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
Awesome app
Fantastic app. So inspiring and a great community 💜✨
Picastro for the Win
This is my go to place to check out all the new pics everyone has finished up and videos they’ve shot as well as the first place I post my pics. Keep rockin Picastro!!
Best app
Best app for the community of astrophotographers 🙌 great people supporting each other
No Compression! User Friendly
Picastro doesn’t compress photos so you get to see them exactly as they were intended to look. The UI is easy on the eyes and even easier to navigate. There is a yearly subscription fee but it’s worth it to not see any ads.
An excellent app for astrophotographers
What can I say? A vibrant astrophotography community, full resolution uncompressed images, and plenty of other awesome features for astrophotographers.
If you are an astrophotographer, this is a staple app for your arsenal. A must have.
If you are an astrophotographer, this is a staple app for your arsenal. A must have.
Sweet app for astrophotography
It’s way better than Threads, Facebook, IG, Astrobin, and Twitter for sharing astrophotography.
It’s also secure(can’t screenshot or download images), and not governed by an algorithm that pushes only “popular” posts.
It’s also secure(can’t screenshot or download images), and not governed by an algorithm that pushes only “popular” posts.
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Very strange app that seems to have no direction and no communication
Amazing App!
I have been using this app for a little while now and love it so far! Way more user friendly being an App you can use anytime/anywhere and easy to browse other astrophotographers. I don’t see anything else but space objects! No ads or annoying distractions. The search feature is great. When I’m working on an image and not sure how little or much I want to stretch, I open the app and look how others are doing it. Definitely worth giving this app a chance! You won’t regret it!
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Shuts down
I get opening screen then choose what sites to follow then shuts down before I can do anything, Air2 64gig memory. Won’t allow me to make a nickname….
A great app for astrophotography
A brilliant app for astrophotography. Allows you to upload images with no compression showing them in amazing quality! Love scrolling through and seeing everyone’s photos. A great app for anyone interested in space
Great Astro community
There are other places to share Astro photos online but none is as welcoming and supportive (and free of irrelevant content) as Picastro. The app is constantly being updated and improved too, so you can really see the love that goes into it.
Response from developer
Thank you so much for this wonderful review. We are so glad you are spotting the updates we constantly add to the app. So glad to have you there. :-)
No compression!
It’s great to be able to share our Astro images without the annoying compression on every other social media. Quality is great!
Brilliant app dedicated for the astrophotographer
This is such a brilliant app from the wonderful Tom. So many great features such as letting you see images in excellent resolution, as it should be. The difference between this and Instagram for example is night and day in terms of quality. Shows you images as they should be viewed, in glorious detail! Also an anti-screenshot feature protecting your image from copyright etc. star cards allow you to see what the photographer used to capture the image, and the exposures and amount of time etc. Just brilliant! Every deep sky imager should have this app (:
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Doesn’t work
App times out with a “no internet connection” error.
Fantastic Astro Image App!
This app is very well organized, runs great, absolutely no crashes, and a great asset to the Astro community to discover and be discovered!
Response from developer
Thanks so much for taking the time to write the review! So glad you love the app. Keep spreading the word about the app :-)
