Solis vs MAX Daylight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solis
Track sunrise, sunset, and twilight times globally with visually appealing gradient displays. Receive notifications for key solar events and access golden and blue hour times for photography. A simple widget provides at-a-glance information.
- Sunrise and sunset time tracking
- Twilight time display (golden/blue hour)
- Global city support
- Event notifications
- Today widget
- Twilight type explanations
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Sunrise, sunset, and twilight time time-tracker - Solis shows you when it gets dark or light in any city around the world with its beautiful gradient. - Setup notifications for all the important sun events so you never get caught out in the dark again. - See the times of golden and blue hour for photography with the perfect light. - Simple today widget to know at a glance when the next sunrise, sunset, first light, or last light occurs. - Learn about the three different types of twilight and find out how they affect the light in the sky.
MAX Daylight
Track remaining daylight and receive sunset notifications. Explore solar data globally, compare locations, and generate reports. Calculate distances to the Equator and poles.
- Real-time sunset time
- Sunset notifications
- Global sunrise/sunset monitoring
- Location comparison
- Distance to Equator/Poles
- Solar data reports
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I wrote this app to help me get home before dark while riding my bicycle. You can see at a glance how much time until sunset, and set notifications for when you are running out of sunlight. Your loved ones will no longer worry or complain. Then I added everything solar but the kitchen sink, just for fun. Not only for your current location, you can monitor sunrise, noon, and sunset anywhere on Earth. You can compare locations, make movies, and generate reports comparing a location you select to places around the globe. Check the distance to your location, the Equator, and the North or South Pole from anywhere on Earth. Quick and easy for its headline purpose, but enough detail to satisfy almost any nerd. Most of the USA is far enough north to have little sunlight in mid-winter, rapid changes in the amount of sunlight in spring and fall, and a glorious abundance in summer. You need this app to keep on top of all that.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MAX Daylight at every 2 weeks against Solis's every 2 months. MAX Daylight also leads on ratings volume (62 vs 5). Solis's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Solis against 4.9 for MAX Daylight. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MAX Daylight has 62 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Solis's written reviews are positive against 94% of MAX Daylight's.
Solis ships an update every 2 months, MAX Daylight every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Solis | MAX Daylight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) | 4.9 (62 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 93.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 62 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jake Runzer | Stephen Mykytyn |
Customer experience
Solis
MAX Daylight
In-app purchases
Solis
No in-app purchases
MAX Daylight
No in-app purchases
