Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker
69
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker is an iOS app from ozPDA in the News category, currently rated 4.8★ across 12,916 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 69: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$18.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$19.2K – $40.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$23.8K – $71.5K
per month
MID tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
159 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
12,916 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$18.6K
Snapshots tracked
159
since Oct 2012
🤖Also on Android
$470/mo · 852 ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$160K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $120K – $215K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~9 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 (50 MB) | +$41 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| ⚙ 17.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$101K |
Total estimate
$160K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$375K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $275K – $475K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~2.3× 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 |
| 📅 17.0y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.1M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
31K
Daily active
14K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅 17.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 50 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-07-10 · 75 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
| 📅 75 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$18.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$17.6K – $29.4K
12 months
$19.2K – $40.3K
24 months
$23.8K – $71.5K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.0
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $13K - $27K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.83★ across 12,916 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 = $334K-$594K.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (12,916 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($11.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Localized (5 languages)METRIC | +$600 |
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 · v8.1.2
v8.1.2
* FIXED - Date/time label at top of map view was not always visible.
* FIXED - Date/time label at top of map view was not always visible.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker
- Developer
- ozPDA
- Bundle ID
- com.yourcompany.SunSeeker
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, JA, ES
Company
- Website
- www.ozpda.com
- Tagline
- Creator of Amazing Apps
- Description
- ozPDA is the creator of amazing apps for iOS, macOS and Android, such as Sun Seeker, Moon Seeker, Rainbow Seeker, Everywhere and others...
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $18.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇮🇳#36 /100 🇯🇵#60 /100 🇦🇺#93 /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
- ozpda.com/contactus.php
- About page
- ozpda.com/aboutus.php
📈Ratings growth12,904 ratings+3350% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank3 countries
🇮🇳IN#36 /100
🇯🇵JP#60 /100
🇦🇺AU#93 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#36 now · best #36 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $11.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Sunseeker is a comprehensive solar tracking & compass app. It shows the sun’s hourly direction intervals, its equinox, winter & summer solstice paths, sunrise sunset times, twilight times, sun shadow, the golden hour & more. The app allows you to add sun-event notifications & has a widget showing the day’s solar data & position on an arc. The surveyor view shows the solar direction for each sunlight hour. Sunseeker has both a flat compass view & a 3D Augmented Reality (AR) view to show the solar position & path.
The app is useful for -… View full description on the official store →
The app is useful for -… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 50 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.6+🔖 v8.1.2🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, JA, ES📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (16y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 — v8.1 → v8.1.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +166 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $11.99 price point
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v8.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +115 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +115 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 high confidence
2014-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +6 high confidence
2013-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.14★ · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2013-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.75 → 4.00 (dropped 0.75★)
2012-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.08★ high confidence
2012-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.08★ high confidence
2012-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.80767★ | 2,137 | 4.80767★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.82222★ | 765 | 4.82222★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.79764★ | 1,611 | 4.79764★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.80012★ | 1,701 | 4.80012★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.79277★ | 1,771 | 4.79277★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.77067★ | 1,753 | 4.77067★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.70352★ | 199 | 4.70352★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.6456★ | 1,772 | 4.6456★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83432★ | 12,917 | 4.83432★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker: 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: 12,916 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker earns approximately $18K/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 Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $18K, Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 9 months 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 Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.1M lifetime downloads, ~31K monthly active users, and ~14K 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 Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker?▴
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What is Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker built with?▴
Our heuristic places Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $375K (marketplace range $275K – $475K). Calculated as 20× 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 Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker last updated?▴
Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker last shipped a new version on 2026-07-10 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker?▴
Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker is published by ozPDA 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 Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker's BU Score?▴
Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker has a BU Score of 69/100 (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.