64
BU Score
Solid
Star Stacker
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Star Stacker is an iOS app from michael webb in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.4★ across 92 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 64: Solid (established niche player). For a Photo & Video app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (92 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 4 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v3.0🔄 updated 9mo ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2021 (5y old)
📝 About this app
Star Stacker allows you to import a sequence of star photos taken throughout the night and turn them into star trail images or a time lapse video.
After importing you can create the images and/or a time-lapse video with a few different effects.
- Full trails - every star at full brightness
- Faded trails - Stars get brighter as the process runs
- Shooting star - Like faded trails but the last image is brighter than any previous giving a shooting star effect
- Javelin - Both ends of the trail are faded
- Warp mode - zooms into the image stack slowly creating a warped effect. This will also affect the foreground so post processing may be required if the images have the foreground included.
You can also choose to save a video of the time-lapse based on the options used for the image stacking.
Can import images from your photos app. RAW files that have been recently imported from an SD card reader, may take a few minutes before the full resolution files are available.
There are resolution limits depending on the device being used and the memory it has:
- 6gb - 62mp
- 5gb - 62mp
- 4gb - 62mp
- 3gb - 42mp
- 2gb - 30mp
After importing you can create the images and/or a time-lapse video with a few different effects.
- Full trails - every star at full brightness
- Faded trails - Stars get brighter as the process runs
- Shooting star - Like faded trails but the last image is brighter than any previous giving a shooting star effect
- Javelin - Both ends of the trail are faded
- Warp mode - zooms into the image stack slowly creating a warped effect. This will also affect the foreground so post processing may be required if the images have the foreground included.
You can also choose to save a video of the time-lapse based on the options used for the image stacking.
Can import images from your photos app. RAW files that have been recently imported from an SD card reader, may take a few minutes before the full resolution files are available.
There are resolution limits depending on the device being used and the memory it has:
- 6gb - 62mp
- 5gb - 62mp
- 4gb - 62mp
- 3gb - 42mp
- 2gb - 30mp
🆕 What's New · v3.0
* You can now import time lapse videos of stars moving through the night sky into the app to create a new star trail image or star trail video.
* New design.
I would be very grateful if you could leave a review/rating and if you have any feedback, please contact me via email which can be found on the Info page within the app.
* New design.
I would be very grateful if you could leave a review/rating and if you have any feedback, please contact me via email which can be found on the Info page within the app.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Star Stacker
- Developer
- michael webb
- Bundle ID
- com.excelpanda.StarStacker
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
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- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
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- HQ / Address
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- Employees
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- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $18.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Photo & Video
- All-time revenue
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- Pricing
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Founder
- Name
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- X / Twitter
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- GitHub
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
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- Phone
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- Contact page
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- About page
- https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1509313372
⭐Recent App Store Reviews27 latest · avg 3.56★ · 59.3% 5★ · 25.9% 1★
5★16 (59%)
4★0 (0%)
3★1 (4%)
2★3 (11%)
1★7 (26%)
+6 ratings/week
Praise: great ×6 amazing ×3 recommend ×2 love ×2 perfect ×1Complaints: crash ×6 hate ×1 expensive ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Wow!
I’m an amateurish photographer self teaching myself Astrophotography. I took my first shot at star trails last night and spent all day trying to figure out how to stack my +440 images without crashing my computer.
This app did it all AND …
★★★★★ A gem of a program
The Star Stacker app is simple, intuitive, and basic--just what I wanted as an amateur photographer and star gazer--but the results are spectacular! There are 3 settings options and 2 movie options, and easy output into jpeg, tiff, and mov …
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t work on my iPhone
Used this app on others iPhones and worked well. I buy it and it will not upload any of my photos no matter what I do ( well it will upload and work if I limit to only a few photos but what good is that when I have 1000 overnight photos? I …
★☆☆☆☆ Star Stacker not easy to use
This program is $3.99 and very un-user-friendly.…
📈Ratings growth92 ratings+9100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (28 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.
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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Star Stacker: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.