Comparison

Sun Facts vs Daylights

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sun Facts

Get precise sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and twilight times for your location. Track celestial events like solstices and equinoxes, and view the sun's path. An optional pro version unlocks detailed moon phase and eclipse information.

Highlights
  • Sunrise and sunset times
  • Solar noon calculation
  • Twilight and golden hour tracking
  • Sun path visualization
  • Solstice and equinox dates
  • Widget for home screen
  • Eclipse event notifications
Features
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Calculate times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise (pro), moonset (pro) and more for your location at any given date. * Provides the following information: - Sunrise - Sunset - Solar noon - Twilight times - Blue hour - Golden hour - Equation of time - Declination - Azimuth of sunrise and sunset - Altitude of sun at noon - Sun Path during the day - Solstice and Equinox dates - Widget for displaying sunrise and sunset times on the Today screen - Date and time of next solar eclipse Pro Version (In-app-purchase): - Moon rise - Moon transit - Moon set - Declination - Azimuth of moon rise and moon set - Altitude of moon during transit - Date of next new/full moon - Moon Path during the day - Date and time of next lunar eclipse * Location from : - GPS receiver - map - list of more than 30000 cities - WGS-84 coordinates

About

Daylights

Visualize daylight and night hours globally with three distinct styles. Explore how time zones and daylight saving changes affect your location's light cycles.

Highlights
  • Global daylight visualization
  • Three distinct visualization styles
  • Explore polar night and midnight sun
  • Daylight saving time impact simulation
  • Time zone shift simulation
Features
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Daylights is your calendar for daylight and night-dark hours around the year, all over the globe. It offers three alternative daylight visualization styles, allowing you to choose whichever feels the most intuitive to you: • The Classic: the 12-hour clock alternates between daylight and night-dark, whichever is shorter. • The Light: the 12-hour clock always shows daylight, overlapping with itself when necessary. • The Magic: a 24-hour clock shows the full day, and highlights the "magic hours" around sunrise and sunset! You can pick any location on the planet to look at the interplay of the polar night and the midnight sun at the big latitudes. And finally, you can see how the light and dark hours would shift in your hometown if daylight saving time became the permanent state of things or was removed altogether, or if they decided to move to the next or previous time zone.

Screenshots

Sun Facts4 screens
Daylights4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daylights at none against Sun Facts's 1. Daylights also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). Sun Facts's advantage is review sentiment (97% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On price, rating and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sun Facts sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daylights asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Sun Facts against 4.7 for Daylights. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sun Facts has 294 ratings behind it against 55, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of Sun Facts's written reviews are positive against 67% of Daylights's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sun Facts ships an update every 2 months, Daylights every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Sun Facts versus Daylights: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSun FactsDaylights
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (294 ratings) — better4.7 (55 ratings)
Positive reviews97.2% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings294 — better55
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVolker Voecking Software EngineeringJanne Käki

Customer experience

Sun Facts

All ratings294 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative0.9%

Daylights

All ratings55 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral7.3%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sun Facts

One-time1
  • Sun Facts Pro$4.99
None

Daylights

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sun Facts free?
Sun Facts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daylights free?
Daylights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sun Facts or Daylights?
Sun Facts is rated higher. Sun Facts averages 4.8 out of 5 from 294 ratings, while Daylights averages 4.7 from 55 ratings.
Do Sun Facts or Daylights have ads?
Sun Facts shows ads; Daylights does not.
Which is updated more often, Sun Facts or Daylights?
Sun Facts ships an update every 2 months, and Daylights every 6 months. Most recently, Sun Facts was updated on September 21, 2026 and Daylights on September 8, 2026.

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