Sun Surveyor Lite

Sun Surveyor Lite

Your Personal Guide to the Sun

37 ratings
158 reviews
Free

Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • September 8, 2012
  • November 8, 2025

Features

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About

This app helps photographers, filmmakers, and professionals visualize and plan around the sun's path. It predicts sunrise, sunset, and twilight times, and offers tools to understand light and shadows for optimal planning.

โœ“Predict sunrise and sunset times
โœ“Visualize sun's path
โœ“Golden hour and blue hour planning
โœ“Twilight time calculations
โœ“Sun shadow information
โœ“Visual time machine
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What users say

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What's New in Sun Surveyor Lite

2.8.3

November 8, 2025

2.8.3 - SDK updates, minor fixes and tweaks.

User reviews

Great for deciding where to plant

Nice UI, easy to use, good for planing where to plant trees. Best feature: no matter how you orient your phone the 3D projection is easy to read

Very good

Sun tracking works properly, can confirm with my 2 eyes. Good for planning photography as it has a slider to show where sun will be at a certain time. Please ignore negative reviews from 10 years ago, everything works.

El sol ya no aparece donde deberia estar

No se porque hace tiempo que no uso la app y ahora cada vez que entro, me coloca el sol en cualquier sitio menos donde deberia. He calibrado la brujjula pero nadaโ€ฆ por favor arreglen la aplicacion.

A good incentive to upgrade

Good app with reduced function - makes one want to upgrade.

Handy tool for planning trips

At a quick glance have been using this to figure out the hours of daylight. Mainly for when to take the dogs out. Would be great for photography too. Lots of other cool features available in the app but havenโ€™t explored them too much. Happy with it so far

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User experience

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Reported Bugs

11 issues

Sun no longer appears where it should

Bug

Sun direction is wrong indoors without GPS

Bug

Sun is off by more than 10 degrees

Bug

Sunrise time not working

Bug

App crashes when selecting location

Bug

Latest update stopped working

Bug

Compass is always off

Bug

Compass is reversed

Bug

Lite version has an obscuring dialog box

Bug

Map view is not working correctly

Bug

App crashes on iPhone 5 iOS 7

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Requested Features

9 requests

Make the version free

Feature

Move UI options

Feature

Add dark mode

Feature

Add day-length feature

Feature

Add UV index

Feature

Add sunrise alarm

Feature

Fix time zone for Russia

Feature

Allow user to move UI elements

Feature

Offer a trial for the full version

Feature

FAQ

What does Sun Surveyor Lite do?

Sun Surveyor Lite helps users understand and plan around the sun's position and light. It predicts sunrise, sunset, and twilight times, and visualizes the sun's path throughout the day and year. This is invaluable for photographers, filmmakers, and professionals who need to optimize their use of natural light.

What are the key features of Sun Surveyor Lite?

Key features include predicting and planning for golden hour, blue hour, and all sunrises and sunsets. It also visualizes the sun's path, offers a visual time machine to see light at different times, and provides detailed twilight times (civil, nautical, astronomical). Users can also get sun shadow information and utilize magnetic declination compensation.

Is Sun Surveyor Lite free to use?

Yes, Sun Surveyor Lite is a free application. The provided data indicates it does not have in-app purchases or ads, suggesting a completely free experience for its core features.

Who is Sun Surveyor Lite designed for?

This app is primarily designed for photographers and filmmakers who need to scout locations and plan shots around optimal lighting conditions. It also serves solar industry professionals, architects, real estate agents, and gardeners who benefit from understanding sunlight patterns.

Can I use Sun Surveyor Lite offline?

The description mentions that offline usage is supported for certain features, excluding the Map View and Street View. This means you can still enter coordinates, save, and load locations without a data connection or GPS for core planning functions.