Comparison

Skylight vs Storma

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

Head to head
About

Skylight

This app helps you experience more sunlight by creating routines around sunrise, solar noon, and sunset. It provides visual displays and notifications for sun events, helping you adjust your daily life for better well-being and photography.

Highlights
  • Sunrise and sunset routines
  • Solar noon reminders
  • Golden Hour alerts
  • Seasonal sunlight tracking
  • Configurable widgets
  • Apple Watch complications
  • Yearly sun event view
Features
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Make time for the light around you. Skylight helps you see how much daylight remains and plan a morning walk, a golden hour photo, or a moment outside before sunset. Explore sun times for your location and date through beautiful, scientifically-accurate charts, Home Screen widgets, and reminders that help you catch the moments you care about. Follow the changing length of days through the seasons. Look ahead to summer’s long evenings or watch daylight gradually return after the winter solstice. Available for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Features include: - Follow the sun’s position throughout the day with a fluid visual display. - Set notifications for daily and yearly sun events. - Keep daylight in view with three configurable widgets: Year Graph, Daylight Graph, and Gradient. - Check remaining daylight and upcoming events on your Apple Watch, including directly on your watch face. - Explore a full year of sun times and seasonal changes in daylight. - Learn about sun events and discover how their timing changes throughout the year. - Look up sun times for past and future dates and locations around the world. - Choose time modes for everyday use, photography, and science. - Use Siri and Shortcuts to look up sun times, get a daylight summary, and set sun event notifications. Optional background location updates help keep notifications aligned with your location as you travel. Skylight is an indie app from the creators of Magic Window. We make beautiful software that helps people connect with the world around them. Questions or suggestions? Contact us at support@jetsoncreative.com.

About

Storma

Observe real-time thunderstorms globally with a live map and receive instant notifications for detected storms. Watch storms directly from your iPhone's lock screen or Dynamic Island.

Highlights
  • Real-time lightning strike map
  • Global storm observation
  • Customizable storm alerts
  • Live Activities integration
  • Lock screen storm viewing
Features
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Storma is the ultimate app for observing thunderstorms worldwide. It's easy to stay informed about weather phenomena! REAL-TIME MAP View lightning strikes live on the world map and explore storms around the globe. NOTIFICATIONS Create alerts and receive notifications when a storm is detected near a point of interest. LIVE ACTIVITIES Watch storms directly from your iPhone's lock screen or Dynamic Island with Live Activities.

Screenshots

Skylight4 screens
Storma3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Storma at free against Skylight's paid. Storma also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Skylight's advantage is ratings volume (107 vs 12). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Skylight against 4.8 for Storma. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skylight has 107 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Skylight's written reviews are positive against 100% of Storma's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skylight ships an update every 6 weeks, Storma monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Skylight versus Storma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkylightStorma
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (107 ratings)4.8 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings107 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJetson Creative LLCBenjamin Pisano

Customer experience

Skylight

All ratings107 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral0.9%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative13.3%

Storma

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Skylight

No in-app purchases

None

Storma

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Skylight free?
Skylight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Storma free?
Storma is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Skylight or Storma?
Skylight and Storma are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 107 and 12 ratings respectively.
Do Skylight or Storma have ads?
Neither Skylight nor Storma shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skylight or Storma?
Skylight ships an update every 6 weeks, and Storma monthly. Most recently, Skylight was updated on October 19, 2026 and Storma on October 4, 2026.

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