Unistellar vs Smooth For Students
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Unistellar
Control your smart telescope, explore thousands of celestial objects, and observe them live. Save and share your discoveries, or contribute to real scientific research with citizen science missions.
- Telescope control
- Explore 5000+ celestial objects
- Live astronomical observation
- Instant image sharing
- RAW image download
- Citizen science missions
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The Unistellar App is your command center for all Unistellar telescopes, designed to help astronomers explore the cosmos with ease. 1. Control your telescope: align, point, and operate your smart telescope directly from the App. 2. Explore 5000 celestial objects: galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, planets, Moon, Sun, comets, and asteroids. 3. Observe live: see your target appear within seconds, with more details and colors revealed as the signal accumulates. 4. Share instantly: save your images as PNGs and share them in one click. 5. Go pro: download RAW images for advanced post-processing. 6. Join citizen science missions: contribute to real research with NASA and SETI—track asteroids, detect exoplanets, and more.
Smooth For Students
This app organizes your course deadlines from your school's learning platform into a single, prioritized list. It helps you track upcoming assignments, visualize your progress, and manage your tasks effectively to avoid missing important due dates.
- Prioritized list of all assignments
- Urgency color-coding
- Weekly progress tracking
- Custom task addition
- Local reminders and daily digests
- Manual due date adjustment
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There's more to life than school, Smooth is for the rest of it. Every deadline your classes throw at you: assignments, readings, quizzes, labs, the lecture you keep forgetting - it all lands in one app. You open it, you see what's next, you close it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smooth For Students at 100% against Unistellar's 44%. Smooth For Students also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 weeks). Unistellar's advantage is ratings volume (101 vs 9). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smooth For Students holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Unistellar has 101 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Unistellar's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smooth For Students's.
Unistellar ships an update every 5 weeks, Smooth For Students every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Unistellar | Smooth For Students |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (101 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 101 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 524 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Unistellar | Stem Forward Co. |
Customer experience
Unistellar
Smooth For Students
In-app purchases
Unistellar
No in-app purchases
Smooth For Students
No in-app purchases
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