Cosmic-Watch
72
Quality Score
Strong
Cosmic-Watch
by Celestial Dynamics AG
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Cosmic-Watch is an iOS app from Celestial Dynamics AG in the News category, currently rated 4.8★ across 611 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a News app, that means healthy traction. 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 tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
65 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
611 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
65
since Feb 2016
🤖Also on Android
$556/mo · 2K ratings · 4.9★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$175K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $235K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.9y 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 (194 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 11.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$67K |
Total estimate
$175K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 📅 11.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
51K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.3K
Daily active
1.4K
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 |
| 📅 11.3y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
42% 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 | 194 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
30%
Last shipped 2026-06-21 · 97 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
| 📅 3 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
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)
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 · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Product Quality
6.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.84★ across 611 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($46K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 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 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Early-stage install base (611 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)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 · v3.0
This is the biggest release in Cosmic Watch's ten-year history.
The app is now free to download for the first time since 2015 — every view, every layer, every notification, from the first open.
Tools and Time Control unlock with a subscription, or forever with Cosmic Pro.… Full release notes →
The app is now free to download for the first time since 2015 — every view, every layer, every notification, from the first open.
Tools and Time Control unlock with a subscription, or forever with Cosmic Pro.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Cosmic-Watch
- Developer
- Celestial Dynamics AG
- Bundle ID
- com.cosmic-watch.cosmicwatch
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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.
📈Ratings growth627 ratings+7738% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $0.00 (+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
The sky above you, the Earth beneath you, the solar system you move through space. Three perspectives no other app combines this way.
For thousands of years humans read the sky to measure time, navigate the Earth, and find meaning in their existence. Astronomy, astrology, and timekeeping were one science. Cosmic Watch reunites them.
Free for the first time in ten years.
FEATURES (core)
• Sky View — stars, planets, and constellations
• Earth View — day and night cycle, the cosmos around it
• Solar System — geocentric and heliocentric… View full description on the official store →
For thousands of years humans read the sky to measure time, navigate the Earth, and find meaning in their existence. Astronomy, astrology, and timekeeping were one science. Cosmic Watch reunites them.
Free for the first time in ten years.
FEATURES (core)
• Sky View — stars, planets, and constellations
• Earth View — day and night cycle, the cosmos around it
• Solar System — geocentric and heliocentric… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 194 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v3.0🔄 updated 3mo ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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
💲
Went free — dropped $4.99 price point
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.3K/mo high confidence
2026-07
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.3K/mo high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.93 → v3.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +10 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +10 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +10 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.45 → 5.00 (improved 0.55★)
→ 30 days after: revenue −$3.4M/mo · rating +0.55★ · reviews −111 high confidence
2024-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$62.9K/mo medium · co-occurring
2017-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$57.5K/mo high confidence
2016-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$148K/mo · rating −0.07★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2016-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$610K/mo · rating −0.11★ · reviews +20 high confidence
2016-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$61.4K/mo · rating −0.07★ high confidence
2016-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$29.8K/mo · rating −0.33★ low · multiple changes
2016-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.72093★ | 43 | 4.72093★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 10 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.57143★ | 28 | 4.57143★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.78★ | 50 | 4.78★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 7 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.73585★ | 53 | 4.73585★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.66667★ | 15 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.7767★ | 103 | 4.7767★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.82698★ | 630 | 4.82698★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Cosmic-Watch: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 611 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Cosmic-Watch make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Cosmic-Watch 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 Cosmic-Watch profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $175K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Cosmic-Watch looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.9 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Cosmic-Watch have?▴
Estimated audience: ~51K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Cosmic-Watch?▴
Browse the full News category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Cosmic-Watch built with?▴
Our heuristic places Cosmic-Watch 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 Cosmic-Watch still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Cosmic-Watch sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 18× 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 Cosmic-Watch last updated?▴
Cosmic-Watch last shipped a new version on 2026-06-21 — 3 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Cosmic-Watch?▴
Cosmic-Watch is published by Celestial Dynamics 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 Cosmic-Watch's BU Score?▴
Cosmic-Watch has a BU Score of 72/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.