Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game
78
Quality Score
Strong
Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game is an Android app from Pocket Labs Ltd in the Simulation category, currently rated 4.7★ across 18,736 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Simulation 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
$16.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$16.8K – $35.1K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$20.7K – $62.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 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
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~10 months 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 |
| ⚙ Simulation complexity ×2.00 | +$50K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$55K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~1.5× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Simulation category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
390K
Daily active
115K
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
| 📲 Simulation engagement | ~140 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Simulation D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
29% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
Medium confidence · 55%
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 | Simulation |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$16.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$15.4K – $25.6K
12 months
$16.8K – $35.1K
24 months
$20.7K – $62.2K
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 · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.2
Product Quality
9.4
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.8
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $11K - $24K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.69★ across 18,736 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 976d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (976d since update).
🎯 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 = $291K-$518K.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (18,736 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($2.49)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game
- Developer
- Pocket Labs Ltd
- Bundle ID
- uk.co.pocketlabs.pocketuniverse
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Simulation
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.pocketlabs.co.uk
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $16.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth18,736 ratings+26% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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
If you had the power, how would you create the solar system? What planets or stars would you choose? How would you place them in orbit? Are you interested in Astronomy and looking for a powerful yet easy to use 3d simulation sandbox game, to create and simulate a whole new galaxy with realistic physics rules? Then you’ve come to the right place. My Pocket Galaxy, the 3D sandbox game, provides you the ultimate power to explore the infinite space and simulate your own universe where you customise each different planet, gas giant, and star. Destroy on an unimaginable scale.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — pocketlabs.co.uk
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game: 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 high confidence: 18,736 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game earns approximately $16K/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.
What apps are like Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game?▴
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Who makes Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game?▴
Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game is published by Pocket Labs Ltd 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 Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game's BU Score?▴
Pocket Galaxy - Sandbox Game has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.