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Sun Surveyor (Sonnenvermesser)

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Sun Surveyor (Sonnenvermesser) is an iOS app from Adam Ratana in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.8★ across 277 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Our BU Score puts it at 70Strong (healthy traction). For a Photo & Video app, that means healthy traction.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL
Revenue 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 11 of 11 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
Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC
+$2,200
worth every pennyREVIEW
+$2,000
bugsREVIEW
−$1,800
5 starREVIEW
+$1,800
great valueREVIEW
+$1,600
excellent appREVIEW
+$1,500
Mature app (14y old)METRIC
+$1,500
Multilingual (21 languages)METRIC
+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW
+$1,400
Early-stage install base (277 ratings)METRIC
+$400
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📈 Reviews Growth

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💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend

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🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY
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App Specs
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💾 66 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16+🔖 v2.9.1🔄 updated 6mo ago🌐 CA, CS, DA, NL, EN +16📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)

📝 About this app

Sun Surveyor takes the mystery out of the sunrise, sunset, and moon phases, allowing photographers and filmmakers to scout the best locations, plan effectively, and get the perfect shot.

The Live Camera View, Interactive Map (with Street View), 3D Compass, and detailed Ephemeris provide a wealth of information about the largest natural light source in the galaxy, as well as the moon, and milky way:

- View augmented reality projections of the sun and moon paths, pinpoint the time the sun or moon will be at a particular location in the sky
- Predict and plan for the golden hour, blue hour and every sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset
- Prepare night photography shots with the Milky Way & star trail features

Solar Industry (PV) Professionals, architects, real estate agents, and gardeners will also find a wealth of empowering interactive features:

- Show clients the quality and quantity of seasonal sunlight at a given location
- Understand potential shade of surroundings and discover any obstructions
- Create images of the summer and winter Solstice & Equinox paths for a site

Additional features:

- Photo Opportunities - an interactive listing of critical times to help inspire and generate shot ideas; including the full moon looming low in the sky during magic hour, total darkness for stargazing, and more
- Position Search - an extremely powerful tool to search for sun, moon and milky way center positions within various constraints, for the perfectionist planner
- Widgets - plenty of configurable widgets for your home screen and today view (iOS 14+)
- Visual time machine - take a quick glance at the light for a day, or dial in desired compositions easily
- Moon distance, age, apogee, perigee, super moon predictions
- Sun shadow information - calculate the length of shadows cast by objects
- Helpful video tutorials show how to use all of the app's modules and how to shoot specific types of scenes
- Share details and locations with clients and colleagues
- Offline usage (excludes Map View, Street View) - enter coordinates, save & load locations with no data connection or GPS available
- Measure distance, and difference between elevations, and vertical angle differentials with the Map view
- Import and export Google Earth .kmz/.kml locations
- Magnetic declination compensation
- "Today" Widget - (for the pull-down notification center) shows rise and set times for the current location and the next upcoming sun event

- Languages: English, Deutsch, Français, 日本語, Italiano, Español, Català, русский, Norsk (Bokmål), Dansk, Nederlands, 中文 (繁體), 中文 (简体), 한국어, čeština, Türkçe, Português (Portugal & Brasil), Polski

🆕 What's New · v2.9.1

2.9.1
- SDK updates, minor fixes and tweaks.

2.9
- Added a shadow point and indicator line in the Live + Street View modules.
- Twilight Info Panel, Ephemeris: Dawn and Dusk times now show start and end.
- Added a preference for the Time Machine Slider startup default.
- New more realistic moon simulation in the Ephemeris with libration shown over the year.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name
Sun Surveyor (Sonnenvermesser)
Developer
Adam Ratana
Bundle ID
com.sunsurveyor.SunSurveyor
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Photo & Video
Content rating
4+
Languages
CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, EL, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR

Company

Website
www.sunsurveyor.com
Tagline
Your personal guide to the sun and moon.
Description
See screenshots, read testimonials, watch video tutorials, and learn what you can do with the app.
Founded
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HQ / Address
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Employees
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Logo
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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
$41.3K/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
https://500px.com/matthewclarkphotographer
LinkedIn
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GitHub
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X followers
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Public statements
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Funding

Total raised
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Last round
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Investors
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Crunchbase
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AngelList
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Press & Links

Articles found
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Listed on
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Blog
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Press / News
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Contacts & Socials

Socials
twitter · youtube
Email
adam@sunsurveyor.com
Phone
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Contact page
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About page
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📈Ratings growth277 ratings+87% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾Sep 2019Feb 2024May 2026
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
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