# GlobeViewer — user reviews > 15 indexed App Store user reviews of GlobeViewer by RAB-Software, rated 3.40/5 from 5 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/globeviewer/id1394087613/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/globeviewer/id1394087613.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Make the free 2K version a longer time than 2 minutes *2025-07-06* The reason why is because it is not fair make it 10 or 20 minutes or 1 hour because we want to see other places of the word with out 2 minutes ### 1/5 — S *2025-01-14, version 0.12.0* S ### 1/5 — Not Sea of Japan, but East Sea *2024-11-30, version 0.12.0* While I was exploring the Earth in your map, I found something that is Geopolitically wrong. The sea that is located at the east of the Korean Peninsula is named East Sea, not Sea of Japan. ‘Sea of Japan’ is the name that Japan named unofficially and incorrectly. So the exact and official name of the sea is East Sea. Therefore, I want you to change the incorrect name into East Sea. ### 1/5 — 설치햇다 바로 삭제했는데 결제청구서 날아옴 내가 언제 결제 동의를 눌렀다고 청구를 하냐 쓰레기들아 *2024-02-21, version 0.11.5* 쓰레기 ### 1/5 — 별 한개도 아까움 sea of korea 로 정정하여 교육이 되어라 *2023-12-23, version 0.11.5* Sea of korea! ### 1/5 — Sea of Japan? *2023-07-25, version 0.11.2* 일본해? 대한민국의 동해를 Sea of Japan이라 표기하다니... 쓰레기 같은 어플 ### 1/5 — Navigation zu umständlich *2023-03-14, version 0.11.2* Es ist zu schwierig, die Erde zu drehen oder einzelne Karten zu nutzen. Habe keine vollversion gekauft. ### 1/5 — 😡😡😡😡 *2021-03-11, version 0.8.3* Diese App Will einfach nicht geladen werden ich hab schon Minuten gewartet aber es hat nicht geklappt! ### 1/5 — Poor don’t download *2020-01-04* Poor **Developer response:** Hello "mcky bad app dont use", thank you for your notice. The data server is up and running - just try it again. Make sure that you have enough free disk space on your device so that the app can download the map data. If you have still a problem with the server connection please send us an e-mail to info@rab-software.de to enable us to support you with your internet connection problem. Kind regards! User never wrote us about download problems. Seems to be a „joke“. Everything is working as expected from our side. ### 2/5 — Disapppointing. *2018-12-02* Wanting to see the described detailed map I bought the largest download. Now I wish I hadn’t. The ocean area could show some detail as opposed to the smooth, plastic-looking, plain areas. I wish the globe lighting was actual to the present Earth’s lighting now - it isn’t. The sun and moon rotate the globe quickly and constantly unless you turn it off freezing them on on location on the globe. There is no way to turn the entire globe light at want time. The desired view and all the setting don’t save. I have to reset them every time I open the app. While the ground details aren’t too bad, for the amount of money I wish I could zoom in more. If more work and planning goes into this globe app are done, I’d be more than happy to adjust my review and rating. But for now, if you’re considering purchasing this app, save your money. **Developer response:** Thank you for your review and your suggestions. We are sorry you are not happy with the 8K maps. More updates are planned for the next months, where we will update some points you've mentioned. The display of the oceans surface corresponds to the height map - as there is nothing there with height there can't be displayed anything. Otherwise load the waterless map version, there is the underwater topography to be seen. Globe viewer should be able to run offline, so we decided to use a texture solution. There are limits for texture sizes on moblie devices and we don't compress the used textures to get the best visual results so that the 8K version uses up to 1 gigabyte of RAM. We can't use bigger textures due to the risk of the app crashing due to much RAM usage on some devices - at least this is the actual situation which may change in the future. Therefore we put the 4K and 8K demo maps in the app to test them on your device before you buy the map pass. Displaying your local time is only possible, when we know your position on the globe. At the moment it is not planned to access the local position of the device due to privacy protection reasons (we are devolping in Germany and so we need to be GDPR-compatible). The problem with settings not saved is a bug, which will be corrected in the next upate. Again thanks for your suggestions and we hope that you become more happy with GlobeViewer later. Kind regards! There have been a lot updates since your review. Please have a look at the latest version. Most of your critic points are already solved. May be you want to adjust your App rating? Thank you and kind regards! ## Most praised reviews (5 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — ㄸ *2023-06-14, version 0.11.2* 다르다 ### 5/5 — Cool app you have here *2020-07-14* Gfrwutgurfwtgrfywwgugvfea ### 5/5 — Great app *2019-06-20* this is a good app because its really simpol and you can use it offline ### 4/5 — Some patience required, but not disappointing *2022-08-06* Have the Pro version of Earth. Have NoAds versions of Moon & Mars now. Still finding layers & options difficult to use. Beginning to understand them a bit better by comparison. Have no complaints about the higher res map detail. Tiles seems the most promising feature. Just don’t expect to drop in and be an instant expert. Experimentation seems the best cure. Patience recommended. Not bad value! **Developer response:** Thank you for your new review! Kind regards. ### 4/5 — Nach Update viel besser *2020-03-04, version 0.6.4* Nachdem durch das Update die alternative Steuerung möglich ist, macht die App richtig Spaß. Es ist nun viel besser möglich, als mit der reinen Gestensteuerung, gezielt zum Beispiel den Heimatort anzusteuern und die „Aussicht“ zu genießen. Prima, gerne weiter so. Nun freue ich mich darauf, welche weiteren Funktionen evtl. noch kommen werden. Inzwischen werde ich den Globus mit GlobeViewer gerne weiter erkunden. --- *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 2026-08-14.*