Daylights vs Sun Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Global daylight visualization
- Three distinct visualization styles
- Explore polar night and midnight sun
- Daylight saving time impact simulation
- Time zone shift simulation
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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.
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Sun Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daylights asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
Daylights ships an update every 6 months, Sun Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daylights | Sun Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (55 ratings) — better | 4.6 (156 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 55 | 156 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Janne Käki | James Kent |
Customer experience
Daylights
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In-app purchases
Daylights
No in-app purchases
Sun Tracker
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