# Aurora Now - Northern Lights — user reviews > 119 indexed App Store user reviews of Aurora Now by VNIL AB, rated 4.70/5 from 1,565 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aurora-now-northern-lights/id1037695306/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aurora-now-northern-lights/id1037695306.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,301 · 4★ 156 · 3★ 48 · 2★ 21 · 1★ 39 ## What do users think of Aurora Now? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🤩 Awesome app - 👍 Easy to use - 🤯 Informative and educational - 🎉 Accurate predictions - 🌟 Wonderful design - 🥰 Helpful tool for aurora chasers **Cons** - 💰 Subscription required for full features - 🗺️ Limited location selection - 🤔 Contradictory forecasts - 🙄 Inaccurate predictions - 🤯 Confusing terminology **Commonly reported bugs** - App not loading data - Notifications not working - Outdated map information **Most requested features** - Cloud cover information - Ability to select custom location - Real-time alerts for aurora activity - More detailed space weather data - Tutorial or glossary for technical terms ## Newest reviews (15 of 119) ### 2/5 — Not free! Subscription *2025-09-16, version 2.10.1* Not bad at $9/yr but NOAA is free ### 5/5 — Excellent Northern Lights Tracker *2025-08-11, version 2.10.0* Love this app. Best I’ve found so far for tracking Northern Lights. ### 5/5 — Title *2025-07-19, version 2.9.1* It’s a good app I like it ### 2/5 — Select other location *2025-06-23, version 2.9.1* Since I never have location services turned on I can’t do much with the app. I’m also too far south for most events. What would be very useful would be to be able to select a location on the map. That way I could tell what I could see if I travelled north to a different location. My primary use for the app would be to help me decide if and where to travel in order to see some good Aurora. ### 4/5 — Not a bad app *2025-06-04, version 2.8.0* Does the trick just wished it had cloud coverage with it ### 5/5 — Wonderful app!! *2025-05-03, version 2.6.4* It has a truly great design, amazing charts, and good data!! I love the Apple WeatherKit cloud cover integration. ### 5/5 — Sehr gut und übersichtlich *2025-04-15* Sehr gute und übersichtliche App um die aktuellen und die DSCOVR-Werte in meiner Region für Polarlichter abzurufen. ### 2/5 — Contradicting forecasts *2025-03-02, version 2.6.3* Because of this app we cancelled our trip to Iceland since it predicted Kp 2 to 3 during our dates. How disappointed we were that suddenly it gave us Kp 6 after we cancelled everything two days before. But the most disappointment was to see two graphs of 3 days and 27 days one above the other with two contradictions for the same night! ### 4/5 — Great could use a bit more *2025-02-28, version 2.6.3* This app is pretty good for tracking flares and the basic telemetry for space weather but I wish they would at least put some of the Cme spiral models on here and extend the recent solar flare list to at least a week so that we can watch the CME’s from those flares come in, since it can take several days for them to reach us I feel it would help with preparing aurora chasers if we could track the CMEs from the sun to us, instead of watching the x flares drop off before the telemetry picks it up, if you didn’t catch the flare before they drop off, you wouldn’t know to expect anything. But other wise this is solid for catching the x flare when it happens, but you still have to go to noaa or a space weather site if you want to catch a video of the event before it gets back logged and you have to search for that data. ### 5/5 — Best app to see the Northern light *2025-02-13* Thank to the developers. 👏👏👏 The best application to know when and where to see the northern lights. You can report the location to the community known. Must have for your trip 👏👏👏 ### 5/5 — Great features! *2025-02-11, version 2.6.3* Love the view feature, helps significantly when trying to spot the aurora. ### 5/5 — Must have, if you are an aurora chaser!! *2025-01-13, version 2.6.3* Great app, lots of information provided and probability of seeing auroras. Also need to learn about all the various terms and indices used, in aurora prediction and probability. I use this daily. ### 5/5 — It Sucks!!! *2025-01-01, version 2.6.1* I have to pay for almost everything, I want to get the alerts and what the Aurora would look like overtime, but I have only 2 cents in my Apple Account😡 ### 5/5 — Lapland 19-12-24 *2024-12-18, version 2.5.5* Just been out on a snow boot safari and enjoyed the lights from our climb and got engaged at the top of our climb 😊 ### 5/5 — Well *2024-11-22, version 2.5.4* It’s a great application ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 0/10 *2026-01-03, version 2.12.4* Useless unless you pay ### 1/5 — Geldsache *2025-10-18* Schlecht ### 1/5 — Doesn’t even deserve one star *2025-05-19, version 2.7.0* Looked at map and as shocked to see that the creators called the Gukf of Mexico the Gulf of America?!👎🏻👎🏻 If you don’t know the names in geography, you’re not scientific. WORST APP EVER!!!! ### 1/5 — Cancel the application *2024-11-23, version 2.5.4* Useless ,never worked this application ### 1/5 — Sucks *2024-11-11* Sucks ### 1/5 — Not accurate *2024-10-12, version 2.5.2* The app told me last night there was 0% activity in my town. This morning I see a lot of pictures posted by locals ### 1/5 — Did not identify cost before loading app *2024-10-11, version 2.5.1* Poor business practices ### 1/5 — It doesn’t allow to change location *2024-09-02, version 2.4.8* Looking for an specific location in Norway but can’t choose the location ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2024-06-30, version 2.4.8* Not enough information ### 1/5 — En japonais ?!? *2024-06-04* Sans aucune action de ma part, l'appli a modifié la langue et me voila avec une appli en japonais !!! Impossible de revenir au Français malgré une désinstallation et réinstallation. L'abonnement en revanche court toujours 😡 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Clean, easy to use *2026-04-19, version 2.18.1* The app is very simplistic and easy to use. It helps that you are able to see different information for a specific time just by dragging your finger. Still trying to learn the importance of all given info ### 5/5 — Observer *2026-01-20, version 2.12.6* Simply awesome app very much cool!! ### 5/5 — The best app out there *2025-12-23, version 2.12.3* The best app out there ### 5/5 — great app - use it whenever I can *2025-12-22, version 2.12.3* took app onboard a cruise in norway - gave me a head start to go on deck and enjoy the aurora for more than an hour before the ship announced it. using it now in iteland - just in case- I can see the miracle again ### 5/5 — Clean, easy to use *2025-11-12, version 2.12.1* The app is very simplistic and easy to use. It helps that you are able to see different information for a specific time just by dragging your finger. Still trying to learn the importance of all given info ### 5/5 — Epic app *2025-11-12, version 2.12.1* I love this app it is one of my favourite aurora app thank you creator 🥰❤️ ### 5/5 — Love to learn *2025-10-27, version 2.12.0* This is great! , informative, accurate, educational, get this app and learn something new! ### 5/5 — Aurora Now *2025-10-15, version 2.11.1* Still learning how "Speed", "Bz", "Density", "Bt", etc. relate to visible Aurora intensity, but what I do understand works great. App layout is clear and concise. The "3 Day Forecast" and "27 Day Outlook" are vert helpful and I really enjoy the "Map" page. Just wish I understood more of the data in looking at. ### 5/5 — User *2025-10-02, version 2.11.1* Superb ### 5/5 — User *2025-09-02, version 2.10.1* Simply awesome app --- *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.*