AR Solar System PRO vs Weird Type
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AR Solar System PRO
Explore the solar system in augmented reality. Place planets in your environment, walk among them, and learn detailed facts. Interact with celestial bodies to view them from all angles.
- Augmented reality planet placement
- Interactive 3D planet models
- Real-time planet rotation and revolution
- Detailed astronomical data for each planet
- Virtual space travel experience
- Gesture-based interaction
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"AR Solar System" turns your device into a telescope in augmented reality for the observation of the planets of the Solar System. Choose and place a planet or several planets in the scene: in your home (in the air, on the floor, on a table, on a wall, on any horizontal surface) or outside the home (ex. open sky)... Observe the planets of our Solar System as you've never seen them before! The planets available for observation are: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris The software uses the information available on the planets of the Solar System to animate the rotations of the planets: every second corresponds to one hour, each planet rotates at the real speed, in the direction of real rotation. For each planet data are available such as size, rotation period, period of revolution, type of atmosphere, gravity, etc... Walk in the scene with your legs moving between the planets (like travel in space) and observe them with your device like a telescope: - approaching the planet you will see more details such as craters, valleys, plains, mountain ranges, etc... - moving away from the planet, you will see the planet entirely or more planets together - turning around the planet you can see the side of interest or simulate the flight of a spaceship orbiting the planet - by moving over or under the planet you will be able to observe its poles - etc… Interacting manually with the planets you can: - Move the planet in the real scene (pan gesture: dragging a finger on the planet) - Enlarge and shrink the planet (pinch gesture: pinching the planet) - Rotate the planet around its axis of rotation (rotation gesture: rotating the planet with two fingers); manual rotation deactivates the automatic one - Remove the planet from the scene (long press gesture: holding a finger on the planet for half a second) - Add a new planet to the scene by touching the desired position (using horizontal plane in real world or feature points) - Select a planet from the scene and display its characteristics (double tap gesture: tap a planet twice with a finger) Background of the scene: in the presence of light in the real world the milky way and the stars (deep space) are projected as the background of the planets on the walls of your house or in the sky if you are outdoors; in the absence of light (or covering the camera with a finger) moving in the scene will seem to travel in deep space (virtual reality feature… the real world will be removed from the scene). Useful for all those who love to observe the planets of the Solar System in every detail, for teachers, scholars, students, astronomers, etc... UNIVERSAL APP: - You pay only once and run on all your devices
Weird Type
Create unique visual art by writing words in augmented reality. Type custom phrases and explore various creative modes to see your text transform in innovative ways. Record and share your AR text creations.
- Draw with text in AR
- Type custom phrases
- Multiple creative modes
- Record and share videos
- Multi-lingual input support
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Have you ever wanted to draw with words? Weird Type is an AR app that lets you paint with text in space! You can type your own phrases and pick from multiple modes and see your text in completely new ways. You can record videos of your messages and share them or save them to you camera roll. It's based on a series of AR experiments that the authors Zach Lieberman and Molmol Kuo have been posting to Instagram over the last few months. People kept asking, "is that an app?" Now, together with our collaborator Design Indaba, which helped produce this, we're packaging some of these experiments into app and we hope you enjoy them! The app is designed by Richard The, with iOS help from Ying Quan Tan, Robby Kraft, and Peter Sibley Note the app now supports multi-lingual input.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Weird Type at 4.9 against AR Solar System PRO's 1.0. Weird Type also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 46 months). AR Solar System PRO's advantage is chart position (#192 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
AR Solar System PRO costs $0.99 and Weird Type $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Weird Type holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weird Type has 814 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
AR Solar System PRO ships an update every 46 months, Weird Type every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | AR Solar System PRO | Weird Type |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.9 (814 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 87.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 814 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 46 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #192 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gianluca Natalini | Zach Lieberman |
Customer experience
AR Solar System PRO
Weird Type
Bugs and requests
AR Solar System PRO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Weird Type
Reported bugs
2 issues- Orientation issues when sharing videos
- Inconsistent performance on older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for more languages
- Allow custom font/color options
- Implement selfie camera mode
- Add audio recording capabilities
- Improve video export quality
In-app purchases
AR Solar System PRO
No in-app purchases
Weird Type
No in-app purchases
Questions
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