# Sun Surveyor Lite — user reviews

> 184 indexed App Store user reviews of Sun Surveyor Lite by Adam Ratana, rated 4.10/5 from 37 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sun-surveyor-lite/id552754407/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sun-surveyor-lite/id552754407.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 25 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6

## What do users think of Sun Surveyor Lite?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy to use UI
- 📸 Great for photography planning
- 🌳 Useful for planting/landscaping
- ☀️ Accurate sun tracking
- 📱 Responsive 3D projection
- 💡 Handy for daylight hours
- ✨ Visually well-done app
- 🆓 Ad-free lite version
- 🚀 Fast and fluid performance
- ✅ Works as advertised
- 💯 Precise and accurate
- 🏠 Useful for house orientation
- 🏕️ Good for camping setup
- 🧑‍🏫 Helpful for physics/science projects
- 🌟 Highly recommended

**Cons**

- 💰 Expensive pro version
- 📉 Lite version is very limited
- 🧭 Compass calibration issues
- ⚠️ Sun position inaccuracies
- 📱 Incompatible with some devices
- 💸 High upgrade price
- 🚫 Lite version unusable
- 🪲 Bugs in latest update
- 🗺️ Map view locked in lite
- 🤔 Price too high for features
- ⏳ Outdated time zone data
- 🖱️ UI elements hinder view
- 📉 Lite version is a demo

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Sun no longer appears where it should
- Sun direction is wrong indoors without GPS
- Sun is off by more than 10 degrees
- Sunrise time not working
- App crashes when selecting location
- Latest update stopped working
- Compass is always off
- Compass is reversed
- Lite version has an obscuring dialog box
- Map view is not working correctly
- App crashes on iPhone 5 iOS 7

**Most requested features**

- Make the version free
- Move UI options
- Add dark mode
- Add day-length feature
- Add UV index
- Add sunrise alarm
- Fix time zone for Russia
- Allow user to move UI elements
- Offer a trial for the full version

## Newest reviews (14 of 184)

### 2/5 — Leider falsche Daten

*2026-08-14*

Ich war erfreut, dass es eine App gibt, mit der man schnell mal kostenlos was nachschauen kann. Hatte mir einen Platz zur Beobachtung der Sonnenfinsternis gesucht und mit dieser App kontrolliert, ob es passt. Leider total verschätzt. Sonne hat um einiges weiter nördlich seinen tiefsten Punkt. Selbst zu dem Zeitpunkt selber hat die Anzeige nicht gestimmt. Sonne ging dann hinter einem Berg unter, statt in der Ferne daneben. 😥

### 4/5 — Não consigo comprar a atualização

*2024-08-18*

Quando clico em comprar aparece imediatamente comprado, mas na verdade não compra, parece bugado.

**Developer response:** Thank you for purchasing the full version. I’m investigating this - Apple controls the store experience.

### 4/5 — 希望出个白天模式

*2023-11-26*

这个APP很好用，看房时用来看采光，用来校对指南针，唯一有一点不足，就是3d指南针是黑底的，白天看的时候很吃力，能不能换个白底模式的？特别是站在太阳底下，这个黑底很难辨认，要把亮度调到最亮才好看。希望尽快改进一下。

### 4/5 — What a beautiful app

*2023-09-22*

I just wanted sunset sunrise times and got a whole lot of other into as well. Visually trying to understand the suns position is really quite simple with this app. It’s well put together, visually very cleverly done.

### 2/5 — Es practica la lite, pero no me fío de la pro. Precio excesivo.

*2023-09-10, version 2.8.1*

Buena aplicación. Es útil.
Dudo de comprarme la pro o no, es cara y no me fío si una vez comprada me será más útil todavía.
Si valiese la mitad del precio, lo compraba sin duda.

### 3/5 — Certain options hindering complete view

*2022-12-19*

There are certain options on the right hand side of the screen and that hinders the proper view of the sun position especially for views after 16 hours. 
If these options can be moved away or user enabled to move away, that would be helpful.

**Developer response:** Hello, you can swipe them away, there’s a drag handle in the middle - please get in touch if you don’t see how - adam@sunsurveyor.com

### 2/5 — Sun surveyor

*2022-09-08*

Wish to make the version free

### 4/5 — Needs a fix

*2021-12-05*

When you are indoors and there is no gps reception the program gives wrong sun direction. Can this be fixed to not use true north when there is no gps ?

### 3/5 — Sun off by more than 10 degrees

*2021-01-26*

This app is very nice, except for the fsct that the sun is reading more than 10 degrees to the left than where it actually is in the sky. Other astronomy apps I use give the correct azimuth reading. There is no way the sun can be at solar noon at azimuth 163 degrees. It always is at 180, unless the app takes into consideration your street’s orientation from true north??? Not worth buying the full version until this can get resolved, if another app update wver gets pushed out, that is...

### 5/5 — Amazing excellent

*2020-12-10, version 2.5.2*

Everything is thought. I have been searching and finally find more than I expect. Thank you so much

### 5/5 — Absolutely amazing

*2020-12-06*

I’ve used this app for years, for house hunting regarding sun orientation or just for photography, it’s absolutely amazing. 

Eventually paid for full version after using it for 3-4 years. Live view is really superb.

### 5/5 — Emlak sektörü

*2020-09-12, version 2.5.2*

Bulunduğunuz Arazide güneşin hangi tarihte nereden hangi saatte doğup battığını öğrenebiliyoruz ve bu bazen çok işe yarıyor.

### 5/5 — 超级超级超级棒啊！

*2020-05-01*

学地理的同学们真的超级值得入手！对于理解太阳的视运动真的特别有帮助啊！恨不能早点发现它！现在已经开始疯狂跟我周围的文科小伙伴安利啦哈哈

### 2/5 — Light lohnt nicht

*2020-02-02*

Auch hier wieder Bilder der Vollversion, in der Lightversion gibt es keine Kartenansicht und somit ist sie für meine Zwecke unbrauchbar.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — El sol ya no aparece donde deberia estar

*2024-05-31, version 2.8.1*

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 nada… por favor arreglen la aplicacion.

### 1/5 — Deficiente

*2023-05-01, version 2.8.1*

Funciona fatal porque me ha cortado en varias ocasiones y algunas imágenes están muy fatal. 
Solo quieren dineros para enriquecerse

### 1/5 — Sunrise time not working

*2022-04-02*

No good

### 1/5 — 南北是反向的

*2020-06-04*

南北是反向的

### 1/5 — 차라리 무료버전을 없애라

*2019-11-30*

딱 욕먹기 좋은 무료버전이다. 아무것도 할 수가 없는데 차라리 없애라. 괜히 깔았다.

### 1/5 — Locked down version

*2019-07-02*

This is rather a demo of the full version (which looks great), but all the functionalities are locked down, which makes it a useless demo. I would much rather a 7 day trial of the full version instead.

I needed to test offline usage (saved position for later use without internet access) to see whether the full version would be suitable for my needs, since I have neither cellular features nor GPS on my device, but I couldn’t even do that because absolutely everything is locked down in this “lite” version.

### 1/5 — Солнце встаёт на Сервере!

*2019-06-09*

Основная задача, с которой должно справляться приложение - не работает. Солнце почему-то встаёт на севере. Компас откалиброван правильно.
Реальное местоположение Солнца на небе тоже не совпадает.

The main task of the application - the determination of the location of the sun - does not work. The sun rises in the north.  The compass is calibrated correctly.
 The actual location of the sun in the sky does not match the roof.

### 1/5 — Lite version is useless

*2019-02-19, version 2.5.2*

Lite version is not limited, is completely useless.

### 1/5 — The compass is always off

*2018-12-08*

Every time I open I have to recalibrate and it doesn’t matter how many times I do the figure 8 it just doesn’t want to point north where north is. It basically makes it useless to me (and I am not near any magnets!)

**Developer response:** Hello, please get in touch (adam@sunsurveyor.com) as I'd like to understand more about your situation, and share some more tips.  For example, some people have phone cases with magnets in them, which can also affect things.

### 1/5 — Absolute garbage !

*2018-11-05*

Calibrate phone compass it points North. Calibrate this app and it's 35 degrees out ! Says Sun gonna rise in the South & not the East. Binned it !!!

**Developer response:** Hello, please get in touch (adam@sunsurveyor.com) as I'd like to understand your situation more and share some tips.  A compass being off will affect all similar apps and apps that use the compass sensor, not just this one.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Great for deciding where to plant

*2026-03-15*

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

### 5/5 — Very good

*2024-08-07*

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.

### 5/5 — A good  incentive to upgrade

*2024-03-13*

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

**Developer response:** When did you write and from what email? Occasionally email goes to spam. I aim to respond to all email, but occasionally some are missed. Can you try again? adam@sunsurveyor.com

### 5/5 — Handy tool for planning trips

*2024-02-06*

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 haven’t explored them too much. Happy with it so far

### 5/5 — Very Functional App

*2023-07-23*

For a lite version with no Ads. Just does what it says 👏🏼👏🏼

### 5/5 — 旅行先で使っています。

*2022-09-19*

フリープランですがとても便利です

### 5/5 — Крутое приложение

*2021-11-30*

У меня всё совпало! Теперь в еовом месте можно посмотреть покупая участок где будет солнце и как оно будет двигаться

### 5/5 — Great

*2021-05-28*

Great for GoPro timelapses

### 5/5 — Все хорошо работает

*2021-02-09*

Показывает золотой час, долготу дня по дням недели и прочий функционал который я раньше не знал где брать помимо сайта"восход-солнца"

Спс разрабам

### 5/5 — iPhone

*2020-12-18, version 2.5.2*

Hi..I have pro sun surveyor I changed my telephone Now I use iPhone but again Want money form me What can I do?

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