Alien Sky - Space Camera

Name: Alien Sky - Space Camera
Rating: 4.7 (132 reviews)
Author: James Grote

by James Grote

iPhone · iPad

Abandoned risk Last checked 31 Jul 2026

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Price: $4.99

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

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4.7 132 ratings · App Store

5/5Amazing App For Illustrators & Makers
This app is just the thing for anyone interested in designing and creating their own depictions of space. High quality graphic elements provide the opportunity to produce some amazing AI-free speculative stellar art. Kudos to the the developer team. I would give it 6 or 7 out of 5 stars if developers updated the app and added a few more of the amazing stellar images now available through NASA, as well as more precise controls to dial up or down the editing controls, and masking brush.

KenRickH · 31 Jul 2026
5/5Simply Amazing
Go outside, lay on your lawn and take a picture of your house. I live in a second floor apartment so I took a picture of my apartment from the sidewalk. Make sure you have plenty of sky in the picture. Then use this app to add planets, exploded moons or alien space stations into your sky. This developer makes another app (Sky Lab) you can use to remove the sky entirely and put in a star field and planets using this app. It’s a lot of fun and you’ll get lots of likes on social media. It’s a cool creative way to spend a little time.

Gitarzz · 31 Jul 2026
5/5Still one of the best
I don’t know how I lucked out getting this free years ago, but this app is ridiculous. It’s so worth the $2.99 as well. I’m super bad at editing pics but pretty much anything stupid u decide to do on this looks nice. Also surprising to me, it doesn’t look cheap. You’d think these sky type of filters would look corny but they look really nice. Basically can make any photo at all into a flyer or advertising for something. Again, price is beyond fair.

MashkaNYC · 31 Jul 2026
4/5Enjoyable
It’s fun to use but can be difficult due to glitches. There’s no button to lock a layer down. You have to add another layer and then delete the second one in order for the first one to get locked down. Occasionally when zoomed into your picture to do fine detail work, you’ll be unable to zoom back out. Frustrating. Other times the app just crashes. The instruction page isn’t very informative. But that seems to be the thing with all post processing software.

X-rayeater · 31 Jul 2026
5/5Lots of fun!
I’ve had lots of fun with app. I like that if the original picture is too bright for planets/stars to stand out, it has filters so you can darken just the upper half or add a vignette so it’s darker. And the variety is good - there are lots of options to customize the sky, so it doesn’t get old after editing several different photos.

Rover397 · 31 Jul 2026

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10.0
Updated for iOS13! Have you tried the new Spectral Orbs yet? Find them in the Planets collection. We'd love to hear from you so leaving a review would be very helpful!
10.2
Updated for iOS13! Fix for saving issue experienced by some users. Have you tried the new Spectral Orbs yet? Find them in the Planets collection. We'd love to hear from you so leaving a review would be very helpful!
10.3
Automatically saves images as PNG which is the highest quality without compression. Have you tried the new Spectral Orbs yet? Find them in the Planets collection. We'd love to hear from you so leaving a review would be very helpful!
10.4
Automatically saves images as PNG which is the highest quality without compression. Have you tried the new Spectral Orbs yet? Find them in the Planets collection. We'd love to hear from you so leaving a review would be very helpful!
10.5
Fix for rare crash during save.
10.6
Fix for rare loading/saving crash. Improved interface for selecting space objects. Effects panel stays open.
10.7
Fix for saving bug. Improved interface for selecting space objects. Effects panel stays open now!
10.8
Improved interface for selecting space objects. Effects panel stays open now!
10.9 · 28 Mar 2021
Fixed border issue with the Earth 2 image.
7.2
Full resolution support for newer devices. Saving to JPG (default save) now preserves image exif metadata. New "Save to PNG" option. Saving to PNG is higher quality with lossless compression but takes up more space. Note: PNG format doesn't support exif data. Access to our Epic Photos collection to get you started. If you enjoy using AlienSky, please take a moment to give us a review in the app store: it really helps! Thanks for your support. If you own a Mac, check out LensFlare Studio in the Mac App store for powerful professional optical effects. We recently launched a huge update for this adding new effects and capabilities.
8.0
Version 8.0 Get your daily dose of inspiration with our featured photo app, AlienSky for the Apple Watch. As a bonus, we've added a cool Solar Flare animation to show off the amazing Apple Watch display. Version 7.2 Updates - Full resolution support for newer devices. - Saving to JPG (default save) now preserves image exif metadata. - New "Save to PNG" option. Saving to PNG is higher quality with lossless compression but takes up more space. Note: PNG format doesn't support exif data. - Access to our Epic Photos collection to get you started.
8.1
Version 8.1 New screen for saving and sharing your photos. Now it's easier than ever to send photos between our apps. Version 8.0 Get your daily dose of inspiration with our featured photo app, AlienSky for the Apple Watch. As a bonus, we've added a cool Solar Flare animation to show off the amazing Apple Watch display. Version 7.2 Updates - Full resolution support for newer devices. - Saving to JPG (default save) now preserves image exif metadata. - New "Save to PNG" option. Saving to PNG is higher quality with lossless compression but takes up more space. Note: PNG format doesn't support exif data. - Access to our Epic Photos collection to get you started.
8.2
Version 8.2 New screen for saving and sharing your photos. Now it's easier than ever to send photos between our apps.
8.3
Brand new Pluto and Charon images added from New Horizons mission. Create your own Pluto flyby photos. UI Improvement - Now easier to switch between categories. Thanks everyone for checking out AlienSky and making amazing space photos!
8.4
Minor update. Saves session between app opens.
8.5
Updated for devices that support Wide Color. Updated for iOS10.
8.6
Updated for devices that support Wide Color. Updated for iOS10. Fix for some iPad users that have experienced crashes!
8.7
Fix for some users having trouble loading photos. Check out my newest app DepthEffects!
8.8
Finally added undo/redo to the mask control. Minor improvements to make the sliders easier to use.
8.9
* Fix for users experiencing crash on start. Added undo/redo to the mask control. Minor improvements to make the sliders easier to use.
9.0
Fix for issues related to loading photos. Updated for iOS11.
9.1
Updated for iPhoneX.
9.2
Improved controls. Easier to customize your awesome space photos. We'd love to hear from you so leaving a review would be very helpful!
9.3
Improved controls. Easier to customize your awesome space photos. We'd love to hear from you so leaving a review would be very helpful!
9.4
New Spectral Orbs, Moons, and Suns! Updated for new iPad Pros. We'd love to hear from you so leaving a review would be very helpful!

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