How much does SkySafari make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, SkySafari earns approximately $556/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.

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SkySafari is published by Simulation Curriculum Corp. 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 SkySafari's BU Score?

SkySafari has a BU Score of 68/100 (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.

SkySafari

Quality Score

Solid

SkySafari

Name: SkySafari — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
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License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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by Simulation Curriculum Corp.

High confidence

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✍️ bumetric analysis

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SkySafari is an iOS app from Simulation Curriculum Corp. in the Education category, currently rated 4.7★ across 17,789 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.

Quality Score is 68: 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

$700K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$741K – $1141K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$886K – $1645K

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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🤖Also on Android

SkySafari 6 Pro

$229/mo · 1K ratings · 4.4★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$110K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $80K – $150K

$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
📦 Asset bundle (851 MB)	+$40K
⚙ Education complexity ×1.20	+$18K

Total estimate $110K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$10K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 18× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.1× 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
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%
🏷 Education category multiple	+6%

Final multiple 18× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

1.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

270K

Daily active

81K

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
🔁 Education D30 retention	18%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.30

DAU / MAU 30% sticky

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$690K – $933K

12 months

$741K – $1.1M

24 months

$886K – $1.6M

Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Concerning · 55/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarks

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

4.9

Product Quality

9.4

Revenue Strength

5.8

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

5.7

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 17,789 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.

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 7 of 7 triggers

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

Mid install base (17,789 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
Paid app ($2.99)METRIC		+$2,800
subscriptionREVIEW		+$2,500
premiumREVIEW		+$2,200
Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC		+$2,200
Mature app (8y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Multilingual (14 languages)METRIC		+$1,500

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.

🆕 What's New · v8.0.2

New Features:
- Support for Artemis II mission.
Fixed Bugs:
- Fixed user experience when opening settings to Subscription when device has no internet.
- Observing Weather displays date and times for SkyChart timezone, not device timezone.… Full release notes →

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: SkySafari
Developer: Simulation Curriculum Corp.
Bundle ID: com.simulationcurriculum.SkySafari6
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Education
Content rating: 4+
Languages: EN, FR, DE, EL, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH

Company

Website: skysafariastronomy.com
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: $557/mo
Top-grossing rank: 🇮🇳#94 /100
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.

✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW

Publicly available data from sources like Sensor Tower and Statista do not provide specific revenue estimates for the iOS app "SkySafari" by Simulation Curriculum Corp. The available search results describe the app's features and the company's history but do not disclose financial performance.

Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Apptopia, Simulation Curriculum

📈Ratings growth17,789 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (2 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets

🇮🇳

Top-grossing rank: #94 / 100

Other markets

Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN

This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.

📊Category Rank Trajectory#94 now · best #88 · worst #100

Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart

💰Pricing History$2.99 → $6.99 (+134%)

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

SkySafari 8 is a powerful planetarium that fits in your pocket, puts the universe at your fingertips, and is incredibly easy to use!

Simply hold your device to the sky and quickly locate comets, planets, constellations, satellites, and millions of stars and deep sky objects. Whether you are a beginner or a longtime astronomy enthusiast, SkySafari 8 is your perfect stargazing companion, packed with interactive information, rich graphics, and a beautifully refined interface.

What’s New in Version 8

+ New Theme - A new look of the app with a fresh visual palette.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 851 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.6+🔖 v8.0.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, EL, HI +9📂 Education💰 Paid

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

2 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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

💲

Price ↑ $2.99 → $6.99 (+134%)

2026-06

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: revenue +$556/mo · reviews +76 high confidence

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Tech & Domain Intel — skysafariastronomy.com

Mail provider: Google Workspace
Tech stack: SendGrid · AWS SES · Google Workspace

Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).

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Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.66777★	1,517	4.66777★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	4.79385★	456	4.79385★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.61827★	1,598	4.61827★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.66134★	1,001	4.66134★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.61043★	1,381	4.61043★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.6645★	2,921	4.6645★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	4.75479★	261	4.75479★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.54915★	417	4.54915★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.71674★	17,789	4.71674★ this version

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