Solar System Viewer: 8Planets
52
Quality Score
Solid
Solar System Viewer: 8Planets
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Solar System Viewer: 8Planets is an iOS app from BLUE COMET LABS LLC in the News category, currently rated 4.5★ across 26 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 52: 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
$2.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.0K – $7.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.9K – $16.8K
per month
INDIE tier
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- 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
$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
$2.3K/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
$2.0K – $4.6K
12 months
$2.0K – $7.3K
24 months
$1.9K – $16.8K
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
Early-stage solo · 44/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
3.6
Revenue Strength
3.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $920 - $5756/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.54★ across 26 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $41K-$73K. Portfolio play ($15K/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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($2.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (26 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 · v1.3.3
・Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Solar System Viewer: 8Planets
- Developer
- BLUE COMET LABS LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.pixyzehn.8Planets.iOS
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, JA
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
- 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 growth26 ratings+2500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (4 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.
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
8Planets is a simple viewer and simulator for planetary orbits in our Solar System.
8Planets helps you discover how the planets aligned and move around over time so that you feel the scale of the Solar System or even the Universe. By giving you quick and easy access to the Solar System everywhere, 8Planets will make you feel that the Solar System is close to us.
FEATURES
・Planetary Motion
Speed up or slow down time to see how the planets rotate over time and grasp the scale of the Solar System.
・Time Travel… View full description on the official store →
8Planets helps you discover how the planets aligned and move around over time so that you feel the scale of the Solar System or even the Universe. By giving you quick and easy access to the Solar System everywhere, 8Planets will make you feel that the Solar System is close to us.
FEATURES
・Planetary Motion
Speed up or slow down time to see how the planets rotate over time and grasp the scale of the Solar System.
・Time Travel… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 10 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 26.0+🔖 v1.3.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, JA📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2024-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2022-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5★ | 2 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.4★ | 5 | 4.4★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.85714★ | 7 | 3.85714★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.53846★ | 26 | 4.53846★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 26 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Solar System Viewer: 8Planets is a small / niche iOS app in the news space with weak public traction — only 26 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Solar System Viewer make per month?▴
Our model estimates Solar System Viewer earns roughly $86/mo, but with only 26 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like Solar System Viewer?▴
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Who makes Solar System Viewer?▴
Solar System Viewer is published by BLUE COMET LABS LLC 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 Solar System Viewer's BU Score?▴
Solar System Viewer has a BU Score of 52/100 (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.