Star & Planet Finder: Last Release 2018-10-28
CloneChart flags Star & Planet Finder as a stale-release research candidate from public metadata: 4.2 stars from 1,727 ratings in Education, published by Nir Alperovitch. Release age does not establish why development slowed or whether current demand exists.
App Store Metadata Snapshot
What It Did
Star & Planet Finder guides you to see stars, planets, constellations and satellites in the sky. Simply choose a planet from the list, and move your device according to the pointer display, the pointer represents the planet. --------------------------------- REVIEWS: "Sanderson - I have dabbled with astronomy for 30 years, star maps, celestial co-ordinates, Patrick moores year book but this app renders them all obsolete. It makes locating stars and planets Childs play!" "I am amazed! - I love this app! It does exactly as promised. Got a telescope for Christmas and hated not know what I …
What the Data Can. And Cannot: Show
The release and rating fields are useful screening signals. They are not evidence about a developer's motives, active users, revenue, or current search demand.
Release Recency
The latest release date in CloneChart's record is 2018-10-28. Verify the live App Store listing before relying on it.
Aggregate Rating
The stored listing reports 4.2 stars from 1,727 ratings. That total is cumulative, not a measure of recent activity.
Listing Context
The record identifies Education as the category and Nir Alperovitch as the developer. It does not prove present availability in every storefront.
Maintenance Context Is Unknown
Public listing metadata does not explain release decisions. CloneChart does not infer abandonment, a broken app, or an addressable audience from release age alone.
What a Builder Can Evaluate Next
Available Signals
Rating history, release age, category, listing copy, and screenshots can help frame product research. None of those fields alone proves demand or commercial viability.
Recorded Ratings
Aggregate Rating
Estimated Build Days
Hypotheses to Validate
Treat these generated analysis notes as research prompts. Check them against the current product and recent primary-source user feedback.
- > Limited offline functionality for star identification
- > In-app purchase confusion among users
- > Occasional AR inaccuracies
The Clone Prompt
Use this as a planning draft in your coding tool of choice. CloneChart estimates MEDIUM complexity and ~14 build days; both depend on scope and require validation.
Cursor plan preview for Star & Planet Finder: map the core Education workflow, choose the smallest differentiated feature set, define the data and monetization boundaries, then prototype the riskiest user journey first.This preview is public. The full Cursor prompt is returned only after mailbox verification.
Suggested Starting Stack
A generated starting point for technical evaluation, not a claim about the original app's implementation.
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