Stargazer

Hold up your phone. That's it — that's the whole tutorial. Stargazer turns the sky above you into something you can actually read. Point it anywhere and the real stars, planets, satellites and deep-sky objects that are genuinely up there, right now, from exactly where you're standing, line up on your screen. Tap anything to lock on. A$2.99. Once. That's the business model. No subscription. No ads. No tracking. No account. No "unlock the rest of the solar system for $4.99 a month". Pay once and every feature below is yours forever, including whatever we add later. WHAT'S UP THERE TONIGHT • A live sky computed from real astronomy — not a stock picture of space • Point-and-find: hold your phone up and the sky moves with you • Tonight's highlights: what's visible, when the ISS flies over, which meteor showers are running, and which planets are close together • Rise, set and best-viewing times for everything, at your latitude • Stargazing conditions from live weather, plus darker skies near you ROOM FOR THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM • Explore any planet in 3D — spin it, pinch it, fling it • Jupiter and Saturn with their moons orbiting around them, each one named. Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto. Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, Rhea. Tap a name to learn what makes it strange • Saturn's rings, because obviously • A walkable AR orrery — put the solar system on your carpet and step through it • AR Sky Window: hold the sky up against your actual living room THE MOON, PROPERLY • Tonight's Moon, shaded to the real terminator • A Sun–Earth–Moon diagram that finally explains WHY phases happen (nothing is casting a shadow — that's an eclipse, and it's different) • Every Apollo and robotic landing site, labelled on the face • Next new, first quarter, full and last quarter, in the order they arrive 5,000+ SPACE FACTS, ALL FACT-CHECKED One new fact every day, plus a shuffle button. Every fact was independently verified before it shipped. A few on the house: • Saturn is the least dense planet in the solar system and would float, given a big enough bathtub • A day on Venus is longer than a Venusian year • The footprints on the Moon will likely outlast every building on Earth Tap the share button and any fact becomes a genuinely beautiful card you can send to someone. YOUR OWN ASTRONOMER, ON DEVICE Nova is powered by Apple Intelligence and runs entirely on your iPhone. Ask what's worth seeing, how to find a planet, or what you're looking at. Nothing you ask leaves your device — there's no server, because there's no server. Flip on KIDS MODE and Nova explains the same sky to an eight-year-old, in words an eight-year-old actually uses. Brilliant in the back seat. Brilliant in a classroom. ALSO IN THE BOX • 88 constellations with classical artwork you can fade in over the real stars • Thousands of deep-sky objects, with real Hubble, JWST and ESO imagery bundled in • Live satellite tracking with true SGP4 orbits — see the ISS coming before it arrives • Comets and asteroids straight from JPL's small-body database • Time travel: scrub the sky forward and back, by hours or by ten thousand years • A home-screen widget with the Moon phase, what's up, and today's fact GENUINELY PRIVATE We don't have an analytics SDK. We don't have an ad network. We don't have a login. Your location is used on your device to work out what's overhead and is never sent anywhere. There is no profile of you, because we never built one. We don't want it! Keep your data to yourself! :) FOR SCHOOLS Stargazer is available through Apple School Manager and Volume Purchase, so classrooms can buy it in bulk. Kids Mode, the Moon phase explainer and the orrery were built with a science lesson in mind. No ads. No subscription. No account. A$2.99 once, and the sky is yours. Stargazing is the oldest hobby there is. Ours is just a better torch. — Imagery courtesy of NASA, ESA, ESO and Wikimedia Commons, credited in the app. AR needs a compatible device; Nova needs Apple Intelligence.