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Earthlapse
Earthlapse
Jetson Creative LLC
📚 Education
🎬 Entertainment

Customer Experience

Positive experience70.9% of reviews
Neutral10.2% of reviews
Negative experience18.9% of reviews

~ Based on 127 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Earthlapse. Based on 25 reviews and a 4.1/5 average, it highlights the 10 positives and 10 negatives reviewers mention most about this Education app.

Positive things

  • 🌍Stunning visual quality and beautiful Earth views from space
  • 🎵Excellent ambient space music that enhances experience
  • 😌Calming and relaxing atmosphere for stress relief
  • 📺Works well with AirPlay and TV display
  • 🎨Elegant design and well-coded interface
  • ⏰Functions as useful screensaver and clock display
  • 🚀Smooth performance without bugs or crashes
  • 🌌Unique perspective on Earth from ISS viewpoint
  • 💎Great value, especially when free
  • 🎓Educational tool for science students

Negative things

  • 💾Massive file size (500-609MB) consumes excessive storage
  • 🐢Very slow download times
  • 🔄Limited content with repetitive looping videos
  • 📹Low image quality and blurriness on some devices
  • ❌No real-time live feed from space station
  • 🎮Lacks interactivity and user controls
  • 🔌No AirPlay support for live view feature
  • 🎵Cannot customize background music
  • 📊No educational information or learning content
  • 💰Requires separate paid purchase for Apple TV version

Is Earthlapse Safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Earthlapse.

Is Earthlapse Legit?

Earthlapse appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Earthlapse is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Awesome images

Awesome images and background music. Relaxing and intriguing. Play to find a relaxing series of images of the earth from the SST.
MI State fanMI State fan

Good app when working

The weather is showing forecast it’s blank space station it’s not right working . Please fix’s Earthlapse and I will give you a five star rating.iPad os and iOS iPhone too. Thank you
Space stormSpace storm

This is hilarious

The earth is flat this is all cgi crap lol
MHutch_22MHutch_22

MASSIVE download

This app is a major storage hog. Took forever to download and takes up way too much space on my phone. Only a few of the videos are any good too. Why doesn’t it stream like every other app does? Not worth it - deleted
jeeves78jeeves78

Outstanding atmospheric visuals

I’m a fan of both all things space and atmospheric ambient so this app really satisfies. I’ll often just park it on my phone and let it run on my desk while I’m working. Very seamless and reliable. I wish that they would add more clips but great as is. Nice work, Devs!
haeriehaerie

I just wanted to change my 5 start to 5 star+

I was written by Jenson Creative LLC about my concerns about the APP and for the first time I actually had someone write me personally about my concerns instead of like other most other apps seem to do with their auto responses to customers. It was very much appreciated and Thank You for letting me know basically what I was afraid was going on but that assurance that you all have been doing to the best you could with what you’ve got and sometimes circumstances are just very hard to over come. Thank You again for the quick feedback and I of course would help out if possible. I feel it should be education given out to people as well.
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Jonny ChampJonny Champ

Response from developer

Hi, sorry you are unhappy. I assure you there’s a reasonable explanation for what you are observing. (1) Starting about four years ago, Apple stopped allowing developers to edit their app descriptions without updating their app. So if something changes or becomes inaccurate, the text can’t simply be edited. (2) In addition, Apple continues to increase the technical requirements on apps, such that submitting an update requires substantial work. (3) About two years ago, USTREAM, the company who hosted the live stream, was acquired by IBM. About a year later, IBM shut off the free API to access the live stream, and now wants to charge an hourly rate for access. (4) There is no affordable way for me to pay a per hour, per customer rate for the live stream when the app makes no profit. (5) Our only other choice is to remove the app from the store. Because the app is actively used in educational institutions around the world, we do not want to remove it. Aside from that, thousands of people are happy with it as is, and are comfortable switching to the NASA app when they want to see the livestream. As an indie developer I’m just one person with a tiny boat in a sea of giants like Apple and IBM. When they make certain decisions or apply certain requirements, there’s no mechanism to protest, I just have to get on board. Best regards and have a good day.

Live view!!!

Not working!!!!!!!
NcaltunaNcaltuna

It could have been great

But you can’t airplay the live view. I don’t get why but it’s the only thing I really wanted.
Garence from TweedGarence from Tweed

Beautiful

Good stuff
insainleweyinsainlewey

Image quality

Need to do an improvement on the poor quality, really blurry, not even close to being HD.
smoothie kingsmoothie king

Greedy!

You want to charge separately for the Apple TV app??!! On your bike...
Adan SAdan S

Almost good

Sure it looks better on iPad but on appleTV it is far from HD. On appleTV the image is blurred and no great details. Live camera is worst.
Hope they will keep adding new videos because I have already watched them all many many times, I'm really anxious to fly over other parts of the earth. I love this view of the Earth from above, it really gives us the real perspective of the place we live in. The Earth is small enough to be easily destroyed. Watching the Earth from above make us think about how stupid we are, fighting, creating borders and thinking we are the masters. We can get our sense of ridiculous by simply understanding where we really are in this Universe.
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JPROUSSELETJPROUSSELET

Awesome update 3.14

The latest update is most welcome with the live view from the space station. Love it!
All that is missing in the live view is an overlay showing the position of the space station so that we have an idea when it is in the day zone of the earth.
lsmeteorlsmeteor

구매목록 삭제해 주세요.

구매목록 삭제해 주세요.
jsh9209jsh9209

Not what I expected

I had assumed, incorrectly, that this would provide a real-time view from the space station. I has some recorded clips of past views in short loops. Nice but ho-hum. Uses half a gig of storage. I got it for free. Deleting it. Don't pay for it.
jimbak123jimbak123

It would look nice on my TV... ;(

I understand the business decision to create and release a separate version of this app specific to the new Apple TV, but I don't have to like it. To be honest I have gotten little use out of the iPad version and if they had updated it to work with my new Apple TV then I would have been likely to give it a much higher rating as the content would have been simpler to share with others... After all, It is sort of inherently a TV app. But, I see absolutely no reason to spend more money on this app that I already own. It's just not worth it to me. They will likely claim a technical reason (developers oftentimes do) but I doubt that greatly... This is a quite simple app and I have already seen other much more complex apps that I own made fully universal. So I am off to give those developers rave reviews, and my thanks for doing what I feel is the right thing.
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Murdock ScottMurdock Scott

Good start but....

Some beautiful space scenes but it gets boring quite quickly as there is so little content to choose from, and I don't want to buy the add-on Magic Window app because I just bought this!

No Chromecast support and you can't choose your own music, only the new-age sounding dream music.
mission2mars2mission2mars2

New photos

It would be great if you could add new photos.
Leo23090Leo23090

uuuufffffffoooo

point: omg , u can see the ufo in this pictures, but u need focus on the night sky!
Babak.jBabak.j

Good app

Great app
Perri D'AngeloPerri D'Angelo
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