# APOD Astronomy Pics and Widget — user reviews > 101 indexed App Store user reviews of APOD Astronomy Pics and Widget by Mark Hambly, rated 4.86/5 from 259 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/apod-astronomy-pics-and-widget/id1532969874/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/apod-astronomy-pics-and-widget/id1532969874.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 242 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of APOD Astronomy Pics and Widget? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great when it's working - 🤩 Captivating and educational - 🌟 Fantastic Universe! - 🌍 Amazing app, would recommend, this is definitely for space lovers - 🤓 One of my favourite apps - ☕ Coffee! - 🤩 Awesome !!!!!! - 🌟 Amazing app - 🌅 A nice start to my day - 👨‍👧‍👦 Kids Love It - 🤩 Great and widget! - 🤩 Best app ever! - 🤩 Absolutely in love!!!🖤🤍 - 🤓 Learn about the universe! - 🌟 Perfectly streamlined - 🤩 This is my favorite app. - 🤩 Good - 🤩 Best widgets 🫡 - 🤩 Amazing - 🤩 Extraordinaire - 🤩 Great app - 🤩 Love it. - 🤩 Wonderful! - 🤩 Good - 🤩 Berwick sky's - 🤩 We need more like you - 🤩 Great! - 🤩 wonderful app! - 🤩 Do one thing well - 🤩 Good ! - 🤩 Simple, educational and interesting app - 🤩 Wow! - 🤩 Favorite widget - ❤️ ❤️ - 🤩 Awesome - 🤩 Love This App, but it needs an update - 🤩 Love! - 🤩 Wonderful to see new things every day - 🤩 Everyday is a new discovery - 🤩 Best widget - 🤩 Awesome APOD App! - 🤩 A cool photo app - 🤩 Amazing - 🤩 Just get it! - 🤩 widget works perfectly - 🤩 Generosity - 🤩 Great app - 🤩 Amazing - 🤩 Thanks mate - 🤩 So cool! - 🤩 Exactly what it says - 🤩 Awesome widget - 🤩 Excellent - 🤩 Cool pictures - 🤩 Beautiful pictures and widget - 🤩 Finally a useful widget! - 🤩 Very nice! - 🤩 Wonderful app! - 🤩 Excellent widgets - 🤩 Simple and Beautiful **Cons** - 🐛 Unusable - 🐛 Stopped working - 🐛 iOS 26 HELP - 🐛 No longer works - 🐛 Broken images with iOS 26 :( - 🤖 AI Slop - 🔋 Viewing problem - 🔋 Great app with optimization problems - 🐛 Was great but stopped working **Commonly reported bugs** - Stopped working with iOS 26 update - Images do not load with iOS 26 at the moment - Excessive battery usage by widget **Most requested features** - Navigation buttons would be nice - A way to swipe between days - A search function - A browser for other images by date ## Newest reviews (12 of 101) ### 4/5 — Great when it’s working *2026-01-07, version 6* I love APOD and look forward to each day’s photo or video. It’s very disheartening when I the servers are down. My favorite is a photo of the sun in ultraviolet. It’s stunningly beautiful. ### 5/5 — ////////ไไ/หไไไ *2024-09-21, version 6* ั/ไม่ /ไม่ ไม่ ### 5/5 — Apps *2024-05-27, version 6* What a fantastic program!!!! Thanks NASA!, ### 5/5 — AWSOME *2024-02-25, version 6* I wake up every morning to see what daily picture is there going to be. They all look awsome! ### 5/5 — Love APOD 🩵 *2024-02-18, version 6* Thanks! ### 5/5 — Top Tier App *2023-12-03, version 6* This is the kind of software I love. Does what it says on the tin, isn’t jammed full of ads because the creator is just trying to make an easy buck. Just a simple, clean UI for NASA’s APOD, and a humble tip link in the settings. *Chef’s kiss* this app should be a model for other developers imo. ### 5/5 — Beautiful *2023-11-12, version 6* Love APOD so much. It feels important and beautiful to receive this daily reminder that we are so small if the grand scheme of things. there’s mystery and vastness all around when we open our eyes to see something much bigger than ourselves. ### 5/5 — I cannot express how much this app means to me *2023-06-28, version 6* It is so important to me to be able to view the beauty of the stars, the wonder of space. It improves my days exponentially. Even viewing them on a little app enables me to imagine the vastness and variety of the universe. Our tools continue to improve— the Hubble, now the JWST— no one knows what science may offer next to see, perceive, understand and experience the stars. At my current age, I probably won’t see the next iteration, but I plan to live as long as I can to see what’s next in science, especially astrophysics. Thank you for APOD. ### 5/5 — One of my favourite apps *2023-05-26, version 6* Fantastic app, works exactly as intended. It has useful features like the ability to view any previous photograph of the day and save your favourites to look at later, which has allowed to me to amass quite a collection! The widgets have made a brilliant addition to my home screen and the informative description of each image is often quite interesting and educational. Would highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Coffee! *2023-04-24, version 6* These pics everyday are more than $ for coffee! Amazing site !!! Can’t get enough! ### 5/5 — Awesome !!!!!! *2023-04-15, version 6* I love space dearly. I'm so glad that an app dedicated to pictures from space exists... and I can put these pictures as a widget!!!!?!!???!!!! So I can look at them ALL THE TIME??!!??!!? :D Thank you so much. ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2023-03-29, version 6* This is one of the greatest apps I have seen so far. It is very simple and that’s why I think it’s very good. Very well done, I’m looking forward to new updates! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Unusable *2026-01-11, version 6* This app ceased working immediately after updating to iPadOS 26.2. It opens but just sits there with a spinning icon in the middle of the screen. I have no problem viewing if I go directly to the web-site with Safari Browser. ### 1/5 — Stopped working *2025-10-23, version 6* Stopped working with iOS 26 update please investigate. This is a great app otherwise. ### 1/5 — iOS 26 HELP *2025-10-21, version 6* The ONLY reason I am leaving a 1 star review is to hopefully get a message to the dev as this app has stopped loading since I updated to iOS 26 and I couldn’t find any other way to communicate with the dev. ### 1/5 — AI Slop *2024-12-07, version 6* I’ve used this app since widgets were available but will be uninstalling thanks to the AI slop that is now being featured. Using AI generated imagery completely ruins the point of the app. ### 1/5 — Be warned *2020-12-12, version 5* I love the idea of this app but it has a fatal bug. It heats up my phone like crazy. I downloaded on my iPhone 11 Pro and lost 5% battery health in 1 week. I deleted it and my battery health stopped declining. I thought I’d give it another shot this week on my new iPhone 12 pro and within minutes of downloading the app and setting up a widget my phone started overheating... when the screen was off. Please fix this fault. ### 2/5 — Was great but stopped working *2023-07-19, version 6* Was great but seems to have stopped working as of July 2023. No updates in 2 hrs so I guess it’s time to look elsewhere. ### 2/5 — Deleted *2022-08-06, version 6* Deleted due to excessive battery usage by widget. 17% in just a couple of hours. Also, if it’s supposed to be an astronomy photo app, why put the sliding stones of Death Valley as photo of the day? ### 3/5 — Viewing problem *2024-07-04, version 6* For some reason I don’t seem to be able to find this app anywhere on my phone. Some help would be nice. The photos are beautiful from what I found in the sign up area in apple apps. ### 3/5 — Great app with optimization problems *2024-04-05, version 6* I love the app but because of the fact that all photos are getting saved in the app files instead of being cached only for the day leads to the app taking over 1 GB, which forced me to uninstall ### 3/5 — No title *2023-06-11, version 6* Isn’t this free anymore? Do I need to redo the app? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best APOD app *2026-03-08, version 6* This is the best APOD app. I love the widget options! ### 5/5 — Awesome!!!!!!! *2026-02-28, version 6* So far so good… ### 5/5 — daily delight *2025-11-29, version 6* APOD is a quick easy way to get to today’s astronomy picture of the day and get it full screen with just a tap. Navigation buttons would be nice, if I forgot to open it for a few days I need to go to NASA for previous days. ### 5/5 — No longer works *2025-10-21, version 6* No longer works on iOS 26 ### 5/5 — work on iOS 26? *2025-10-16, version 6* Love this app. But stopped working when I updated to 26. ### 5/5 — Broken images with iOS 26 :( *2025-09-16, version 6* Images do not load with iOS 26 at the moment. Applies to both in-app and widgets ### 5/5 — Captivating and educational *2025-07-25, version 6* Simple, clean UI that’s easy to use and looks great. Love getting to see each day’s photo right on my home screen so I never miss one. ### 5/5 — Pic of the day Widgets!! *2025-01-14, version 6* Was trying to find an app that has NASAs pic of the day thing and this app has it! Plus over all such a cool and lovely setup in the app itself ### 5/5 — Fantastic Universe! *2024-12-13, version 6* What a beautiful collection of images. I was daydreaming in them and discovering our fantastic universe creations. I’ve never done stargazing until now and finally, I get it. Thank you so much for the travels. DAS ### 5/5 — Amazing app, would recommend, this is definitely for space lovers *2024-09-24, version 6* It has the same photos on the NASA app tooooo! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-29.*