Comparison

Daylights vs Selene Moon Calendar

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

Selene Moon Calendar

This app provides detailed lunar information, including phase, illumination, and age. Explore the Moon with zoom and magnifier features, and utilize Siri and Shortcuts for quick access to lunar data. It offers a clean calendar view and widgets for easy monitoring.

Highlights
  • Current moon phase and illumination
  • Zoom and magnifier for detailed exploration
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
  • Local moonrise and moonset times
  • Clean moon calendar view
  • Widgets for quick access
  • Apollo landing site exploration
Features
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Selene is a calm lunar reference for iPhone and iPad. Check the current phase, illumination, age, lunation, distance, and the next major event at a glance. Explore the Moon up close on iPhone and iPad: pinch to zoom from 1× to 4×, then move the enlarged view with one finger. Touch and hold the Moon and move your finger to examine details with the magnifier. Double-tap or use the reset button to return to original size. Wide views place the Moon on the left and controls on the right. The full-screen Moon on Apple Watch also offers a magnifier and, on watchOS 11 or later, two-finger zoom from 1× to 4×. The Digital Crown continues to control time. Siri and Shortcuts bring the Moon into your day: get phase and illumination for a chosen date, find the next moonrise, moonset, full moon or new moon, and check current altitude and direction relative to the geometric horizon. Add Selene actions to your own shortcuts, ask Siri to run them by name and reuse numbers and dates in later actions. Astronomical calculations run locally; the reported position does not account for weather or obstacles. Choose any place to see local moonrise, moonset, and visibility, then browse a clean moon calendar built for quiet observation. Widgets keep the moon close without clutter. New in Selene, Orbit turns the Sun, Earth, and Moon into a precise spatial model synchronized with the timeline, making phases, orientation, and eclipse geometry easier to understand. Scale: True proportions for Sun, Earth, and Moon. The Sun is 109 Earth diameters wide and about 389 lunar distances away, so a single true-scale drawing would hide the Moon. Classic: Uses the previous Selene moon rendering. Natural: NASA/LROC imagery with natural surface colors and lighting. Contrast: Shows the lunar surface in high-contrast monochrome. Relief: NASA/LOLA elevation colors and shaded terrain. Colors represent height, not true surface colors. Coordinates: Adds a subtle latitude and longitude grid. Changes only the lunar surface rendering; phase, location, visibility, and calendar data stay unchanged. Your chosen iPhone Moon style syncs to Apple Watch and remains available offline after syncing. One purchase unlocks Selene on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. No subscription and no ads. Explore all six crewed Apollo landing sites in verified modern LRO images. This modern orbital image shows the immediate area around the published landing coordinate. The image was cropped, scaled and compressed without adding, removing or moving surface details. Current lunar phase, illumination, distance, and local visibility. Short explanations of the astronomical terms used in Selene.

Screenshots

Daylights4 screens
Selene Moon Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Daylights at Free against Selene Moon Calendar's $2.99. Daylights also leads on ratings volume (55 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Selene Moon Calendar's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Daylights is free to download; Selene Moon Calendar costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Selene Moon Calendar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daylights has 55 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daylights ships an update every 6 months, Selene Moon Calendar weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Daylights versus Selene Moon Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaylightsSelene Moon Calendar
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.6 (55 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings55 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJanne KäkiThomas Erwin Stange

Customer experience

Daylights

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

Selene Moon Calendar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Daylights

No in-app purchases

None

Selene Moon Calendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daylights free?
Daylights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Selene Moon Calendar free?
Selene Moon Calendar costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daylights or Selene Moon Calendar?
Selene Moon Calendar is rated higher. Daylights averages 4.6 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while Selene Moon Calendar averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Daylights or Selene Moon Calendar have ads?
Neither Daylights nor Selene Moon Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daylights or Selene Moon Calendar?
Daylights ships an update every 6 months, and Selene Moon Calendar weekly. Most recently, Daylights was updated on November 2, 2026 and Selene Moon Calendar on November 5, 2026.

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