StellarMate vs ScopeWizard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StellarMate
Control your astrophotography equipment remotely. Capture images, stream video, and perform precise alignment. Automatically back up your photos to the cloud with rich metadata for easy searching.
- Remote equipment control
- Image capture and video streaming
- Polar alignment assistant
- Cloud image backup
- Metadata search and sorting
- Software updates
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Use StellarMate App to discover and connect to your StellarMate controller. Control StellarMate functions and access the Web Manager and Web based VNC Viewer. Join StellarMate to your home WiFi network. Use Ekos to capture images, stream video, guide, focus, and align. With Polar Alignment Assistant tool, get very accurate polar alignment using internal astrometry engine. Never lose your images again with EkosLive Pro. All captured images are automatically uploaded to the cloud with a rich set of metadata that enables powerful search and sorting. Use custom tags to uniquely tag important frames for later use. Check the health of your device, and use the software updater to keep it up to date.
ScopeWizard
This app simplifies telescope, eyepiece, and camera calculations with a unified database of equipment. Easily mix and match your gear or input custom values for precise specifications.
- Unified formula database
- Equipment database
- Mix and match gear
- Custom value input
- Telescope specifications calculation
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There are numerous formulas for computing the specifics of your telescope, eyepieces, and camera's characteristics when used together. ScopeWizard brings those formulas together in one handy place. An included database of telescopes, eyepieces, and cameras can be used to mix and match your equipment, or you can enter custom values manually.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ScopeWizard at 5.0 against StellarMate's 2.9. StellarMate's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 25 months) and ratings volume (26 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ScopeWizard holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StellarMate has 26 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
StellarMate ships an update every 8 days, ScopeWizard every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StellarMate | ScopeWizard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ikarus Astronomy Company For Scientific Instruments & Tools | Richard Wright |
Customer experience
StellarMate
ScopeWizard
In-app purchases
StellarMate
No in-app purchases
ScopeWizard
No in-app purchases
