# Aurora Beacon — Northern Lights Forecast

> Northern Lights Forecast (iPhone/iPad app by Neil Thomas.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aurora-beacon/id6787973748 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Neil Thomas](https://appshunter.io/developer/363455395)
- Category: Weather, Travel
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 86 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-01
- Data updated: 2026-09-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aurora-beacon/id6787973748/reviews.md

## What is Aurora Beacon?

Aurora Beacon is a Northern Lights and Southern Lights forecast app designed to answer the question that matters most: is it worth going outside tonight?

Instead of relying on a single global aurora index, Aurora Beacon combines live space weather, darkness, cloud cover, Moon conditions and your location to give you a practical local aurora forecast.

SEE THE AURORA TONIGHT
• Local aurora forecast and visibility guidance
• Northern Lights and Southern Lights viewing information
• Space-weather activity and real local viewing conditions kept clearly separate
• Best viewing window and the biggest factor helping or limiting your chances
• Recent trends showing how conditions are changing

FOLLOW THE AURORA
• Full aurora visibility map
• Northern and southern aurora views
• Immediate local aurora alerts
• Light-pollution and darker-horizon planning
• Viewing spots and Horizon Compass

UNDERSTAND THE SPACE WEATHER
Follow the journey from the Sun to Earth with solar imagery, solar-wind conditions, geomagnetic activity, regional ground observations and solar-event context.

See how solar storms, coronal holes, high-speed solar wind and geomagnetic activity can affect your chances of seeing the aurora.

COMMUNITY
See approved aurora photographs from real observers and contribute your own sightings. Public Community locations are kept approximate rather than exposing a precise private observing position.

AURORA BEACON PLUS
The core Aurora Beacon experience remains free. Aurora Beacon Plus adds deeper Advanced intelligence, Coronal Hole Watch, Solar Events and future/HSS outlook alerts.

Aurora and Northern Lights forecasting is uncertain by nature. Aurora Beacon is designed to make that uncertainty useful and understandable rather than promise that an aurora will appear.

Terms of Use (EULA):
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Privacy Policy:
https://aurorabeacon.space/privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aurora Beacon Plus Yearly | $24.99 | per year |
| Aurora Beacon Plus Monthly | $2.99 | per month |



## Version history (last 2 releases)

### Version 3.3.60 — 2026-09-04

What’s New

• Expanded Moon details with more useful viewing information
• Added bright comet tracking and visibility guidance
• Added solar and lunar eclipse information, including local viewing details
• Added meteor shower events and viewing guidance
• Added planet events, including conjunctions and oppositions
• New guidance to help you understand when, where and how to see upcoming sky events

### 3.3.39 — 2026-09-01

No release notes.

## More apps by Neil Thomas

- [Dolphin Spotter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dolphin-spotter/id6484592546)
- [BirdBeacon - Live Bird Alerts](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/birdbeacon-live-bird-alerts/id6504520102)
- [Threadfall Puzzle](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/threadfall-puzzle/id6767870332)

All apps by Neil Thomas: https://appshunter.io/developer/363455395

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*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 2026-09-10.*