Comparison

Daylights vs Sun ETA

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 ETA

Features
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Know exactly when the sun rises and sets, wherever you are. Sun ETA gives you a live countdown to the next sunrise or sunset, calculated in real-time based on your current location. Whether you're a photographer chasing golden hour, a runner planning an evening jog, or just someone who loves watching the sun go down, Sun ETA keeps you informed at a glance.

Screenshots

Daylights4 screens
Sun ETA3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Daylights at none against Sun ETA's shown. Daylights also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Sun ETA's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 6 months). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daylights ships an update every 6 months, Sun ETA daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Daylights versus Sun ETA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaylightsSun ETA
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (55 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings55 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJanne KäkiSkiily LLC

In-app purchases

None

Daylights

No in-app purchases

None

Sun ETA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daylights free?
Daylights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sun ETA free?
Sun ETA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Daylights or Sun ETA have ads?
Sun ETA shows ads; Daylights does not.
Which is updated more often, Daylights or Sun ETA?
Daylights ships an update every 6 months, and Sun ETA daily. Most recently, Daylights was updated on October 24, 2026 and Sun ETA on October 13, 2026.

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