AeroWeather Pro
50
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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AeroWeather Pro is an iOS app from Lakehorn AG, currently rated 3.7★ across 356 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 50: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 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
3 snapshots on record
Rating
3.7
Reviews
356 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
3
since Jul 2026
🤖Also on Android
$258/mo · 1K ratings · 4.6★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$180K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $135K – $245K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.0y 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 (126 MB) | +$30K |
| ⚙ 16.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$97K |
Total estimate
$180K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| 📅 16.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
37K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.1K
Daily active
220
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 |
| 📅 16.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 category D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
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 | 126 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | category |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-09-02 · 24 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
| 📅 24 days since last update | Active development |
| 👥 Small user base (356 ratings) + 16.2y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 · 50/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
3.7
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
8.5
Operational Safety
3.2
Founder Strength
4.5
Monetization Maturity
9.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.68★ across 356 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 7% subscription complaints, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -0.62 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($4.79)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (15 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| Early-stage install base (356 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 · v3.15.8
Captain Premium Plan (Subscription):
- Added precipitation radar for Azores and increased coverage for Europe
New:
- Added new US NOAA flight rules category with VFR* (VFR with non-ceiling clouds below 3000 ft AGL); configurable in "settings > format"
Changed:… Full release notes →
- Added precipitation radar for Azores and increased coverage for Europe
New:
- Added new US NOAA flight rules category with VFR* (VFR with non-ceiling clouds below 3000 ft AGL); configurable in "settings > format"
Changed:… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- AeroWeather Pro
- Developer
- Lakehorn AG
- Bundle ID
- com.pascaldreer.aeroweatherpro
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Not found
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, JA, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV
Company
- Website
- www.lakehorn.com
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇧🇷#27 /100 🇫🇷#31 /100 🇬🇧#40 /100 🇨🇦#59 /100 🇮🇳#65 /100 🇩🇪#75 /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.
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank6 countries
🇧🇷BR#27 /100
🇫🇷FR#31 /100
🇬🇧GB#40 /100
🇨🇦CA#59 /100
🇮🇳IN#65 /100
🇩🇪DE#75 /100
🚀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
*** AeroWeather: for pilots, aviation enthusiasts, and everyone who is serious about the weather!
*** Current and precise weather conditions (METAR) and forecasts (TAF).
AeroWeather Pro provides quick and intuitive access to METAR and TAF for airports worldwide. Data can be shown in its original (raw) format or as fully decoded and easy understandable texts. AeroWeather Pro is helpful for weather preflight-briefings, but also to just get very precise weather. All weather data is cached for offline access.… View full description on the official store →
*** Current and precise weather conditions (METAR) and forecasts (TAF).
AeroWeather Pro provides quick and intuitive access to METAR and TAF for airports worldwide. Data can be shown in its original (raw) format or as fully decoded and easy understandable texts. AeroWeather Pro is helpful for weather preflight-briefings, but also to just get very precise weather. All weather data is cached for offline access.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 126 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v3.15.8🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FI, FR +10💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (16y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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
🔧
Shipped update — v3.15.6 → v3.15.8
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v3.15.4 → v3.15.6
→ 30 days after: revenue +$384/mo high confidence
2026-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$384/mo high confidence
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 657 reviews across 8 markets● 63% positive · ● 14% neutral · ● 23% negative · Rating drift: -0.62★ (declining — recent 50: 3.06★ vs lifetime: 3.68★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.43
🇨🇦 CA
+0.40
🇦🇺 AU
+0.37
🇮🇳 IN
+0.25
🇯🇵 JP
+0.18
🇫🇷 FR
+0.15
🇧🇷 BR
+0.14
🇩🇪 DE
-0.08
Top praise themes
apple watch ×28 aviation weather ×23 metar taf ×23 lite version ×10 free version ×10 being able ×8 easy read ×7 highly recommend ×7
Top complaint themes
apple watch ×61 doesn work ×17 latest update ×15 please fix ×15 new update ×11 watch complication ×10 lite version ×10 doesn't work ×9
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.9% Subscription complaints: 7% Bug mentions: 10%
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — lakehorn.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · 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 | 3.68258★ | 356 | 3.68258★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.73171★ | 205 | 2.73171★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.65979★ | 97 | 3.65979★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.4375★ | 64 | 3.4375★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.07692★ | 13 | 3.07692★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.41071★ | 112 | 3.41071★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.72222★ | 18 | 2.72222★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.58824★ | 34 | 3.58824★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.5★ | 6 | 3.5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for AeroWeather Pro: 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 medium confidence: 356 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does AeroWeather Pro make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, AeroWeather Pro earns approximately $5.0K/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 AeroWeather Pro profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $180K and monthly revenue $5.0K, AeroWeather Pro looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 3.0 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does AeroWeather Pro have?▴
Estimated audience: ~37K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~220 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 is AeroWeather Pro built with?▴
Our heuristic places AeroWeather Pro on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is AeroWeather Pro still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 24 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would AeroWeather Pro sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 15× 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 AeroWeather Pro last updated?▴
AeroWeather Pro last shipped a new version on 2026-09-02 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes AeroWeather Pro?▴
AeroWeather Pro is published by Lakehorn AG 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 AeroWeather Pro's BU Score?▴
AeroWeather Pro has a BU Score of 50/100 (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.