Top Tier Astro platform
If you're utterly sick of mainstream social media taking your 40-hour deep-sky masterpiece and aggressive-compressing it into a pixelated potato, Picastro is the cosmic exhale you’ve been waiting for.
Cooked up by amateur astrophotographer and educator Thomas McCrorie, this is a native mobile app engineered strictly for the telescope-and-tripod crowd. Think of it as a premium VIP lounge for space nerds. Best of all? It completely ejects algorithms, soul-crushing bots, annoying ads, and weird AI-generated slop into the nearest black hole—leaving behind nothing but a pure, unadulterated, community-driven universe.
Cooked up by amateur astrophotographer and educator Thomas McCrorie, this is a native mobile app engineered strictly for the telescope-and-tripod crowd. Think of it as a premium VIP lounge for space nerds. Best of all? It completely ejects algorithms, soul-crushing bots, annoying ads, and weird AI-generated slop into the nearest black hole—leaving behind nothing but a pure, unadulterated, community-driven universe.
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Amazing!!!
Amazing!!!
The place for astrophotography
I was sceptical when I first heard of this app, but I figured I’d give it a try. It quickly turned out to be my favourite app for enjoying and sharing astrophotgraphs from around the world. There’s no BS from some algorithm trying to persuade me to click on irrelevant stuff, there’s no politics and the images are shared in all their glory. It’s just the perfect app and I wouldn’t be without it.
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For fellow Astro nerds
There is lots of things to love about this app. For one it’s the only social media app that has high resolution images with no compression to ruin what you worked so hard to create. One of the other amazing things is you can connect with other like minded Astro nerds. And you one be bombarded with fake AI pictures! So all in all it’s a very engaging and positive platform. Can’t recommend it enough. Very well done PicAstro
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Best way to interact with fellow astronomy enthusiasts
This app is well structured, high quality images and an intuitive way to interact with others and get inspiration from as well
