# SkySafari 7 Plus — user reviews > 92 indexed App Store user reviews of SkySafari 7 Plus by Simulation Curriculum Corp., rated 4.70/5 from 1,671 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skysafari-7-plus/id1567654881/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skysafari-7-plus/id1567654881.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,392 · 4★ 154 · 3★ 38 · 2★ 18 · 1★ 69 ## What do users think of SkySafari 7 Plus? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great app, preferred over Stellarium - 👍 Intuitive and clean interface - 👍 Useful 'Tonight' tab - 👍 Accurate and precise for telescope use - 👍 Impressive data and functionality **Cons** - 🙄 Constant upgrade spam and notifications - 🐛 'Tonight' feature crashes on iPad - 💰 Paid features hidden behind paywall - 🐛 Crashes when using 'Tonight' feature - 🐛 Syncing and connectivity issues - 🤔 Cluttered UI, difficult to customize **Commonly reported bugs** - 'Tonight' feature crashes - App crashes on launch or when using certain features - Connectivity issues with telescopes - Syncing problems between devices **Most requested features** - Add more telescope brands and models - Improve notification settings to only show relevant events - Allow hiding of menu bar for cleaner viewing - Improve font sizes and readability - Add ability to import observation records from previous versions ## Newest reviews (13 of 92) ### 4/5 — Missing one feature *2026-03-28, version 7.6.6* It’s a fantastic app and I highly recommend it. Only thing is I find it can be off when judging magnitude of comets, which seem to be higher from other sources. This app features a massive star catalog and great UI. The observing list feature is incredibly helpful and worth the purchase on its own. The main feature I would like to be added is a custom asterism highlighter allowing you to draw lines to form asterisms to guide you when starhopping. Like by Canes Venatici there is an “L” shape, from which you can go down to a two star diagonal, from which you can go to a cluster of three stars, to another, and finally M3. It would be really nice if you could highlight those patterns yourself in the starchart. Another complaint of mine is the event finder has to be constantly reset. I can’t set it to show events in the next week, only between date x and date y. To when date y passes I can no longer see those events without manually changing the date range. And when date x passes I now have to scroll past events that have already happened. ### 2/5 — No Mac update and no 8 Plus *2026-01-22* Version 8 is now Pro only for iOS for $50 (not Mac of course), so I guess they aren't interested in casual users by not offering a Plus version. I won't be upgrading. I own many previous versions, including the abandoned Mac version 6. Too bad they don't care about these other markets. ### 3/5 — Nice app, but too much spam *2026-01-01* The app itself is great and I prefer it over Stellarium. I think it’s cleaner, more intuitive to use and I like the menu bar at the bottom, especially the ‘Tonight’ tab. I deducted two stars due to all the annoying upgrade spam the developers throw at you. In-app notifications, banners, random notifications and emails. Even with the paid Plus version it’s constant bombardment of upgrade spam. For this reason I will probably not renew my subscription. ### 4/5 — 中文翻译有错误 *2025-12-18* 软件确实不错，美中不足就是中文翻译有错误，有的文段还是英文，赶紧修复更新吧！ ### 4/5 — Plus Version Crashes on iPad *2025-11-17* I bought the plus version a couple of years back. Since a recent update, the “Tonight” option in the bottom tray menu now crashes the program. It works okay on my iPhone but no longer works on my iPad. The free version Tonight option still works. This needs to be fixed. 😃 ### 4/5 — Stop notification nags. *2025-09-03, version 7.6.1* Please disable the notification nag every time I open the app. I don’t use notifications for the app, please stop nagging me to turn them on and respect my choice. ### 2/5 — Crashes when ‘Tonight’ is selected *2025-08-26, version 7.6.1* Tonight’s bug ### 3/5 — 发现错误 *2025-08-25* 水星错写成了汞星 ### 3/5 — Поддержка zwo am3 *2025-06-26* Добавьте пожалуйста поддержку монтировок zwo am3 ### 3/5 — Good app, but one serious flaw *2024-12-28* I have owned several versions of Skysafari over the years, and each one is marred by the placement of the timeline “Now” button. It is right between the forward and backward buttons. Every time you are using them to adhust time and dates to view upcoming movements of celestial objects you will inadvertantly touch the NOW button, taking you straight to the current time. So frustrating when you’ve been looking at the path of a comet, for instance, to see when it is in its best position for viewing, and you have to start over. Frustrating frustrating frustrating. I keep hoping this will be addressed, but no. Put the “NOW” button out of the way on its own! ### 1/5 — No sync, no support. *2024-12-13, version 7.5.2* I paid a lot of money for this app and for the macOS version. But I can't get the Settings to sync or to import an export across devices. Support staff range from nonexistent to rude. What am I paying for here? ### 2/5 — Seriously *2024-10-15, version 7.5.0* You can’t include a-once-in-80,000-year comet in the Tonight or Events section without paying more money? What a disappointment. ### 2/5 — Great Concept *2024-10-14* I’ve had version 5 for years. Always seemed disorganized. Finally decided to upgrade because no matter how I tried to look for the comet tsuchinshan-atlas in the database, it wouldn’t show up. Still doesn’t show up in the new version. It’s not listed anywhere and you can’t search for it with any version of its name. Needs some work for sure. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes upon navigating to “Tonight” *2026-03-03, version 7.6.6* Don’t bother supporting newer versions if they are going to leave older PAID versions behind in a non usable state. ### 1/5 — Skysafari 7 plus *2025-10-28, version 7.6.5* You have to pay more to see more ### 1/5 — Sky Safari 7 Plus Crash *2025-10-22* The app crashes if you choose the bottom : Heute Nacht (Tonight). It has not been fixed over the last three Updates. Very annoying ☹️Please fix it in the next update. Thanks. iPhone 15 iOS 26.0.1 ### 1/5 — Crashes when ‘Tonight’ is selected *2025-10-19, version 7.6.4* Tonight’s bug ### 1/5 — App crashes using ‘Tonight’ feature every time *2025-10-17, version 7.6.4* Used to be great for seeing what was in the sky during a particular night, but now the app crashes without fail every single time I try to use that feature… that’s the only thing I used in this app… ### 1/5 — Once worked now crashes. *2025-10-03* The “Tonight” button in the bottom menu bar used to work but now it crashes the app. You have to go to the search button now to get to items for viewing. How could the developers miss this function? ### 1/5 — CRASH!!! *2025-08-07* This app is unusable it crashes soon as it opens. Have reinstalled and uninstalled twice and nothing is working. Very frustrating to do observations and this app won’t even stay on. How about an update sometime to fix this. Did a Google search and this is a known problem. Don’t recommend this app until it starts working again. Glad I had Stellarium that app worked perfectly. ### 1/5 — CRASH!!! *2025-07-24* This app is unusable it crashes soon as it opens. Have reinstalled and uninstalled twice and nothing is working. Very frustrating to do some observations and this app won’t even stay on. How about an update sometime to fix this. Did a Google search and this is a known problem. Don’t recommend this app until it starts working again. Glad I had Stellarium that app worked perfectly. ### 1/5 — Won’t connector to the telescope *2025-01-19, version 7.5.3* This app won’t find the telescope in the network ### 1/5 — 3 years and still waiting for fixes *2024-12-13, version 7.5.2* Been over 3 years and still waiting for UI fixes; 1. hide menu to conserve space. 2 Tiny fonts on Large font setting. 3 Audio icon hard to activate. So uninstalling Ver 7 and going back to Version 6. Version 7 a TOTAL FAILURE and a waste of money to upgrade! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best Astronomy App *2026-07-12, version 7.6.6* I used this in Bortle 2 skies hunting for objects with my telescope. Love it ### 5/5 — Lots to see - And this helps you find it *2026-02-28* This app will show you where and when to find most anything astronomical in the sky. With numerous controls and settings, you can configure your screen to help you meet your observing goals. It take a little figuring with the settings to get it setup , but it’s worth the effort. I’ve used it on my iPad and phone. And used it to help aim my telescope. The extensive object (planet, star system, globular cluster, nebula, galaxy, etc.) information is educational. ### 5/5 — Prima App *2025-06-11* Sehr gute astronomische App mit guter Graphik, bietet sehr viele Funktionen und Informationen. Schade nur, dass es keine rabattierten Upgrade-Möglichkeiten von älteren oder einfacheren SkySafari-Varianten zu SkySafari 7 Plus oder Pro gibt, so dass statt Upgrade stets ein Neukauf erforderlich ist. Aber immerhin gibt es einen Einmalkauf und keinen Abo-Zwang. ### 5/5 — Problem with sky safari 7 *2025-05-28, version 7.5.3* Lots of classic telescopes in their lists, but no new creators like Askar telescopes. ### 5/5 — SkySafari7Plus *2024-12-30, version 7.5.3* Seems I’ve used it forever would not be without it ### 5/5 — Space *2024-12-16, version 7.5.2* I love space ### 5/5 — Переустановка приложения *2024-10-20* Из поиска исчезла комета C/2023 A3, вынужден переустановить приложение! ### 5/5 — Sky safari *2024-08-28, version 7.3.6* Best astromony applicatiom ### 5/5 — very functional, slightly ugly *2024-06-01, version 7.3.5* Could they color code the objects highlighted in my observing list list by object type? Or at the very least make the color different than the meridian line and zenith/altitude lables? very much an eye sore ### 5/5 — Compass Polar alignment *2024-05-13, version 7.3.5* Love the ease of alignment of my tracker with your app ☝️👌✅🌎 --- *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 2026-09-01.*