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.
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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
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Response from developer
Hello, Sorry about this! I have not any reports of issues like this in the latest beta release, so slightly stumped. I will take a look through the log data and see if I can find any clues as to what is happening here... If you are willing please feel free to reach out on the CloudNights AstroShader forum. There are lots others on there too who might be able to help debug the issue
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
Response from developer
Sorry about this. Please try updating to version 1.2.5 and also check you have granted permission to add to your Photos Library. (I'm not seeing any crash reports for an issue like this - so struggling to debug. I regularly test on an IP13 Pro so fairly sure it's not a device specific issue).
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!
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!
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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.
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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
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.
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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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.
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.
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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
