# solAR - Solar System in AR — user reviews > 115 indexed App Store user reviews of solAR by Michael Stoeckli, rated 4.60/5 from 2,080 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/solar-solar-system-in-ar/id1286558019/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/solar-solar-system-in-ar/id1286558019.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,617 · 4★ 240 · 3★ 92 · 2★ 47 · 1★ 84 ## What do users think of solAR? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Realistic and detailed planets - 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface - 🌟 Great AR implementation - 💡 Helpful for learning about the solar system **Cons** - 💰 Paid content required to access full features - 🐛 Bugs and glitches, especially after updates - ⚠️ Inaccurate scale and proportions of planets/moons - 🔧 Settings and controls not always intuitive **Commonly reported bugs** - Planets not rendering properly in iOS 16 - Purchased content not unlocking correctly - Frequent crashes and performance issues **Most requested features** - Add more planets and dwarf planets - Improve accuracy of scale and orbital mechanics - Provide more educational information about planets - Allow free access to full solar system view ## Newest reviews (18 of 115) ### 4/5 — Good size, but one miscorrection. *2026-08-03, version 3.1.0* You know you had good size, right? But when I looked at Ceres, its radius was 964km, actually, the radius is 482km. ### 4/5 — There is 1 problem in this app *2026-08-01, version 3.1.0* I have to pay 4.99 to get everything ### 4/5 — I love this game *2025-04-20, version 3.1.0* 9/10 ### 5/5 — Irjfjeje ekfkdj jfjf *2025-01-30, version 3.1.0* Oírle Krnrn riel Kfjf ### 5/5 — I BUYED ALL OF THESE PLANETS *2025-01-28* IM HERE LIKE DAD ### 4/5 — O *2024-11-08* El juego está muy bueno pero tienes que comprar por 99 pesos para desbloquear ceres , Saturno (etc) ### 3/5 — Superbe mais *2024-09-09* Superbe mais dommage que certaines animations fassent planter l’application ### 4/5 — 4 star *2024-07-03, version 3.0.1* Good but can you make all the objects free in a new update? ### 5/5 — Add Other Dwarfs *2024-06-26, version 3.0.1* Please Add Eris,Makemake,and Haumea. ### 5/5 — Lo mejor *2024-06-20* La mejor aplicación del mundo astronomía es lo mejor del universo 🤩🤩🤩 ### 5/5 — Idk *2024-06-19, version 3.0.1* Idk ### 5/5 — Good *2024-05-18, version 3.0.1* Very good ### 5/5 — Mewing *2024-05-03, version 3.0.1* Ibs looks geed🤫🧏‍♂️🤫🧏‍♂️🤫🧏‍♂️🤫🧏‍♂️mewing streak ### 3/5 — you have to pay for all of the planets *2024-04-27, version 3.0.1* you have to pay £4.99 for all of the bodies and it realistic ### 2/5 — Amazing… potential! *2024-03-16, version 3.2.2* I love this app! It places the planets and their moons floating in your room, or in space with a beautiful star field background. There are countless view options and settings to adjust your view from a falsely close planetery or solar system, to a realistic, to-scale system with tiny planets and vast distances. The Saturn system is spectacular! I bought the full version. Why two stars? It’s so buggy that I can only use a few of the planet views. It crashes, glitches, freezes - it’s impossible to use. It crashes so hard that it crashes my entire Vision Pro. I need to pull the power and reboot. Here’s to hoping they keep working at it and stomp all the bugs. This app will be worth hours of time. ### 5/5 — Einfach mega *2024-03-13* App ist super modern einfach zu bedienen und einfach mega Ich bin Dieter bohlen **Developer response:** Danke Didi <3 ### 4/5 — Settings don’t work *2024-03-05, version 3.0.0* I’m using an iPad Pro and I really enjoy this app. However, I go to settings and try to change some of of the items there however, nothing saves. Nothing changes I believe this is a problem with the software and should be addressed right away. I would have given this app five stars except for this obvious problem. Thank you for for this wonderful app. ### 5/5 — nt *2024-02-14* applicatioin agreable ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not cool *2024-03-08* Very basic information ### 1/5 — "Solar System" option not functioning. *2024-02-09, version 3.0.0* Vision Pro - Every time I select the far right icon "Solar System" the system kicks me back to the main menu. I was really looking forward to enjoying this application, but it looks like now I'll be asking for a refund. ### 1/5 — lag *2023-12-25, version 3.0.0* why is this weird game cost money and is so laggy ### 1/5 — Update downgrade advisory! Check B4 U fork-update *2023-07-31, version 3.0.0* TL;DR version: If you have this but haven’t updated, & your version still lets you view the solar system, don’t upgrade. New users- don’t expect either the solar system or any AR beyond a static pic selection- one of four planets. That’s it. Lame. Extremely disappointing nosedive in this app since the last time I opened it. There have been 2-3 updates since then, and after the latest just now I decided to take a look at the interesting new features it claimed. I should’ve deleted it instead. First, the alleged ability to alter things re. bodies in solar system is nothing more than rotating and zooming camera perspective– like you’d entirely expect to be able to do. Even that is only really possible in non-AR mode. In AR, one planet can be slightly zoomed and that’s it. In non-AR, the zoom in is limited to the planet filling the screen, no closer, and zooms out until selected object is a barely visible dot, yet regardless of rotation, yet doesn’t show or label any object other than the selection (even the sun). There’s just a bright cloud area where sun would be, the rest is unmarked dots. This is despite an option to change relative object size to make them visible when reality wouldn’t allow it. The option is meaningless in free version. I have an app game that lets players create & destroy moons, planets, stars, or an entire solar system. That *game* provides better detail; view control; object manipulation; and even significantly more factual information about content—including our real life solar system—than this purportedly educational app. I thought this app used to offer more data, & it certainly couldn’t have been less than now, the absolute minimum: radius, rotation time, distance from sun. The same basics, on the left as sentences & repeated in numbers on the right. That’s the entire content of the info tab for each object, less than half a screen. It doesn’t even link to any of the countless sources of further information. Incidentally, the app also doesn’t link to developer, or give their name or any contact info, nor access to any support. Perhaps getting at best mediocre visualization , information, & control seems acceptable since it provides a depiction the whole solar system? Well, don’t count on that either, not for free. I may be wrong, but in my memory, the content of SolarSystem_AR was at least as named. Regardless, now we get a choice of 5 views: Earth w/ lo-res moon or vice-versa, one of the other three inner planets, end of list. The solar system as a whole & most of its mass/area/significant objects (including the sun!) remain hidden from users; neither individually viewable nor rendered in backgrounds without a $5 payment. No option to watch an ad, no trial preview. This is already a long list of shortcomings, so I’ll leave details about buggy functions to someone else. Based on the shaky performance of limited options & content, combined with the availability of so much more & better from academic as well as commercial apps/websites, paying to expand access in this is simply out of the question. I won’t even keep it installed after verifying that this posts. Hopefully now I’ll remember why, and not waste time on it again. ### 1/5 — Very difficult to use and low level *2023-05-16, version 2.2.0* Very difficult to use and low level, paid service is better than free effect, after purchase regret can not refund, App Store customer service to refund them useless. ### 1/5 — Die App wurde leider verschlimmbessert… *2023-03-20* Die App war mal gut, aber seit den letzten Updates kann man sich das Sonnensystem nicht mehr als Ganzes anschauen, weil die Planeten einfach viel zu klein sind und man das Bild nicht verschieben kann. Ich würde gerne die letzten beiden Updates zurücksetzen. Keine Kaufempfehlung, so nicht für den Unterricht geeignet! **Developer response:** Es tut uns Leid zu hören, dass Ihnen die App seit den letzten Updates nicht mehr so gefällt. Mit Version 2.0.0 haben wir die Engine überarbeitet: Die Grössen der Himmelskörper und die Abstände entsprechen nun proportional der Realität. Zudem wird nun die Exzentrizität sämtlicher Umlaufbahnen korrekt dargestellt. Sie können neu auf einen beliebigen Namen eines Himmelkörpers klicken. Dadurch können Sie beispielsweise im Sonnensystem jeden Planeten und Mond aus nächster Nähe beobachten und auch schnell von Himmelskörper zu Himmelskörper navigieren. Zudem können neu über die Einstellungen in der App einige Aspekte wie die Abstände konfiguriert werden. Wir hoffen, dass Sie solAR eine zweite Chance geben und würden uns freuen, wenn Sie uns weiteres Feedback & Verbesserungsvorschläge jederzeit zukommen lassen: apfelapps@icloud.com ### 1/5 — No details in planets *2022-09-17, version 1.0.11* I paid for the app and so no details on the planets. ### 1/5 — Не активируется премиум после оплаты *2021-05-02* Купила полную версию на свой айфон, а на айпад премиум не активируется, пишет ошибку, при чем меня один аккаунт на всех устройствах. Помогите активировать, пожалуйста. **Developer response:** Большое спасибо за ваш отзыв. Мы сожалеем, что у вас возникли проблемы с solAR. Пожалуйста, свяжитесь с нами напрямую, если проблема не исчезнет, мы постараемся вам помочь. ### 1/5 — Rotationen stimmen nicht *2021-03-09* Leider stimmen die Rotationen der Erde um sich selbst in Relation mit dem Umlauf um die Sonne nicht, auf der Erde wäre außerdem stets auf der Nordhalbkugel Sommer... ...frage mich ob sonst alles richtig ist!? **Developer response:** Vielen Dank für Ihr konstruktives Feedback. Endlich ist die realitätsnähere Version 2.0 mit vielen Korrekturen da. Hat leider viel länger gebraucht als erwartet. Im Sonne-Erde-Mond System können nun die Jahreszeiten erklärt werden. Die Distanzen können nun in den Einstellungen bis zum korrekten Verhältnis angepasst werden. Wir sind gespannt auf ein erneutes Feedback! ### 1/5 — Terrible *2021-02-03, version 1.0.10* Why did u add the stupid transaction DONT GET THIS ITS A SCAM AND BECAUSE OF THAT I HAVE NO MONEY ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good *2026-08-06, version 3.1.0* Good ### 5/5 — It’s incredible *2026-03-06, version 3.1.0* Five out of five ### 5/5 — So fun!!! *2026-02-01, version 3.1.0* I like it ### 5/5 — AL *2026-01-15, version 3.1.0* Muy impresionante ### 5/5 — Yeah my son love the solar system when he was in 5th grade and science space the sun and planets *2025-11-30, version 3.1.0* AKALeslieCaruthers ### 5/5 — Aissa *2025-09-26, version 3.1.0* Saadi ### 5/5 — You are the best and you deserve it *2025-06-15, version 3.1.0* The problem with this is the way they do things in a game that they are supposed be doing in a way they are not doing it for themselves ### 5/5 — I loveeeeee it *2025-05-24, version 3.1.0* Yay ### 5/5 — I love about the solar system *2025-02-18, version 3.1.0* I love the solar system ### 5/5 — Pluto *2025-02-10, version 3.1.0* A dwarf planet --- *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.*