# Is it dark outside? — user reviews > 229 indexed App Store user reviews of Is it dark outside? by Dirk Malorny, rated 4.40/5 from 415 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/is-it-dark-outside/id336536208/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/is-it-dark-outside/id336536208.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 336 · 4★ 12 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 53 ## What do users think of Is it dark outside?? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Efficient and accurate - 👍 Useful for specific situations - 😊 Amusing and entertaining - 🤖 Helpful for those with limited mobility or vision **Cons** - 🤷‍♂️ Redundant for most users - 🤔 Questionable usefulness - 🙄 Overly simplistic **Commonly reported bugs** - Inconsistent results when manually changing time - Location-based detection issues **Most requested features** - Notification when it gets dark - Integration with virtual assistant - Expanded functionality (e.g. sunrise/sunset times) ## Newest reviews (18 of 229) ### 3/5 — Not gonna lie it can be useful, but almost never *2025-08-31, version 5.0* The thing is, it can’t be useful if you don’t wanna get up and open the window or look out the window and you’re just laying in bed and you don’t know if it’s dark outside yet you could just check this app so I guess it can be useful, but nearly never ### 5/5 — i have seen the light *2022-04-01, version 5.0* what can i say about this app? what could one say about such a spectacle that has changed their everyday flow of life? no matter how hard i try i know the words that are strong enough to describe my feelings toward this app will never be found. this truly is life-changing. everyday is brighter, every storm is followed by a double rainbow, every night fades beautifully from a dusk to a gorgeous dawn. thank you “is it dark outside.” my life will be lived on the greener grass from now on. i love you. godspeed. ### 5/5 — I am understanding. *2022-03-11, version 5.0* This app has given me a sense of fulfillment. I haven’t been able to adapt to human concepts of time and space due to their mere lack of Perception of reality, so this app allows me to adapt in a mental and physical way. I now understand the burning orb in the sky producing heat is only here momentarily for a period of “12 hours” and so is the smaller sized rock like orb that appears once the sky turns dark. Myself and others like me do not understand the difference between them after all they are just mere meaningless orbs from our perception although living here has proven they are important for the existence of life on this planetoid. In short words this app allows me to differentiate from “day” and “night”. ### 5/5 — Now I know *2021-12-08, version 5.0* Now i noe if dork r lite otside :> ### 5/5 — This is the best app ever *2021-11-19, version 5.0* This is an Amazing app as a human l cannot look out the window and determine whether it is dark outside or not this app has changed my life this is an app that keeps me occupied for hours it is so exciting and great to know because I am blind ### 5/5 — This app ruined my marriage *2021-06-01, version 5.0* I lost my son once because it was too dark. I didn’t have this app at the time. Had this app come out sooner, I would have my son. 5/5 ### 5/5 — Great app *2021-05-10, version 5.0* This app tells me when it is dark out or not which is great. There’s no other app like it. Absolutely amazing. When I’m in prison and I can’t tell if it’s dark out or not I simply look at this app and find out the if it is dark outside. ### 5/5 — This app is... *2021-05-08, version 5.0* This app is amazing I hate looking outside so I just open the app and it tells me if it's a dark or light out there and then I decide if I actually want to go out but I never really do so helpful thank you for making this app ### 5/5 — This app changed my life *2021-04-20, version 5.0* I used to be an outcast. I was always shunned by friends and family for not knowing if it was bright outside due to my blindness. However one day I was searching for a solution when I came across this magnum opus of an app. Now when my family asks me if it is bright or not all I have to do is look at my phone and answer the question with pride. Thank you so much. ### 4/5 — One of us *2020-12-31, version 5.0* The app is exactly as it says it does. I honestly didn’t realize most of the reviews were jokes- honestly I give it a four stars since it does it’s exact job, tells u if it’s dark or not. The idea of it along with the hilarious reviews makes it all the better. I love how the developer is seen to reply to ppl who have genuine questions. All in all, download it and experience the ascension we’ve all went through. Become one of us. ### 5/5 — Not “entertainment.” Eases life with medical challenges. Thank you so much for this app! *2020-09-07, version 5.0* Throughout my long medical journey, I’ve dealt with a lot of horrors. This app helped me. This app is labeled as entertainment, but it is so much more than that. I used this service first as a website, then was elated when it became an app. It is so useful in so many medical situations, which is so important in times where the world is facing medical challenges of their own. When I was in windowless hospital rooms, this helped me relate to people who left those rooms and saw the sun. It also helps me in my home hospital bed for those same social connections, as I’m bedbound and can’t see the sun from my home hospital bed (or tolerate much light). This tool helps me battle medical challenges, has in the past, and hopefully will benefit others in similar situations, too. It helped to spark lovely, innocent conversation with some people that are important to me. That broke the barrier of “the elephant in the room” of medical challenges, opening the door to me for additional pleasant, non-medical, and stress-free conversations with those people. I am so grateful that this app let me hold onto some social connections by providing me a light topic to discuss that I otherwise wouldn’t know of. This app opened up some opportunities to discuss what most humans have as simple, calm commonalities to chat about: seasonal changes in day and night. That has and continues to lead to similarly-serene conversations and building comfortable conversations, all as I battle medical difficulties. Thank you for an app that allows me to build lovely relationships with some people I’m close to, regardless of my health. I hope others can experience that, too. When I had to be blindfolded due to light sensitivity, this app shared sunrise and sunset. It instantly detects that, along with when it will be light and dark, regardless of geographic location (which changed as I travelled for medical reasons). With this app, I could save myself pain from light sensitivity. It allowed me to easily know when to set an alarm to put my blindfold on before sunrise and another to take it off at sunset. It allowed me to simply and independently manage my light sensitivity, when I otherwise would have had to rely on others. Independence is such a gift when you face medical ordeals that limit it. Thank you for that, too! Thank you for so much: for calm connections, independence with minimal pain, and for doing that all in a free app. I wanted to thank those who made this app and its website possible. Because of my current situation, I can’t thank you via in-app purchase, but I want thank you all. It seems appropriate to share my thanks here, where you all might see my thanks. Here, perhaps others might notice how helpful this app is for their own medical situations, then use it for the ways it has helped and is helping me. Thank you for everything. I hope this app helps others in their medical battles, too, especially as these trying times cause significant medical challenges for countless people. It really isn’t just an entertainment app: it’s so much more valuable. I am grateful to have used and to currently use this app as a health/utility app. It is wonderful. Thank you so much. To anyone thinking of getting this app, please do. If I could give this app 100 stars, I would. ### 5/5 — Tremendous. *2020-09-05, version 5.0* Utterly outstanding. ### 5/5 — Saved my life *2020-08-20, version 5.0* I am a vampire and I need this app to live thx Dev. Also r u a vampire also? This is the most useful app ever! I cry whenever I use this app! Who ever made this is a genius! ### 5/5 — Super helpful *2020-08-04, version 5.0* I’ve always had trouble tellin if it was dark outside. Now thanks to this app I can now know if it’s dark or light outside. ### 3/5 — ...what? *2020-07-15, version 5.0* OK, I get it that this app is supposed to be a joke, but just... why. You have a window, open it and find out if it is dark or not. This app is useless at its finest. ### 5/5 — life changing *2020-07-07, version 5.0* This is great for when the kids in my basement wonder if it’s dark outside🤠🤠🤠 ### 4/5 — This could be great for blind people, but.... *2020-06-02, version 5.0* This could be great for blind oriole, such as myself, as it's impossible for those who are totally blind to know when it's dark. This app doesn't meet the requirement of being useful to us as it doesn't send a notification when it goes dark. Add this feature and it becomes indispensable. ### 5/5 — Changed My Life *2020-05-23, version 5.0* Never before have I had the honor, privilege, or POWER to know if it was dark outside or not dark outside, in a movie theater. In the days before this absolute revolution in technology as we knew it, I would just walk out a movie theater and BOOM... it was dark outside. NEVER AGAIN! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Useless *2023-08-08, version 5.0* What’s the point of this, just look outside. It’s not even funny. ### 1/5 — Bruh *2022-01-17, version 5.0* Use your eyes ### 1/5 — I hate *2020-01-11, version 5.0* It’s not fun you can’t do anything it’s a waste of space worst thing ever DONT GET THIS APP ### 1/5 — Brilliant *2018-08-13, version 5.0* This app is. Brilliant. It really has no use and has a brilliant waste of data with a top of battery loss. Who ever made this app must either be really lazy or stupid. It needs to tell us the time as well. That Wallis make it brilliant. Can’t wait for the update 😀 ### 1/5 — This is stupid *2018-06-23, version 5.0* You don’t need to download the app to know if it’s dark outside or not. There is something called a “window” :0 HOW DID I NOT KNOW THAT BEFORE (sarcasm) but honestly there’s no point. Also, why would a blind person need to know if it’s dark or not??? ### 1/5 — Come on. *2018-05-26, version 5.0* No. Just no. ### 1/5 — Sunrise at 1:02 am? *2017-07-24, version 4.0* What? ### 1/5 — It’s actually not funny. *2015-06-23, version 4.0* Ok so we all know this app is terrible, in multiple ways. First of all there’s the concept. Marketed toward morons, it provides great utility for the average blind developmentally impaired cave fish. I don’t feel bad about downloading it (which I did solely to write this review) because the ads don’t even work! That’s right folks, instead of an iAd, you get the nice “Welcome to iAd” banner displayed when an inept developer makes a trending app with the knowledge of a single, incorrect Stack Overflow post. Not that I’m complaining, because anyone who gives the developer the idea that his app is worthy is helping tell a colossal lie. But, you say, it’s a good joke, and trends aren’t dictated by quality. Certainly! But there are also millions of developers who work hard to make quality apps. Thanks to a poor search algorithm and all the five-star reviewers’ support, this piece of garbage trends instead of a great, thoughtful app by some actually knowledgable developer who’s struggling to make a living. So go ahead, rate it 10/10 (with only 5 stars) and joke about how great it is. Just know that thanks to you, another idiot who followed an internet tutorial is now more successful than someone who actually deserves success. ### 1/5 — Bad *2013-10-27, version 2.0.1* Bad look out the window ### 1/5 — USELESS!!! *2013-10-16, version 2.0.1* Terrible! If you want to know if it's dark, JUST LOOK OUT OF A WINDOW!! ITS SO SIMPLE!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Favourite app *2026-02-04, version 5.0* this app is my most used app on my phone. i don’t even bother to look outside through the window. i use this app so much even my friends have begun to rely to me to know if it’s dark outside or not. truly revolutionary. if you’re ever looking to something to do watching the screen change from “no” to “yes” is truly exhilarating, most amazing experience to ever exist in man kind. highly recommend. btw if you’re wondering it’s not dark outside at the moment of writing this review. ### 5/5 — Get a sense of humor *2025-11-26, version 5.0* All the negative reviews on this are making me lose faith in humanity ### 5/5 — Most Helpful app of all time *2025-07-29, version 5.0* Hands down my most used app. Logging about 18 - 20 hours a day. 11/10 would recommend ### 5/5 — This app is top-tier *2024-12-30, version 5.0* When I open this app, I don’t know whether or not it is dark. I then see it say “YES” or “NO.” Super useful. ### 5/5 — Very useless but I love it *2024-12-19, version 5.0* This app is exactly what the name suggests and probably is useful for blind people. ### 5/5 — This changed my life and how I view the world *2024-07-03, version 5.0* Ok so whenever I wake up in the morning I would never know if I had to go back to sleep because I didn’t if it dark outside of not. This made me very frustrated because I would end up sleeping in. So I discovered app it really changed my life, every morning I wake up check the app and it would say if it dark or not. This helped me make a sleep schedule as well. When I showed all my friends they called me weird but whatever. Anyways 10/10 would recommend if you struggle tell if the is sky is dark or not and your sleep schedule is falling apart. I hope this review helps you in some ways to help you decide if you want to download this app 🥰 ### 5/5 — The best app *2024-06-07, version 5.0* Simply the best app ### 5/5 — Good but can you make an app that tells me if it’s light outside? *2024-04-18, version 5.0* Please ### 5/5 — Top 10 *2023-12-07, version 5.0* Objectively, this is one of the all-time best apps ever. Does exactly what it says. No extraneous features. It’s a model of intuitive UI. ### 5/5 — Breathtaking app *2023-11-28, version 5.0* Let me tell you, I've been in the dark about the darkness for ages! But thanks to 'Is It Dark Outside?' my life has taken a complete 180-degree turn! This app - oh, the wonders it holds! Gone are the days of squinting out the window or, heaven forbid, stepping outside to determine if it's dark. I mean, who has time for that? The sheer simplicity of this app is mind-blowing. It's like having a tiny, all-knowing oracle in my pocket, ready to dispense the ultimate truth: 'Yes, it's dark,' or 'Nope, not yet!' No more existential crises wondering if the absence of light means darkness. It's a life-changer, truly. And don't even get me started on the sleek interface! The stunning design of the 'Yes' and 'No' buttons? Masterpiece! It's almost as if Apple themselves descended from Mount Cupertino to deliver this marvel to us mere mortals. I can confidently say that 'Is It Dark Outside?' has redefined the boundaries of technological advancement. I'm eagerly anticipating their next groundbreaking release: 'Is It Sunny?' – where we'll finally know if the bright object in the sky is, in fact, the sun. Keep up the phenomenal work, developers! You've illuminated my life in ways I never thought possible. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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