SkySafari
68
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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SkySafari is an iOS app from Simulation Curriculum Corp. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 17,863 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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
$600K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$635K – $978K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$759K – $1410K
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
4 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
17,863 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$600K
Snapshots tracked
4
since Jun 2026
🤖Also on Android
$229/mo · 1K ratings · 4.4★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 (859 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 8.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$52K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$11.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~85× 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 |
| 📅 8.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
295K
Daily active
59K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅 8.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 859 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-01 · 27 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 27 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$591K – $800K
12 months
$635K – $978K
24 months
$759K – $1.4M
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 58/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
9.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.2
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 17,863 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 = $10.8M-$19.2M.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (17,863 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($6.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| 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 · v8.1.1
This update fixes several issues reported since 8.1.0.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed your location's longitude changing on its own. Searching for events could leave your observing site at the event's longitude, so the sky was drawn for the wrong place moments after opening.… Full release notes →
BUG FIXES
- Fixed your location's longitude changing on its own. Searching for events could leave your observing site at the event's longitude, so the sky was drawn for the wrong place moments after opening.… 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
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, EL, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Powering the Future of Observing & Smart Astrophotography
- Description
- SkySafari 8 transforms your sky: plate solve images from AstroBin & beyond, pin & zoom deep on your chart, customize with favorite astrophotography, control mounts via INDI & Alpaca, connect Alpaca cameras & SmartEye, explore massive databases, experience the most detailed Moon ever & use StarSense Explorers (push-to).
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $600K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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
- facebook facebook.com/skysafariastronomy · instagram instagram.com/skysafariastro · tiktok tiktok.com/@skysafariastro · twitter x.com/skysafariastro · youtube youtube.com/@SimulationCurriculum
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- skysafariastronomy.com/pages/contact
- About page
- Not found
🌍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$2.99 → $6.99 (+134%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
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 →💾 859 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.6+🔖 v8.1.1🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, EL, HI +9📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (8y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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 →
2026-09
💲
Price ↑ $4.99 → $6.99 (+40%)
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v8.1.0 → v8.1.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +53 high confidence
2026-08
💲
Price ↓ $6.99 → $4.99 (-29%)
→ 30 days after: reviews +53 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v8.0.2 → v8.1.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +106 high confidence
2026-07
💲
Price ↑ $2.99 → $6.99 (+134%)
→ 30 days after: reviews +53 high confidence
2026-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$556/mo · reviews +76 high confidence
🧪
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).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.71627★ | 17,883 | 4.71627★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.66371★ | 2,929 | 4.66371★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.65613★ | 1,012 | 4.65613★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.61035★ | 1,391 | 4.61035★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.55213★ | 422 | 4.55213★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.62188★ | 1,608 | 4.62188★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.66863★ | 1,527 | 4.66863★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.79521★ | 459 | 4.79521★ 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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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 95% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 17,863 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does SkySafari make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, SkySafari earns approximately $600K/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.
Is SkySafari profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $130K and monthly revenue $600K, SkySafari looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does SkySafari have?▴
Estimated audience: ~2.5M lifetime downloads, ~295K monthly active users, and ~59K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like SkySafari?▴
Browse the full Utilities category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is SkySafari built with?▴
Our heuristic places SkySafari on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is SkySafari still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 27 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would SkySafari sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $11.0M (marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M). Calculated as 19× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was SkySafari last updated?▴
SkySafari last shipped a new version on 2026-09-01 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who 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.