AstroShader User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience62.4% of reviews
Neutral17.6% of reviews
Negative experience20.0% of reviews

~ Based on 85 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is AstroShader Safe?

AstroShader appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for AstroShader is 80/100.

This assessment is based on 94 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.1/5.

Safety Analysis

77.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
9.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
12.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 94 App Store ratings for AstroShader.

Is AstroShader Legit?

AstroShader appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for AstroShader is 68/100.

Based on 68 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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.
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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!
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Response from developer

There was an issue with v1.2.0 affecting alignment v1.2.1 has resolved this!

Love it

Great app

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.
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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!
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My opinion 😍

"The future of photography isn't about the size of the sensor, but the power of the processing. I want AstroShader to bridge the gap between a smartphone and a DSLR through Advanced Computational Stacking and AI-based Noise Reduction, making high-end astrophotography accessible to everyone."

Update

The last update broke the app for me, all the pictures I take are just completely black, no matter how much light is in the picture. I hope this gets fixed soon.

Can you fix it?

It keeps crashing

Awesome, powerful; useless

Camera locks up after a certain amount of time requiring a phone restart, which makes it sort of useless in the field at night on a small mount. iPhone 17, iOS 26.2.1

Only use for taking pictures

The automatic stacking is diabolical for untracked photos. Doesn’t align stars if untracked. I’ll just be putting the images I take into sequator to stack instead

Can you fix it?

It keeps crashing

What a great free app

Outstanding app. I am shocked that its quality considering its free. Very highly recommended!

AstroShader with a telescope

While the standard iPhone app is better for full night and landscape shots, it’s not what this app is meant for in my opinion. This app works best when using a telescope, as the standard iPhone camera app has no stacking software, so there would be large star trails if you try to take a long exposure on the standard app. Excels at taking photos with quite a lot of stars, and nebulas.
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Has its issues, but is great.

I’ve taken many decent shots of deep sky targets like galaxies and nebulae just with my phone to a telescope thanks to this app, it makes things so much easier with limited resources. It still has a few issues and improvements which could be made but ultimately it’s a brilliant app.

Great! Would love more options like deep sky stacker.

Hi guys! Great app! Love it. I’ve got some great photos, but have a few suggestions… Forst of all, where can I select dark flat and light frames??? Could you implement that as a SEPRATE setting? It’s convenient as is, but would also love full manual as an option. Also, could you select where in the exposure are that you want to stack based off? Otherwise a great app! Would encourage! Now it’s no Nicon and telescope, but it gets the job done. Would benefit from a good tutorial… just saying. Can’t emphasize how game changing this was and still is! Have a good day!
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Doesn’t work

App crashes when trying to use any of the features.

Works fine for single captures, crashes on multiple

Multiple attempts to capture multiple 30s exposures. Works fine for 1, anytime I try to select more than 2 the app crashes