 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For an app like this, 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG 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
$9.8K/mo · 1K ratings · 4.4★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$90K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $120K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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 (851 MB) | +$40K |
Total estimate
$90K
👥 Estimated audience size
2.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
395K
Daily active
79K
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
| 📲 category engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 🔁 category D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 56/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
9.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.6
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 17,693 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (17,693 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($2.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (14 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 |
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 · v8.0.2
New Features:
- Support for Artemis II mission.
Fixed Bugs:
- Fixed user experience when opening settings to Subscription when device has no internet.
- Observing Weather displays date and times for SkyChart timezone, not device timezone.… Full release notes →
- Support for Artemis II mission.
Fixed Bugs:
- Fixed user experience when opening settings to Subscription when device has no internet.
- Observing Weather displays date and times for SkyChart timezone, not device timezone.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- SkySafari
- Developer
- Simulation Curriculum Corp.
- Bundle ID
- com.simulationcurriculum.SkySafari6
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Not found
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, EL, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH
Company
- Website
- skysafariastronomy.com
- 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
- Not found
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇮🇳#77 /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 growth17,693 ratings+31% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (0 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇮🇳
IN
Top-grossing rank: #77 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#77 now · best #71 · worst #92
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
SkySafari 8 is a powerful planetarium that fits in your pocket, puts the universe at your fingertips, and is incredibly easy to use!
Simply hold your device to the sky and quickly locate comets, planets, constellations, satellites, and millions of stars and deep sky objects. Whether you are a beginner or a longtime astronomy enthusiast, SkySafari 8 is your perfect stargazing companion, packed with interactive information, rich graphics, and a beautifully refined interface.
What’s New in Version 8
+ New Theme - A new look of the app with a fresh visual palette.… View full description on the official store →
Simply hold your device to the sky and quickly locate comets, planets, constellations, satellites, and millions of stars and deep sky objects. Whether you are a beginner or a longtime astronomy enthusiast, SkySafari 8 is your perfect stargazing companion, packed with interactive information, rich graphics, and a beautifully refined interface.
What’s New in Version 8
+ New Theme - A new look of the app with a fresh visual palette.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 851 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.6+🔖 v8.0.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, EL, HI +9💰 Free
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Tech & Domain Intel — skysafariastronomy.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- SendGrid · AWS SES · Google Workspace
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.71752★ | 17,693 | 4.71752★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.66381★ | 2,915 | 4.66381★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.66299★ | 997 | 4.66299★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.61047★ | 1,376 | 4.61047★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.56114★ | 417 | 4.56114★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.61958★ | 1,593 | 4.61958★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.66843★ | 1,514 | 4.66843★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.79341★ | 455 | 4.79341★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.75479★ | 261 | 4.75479★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for SkySafari: 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: 17,693 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
2 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataWho makes SkySafari?▴
SkySafari is published by Simulation Curriculum Corp. 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 SkySafari's BU Score?▴
SkySafari 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.