Rob Barltrop
For pilots and aviation professionals requiring rapid inflight calculations, as well as general users seeking specialized financial tracking tools.
Crosswind Calculator Pro
Snapshot
Who is Rob Barltrop?
Providing specialized calculation utilities for aviation professionals and general users to simplify complex data entry on the go.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 1Last updated
Crosswind Calculator Pro
v4.4.0
12mo ago
Publisher DNA
What defines Rob Barltrop?
Publisher DNA
Primary focus
Aviation and financial utility tools
Scale
indie
Target audience
Pilots and aviation professionals requiring rapid inflight calculations, as well as general users seeking specialized financial tracking tools.
Signature Patterns
- •Focus on single-purpose calculation and arithmetic utilities
- •Mixed monetization strategy utilizing both free and paid models
- •Emphasis on rapid-input interfaces for professional or inflight use cases
- •Maintenance-focused release cadence for established utility tools
Portfolio momentum
Maintains a 100% active portfolio with one major update delivered in the last 6 months for its flagship title.
Portfolio
What does Rob Barltrop ship?
Apps
3 apps analysed
Analysis in progress
Analysis in progress
Single-market publisher, every app ships only to United States.
Based on 1 of 3 apps with localized market data, more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
Americas (1)
- United States1 / 1
Core markets (1/1 apps)
Rivals
Who does Rob Barltrop compete with?
The rivals identified
Same space(5)
Provides the orientation and heading tools that complement the wind-based navigation calculations in Crosswind Calculator Pro.
Acts as a general weather utility that provides the background environmental data needed for flight planning.
Serves as a secondary weather source for pilots to verify current conditions at departure or destination airports.
Offers hyper-local wind data that serves as the primary input for aviation-specific calculations.
Provides the meteorological data that pilots require to perform the manual wind calculations found in Crosswind Calculator Pro.
The Analyst's Read
The bottom line on Rob Barltrop
Bottom line
Rob Barltrop is a specialized indie developer with a clear focus on the aviation niche. The portfolio's value lies in functional utility rather than broad consumer appeal, evidenced by the recent maintenance of its primary aviation tool.
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What fed this analysis
- Apps analyzed:
- 2
- With full intel:
- 0
- With overview:
- 2
- Website scraped:
- yes
- Social presence:
- no