Pilot Aptitude Pro
54
Quality Score
Solid
Pilot Aptitude Pro
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Pilot Aptitude Pro is an iOS app from Mountain Wave Media Ltd in the News category, currently rated 4.6★ across 56 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$4.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$4.0K – $14.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$3.7K – $33.2K
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 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
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$4.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$3.9K – $9.1K
12 months
$4.0K – $14.4K
24 months
$3.7K – $33.2K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.2
Product Quality
3.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $11K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.57★ across 56 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2791d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2791d 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 = $82K-$145K.
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 5 of 5 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 (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (56 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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v3.0.2
• Minor Graphics Improvements
• Minor Bug Fixes
• Minor Bug Fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pilot Aptitude Pro
- Developer
- Mountain Wave Media Ltd
- Bundle ID
- PilotApptitude
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $86/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 growth56 ratings+44% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (2 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $3.99 (+0%)
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're looking to pass the daunting computer-based pilot aptitude tests currently in use by both military and civilian aircrew recruitment then Pilot Aptitude Pro is the perfect companion app to sharpen up your skills.
Designed by military aircrew, Pilot Aptitude Pro directly targets your increasingly important capacity and multitasking abilities, whilst at the same time enhancing your short-term memory and competence in mental arithmetic. This is achieved through simple yet highly intuitive gameplay and, with the latest update, a fresh approach to design.… View full description on the official store →
Designed by military aircrew, Pilot Aptitude Pro directly targets your increasingly important capacity and multitasking abilities, whilst at the same time enhancing your short-term memory and competence in mental arithmetic. This is achieved through simple yet highly intuitive gameplay and, with the latest update, a fresh approach to design.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 14 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v3.0.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $3.99 price point
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.5★ | 16 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.55★ | 20 | 4.55★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.75635★ | 197 | 4.75635★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.57143★ | 56 | 4.57143★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 56 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Pilot Aptitude Pro make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Pilot Aptitude Pro earns approximately $86/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 Pilot Aptitude Pro?▴
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Who makes Pilot Aptitude Pro?▴
Pilot Aptitude Pro is published by Mountain Wave Media Ltd 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 Pilot Aptitude Pro's BU Score?▴
Pilot Aptitude Pro has a BU Score of 54/100 (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.