Pocket AR Solar vs Solar System
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket AR Solar
Explore a personal solar system in augmented reality. Planets rotate at speeds based on real-world data, and you can tap on them to learn their names. Experience the cosmos like never before.
- Augmented reality solar system
- Interactive planet rotation
- Planet identification on touch
- Educational content based on Wiki data
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Enjoy your personal solar systems in AR style Features: 1. The planet rotate speed according to Wiki. 2. Touch planet to see the name.
Solar System
Explore planets, dwarf planets, and moons in your own space using augmented reality. Walk around the solar system, view celestial bodies in scale, and access detailed information about each planet and its moons.
- Augmented reality solar system view
- Explore planets, dwarf planets, and moons
- Scale mode for size and distance comparison
- Detailed planet and moon information
- Interactive exploration
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Place the Sun on your table or on the floor and walk among the planets in augmented reality. Get close to Saturn's rings, look at Jupiter's moons from below, or find out how far away Pluto really is when the Sun is one metre wide. THREE WAYS TO SEE IT • Learn: everything fits in one room, so you can see every planet at once. • To scale: the planets' sizes are true to each other. Earth is 4 cm, Jupiter 45 cm, and Neptune is 30 metres from the Sun. • Real scale: everything to the same scale. Earth is a 9 mm marble 107 m away; Pluto is more than 4 km from you. Follow the labels to find them. WHERE THE PLANETS ARE TODAY Every planet starts at its real position in its orbit. Speed up time to watch the years pass, or tap Today to come back. REAL PHYSICS • Orbits with their true tilt: Pluto 17°, Eris 44° • Axes that always point the same way, which is what makes the seasons • Moons that always show the same face to their planet • Triton orbiting backwards, and Io, Europa and Ganymede in their 1:2:4 dance • Haumea, the dwarf planet shaped like a rugby ball 21 WORLDS The Sun, the eight planets, five dwarf planets and seven moons. Each one has a fact sheet with NASA figures — diameter, distance, length of the day and the year, temperature, gravity, moons, who discovered it — a size comparison with Earth and a surprising fact. Great for school, for curious minds of every age, and for anyone who has wondered how big space really is. Augmented reality needs an iPhone or iPad with ARKit. On other devices the app opens in 3D mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket AR Solar at 5.0 against Solar System's 3.8. Pocket AR Solar also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 107 months). Solar System's advantage is ratings volume (32 vs 3). 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.
Pocket AR Solar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solar System has 32 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Pocket AR Solar's written reviews are positive against 67% of Solar System's.
Pocket AR Solar ships an update every 3 weeks, Solar System every 107 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket AR Solar | Solar System |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.8 (32 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 32 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 107 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hung-Yao Chen | Luis Carvajal Hoyos |
Customer experience
Pocket AR Solar
Solar System
In-app purchases
Pocket AR Solar
No in-app purchases
Solar System
No in-app purchases
Questions
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