Comparison

Daylights vs Sun AR

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 AR

Easily visualize the sun's path and position for any date and time using augmented reality. Plan photoshoots, outdoor events, or understand sunlight exposure without complex astronomical data.

Highlights
  • AR Sun Path visualization
  • Simplified sunlight data (golden hour, sunset)
  • Map view for sun positioning
  • Supports any date and time
  • Ideal for photographers and event planners
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Point your phone at the sky and watch the sun's path appear overhead. Sun AR uses augmented reality to show exactly where the sun rises, travels, and sets from where you're standing — today or on any date. See if a balcony catches the afternoon light, plan a golden hour shoot, or check a home before you visit. No more guessing which way the light falls. What you can do with Sun AR: - See the sun's path overhead in augmented reality, right where you stand - Check if a room, balcony, terrace, or garden gets direct sun, and exactly when - Plan golden hour, blue hour, sunrise, and sunset for photos and shoots - Scout homes, apartments, and open houses before you visit - Preview the sun for any date of the year, from midsummer to deep winter - Search any location on the map and see its light without going there - Read sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and daylight length at a glance - Add home screen widgets for sunrise, sunset, and daylight Sun AR brings together ARKit, your compass and location, map search, and precise solar calculations to make sunlight easy to see and plan around. Built for photographers, realtors, home buyers, renters, architects, gardeners, travelers, and anyone who needs to know where the sun will be. Features at a glance: - Augmented reality sun path - Sun direction on the map - Any date and time preview - Search any location worldwide - Sunrise and sunset times - Golden hour and blue hour - Daylight duration charts - Sunrise, sunset, and daylight widgets Some features require location and camera permissions. Changing the date and other premium features may require a subscription or one-time purchase. Terms: https://getsun.app/terms Privacy: https://getsun.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Daylights4 screens
Sun AR4 screens

Verdict

The call

Daylights and Sun AR both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Daylights's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sun AR's. Daylights also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (55 vs 10). Sun AR's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sun AR sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Daylights asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Daylights against 4.6 for Sun AR. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daylights has 55 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Daylights's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sun AR's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daylights ships an update every 6 months, Sun AR weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Daylights versus Sun AR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaylightsSun AR
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (55 ratings) — better4.6 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings55 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJanne KäkiPixby Media AB

Customer experience

Daylights

All ratings55 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral7.3%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Sun AR

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Daylights

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Sun AR

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Daylights free?
Daylights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sun AR free?
Sun AR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daylights or Sun AR?
Daylights is rated higher. Daylights averages 4.7 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while Sun AR averages 4.6 from 10 ratings.
Do Daylights or Sun AR have ads?
Neither Daylights nor Sun AR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daylights or Sun AR?
Daylights ships an update every 6 months, and Sun AR weekly. Most recently, Daylights was updated on September 23, 2026 and Sun AR on October 9, 2026.

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