Surprisingly grounding
Just try occasionally opening it, orienting yourself, and really sitting in the feeling it gives you. I’m often surprised by how grounding it can be. Perhaps only for the kind of nerds for whom it’s easy to conjure an image of the galaxy and our place in it, but if you definitely give it a try!
Photo Mode
Have you tried it with the camera feed as background?
My favorite app.
This is my single favorite app on the iPhone. It’s simple, it’s profound, it collects no user data. It’s just a pure little nugget of fun that represents exactly what the App Store should be. Thank you for it, and if you release a premium version that includes no more features other than the price, I’ll still be one of your first customers
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iPad problem
Shows wrong direction on iPad in landscape
I use it often
Performs as advertised. Does the job and does it well. Handy dopamine burst.
Comfort
We should all feel some level of comfort knowing where we stand. This app gives us one more level of that in a very fun and philosophical way!
Find your center, they said
I had no idea I needed this app but it turns out I NEEDED this app. It’s incredibly simple to use, and without fail it shows me the exact vector to follow in order to find the supermassive black hole in the core of the Milky Way galaxy. Hard to describe the moment of perspective and joy this brings me, but it most assuredly does.
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Simply mind blowing
So clean and simple in its execution, yet delightfully mind blowing in drawing a personal connection between the user and the center of the galaxy. I open this often just out of curiosity, or to show whoever happens to be in the room with me at the time. Well done!
Fantastic app…
This is THE most fantastic AND useless app you can install on your iPhone.
However, it’s a great conversation starter that will demonstrate how much smarter you are than all your friends.
On the negative side, show the app to your friends too many times and quickly you will have no friends!
🥹😃😄😁😆🙁☹️🫤🫢😵💫😴
I really like this app!
However, it’s a great conversation starter that will demonstrate how much smarter you are than all your friends.
On the negative side, show the app to your friends too many times and quickly you will have no friends!
🥹😃😄😁😆🙁☹️🫤🫢😵💫😴
I really like this app!
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Great Idea!
I like that it’s simple and does one thing. Please don’t do any add-ons. It’s perfect as it is.
Is it for real?
I thought this was pretty cool until I opened the app on my iPhone and my iPad at the same time. The arrows were pointing in opposite directions from each other moving the devices did not change the orientation of the respective arrows. if, and when this is explained to me in a satisfactory manner, I will upgrade my rating.
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Great app for Celestial Navigation
It’s a great app to prompt you to wonder about the universe
Love It
Hopefully you continue to expand on this because after pointing in the direction, I want to know more. What else is between my pointed finger and the center of the galaxy?!?!?!!!!! Now I think I’ll go watch a Star Talk or two. Hahaha great work!
Simple yet fantastic
I love it when someone else makes apps like these than answer questions I will never likely know as someone just looking up at the sky and wondering. Thank You!!
Can we have two more arrows?: direction the Earth is heading relative to the centre if the galaxy, and something I have always wondered, direction the Sun is heading (ie right now as I stand on Earth looking North from my location, which way is “forward” for the solar system?).
Can we have two more arrows?: direction the Earth is heading relative to the centre if the galaxy, and something I have always wondered, direction the Sun is heading (ie right now as I stand on Earth looking North from my location, which way is “forward” for the solar system?).
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Helps put Life into Perspective
I’ve been using this to put my own issues into perspective when feeling overwhelmed by life. I know it’s intended as just a fun little science app, but its’s also a powerful reminder of our relative insignificance, and helps me be a little less stressed out and uptight. Thank you, Mr. Webb.
Love the idea of the app BUT
I think the arrow, while simple (and simple is good), is a little boring. In both the icon and the app I’d love to see a simple star field background or maybe an actual black hole (or both). You should also charge a buck or two for this. You absolutely deserve to get paid for your work.
Sense of direction
Fascinating. Something I’d never thought about, the black hole at the centre of our galaxy was just somewhere up there. Suddenly I find it’s often below my feet and it sooooo far away. Some might consider this a trifling thing to know but I find it simultaneously leaves me a feeling humility and wonder.
Thanks for an app that though seemingly simple, is clearly improving with every iteration and bizarrely addictive — without wasting great swathes of my day.
Thanks for an app that though seemingly simple, is clearly improving with every iteration and bizarrely addictive — without wasting great swathes of my day.
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Honestly…
It’s just delightful.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for making this! I have a special interest in sag a* and it’s so nice to be able to orient myself to her whenever I want to know where she is. 🦄😻👸🏴☠️
Love it
One of the best apps for a science nerd like me. Thanks