Austral Editions vs Suncam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Austral Editions
Experience augmented reality with interactive books. Point your smartphone at images to see them come alive with videos of animals, landscapes, and more. Connects the physical book with a digital, immersive world.
- Augmented reality book experiences
- Interactive animated images
- Video content linked to book visuals
- Multi-sensory learning
- Travel, nature, and photography themes
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Pour utiliser cette application, vous devez posséder au moins un livre en réalité augmentée de "Austral Éditions", en vente en librairie. Austral Éditions propose des livres touristiques en réalité augmentée autour de sujets tels que le voyage, le paysage, la photographie et la nature. Cette technologie propose au lecteur une nouvelle façon de voir le livre d'images. En passant simplement votre smartphone au-dessus du livre, les images s'animent avec une vidéo en relation directe avec le lieux ou l'animal photographié! Les vidéos ainsi proposées permettent d'observer l'animal en mouvement, d'entendre les oiseaux chanter, de voir les papillons s'envoler, et pour le paysage, de voir le lieux photographié vu en drone, en time-lapse... Les livres en réalité augmentée de "Austral Éditions" offrent une expérience multi-sensorielle qui relie le monde réel du livre et le monde virtuel numérique. Livres disponibles en librairie : - Zanimos Zanimés : un imagier avec 27 images animées des animaux de la Réunion - La Réunion en réalité augmentée : un livre de photos avec 100 images de la Réunion - Mamzel Zoizel - Un conte pour enfant - Le Québec en réalité augmentée - un livre de photos avec 100 images du Québec - Zanimos Zanimés Quebec : un imagier avec 27 images animées des animaux du Québec - L'Endormi Blanc comme un grain de riz - 123 Petites Bêtes Pour le téléchargement de cette application, il est préférable de se connecter à un réseau WI-FI: Il faut d'abord installer l'application, puis lorsque vous choisissez votre livre il vous sera demandé d'accepter le téléchargement du contenu vidéo pour le livre sélectionné qui nécessite 60MO de téléchargement pour "Zanimos Zanimés" et 220MO de téléchargement pour "La Réunion en réalité augmentée".
Suncam
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Suncam tells you where the light will be, before you get there. Drop a pin on the map. Suncam draws the exact bearing of sunrise and sunset, the moon's path, and lays out the day: dawn, golden hour, blue hour, dusk. Drag the timeline with your thumb and the sun line sweeps across the map in real time, and you watch the light move over the landscape, hour by hour. THE TERRAIN THAT STEALS YOUR LIGHT A 9:30 PM sunset means nothing if a ridge puts you in shadow at 7. Suncam reads the elevation all around your spot within 20 km and works out when the sun actually disappears. In a valley the gap runs into hours, and no ephemeris table will show it to you. THE SUN'S PATH IN YOUR VIEWFINDER Raise your iPhone: the day's arc overlays the real landscape, coloured by moment of light. You see where the sun will land behind those trees, when it will strike that wall. One tap while aiming at the sun calibrates the compass, and the drawn disc lines up with the real one. THE SUN ON YOUR AXIS Aim at a lighthouse, a summit, a rock arch: Suncam finds the days of the year when the sun rises or sets exactly on that line from your spot. If it never does, it tells you so. THE FULL MOON, RIGHT ON TIME The lunar calendar shows each day's phase and the moonrise time at your spot. Suncam also finds the rare evenings when a nearly full moon rises on the horizon during golden hour: the one moment when moon and landscape expose in the same shot. And the timeline follows you to the end of the night. YOUR SPOTS, ORGANISED Search a harbour, a summit, a beach. One star keeps it, one folder files it. Every spot stays visible on the map, at any zoom. ACCURACY YOU CAN CHECK Sun and moon positions are computed on the device, from the algorithms of Jean Meeus and NOAA. The times were compared against US Naval Observatory ephemerides from the tropics to the Arctic Circle: the difference is measured in seconds. Because everything is computed locally, the app works with no connection. Only the terrain analysis needs one. WHAT YOU PAY 7 days to try everything, then a single purchase. No subscription, no renewal, no account to create. Your spots stay on your iPhone. Built for photographers, Suncam also serves hikers, climbers, gardeners, and anyone who needs to know where the sun will fall.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Austral Editions at none against Suncam's 1. Austral Editions also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Suncam's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months). On price and ads 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. Suncam sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Austral Editions asks for nothing beyond the download.
Austral Editions ships an update every 10 months, Suncam monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Austral Editions | Suncam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 234 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | stephane benard | Teddy Verneuil |
In-app purchases
Austral Editions
No in-app purchases
Suncam
- Suncam, full access$6.99
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