# AstroShader — user reviews > 107 indexed App Store user reviews of AstroShader by AstroShader Limited, rated 4.20/5 from 98 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astroshader/id6444631986/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astroshader/id6444631986.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 57 · 4★ 20 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 9 ## Newest reviews (13 of 107) ### 3/5 — I can’t take clear pictures of the planets anymore, yet it still works a bit *2026-07-15* 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! **Developer response:** There was an issue with v1.2.0 affecting alignment v1.2.1 has resolved this! ### 3/5 — Bug *2026-04-24, version 1.0.38* 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 ### 2/5 — An Embarrassing Shutter Sound Keeps Blasting the Entire Time You Shoot *2026-03-20* 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. ### 4/5 — Can you fix it? *2026-03-06* It keeps crashing ### 3/5 — Only use for taking pictures *2026-02-11, version 1.0.36* 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 ### 4/5 — Can you fix it? *2026-02-07, version 1.0.36* It keeps crashing ### 3/5 — Есть что исправить. *2026-01-20* Приложение интересное, простое, но в тоже время мощное. На сайте не указаны контакты по которым можно было бы направить вам пожелания/замечания, так что ловите их здесь. 1. При переключении типа камеры иногда раздается звук похожий на щелчок из блока камер и вы его можете ощутить вашей ладонью, как будто что то там что то щёлкает в механизме. Я не думаю что это полезно для камер 2. Зачем открывается окно с выбором формата файла сразу после съемки? Я скорее буду редактировать и потом нажму сохранить. 3. Нет возможности автоматической настройки ИСО, выдержки, фокуса. Добавьте кнопку, или сделать тап по экрану как в стандартной камере 4. Не работает спуск через кнопку громкости и как следствие блютуз кнопки спуска не работают 5. Если вы включите «Ручной баланс белого» то эффект будет ТОЛЬКО если вы поменяете численное значение кельвинов, но если выключите то значение меееедленннооо будет меняться до какого то автоматического, а число в кельвинах все равно останется тем что вы установили. 6. Мне кажется неправильным восстанавливать параметры съемки при переключении камер до тех значений которые были использованы в последний раз при съемке, я думаю что там должны просто сохранятся параметры каждый раз когда вы что то меняете, но не обязательно вы снимали с этими настройками. 7. Добавьте возможность выставлять задержку между кадрами ### 5/5 — Has its issues, but is great. *2025-12-31* 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. ### 5/5 — UNLEASH THE POTENTIAL *2025-12-12* I thought that the iphone wasn’t good for astrophotography until i came across the astroshader app. This app literally provides you EVERYTHING you could imagine for astrophotography, from stacking to controllling iso to managing the exposure, it gives you the full control. With this app, capturing the night sky was too good to be true. IT UNLEASHES THE FULL POTENTIAL OF THE IPHONE, it’s my go to now. Overall, EXTREMELY RECOMMENDED ### 4/5 — Great! Would love more options like deep sky stacker. *2025-12-07* 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! ### 2/5 — Eigentlich genial *2025-11-23* Leider kann ich die Belichtungszeit nicht einstellen(Iphone16 Pro). Ebenso auf 13Pro ### 4/5 — Indispensável *2025-11-17* Um canivete suíço de opções para auxiliar na fotografia de astros. Senti falta apenas de filtros para redução da poluição luminosa. ### 3/5 — Works fine for single captures, crashes on multiple *2025-10-18, version 1.0.33* Multiple attempts to capture multiple 30s exposures. Works fine for 1, anytime I try to select more than 2 the app crashes ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Save doesn’t work *2026-08-17* 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 **Developer response:** 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). ### 1/5 — Ne fonctionne pas *2026-08-13* Passez votre chemin, l’appli ne fonctionne pas du tout. **Developer response:** Je vous prie de m'excuser pour cela. Veuillez essayer de mettre à jour vers la version 1.2.5. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t stack *2026-05-10* 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. ### 1/5 — Update *2026-03-13, version 1.0.38* 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. ### 1/5 — Awesome, powerful; useless *2026-02-11, version 1.0.36* 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 ### 1/5 — Doesnt work *2026-02-07* Hello AstroShader Team, I’m experiencing crashes in the app on my iPhone 11 running iOS 16.2.1. I have AstroShader Version 1.0.36 installed (latest from the App Store). The app opens and I can import pictures, but any interactive feature crashes immediately. I Open AstroShader Tap + / − (controls) app crashes Tap on the screen app crashes Try to take a picture app crashes Open Settings app crashes Use the Focus adjustment slider app crashes Tap the i (info) button app crashes Importing pictures works normally App version: 1.0.36 (latest) What I’ve already tried: Restarting my iPhone Reinstalling AstroShader Resetting camera permissions Launching as the first app after reboot Because only interactive features cause an immediate crash, it appears to be a feature‑specific bug in the current build. Please let me know if you need any additional logs or details. Thank you for your help! **Developer response:** Sorry for this... The only thing I can suggest is deleting and reinstalling version 1.0.37. The are a few framework issues that will be resolved by AstroShader2.0 which is coming out later this year. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-10-22, version 1.0.33* App crashes when trying to use any of the features. ### 1/5 — WHO THE FREAK MADE THIS? *2025-10-15, version 1.0.33* So I download this app and thought that this app can help me get better photos since now I’m an astrophotographer and I’ve been waiting days to try this because I’m trying to wait for a clear sky in my area. I try this and this app doesn’t make any sense. so whoever made the seconds, area, please fix it because one I’m trying to make it to 30 seconds instead it looks like it’s gonna take 30 hours. and second, I’m trying so hard to think is it 30.000, and the other part is the exposure which doesn’t make any sense either because I’m trying to make it at 50 photos stacked, but I don’t know why it says saving on my photos which is why and this app clearly said and I heard from a person talking about this that it does it for you by stacking the images for you. Somebody please fix this I think it’s a bug. ### 1/5 — Crashing *2025-10-14* app crashes constantly in iOS 26 ### 1/5 — … *2025-07-17* Просто вырубает приложение при нажатии на кнопку сделать кадр. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Using for super resolution? *2026-08-16* 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! ### 5/5 — Can’t use the new AstroShader *2026-07-28* 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. ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-06-17* Great app ### 5/5 — Makes Astrophotography iOS friendly *2026-05-15* You couldn’t shoot the stars on iPhone before but this app has changed it now. Best app out there. ### 5/5 — Congratulations *2026-04-29* Add a pro version, i will buy imediatly ### 5/5 — such a great app *2026-04-16, version 1.0.38* add support for android pls 🙏 ### 5/5 — 1 Year later… *2026-03-23* 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! ### 5/5 — My opinion 😍 *2026-03-13, version 1.0.38* "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." ### 5/5 — What a great free app *2026-01-29* Outstanding app. I am shocked that its quality considering its free. Very highly recommended! ### 5/5 — AstroShader with a telescope *2026-01-02* 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. --- *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.*