Golden Hour vs VACOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Golden Hour
Find the optimal times for photography with the best natural light based on your chosen location and date. It also provides sun positions and offers a convenient watch app for real-time golden hour information.
- Optimal light time calculation
- Sun position data
- Location and date specific
- Watch app integration
- Gorgeous light for pictures
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Golden Hour gives you, from the chosen location and date, the 2 best moments of the day during which you will have the most gorgeous light for you pictures. The sun positions is also provided. The Watch App gives you the today's golden hours at your current location.
VACOS
Easily access and control your smart home devices remotely. Stay connected with your family through seamless network technology, ensuring your data is secure with advanced encryption.
- Remote device control
- Home monitoring
- Family connectivity
- Secure data encryption
- Seamless network technology
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Vacos App is one of the easiest software for you to access and control Vacos smart home devices. You can keep tabs on your home and stay connected with your family wherever you are with the seamless network technology. We adopt AES-256, HTTPS and other Vacos private encryption to make sure your data is secure and safe.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Golden Hour at 49% against VACOS's 0%. Golden Hour also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.2) and ratings volume (399 vs 11). VACOS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. Golden Hour sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. VACOS asks for nothing beyond the download.
Golden Hour holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Golden Hour has 399 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Golden Hour's written reviews are positive against 0% of VACOS's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Golden Hour | VACOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (399 ratings) — better | 1.2 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 399 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Applorium Ltd | Shenzhen Kean Digital co., LTD. |
Customer experience
Golden Hour
VACOS
Bugs and requests
Golden Hour
Reported bugs
9 issues- App not opening
- App not loading on watch
- Unknown error message on launch
- App crashes after update
- Search for other locations broken (time zone issue)
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- Map is tiny on iPhone SE
- Widget shows 00:00
- App crashes on opening
- iPhone X optimization missing
Requested features
11 requests- Add blue hour timeframes
- Add labels for map lines
- Add option to save last location
- Add live wallpapers
- Add diagram for shots
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- Improve location search granularity
- Allow planning for future dates/locations
- Fix time zone issues for location search
- Add dark mode
- Add Apple Watch app
- Fix evening/morning labels on map
VACOS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Golden Hour
- Lifetime upgrade$3.99
VACOS
No in-app purchases
