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- $9.99
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- Photo & Video
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- Price: $9.99
Ratings & reviews
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5/5So Many Uses!
I use this app all the time and for so many things. Of course it’s great for photography planning, but I use it much more for trip planning. What time will the sun be setting in Rome when I’m there next year? Great, I’ll make dinner reservations for half an hour before that. How many hours of daylight will there be for that upcoming road trip? Or what’s the difference in day lengths between solstices in that part of the world?When and where exactly will the super moon come over the horizon into view? Easy peasy. I use Sun Surveyor every time I go camping to pick the spot with the best morning shade. Or to find the best seats at an outdoor concert. Once you have the app, you will find dozens of uses for it. I use it so frequently it lives on the first page of my Home Screen. Excellent app. Enjoy!
Steven Haver · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5Simple and intuitive use, great quick reference
I teach at Parsons School of Design and use this tool with students. It provide simple and intuitive data for understanding solar geometry in relation to time of day, season and geographic location. This aids students (or practitioners) how to respond with a corresponding design intervention to celebrate direct solar contact or to shade. I find the 3D compass the most helpful tool but have also taken advantage of the “Live View” when on a project site understand seasonal solar conditions and taking screen shots for my documentation. If you work with daylight design or are simply curious about solar and lunar relationships, this is a worthy purchase.
DP in NY · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5Amazing sun tracker
I mainly purchased this years ago for helping me visualize sun and moon paths, as well as occasional photography help. The astounding level of information and tool packed into this app have exceeded my needs and expectations, and it continues to improve over the years with regular free updates. Photographers will find this to be an essential tool, and I assume many others as well. But if like me, you're just a nerd looking to orient yourself to the motions of the solar system, this app excels at that too. The best thing about this app is the multiple perspectives it offers— first-person perspective with celestial bodies overlaid on the live camera; the "astronaut's-view" 3D compass; and for a remote-viewing experience, the Street View perspective. There is an astounding level of data about the sun and moon at your fingertips as well. But I mainly like the visualization tools. I can't imagine anything else you'd need in a sun tracker app, and would guess you'll find stuff included you didn't even know you'd want.
gcoghill · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5100% worth the money!!
I have used this app so many times it's not funny!! This app is spot on with what time the sun rises and sets in various locations. It's option of using a satellite view of a potential location, live view for a location at a later time, and compass view are all amazing. It gives blue hour for both am and pm, plus sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moon set and SOOO MUCH MORE!!! Plus, the app's predicted placement of the sun at specific times is SPOT ON ACCURATE!! It makes it so much easier to plan shoots when one knows where the sun is going to be!! I absolutely love this app and its 100% worth the money!!!!!
PhotojournalistChicago · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5Incredibly useful, thoughtfully designed app!
Honestly, I didn’t think that I would use it as often as I do. It’s useful for so many applications! Photography, planning walking routes, planning activities to do at certain dates and locations, and a lis goes on… The app is super insightful and rich with information. It’s designed well enough for someone newly introduced to it to be able to yield some value from it. Nevertheless, I encourage ones to invest a little bit of time to fully yield all of the value it can bring to you.
Gori20 · 31 Jul 2026
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Versions
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2.5.1
2.5.1 - minor bugfixes and improvements 2.5 - (new!) Brand new Live View & 3D Compass visualization engine - much more detail and faster peformance - (new!) Light Map: (Live View & 3D Compass) shows a filled area of light spanning the Summer and Winter Solstices when Solstice visualization is enabled from the Solstices & Equinoxes info panel; even handier for PV applications and real estate -- this area represents where the sun will be throughout the year, anything outside of it, the sun will never be there! - The Light Map also shows the Solar Analemma - for each hour, the figure-8 looking graph of the sun's position as it appears on every day of the year - (new!) Live View & 3D Compass: display mode button for combinations of the celestial sphere, standard horizontal grid, sun + moon paths below the horizon - (new!) 3D Compass: added control to toggle motion sensors; when off, you can manually orient the display with finger gestures - Map View: shadow line now always reflects the object height specified on the Shadow Info Panel multiplied by the sun's shadow ratio - 3D Compass: calibration adjustment feature from Live View is now shared - SDK Updates, fixes, and improvements
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2.5.2
- Performance improvements and fixes for iOS 12
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2.5.3
- Minor fixes and improvements
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2.5.4
- Updated to the latest Maps and Places SDKs - World Magnetic Model update (2015-2020 v2) - Bugfix for rise and set arrows not showing on Today widget
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2.6
- Live View: added button to toggle *rear* camera views if the device supports it: standard, telephoto, ultra-wide. - Create calendar events with reminders from Photo Opportunities, Position Search results, and the Moon Phase Ephemeris list and info panel. In most cases tapping the item brings up the option, either in the Ephemeris or from the info panel. - Reworked share actions; there's now an option to create a calendar event, and taking a screenshot no longer happens automatically when in certain modes. - SDK Updates, fixes, and improvements for iOS 13.
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2.6.1
2.6.1 - Bugfix for calendar entry dialog showing disabled 'add' button on certain iOS versions. 2.6 - (new!) Live View: added button to toggle *rear* camera views if the device supports it: standard, telephoto, ultra-wide. - (new!) Create calendar events with reminders from Photo Opportunities, Position Search results, and the Moon Phase Ephemeris list and info panel. In most cases tapping the item brings up the option, either in the Ephemeris or from the info panel. - (new!) Reworked share actions; there's now an option to create a calendar event, and taking a screenshot no longer happens automatically when in certain modes. - SDK Updates, fixes, and improvements for iOS 13.
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2.6.2
- iPad: allow use of app in "upside down portrait" orientation. - Bugfixes.
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2.6.3
- Minor bugfixes and SDK updates.
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2.6.4
- Bugfixes
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2.6.5
- Bugfixes and SDK updates.
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2.6.6
- iOS 14 update. - Bugfix: iOS 14 frozen 3D Compass/Live View when returning from the Calibration activity. - New implementation of Location Search, Address + Time Zone lookups. - Updated magnetic declination calculation to use the latest World Magnetic Model. - Other minor bugfixes; SDK Updates.
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2.7
- Widgets! iOS 14+ widgets: Sun, Moon, Milky Way, Photo Opportunities - with configurable location and display options. - Bugfixes & SDK updates.
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2.7.1
- Widgets: added a small size Photo Opportunities widget. - Live View: visual calibration: added swipe up or down for horizon adjustment. - iOS 15 related fixes and tweaks, bugfixes, and SDK updates.
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2.7.2
- iOS 16 updates. - Will now run on Macs with Apple Silicon: the Live View will just show the 3D Compass module, and the 3D Compass module will default to manual gestures to move the compass. - Fix for incorrect field of view reported by OS for 1x camera on iPhone 14 Pro. - Other minor bugfixes and improvements; SDK updates.
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2.8
- Big visualization update to the Street View and Map View - (new!) Street View - completely refreshed 3d visualization with more features - (new!) Map View - added a refreshed 3d visualization - (new!) Apple Maps now available as a "beta" experience - choose from flat or (iOS 16+) realistic 3d maps - Many other minor bugfixes and improvements
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2.8.1
2.8.1 - Fixed one crash with Map satellite view. - Other minor bugfixes and improvements. 2.8 - Big visualization update to the Street View and Map View - (new!) Street View - completely refreshed 3d visualization with more features - (new!) Map View - added a refreshed 3d visualization - (new!) Apple Maps now available as a "beta" experience - choose from flat or (iOS 16+) realistic 3d maps
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2.8.2
(2.8.2) - Street View: removed filter intended to exclude indoor locations, that was unfortunately also restricting too many outdoor locations (2.8) - Big visualization update to the Street View and Map View - (new!) Street View - completely refreshed 3d visualization with more features - (new!) Map View - added a refreshed 3d visualization - (new!) Apple Maps now available as a "beta" experience - choose from flat or (iOS 16+) realistic 3d maps
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2.8.3
- Updates for iOS 17. - Added a pure GMT manual timezone. - Added an elevation override when using observer + target tools on the map view. - Minor bugfixes, SDK Updates.
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2.8.4
- Minor fixes and improvements.
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2.8.5
- For iPad: enabled "split view" and "slide over" functionality for the app - iOS 18 updates - Updated SDKs, bug fixes, and improvements.
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2.8.6
2.8.6 - iOS 18: added dark mode and tint mode icon artwork - Fixes for the Mac app experience 2.8.5 - For iPad: enabled "split view" and "slide over" functionality for the app - iOS 18 updates - Updated SDKs, bug fixes, and improvements.
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2.8.7
2.8.7 - iOS 18: fix for widget GPS location refresh. 2.8.6 - iOS 18: added dark mode and tint mode icon artwork - Fixes for the Mac app experience 2.8.5 - For iPad: enabled "split view" and "slide over" functionality for the app - iOS 18 updates - Updated SDKs, bug fixes, and improvements.
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2.8.8
2.8.7, 2.8.8 - iOS 18: fix for widget GPS location refresh. 2.8.6 - iOS 18: added dark mode and tint mode icon artwork. - Fixes for the Mac app experience. 2.8.5 - For iPad: enabled "split view" and "slide over" functionality for the app. - iOS 18 updates. - Updated SDKs, bug fixes, and improvements.
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2.9
- Added a shadow point and indicator line in the Live + Street View modules. - Twilight Info Panel, Ephemeris: Dawn and Dusk times now show start and end. - Added a preference for the Time Machine Slider startup default. - New more realistic moon simulation in the Ephemeris with libration shown over the year. - Other fixes and tweaks.
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2.9.1
· 7 Nov 2025
2.9.1 - SDK updates, minor fixes and tweaks. 2.9 - Added a shadow point and indicator line in the Live + Street View modules. - Twilight Info Panel, Ephemeris: Dawn and Dusk times now show start and end. - Added a preference for the Time Machine Slider startup default. - New more realistic moon simulation in the Ephemeris with libration shown over the year.
Alternatives
- The Photographer's Ephemeris — Same category + similar ratings
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- 31 Jul 2026
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