SPACE by THIX
54
Quality Score
Solid
SPACE by THIX
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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SPACE by THIX is an iOS app from THIX LLC in the News category, currently rated 3.8★ across 169 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
$796
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$696 – $2509
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$645 – $5804
per month
INDIE tier
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- 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
$90K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $120K
$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 (106 MB) | +$22K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$14K |
Total estimate
$90K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $20K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
20K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.0K
Daily active
1.3K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
43% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$796/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$678 – $1.6K
12 months
$696 – $2.5K
24 months
$645 – $5.8K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 42/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
5.2
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $318 - $1990/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.75★ across 169 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1980d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (1980d 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 = $14K-$25K. Portfolio play ($18K/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 7 of 7 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Early-stage install base (169 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 · v3.1.1
- fixed Uranus and Neptune misplacement in the Solar System preset
- even better new icon!
SPACE 3.1 :
- updated galaxy background
- improved stellar lightings
- upgraded galaxy shape and visuals
- a new app icon!
- even better new icon!
SPACE 3.1 :
- updated galaxy background
- improved stellar lightings
- upgraded galaxy shape and visuals
- a new app icon!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- SPACE by THIX
- Developer
- THIX LLC
- Bundle ID
- thix.sciencesense.space
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, ZH, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- THIX
- Description
- THIX makes award-winning science apps unlike any others.
- 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
- $1.2K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/THIXLAB · youtube youtube.com/thixlab
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- thix.co/contact
- About page
- thix.co/about
📈Ratings growth169 ratings+104% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 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 → $2.99 (+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
* Best of 2016 – Apple *
Create your own universe. Play with the law of nature. Visit the outer worlds.
Build asteroids, nebula, comets, planets, moons, stars, pulsars and even blackholes at your fingertips. Experiment with gravity, supernova, planetary collision and so forth. Zoom in to ride comets. Zoom out to gaze at the galaxy of stars.
S C I E N C E D R I V E N
Learn Astronomy and Astrophysics for fun and creativity. All celestial bodies you create can move and interact in real-time and in accordance with the Newtonian astrophysics laws.
C E L E S T I A L T O U C H… View full description on the official store →
Create your own universe. Play with the law of nature. Visit the outer worlds.
Build asteroids, nebula, comets, planets, moons, stars, pulsars and even blackholes at your fingertips. Experiment with gravity, supernova, planetary collision and so forth. Zoom in to ride comets. Zoom out to gaze at the galaxy of stars.
S C I E N C E D R I V E N
Learn Astronomy and Astrophysics for fun and creativity. All celestial bodies you create can move and interact in real-time and in accordance with the Newtonian astrophysics laws.
C E L E S T I A L T O U C H… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 106 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v3.1.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, ZH, ZH📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.32 → 4.00 (improved 0.68★)
2018-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.88 → 3.56 (dropped 0.32★)
2016-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2016-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for SPACE by THIX: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
More by THIX LLC
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
4apps·$18K/mocombined
Lead-app heavy — top app contributes 68%
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 169 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does SPACE by THIX make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, SPACE by THIX earns approximately $1.2K/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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Who makes SPACE by THIX?▴
SPACE by THIX is published by THIX 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 SPACE by THIX's BU Score?▴
SPACE by THIX 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.