Golden Hour vs Phonesty
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.
Phonesty
This video conferencing app offers secure and affordable meetings with a high participant capacity. Features include automatic muting with a "raise hand" option, customizable room settings for various uses like teaching or webinars, and the ability to record conferences. Participants can also join via phone dial-in or receive automated calls.
- High participant capacity
- Plenum Mode with "raise hand"
- Customizable conference rooms
- Automatic speaker switching
- Conference recording
- Phone dial-in and automated calls
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Phonesty Video Conferencing is easy, secure and affordable. It's by far the simplest way to join a Phonesty Conference. Phonesty conference rooms can host meetings with a very high number of participants and can be individually configured for many specific use cases (church services, teaching, webinars etc.). Participants can either be automatically muted with our unique "Plenum Mode" and can then raise their hand if they want to speak. Or the conference room can be configured so that everyone can mute/unmute themselves. The video switches to the speaking member automatically or can be fixed to one speaker at a time. Conferences can be recorded, locked and much more. Participants can also dial-in by telephone. Or our system can automatically call your participants by phone starting at 1 Cent per minute.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Phonesty at none against Golden Hour's 1. Phonesty also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). Golden Hour's advantage is ratings volume (399 vs 1). 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. Phonesty asks for nothing beyond the download.
Phonesty holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Golden Hour has 399 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Golden Hour ships an update every 2 months, Phonesty monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Golden Hour | Phonesty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (399 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 399 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Applorium Ltd | Phonesty GmbH |
Customer experience
Golden Hour
Phonesty
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
Phonesty
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Golden Hour
- Lifetime upgrade$3.99
Phonesty
No in-app purchases









