Comparison

Daylights vs Sun Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Daylights

Visualize daylight and night hours globally with three distinct styles. Explore how time zones and daylight saving changes affect your location's light cycles.

Highlights
  • Global daylight visualization
  • Three distinct visualization styles
  • Explore polar night and midnight sun
  • Daylight saving time impact simulation
  • Time zone shift simulation
Features
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Daylights is your calendar for daylight and night-dark hours around the year, all over the globe. It offers three alternative daylight visualization styles, allowing you to choose whichever feels the most intuitive to you: • The Classic: the 12-hour clock alternates between daylight and night-dark, whichever is shorter. • The Light: the 12-hour clock always shows daylight, overlapping with itself when necessary. • The Magic: a 24-hour clock shows the full day, and highlights the "magic hours" around sunrise and sunset! You can pick any location on the planet to look at the interplay of the polar night and the midnight sun at the big latitudes. And finally, you can see how the light and dark hours would shift in your hometown if daylight saving time became the permanent state of things or was removed altogether, or if they decided to move to the next or previous time zone.

About

Sun Tracker

Plan your days and capture breathtaking photos by tracking sunrise and sunset times globally. Get detailed daylight information and set reminders for perfect photo opportunities. View civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight data for any location and date.

Highlights
  • Sunrise and sunset times for any location
  • Daylight hours calculation
  • Civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight
  • Monthly view
  • Reminders for photo opportunities
  • Solstice and equinox dates
Features
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Never miss a sunrise or sunset ever again! The perfect app for planning your holidays and getting the ideal time for stunning sunrise and sunset photos. Sun Tracker provides a beautiful way to see the sunrise and sunset times for ANY location around the world for ANY date. Set the app to either use your current location to see the sunrise and sunset times - or choose any location from around the world. You can look at a full month and set reminders so you never miss that great sunrise or sunset photo opportunity! Displays sunrise time, sunset time, amount of daylight hours and if the current day is longer or shorter than the previous day. Civil, nautical and astronomical sunrise and sunset information is shown for every day of the month ahead. Upcoming summer solstice, winter solstice and equinox dates are shown. All presented on a magnificent and inspiring collection of beautiful sunrise and sunset photos! For more great apps, visit https://jameskentsoftware.com/

Screenshots

Daylights4 screens
Sun Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daylights at none against Sun Tracker's 1. Daylights also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Sun Tracker's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sun Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daylights asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Daylights against 4.6 for Sun Tracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 156 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 67% and 67% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daylights ships an update every 6 months, Sun Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Daylights versus Sun Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaylightsSun Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (55 ratings) — better4.6 (156 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings55156 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB23 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperJanne KäkiJames Kent

Customer experience

Daylights

All ratings55 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral5.5%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Sun Tracker

All ratings156 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral3.2%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

None

Daylights

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Sun Tracker

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99

Questions

Is Daylights free?
Daylights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sun Tracker free?
Sun Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daylights or Sun Tracker?
Daylights is rated higher. Daylights averages 4.6 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while Sun Tracker averages 4.6 from 156 ratings.
Do Daylights or Sun Tracker have ads?
Neither Daylights nor Sun Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daylights or Sun Tracker?
Daylights ships an update every 6 months, and Sun Tracker weekly. Most recently, Daylights was updated on November 2, 2026 and Sun Tracker on November 3, 2026.

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