Comparison

uTime Universal vs AstroVitals

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

Head to head
About

uTime Universal

This utility app helps you track the time remaining until future events. It synchronizes timers across your devices, ensuring consistency between your iPhone and iPad. Easily add new timers and manage them from the main screen.

Highlights
  • Countdown to future events
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Add and manage timers
  • View current time and date
  • In-app support access
Features
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Welcome to uTime! uTime is a brand new App that will allow you to see how much time there is left until an event in the future. uTime syncs between devices so the timers on your iPhone are the same as they are on your iPad! Support can be found by hitting the support button in the information section. It is the best way to keep up to get support with either problems or upcoming features. To add another timer hit timers and then the plus button OR hit the add timer button on the main screen. The current time and date will be added to the list and then you can change it from the home-screen!

About

AstroVitals

Monitor your telescope's vital signs remotely from your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. View guiding, focus, image quality, and sequence progress on a glanceable dashboard. Receive smart alerts and optionally control your imaging session.

Highlights
  • Live guiding graphs and stability scores
  • Autofocus V-curve visualization
  • Full sequence tree with progress
  • 3D mount position and target altitude
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Smart alerts for image quality and guiding
Features
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Your telescope is imaging all night. AstroVitals puts its vital signs on your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch — so you can check on the session from the couch, the tent, or your wrist at 3 AM. AstroVitals connects to N.I.N.A. (Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy) over your local network through the Advanced API plugin, and turns the numbers into a dark, glanceable night-vision dashboard. GUIDING AT A GLANCE • Flowing RA/Dec guide graph, just like your guiding software • Live total RMS plus session best, worst and stability score • Peak-error and pixel-scale readouts, adjustable time window FOCUS & IMAGE QUALITY • Watch autofocus V-curves build point by point, live • Best-focus position and HFR marked when the run completes • HFR and star-count trends across every sub of the session YOUR WHOLE SEQUENCE • The full Advanced Sequencer tree — instructions, triggers, loop conditions • The running step highlighted with live progress (87/250 exposures…) • Values shown inline: exposure length, filter, wait-until times and more THE STATS DASHBOARD • A live 3D model of your mount showing exactly where it points, with meridian-flip warning colors and flat-panel cover state • Target altitude path with transit time and astronomical darkness • Camera cooling, ambient temperature, power draw and input voltage • Rearrangeable tiles — drag them into your preferred layout ON YOUR WRIST • The full dashboard as a native Apple Watch app • Watch-face complications: meridian-flip countdown and subs done • iPhone home-screen and lock-screen widgets with a live flip timer SIMPLE SETUP • Auto-discovers your NINA machine on the local network • Demo mode simulates a full session — try every screen without a telescope SMART ALERTS & CONFIRMED CONTROL • Optional alerts for worsening or recovering image quality, lost guiding and meridian-flip progress while AstroVitals is active • Start, pause and stop the running sequence when Allow Control is enabled • A configurable panic plan can stop activity, park or home the mount, close a detected flat-panel cover and disable selected power outputs • Siri opens the review-and-slide confirmation screen; it never sends a command by itself Requires N.I.N.A. with the free Advanced API plugin (v2) on the same network. AstroVitals starts in Read-only mode. Control requires explicit opt-in and confirmation, and remains on the user's local network. No accounts, no analytics, no data leaves your network.

Screenshots

uTime Universal4 screens
AstroVitals4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: uTime Universal at 5.0 against AstroVitals's 3.7. AstroVitals's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

uTime Universal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

uTime Universal ships an update every 2 months, AstroVitals every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
uTime Universal versus AstroVitals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteruTime UniversalAstroVitals
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS1817.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperuAppsMAXIMILIAN BOTEV

Customer experience

uTime Universal

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AstroVitals

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

uTime Universal

No in-app purchases

None

AstroVitals

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is uTime Universal free?
uTime Universal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AstroVitals free?
AstroVitals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, uTime Universal or AstroVitals?
uTime Universal is rated higher. uTime Universal averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while AstroVitals averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do uTime Universal or AstroVitals have ads?
Neither uTime Universal nor AstroVitals shows ads.
Which is updated more often, uTime Universal or AstroVitals?
uTime Universal ships an update every 2 months, and AstroVitals every 3 weeks. Most recently, uTime Universal was updated on November 2, 2026 and AstroVitals on October 31, 2026.

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