Comparison

Steer Clear® vs The Sky Now

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

Head to head
About

Steer Clear®

This app helps young drivers improve their driving habits through interactive learning modules and trip tracking. Completing the program may qualify users for an auto insurance premium adjustment.

Highlights
  • Learning modules on safe driving topics
  • Automatic trip tracking
  • Driving behavior feedback (braking, acceleration, cornering)
  • Program completion certificate
  • Motivational badges for accomplishments
  • Distracted driving education
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The Steer Clear® app is part of a comprehensive program that helps young drivers reinforce positive driving behavior. Young drivers, under age 25, who complete the Steer Clear® Safe Driver Program, may be eligible for an adjustment to the premium on their State Farm® auto insurance. The Steer Clear mobile application tracks a driver's progress through pre-set learning modules of updated content including topics such as Bluetooth, distracted driving (texting/games), and special driving situations. Drivers will no longer need to manually record their trips if the program is conducted through this app. Throughout their trips, drivers will be scored and given feedback on their braking, acceleration, and cornering. Once a driver completes the program, they will receive a program completion certificate that they can text, email, or bring into the agent's office. Badges have been added to Steer Clear to recognize and reward a variety of specific driving accomplishments. The badges will help align users to shared goals of the app, such as scoring a certain percentage on a specific driving behavior, while acting as virtual, motivational status symbols. Feel free to leave comments on the App Store or on our Facebook Teen Driver Safety page: www.facebook.com/sfteendriving *The Steer Clear® Safe Driver Program is not available in all states.

About

The Sky Now

Features
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The Sky Now is an illustrated, offline guide to the night sky, built around a curated catalog of well-known stars, planets, Messier objects, and satellites. SKY CHART — pan and zoom an interactive chart of 24 curated objects: bright stars, the visible planets, a few showpiece nebulae, clusters, and galaxies, each with real astronomical facts (magnitude, distance, right ascension/declination). Toggle constellation lines, a coordinate grid, and labels, or switch to a red night-vision theme to protect your dark adaptation. Scrub through hours or days to watch the sky's simplified rotation. TONIGHT & OBSERVE — a "Tonight" panel highlights a few objects worth seeking out, and a personal observation log lets you check off what you've actually seen. SATELLITES — a guide to 13 notable satellites and objects, including the ISS, Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope, weather and navigation satellites, and a couple of tracked debris fragments, with real specs (altitude, orbital period, inclination) and an optional reminder notification ahead of an approximate pass. SCOPE — a demo telescope-mount panel modeled on the ASCOM Alpaca/INDI protocols real equatorial mounts use, for exploring the workflow without needing hardware. This is an offline, illustrative reference, not a precision tracker: satellite pass times and sky positions are representative, not computed from live orbital data or your GPS location, and the app ships with four preset observing locations (Chicago, Mauna Kea, London, Sydney) rather than device location. No account, no ads, no in-app purchases, and no data collection of any kind.

Screenshots

Steer Clear®4 screens
The Sky Now2 screens

Verdict

The call

Steer Clear® and The Sky Now are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Steer Clear® versus The Sky Now: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteer Clear®The Sky Now
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (71K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews29.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings71K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB3 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperState Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyNow Studio LLC

Bugs and requests

Steer Clear®

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Trips not recording due to phone movement
  • Acceleration/braking incorrectly detected
  • Inconsistent scoring between drives
  • Calibration issues causing inaccurate data

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow driver comments/explanations for incidents
  • Improve scoring algorithm to be more realistic
  • Integrate with other driving apps for seamless experience
  • Provide more detailed feedback on areas for improvement

The Sky Now

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Steer Clear®

No in-app purchases

None

The Sky Now

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Steer Clear® free?
Steer Clear® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Sky Now free?
The Sky Now is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Steer Clear® or The Sky Now have ads?
Neither Steer Clear® nor The Sky Now shows ads.

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