How much does The Sky by Redshift make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, The Sky by Redshift 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 The Sky by Redshift profitable?

With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $5.0K, The Sky by Redshift looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does The Sky by Redshift have?

Estimated audience: ~115K lifetime downloads, ~16K monthly active users, and ~4K 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 The Sky by Redshift?

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What is The Sky by Redshift built with?

Our heuristic places The Sky by Redshift on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.

Is The Sky by Redshift still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (72% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would The Sky by Redshift sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $200K (marketplace range $150K – $250K). Calculated as 38× 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 The Sky by Redshift last updated?

The Sky by Redshift last shipped a new version on 2025-06-13 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes The Sky by Redshift?

The Sky by Redshift is published by USM on the Google Play 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 The Sky by Redshift's BU Score?

The Sky by Redshift has a BU Score of 61/100 (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.

The Sky by Redshift

Quality Score

Solid

The Sky by Redshift

Name: The Sky by Redshift — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: The Sky by Redshift revenue, The Sky by Redshift app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Education revenue, Android app revenue

by USM

Medium confidence

4.5 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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The Sky by Redshift is an Android app from USM in the Education category, currently rated 4.5★ across 1,852 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 61: Solid (established niche player). For a Education 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

$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

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.5

Reviews

1,852 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since Sep 2026

🍎Also on iOS

The Sky Pro by Redshift

—/mo · 335 ratings · 4.8★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$145K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $110K – $195K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~2.4y 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
💎 In-app purchase plumbing	+$9K
⚙ Education complexity ×1.20	+$11K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$39K
⚙ 5.3y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$32K

Total estimate $145K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$200K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 38× MRR multiple

💸 ~1.4× build cost (break-even+)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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

💎 IAP / freemium model base	28× MRR
📅 5.3y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷 Education category multiple	+6%

Final multiple 38× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

115K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

16K

Daily active

4.9K

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

📲 Education engagement	~85 installs / rating
📅 5.3y of rating accumulation	-27%
🔁 Education D30 retention	18%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.30

DAU / MAU 30% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🤖

Native Android (Kotlin)

High confidence · 80%

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

🏷 Category context	Education
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

72%

Last shipped 2025-06-13 · 477 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

📅 1y 3mo since last update

Likely deprioritized

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$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 · 55/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Revenue Strength

3.7

Product Quality

8.1

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

8.8

Operational Safety

7.0

Founder Strength

6.1

Monetization Maturity

5.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.49★ across 1,852 reviews — strong (top 10%).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 477d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (477d since update).

🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.

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

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 4 of 4 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Low install base (1,852 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Good rating (4.5★)METRIC		+$800
Established app (5y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: The Sky by Redshift
Developer: USM
Bundle ID: com.usm.rsskyfree
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Education
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.redshiftsky.com
Tagline: Not found
Description: Not found
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: $5.0K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $0.99 - $3.49 per item

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.

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

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🔖 v2.0.6🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Education💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $0.99 - $3.49 per item🚀 Launched 2021 (5y old)

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