Bygge vs PlanetEdit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bygge
Synchronize high-quality audio streams with video recordings on your smartphone. This app provides a solution for achieving good video with excellent audio.
- Synchronize audio streams
- High-quality audio
- Event-sourced audio
- Integrates with video recordings
- Improves audio quality
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With the Bygge smartphone app and with the Bygge Audio broadcast software users can immediately synchronize high quality, event-sourced, audio streams with the users' video recordings. Finally: a solution to bad audio; good video.
PlanetEdit
This app helps you process videos of planets, automatically cropping them to center the celestial body. It offers various image editing tools and advanced features like wavelet layers for detail extraction and denoising. You can also trim videos before stacking and save your edited images.
- Auto crop video to center planet
- Basic image processing (stretch, saturation, brightness, contrast, hue)
- Interactive stacking slider
- Trim video before stacking
- 5 wavelet layers for detail and denoising
- Save edited images
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AstroEdit Planet is a very simple 4in1 app to stack planetary video. It will automatically crop the video and center the planet. It works on video that has planet moving across the view or planet centred in the view. When you open the app, it auto loads a sample Saturn video. Tap Stack button to begin! PlanetEdit integrates the four legacy desktop software into a single delicate mobile app. Traditionally, astronomer has to install 4 different programs to process planetary video. They are (in process sequence): 1. PPIP for cropping video 2. AutoStakkert! for stacking frames 3. Registax for wavelet sharpening 4. Photoshop for RGB alignment and coloring Features: - Open video or image. Accept all format recognised by the Photo app. In addition, it open .ser files. First, copy them to the Files app. Then tap Open button in PlanetEdit app. Choose Open Files App. Tested for a 3.5Gb .ser file. Now for .avi file, copy to your the Photo app or the Files app. The .avi has to be the standard accepted by the Photo app. If it is accepted by the Photo app, it will be visible in the Photo app. - Auto crop video and center frame. - Auto set alignment points for stacking. - Lucky stacking slider. - Real time update of stacking result. - Use 2 finger to pinch zoom, 1 finger to drag and 1 finger to long press to compare a frame(best quality). - RGB alignment. - Basic image processing like saturation, bright, contrast and hue. - 5 wavelet layers to extract detail and denoise. - Save edited image to photo. PlnetEdit has been tested for video capture in seestar S30, S50 smart telescope, ZWO camera, refractive telescope 80mm and Dobson 200mm telescope. Email me at ustransit74@gmail.com if you need any assistance. Attached a short planet video file if necessary. Privacy policy and term of use (EULA) is at https://deepskycolor.blogspot.com/2018/12/privacy-policy-for-deep-sky-color-app.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bygge at 100% against PlanetEdit's 40%. Bygge also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). PlanetEdit's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 16 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Bygge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Bygge's written reviews are positive against 40% of PlanetEdit's.
Bygge ships an update every 16 months, PlanetEdit every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bygge | PlanetEdit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bygge Technologies Incorporated | yong chong loh |
Customer experience
Bygge
PlanetEdit
In-app purchases
Bygge
No in-app purchases
PlanetEdit
No in-app purchases
