# Polar Scope Align Pro — user reviews > 265 indexed App Store user reviews of Polar Scope Align Pro by Dimitrios Kechagias, rated 4.90/5 from 300 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/polar-scope-align-pro/id970161373/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/polar-scope-align-pro/id970161373.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 292 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Polar Scope Align Pro? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Best Polar Alignment App - 👍 Detailed Instructions and Explanations - 👍 Fantastic App with Many Useful Features - 👍 Intuitive and No Distractions - 👍 Comprehensive Astronomy App - 👍 Excellent Polar Alignment Tool - 👍 Accurate Daytime Alignment - 👍 Extensive Catalog Database - 👍 Superb Astrophotography Tool - 👍 Brilliant Polar Alignment App - 👍 Excellent Weather Forecasting - 👍 Versatile and Packed with Features **Cons** - 🐛 Compass Inaccurate - 🐛 Location Data Inaccurate **Commonly reported bugs** - Weather Updates Not Working - Compass Deflected by Mount **Most requested features** - Add Observation Recording Feature - Add Push To Option for DSO Objects ## Newest reviews (19 of 265) ### 5/5 — Indispensable *2026-01-10, version 6.9* Gran app para alinear de manera rápida y fácil. ### 5/5 — Fantastic app *2025-06-08, version 6.8* This app is absolutely fantastic. The bubble level will help you get your amount perfectly level. The compass will help you point your amount to celestial North. The daytime alignment puts this app on a different level. And finally, when pointing whether you’re in the northern hemisphere with the southern hemisphere, getting poor aligned as simple and accurate! I don’t bother with my polar camera anymore. This is all I need. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2025-03-08, version 6.8* Amazing, extremely useful and very easy to use! ### 5/5 — If you do any astronomy work, just get the pro version of this app *2025-03-03, version 6.8* Every useful amateur astronomer feature in one app. Super intuitive and no distractions. Polar alignment, Goto with just your phone on top of your scope (Push To), object list sorted by what you care about (magnitude, angular size, etc), all the important astronomy calculations at your fingertips, etc. Just brilliant! ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2025-02-15* Extrem nützlich und einfach in der Bedienung. Klare Empfehlung, jeden Cent wert! ### 5/5 — Incredible app for telescope observation *2025-01-29, version 6.8* The Pro version has so many tools, tutorials, and calculators as to be helpful in any situation. ### 5/5 — What a find! *2025-01-26, version 6.8* A comprehensive Astronomy app at a very affordable price. The push to feature is excellent for Dobs and is able to get most objects into a 32mm field of view eyepiece. Easy to mount phone on the Dob using a suction phone holder. ### 5/5 — Wonderful APP Loaded with Useful Features *2025-01-23, version 6.8* Loads of useful features, especially under the DSO menu, extensive catalog database (Messier, Caldwell, Herschel, NGC, IC, etc). The “PUSH TO: feature using a red BULL’S EYE together with direction arrows serves very well as a finder. The “SYNCH TO TARGET” option fine tunes the finder function. Thanks for the great app. ### 5/5 — Stunning app! *2025-01-19* The best one so far! It has so many tools, a must have. I still didn’t explore it fully. If I HAVE TO give a 👎 (a small one, I’m used to it since all this time :-) ), the UI is not the easiest to start with this app. Lot of picto, lot of informations. At the beginning, I often was lost. Now, I’ll not change this, I love it. Thanks for this app! **Developer response:** Hello! As I am continuously improving the app, if you have any specific suggestions for new users, or can just remember what was hardest to figure out when starting to use the app, I'd appreciate some feedback (there is a contact page in the official site, or you can add a comment to the official PS Align page). Thank you! ### 5/5 — Хорошая программа *2024-11-22* Работает хорошо. Но есть маленькая проблема с выравниванием полярной оси днем. Очень нужна возможность инвертировать ось Az. Это нужно для монтировки eqm35pro. В данный момент приходится придумывать как закрепить телефон на монтировке. ### 5/5 — Must have app for Astro photography. *2024-11-05, version 6.8* I have been using this app for three years now. The pro version I am really impressed with its accuracy. You can’t go wrong one of the best apps for astrophotography ever created. ### 5/5 — Even more fun *2024-11-01, version 6.8* …now that you can run it from your laptop. You don’t even have to wake the phone up. ### 5/5 — Superb *2024-08-28, version 6.8* Great app and interface ### 5/5 — Brilliant! *2024-08-14, version 6.8* Been using this for years. Such a handy thing despite ever more capable GoTo and alignment systems. Well done Demetrios. ### 5/5 — 100% spoko *2024-08-07, version 6.8* Przydatna apka :) ### 5/5 — Great product. *2024-07-05, version 6.8* Thank you ### 5/5 — Many Extras *2024-07-04, version 6.8* I got this app for the real time polar alignment scope reticle simulation. That’s the main feature, but I find myself using this app for planning my observations with the deep sky and solar system object database or leveling mounts even when I don’t need a polar alignment. It has tons of extra info and features beyond the polar alignment scope! I also appreciate that the pro version is a one time fee and not a subscription. Thank you! If the developer added a feature (or created a new app) to record my observations in association with the object database, I’d be first in line to buy that. ### 5/5 — Outstanding *2024-06-27, version 6.8* What I thought was just ok at first. This app has now become a standard for amateur astronomers. All the information that is needed is in this app and the pro version os worth the money. ### 5/5 — 100% recommend the full version!! *2024-06-19, version 6.8* 5 stars!! 5 Thumbs up never failed me, get the full version you won’t regret it!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2024-06-03, version 6.8* How do you use this???? ### 1/5 — Compass isn’t accurate *2024-03-14, version 6.6* I’m trying to use something to help me polar align during the day for the eclipse and I tested it at night and Polaris was well off ### 1/5 — Inaccurate Location Data *2021-05-09, version 6.0* This app Verified inaccurate by: G. Maps A. Maps Xasteria etc. UK. ### 2/5 — Tom Cronshaw *2025-11-30, version 6.9* I have just started with astronomy and just recently started to use the app because I am learning I have found it to be very interesting and informative to me Thanks ### 2/5 — Not sure I can trust it *2016-10-26, version 2.11* For the iOptron reticle, this app gives a significant different location for Polaris compared to the actual iOptron app for the Skytracker...and I know this one is accurate with all my pinpoint photos I took...so I wonder about accuracy for the other functions as well... :/ ### 3/5 — A quand la version française? *2023-09-06* Assurément une super application qui ne sera vraiment parfaite qu’avec la version française, il est très dommage et frustrant de ne pouvoir en utiliser qu’une petite partie, comme si l’astronomie amateur était l’apanage exclusif des anglophiles. J’aurai plaisir à rajouter les deux étoiles aussitôt que je pourrai enfin utiliser pleinement cette application. **Developer response:** Je croix que vous êtes un peu injuste. Polar Scope Align est développée comme un “hobby”, quand j'ai du temps libre. La faire multilingue, surtout avec sa quantité de texte, nécessiterait trop de temps, temps que je pourrais utiliser a fonctions utiles. L'anglais n'est pas ma langue maternelle, c'est juste la plus populaire des langues que je parle. Désolé je n'ai pas de version française, mais seulement 3,3% des utilisateurs sont français, et beaucoup d'entre eux parlent anglais. Avant de dire que j'aurais plus d’utilisateurs si j’avait une version française, j'ai fait une version française pour Xasteria et seulement 4% des utilisateurs sont français - une toute petite différence. ### 3/5 — Ps align pro *2017-03-29, version 3.0* Weather won't update. Please fix ### 4/5 — Mount Support *2022-01-26, version 6.2* I’m a new user of this great app. I own the Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 2i mount with built in wifi. It seems your app doesn’t support the Star Adventurer’s polar scope. ### 4/5 — Great app *2021-11-07, version 6.2* I’ve been using the free version of this app for several years and after just recently purchased the pro version to go along with my new mount. For the price of the pro version, it has a lot of great features. I would recommend getting this app for sure. However, what would make this app even better would be have it interface with a guide camera or even have its own accessory camera to get spot on polar alignment. I know there are electronic polar scopes already with their own proprietary software, but if this app offered a polar alignment assist using a guide camera and without being obligated to an annual subscription like some of the competitors, this app may very well earn 5 stars from me. ### 4/5 — Super *2021-06-07* Indispensable pour un astro nomade Une Traduction en français serai un plus ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Perfect apps, lots of information. *2026-08-04, version 7.0* Highly accuracy, include many necessary sky observation information. If world tide time table could be included, it would be the best❣️ Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Full Featured Well Designed, Great Functions *2026-07-23, version 7.0* Something for everyone, observers and astrophotographers. I appreciate the DSO section- the ability to generate custom observing lists, and the “Push To” feature to orient my scope in Alt Az mode. ### 5/5 — Mandatory app *2026-07-17, version 7.0* If you do outreach or even move your telescope in and out of the garage or the house, this is an incredibly helpful setup tool for the night session or a solar session ### 5/5 — Lingua italiana *2026-07-14, version 7.0* Bellissima app potrà un giorno essere in lingua italiana Grazie ### 5/5 — Great for phone based polar alignment *2026-07-11, version 7.0* I have been using phone apps to polar align my star trackers for a number of years as here in the southern hemisphere we don’t have a polestar to use. The update of this app (July 26) is a game changer as it totally removes the reliance on the magnetic compass and allows you to calibrate azimuth with a known star. I can get clean 10 minute tracks using 50 mm lens no problems with minimal hassle during set up (2 min). The developer has to be given huge kudos for a great job. Still some improvement I would like to see, but the app does the job brilliantly. ### 5/5 — Excelente *2026-07-11, version 7.0* Excelente aplicación ### 5/5 — Astrophotographers of all levels: this app is a must have *2026-07-06, version 7.0* If you are into astrophotography, from getting started to advanced, you need this app. It's a toolbox to align your telescope and to make sure it's aligned correctly. The latest version especially beings tools to another level that afaik doesn't exist elsewhere. ### 5/5 — Exceptional *2026-05-24, version 6.9* Use it to set up a Dwarflab Mini polar alignment on my tripod. So easy to use for direction and inclination. ### 5/5 — super helpful *2026-03-25* I love the App. It was extremely helpful with my HEQ5 and is now also very helpful with my AM5. It shows you exactly what you need to see to be aligned and it has quite precise daytime alignment features. ### 5/5 — Best Polar Alignment App Ever! *2026-01-31, version 6.9* I am new to astronomy. Learning to align my Sky-Watcher mount has not been easy. This app, with it’s detailed instructions and explanations, is just what I needed to get perfect polar alignment with my mount. Thank you so much! --- *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 2026-08-27.*