52
BU Score
Solid
Dark Sky Meter
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Dark Sky Meter is an iOS app from DDQ in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.8★ across 6 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 52: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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 4 of 4 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 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Pre-traction phase (6 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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Jul 24
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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 15.6+🔖 v3.5🔄 updated 1y ago🌐 NL, EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
📝 About this app
The Dark Sky Meter app measures the sky brightness using the camera and shares it (optionally) with scientists around the globe.
🆕 What's New · v3.5
Performance improvements, layout bugs. Recent iPhone support.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Dark Sky Meter
- Developer
- DDQ
- Bundle ID
- nl.ddq.darksky
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN
Company
- Website
- pocket.science
- Tagline
- Turning smartphones into scientific instruments
- Description
- Pioneering citizen science apps with millions of users worldwide for over 15 years. We develop large-scale citizen science platforms and low-cost sensors for water quality monitoring, astronomy, and environmental research.
- Founded
- 2013
- HQ / Address
- Heerlen
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $11.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
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- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- https://pocket.science/blog.html
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- youtube
- Not found
- Phone
- +31 45 20 31 008
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth6 ratings+500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (30 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Dark Sky Meter: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.