AstroShader Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience62.3% of reviews
Neutral14.0% of reviews
Negative experience23.7% of reviews

~ Based on 114 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is AstroShader Safe?

AstroShader appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for AstroShader is 84/100.

This assessment is based on 121 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

80.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 105 App Store ratings for AstroShader.

Is AstroShader Legit?

AstroShader appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for AstroShader is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Garbage save your money

Has a brutal compression when stacking photos…when it even lets you stack them

Amazing App! but...

This app is Amazing and well worth the 3 bucks, I would definitely recommend this app to anyone. but, I have had a issue. and I have a feature request. (You don't have to add it, but it would be nice.)

ISSUE:
When editing a image, in the curves menu, if I drag any of the sliders to high, then the app just fully crashes, I'm not sure if it's my device or the app, but at least for me I do not need it. As I edit on PC.

FEATURE RECOMMENDATION:

Have a bool toggle that is called Auto Save. What this does is after a image is takin, instead of showing that file type export popup, that can disappear if phone goes to sleep (yea I could disable it, but this would still be nice.) What this feature does is as soon as a image finishes, instead of opening that popup to save, it just saves the image as the selected file type. (Shows up under the bool when enabled (or whatever you want to do it) and it saves it as that.

DEVICE INFO:

Iphone 11
IOS 18
Show more

This app is literally the goat

Honestly this is the best Astrophotography app I’ve used it’s pretty simple and effective and although it’s not as good with planets it makes up for it with the cool views of stars and deep sky objects through my 114mm telescope I was able to see the ring nebula clearly, clusters and many things that are pretty difficult to see otherwise so yeah w app, but one last thing to help with planets I’ve found that looking at it through the live view and taking a screen recording can give you detail without the problems of it moving during exposures.
Show more

More of a hinderance than an advantage

I like the user interface and layout but whenever taking more than around 10 exposures the app crashes. It also does this when stacking images. Just shuts itself down and cancled the stack after waiting ages. Also you can’t exit or let your phone go off whilst stacking images. That will cancel them too and also sometimes won’t alow yoj to save the images as the save button stops working. I think the best way is using an app like nocturne and just so I haven’t wasted my money might use Astro shader to stack images. But if I have problems i will delete and find a better app that doesn’t crash for the stacking part of my process
Show more

Save doesn’t work

When I try to press save on iPhone 13 Pro nothing at all happens even when I tested it on an extremely basic image with no editing

Using for super resolution?

I love the app. Even though, admittedly, I haven’t really used it for astrophotography. Despite that, it is still one of the most interesting (camera) apps I have ever used.

It does noise reduction for “regular” photography great. I just wish it had the ability to get scaled (12mp to +48mp) up before or after stacking.

I also understand that this app is for astrophotography, so I wouldn’t be surprised if experimental “super resolution” wouldn’t be the first thing to implement. But I would like to ask anyways, as no other app I have ever seen can do anything like this one.

Either way, I love the app.

5 stars!
Show more

Ne fonctionne pas

Passez votre chemin, l’appli ne fonctionne pas du tout.

Response from developer

Je vous prie de m'excuser pour cela. Veuillez essayer de mettre à jour vers la version 1.2.5.

Can’t use the new AstroShader

Used to take T-CrB (mag 12) nova everyday, while weather permits in the past more than a year. Ever since after version update, since late June., the updated app can not produce good enough picture. Can you provide the older version such as the 1.0.38, the version just before the v1.2.0, so that I can continue to picture the T-CrB. Thank you.
Show more

Please restore unlimited RAW capture

Please remove the 1000-image limit. Previous versions allowed unlimited RAW capture. I use AstroShader for deep-sky imaging and stack thousands of RAW frames in Siril. This new limit breaks my existing workflow. Please restore the previous behavior.

I can’t take clear pictures of the planets anymore, yet it still works a bit

I used to be able to take good clear shots of all the planets with this app such as Jupiter and Saturn. Nowadays, whenever I try to do Saturn again in the morning, it would often appear very blurry no matter how hard I try to change the settings in the app. But it would work for some of the other planets such as Mars, Neptune, and Uranus. Sometimes even Venus too. I’m curious if there is a specific setting besides changing the ISO and exposure time to make them clear again or if there needs to be some additional update to compensate for this problem. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do because I want to take clear photos of the planets with my telescope like I once did before. Thank you so much for your understanding. And please fix it to make it the same good old version again. I beg you developers, please!
Show more

Matt

Best app for capturing astrophotography on iOS!

Ruined by update

Before AstroShader was reliable and a general great app to use. Now the update made iso so DAMN SENSITIVE, they RUINED THE UI, you need to scroll so much more now, and you don’t display the time anymore. Now every time I need to check the time I have to exit the app and what do you know? All my settings get erased. WHY DID YOU REMOVE SAVING??
Now I need to spend 3 more minutes changing settings with ultra sensitive and huge ui. And when I try to screen record? FREAKING ERASED AGAIN. WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO YOUR PERFECT APP??? ATP just use the default camera 🥀
Show more

Love it

Great app

Makes Astrophotography iOS friendly

You couldn’t shoot the stars on iPhone before but this app has changed it now. Best app out there.

Doesn’t stack

I tried for an hour to image M13 with this software. I tried different amounts of exposures, exposure times, iso, and stacking methods. Every single time I tried imaging all I got were long stretchy blobs and star streaks. I could clearly see a good image during the capturing process but as soon as the post processing begins it just turns in to streaky nonsense. The app doesn’t even have app support to contact someone for help.

0/5 stars.
Show more

Congratulations

Add a pro version, i will buy imediatly

Bug

Very good app, but need bug fixes, astroshader can only be used 1 time and the rest of the taken pictures from then on are all black

such a great app

add support for android pls 🙏

1 Year later…

It’s been 1 year since I used this app, and my experience was overall amazing. There has been some bugs, but these new updates are getting increasingly better. I love to see this getting updated more, and I hope the developer keeps making this better. I have gotten some amazing pictures from AstroShader, and I will continue to use this app. Definitely 5 stars!
Show more

An Embarrassing Shutter Sound Keeps Blasting the Entire Time You Shoot

Manual focus is available, so it works fine even on an iPhone 17, where the standard camera often struggles to focus on stars. The app also makes it easy to adjust the look of the image after shooting, so with this app, it is definitely possible to create beautiful night sky photos on a phone.

However, the biggest problem completely ruins the experience: the shutter sound keeps going the entire time until the shooting session is finished. For example, if you set it to take 100 shots at 10 seconds each, the sound continues for 1,000 seconds, or about 17 minutes. It feels incredibly embarrassing and almost endless. I even tried covering the speaker with tape to make it quieter, but that was almost useless. If this sound kept coming from a neighbor’s balcony in the middle of the night, it would definitely seem suspicious.

I strongly urge the Mr.developer to fix this problem.
Show more