CamRanger 2 vs SunScout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CamRanger 2
Wirelessly control your Canon, Nikon, Sony, or Fujifilm camera from your iPad or iPhone. Offers advanced features like live view, remote capture, and automatic focus stacking for professional-level tethering.
- Wireless camera tethering
- Remote camera control
- Live View
- Quick image previews
- Automatic focus stacking
- Intervalometer
- HDR/Advanced Bracketing
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The CamRanger 2 provides reliable, professional level wireless camera tethering and control of your Canon, Nikon, Sony, or Fujifilm camera with your iPad or iPhone. From simple, fast image previews to advanced controls, you will be amazed at what you can do with the CamRanger 2 and your camera. A separate CamRanger 2 device is required. The CamRanger 2 only works with supported cameras: https://camranger.com/knowledge-base/supported-cameras/ - Quick Image Previews - Live View - View and set camera parameters (Shutter Speed, Aperture, ISO, White Balance, Focus Mode, Capture Mode, etc.) - Touch focusing and focus adjustments - Remote capture - View full resolution images with meta data and histogram - Movie Recording - Automatic Focus Stacking - Intervalometer (Time-Lapse) - Bulb Mode - HDR/Advanced Bracketing - Send images to multiple devices - Save images to iOS Photo Library, upload to social media, backup to CamRanger 2 SD card See https://camranger.com for full details and supported cameras
SunScout
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SunScout shows you where the sun will be before you get there. Drop a pin anywhere on the map, drag one slider across the day, and the whole day's light is drawn over the ground: the sun's path, the sunrise and sunset directions, golden hour, blue hour, and a live countdown to the next one. Most sun apps ask you to learn them first. SunScout opens on the map with today's light already drawn. ONE MAP, ONE SLIDER The map is the app. Your spot is a pin, and the sun's path is a gold arc over it with a tick for every hour. Two rays from the pin point at sunrise and sunset. Drag the slider and the sun ray swings live, with the sun's height and compass bearing in degrees in a chip above the pin. Switch to satellite view and check what sits in that line: a ridge, a tower, a tree. DRAG THE TIME The slider runs from 00:00 to 24:00 in the spot's own local time. Chips snap you straight to blue hour, golden hour, sunrise, solar noon and sunset, morning and evening. EVERY LIGHT WINDOW, WITH A COUNTDOWN Under the map sits a plain list with big, readable times: morning blue hour, morning golden hour, sunrise, solar noon, evening golden hour, sunset, evening blue hour. Tap a row and the slider jumps there. Golden hour is the sun between 6 degrees above and 4 degrees below the horizon; blue hour is 4 to 6 degrees below. Whenever you are looking at today, a live countdown runs to the next event. ALSO ON THE SHEET - Day length, and the minutes and seconds gained or lost since yesterday - Moon phase, with the percentage lit, so you know how dark the sky will be after blue hour - In the far north or south it says plainly when the sun never sets or never rises, rather than inventing a time ANY SPOT ON EARTH, ANY DATE Use your current location, search for a place, park or city, or touch and hold anywhere on the map. Times are shown in the spot's own time zone, so you can plan a dawn in Jaipur from a desk in Manchester and read the right hours. Step the date by a day with the arrows, or jump to any date on the calendar. SAVED SPOTS Name a spot and keep it. Switch between saved spots from one list. SHARE CARD One tap renders a clean card with the spot, the date, every event time, day length and a mini diagram of the sun's day. Send it to the people you are shooting with, or keep it in Photos. FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ANYONE WHO PLANS AROUND THE SUN Sunrise and sunset shoots, landscape and architecture, weddings, film crews scouting a location, or working out when the sun reaches a garden, balcony or window. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO There is no camera or augmented reality view in 1.0, and no weather. SunScout tells you where the sun will be; whether a cloud is in front of it is a question for the sky. ACCURATE, ON YOUR PHONE Sun positions come from the NOAA solar position algorithm, corrected for refraction, and sunrise and sunset times are checked against published tables. All of it is computed on the device, not on a server. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No tracking. Location is asked for only when you tap the locate button, and the app works fully without it. Your saved spots stay on your iPhone. The map itself, place search and time zone lookup come from Apple Maps, as in any map app. FREE, WITH ONE HONEST UPGRADE The free version is the whole app for today and seven days either side, with one saved spot. It is not a trial and nothing expires. SunScout Full is a single purchase that opens every date from 1900 to 2100 and unlimited saved spots. No subscription, no renewal, no account to sign in to. Buy it once and it stays yours. SunScout needs an iPhone with iOS 17 or later. Times are shown in a 12-hour or 24-hour clock, your choice. A dark interface that does not blind you at five in the morning.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CamRanger 2 at none against SunScout's 1. CamRanger 2 also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. SunScout sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CamRanger 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | CamRanger 2 | SunScout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (346 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 346 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CamRanger | Saurav kumar Sharma |
Bugs and requests
CamRanger 2
Reported bugs
10 issues- CamRanger2 causing Canon R5C to crash in video mode
- Software would not let me download images to my camera
- Doesn’t pair with Fuji XT4
- Connection is lost at random times
- Error - Unable to connect to CamRanger
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- Not working for Fuji
- No full screen function
- App incompatible with iPadOS 13.1
- Not yet compatible with iPad Os
- Cannot get Dropbox to connect
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to build macros
- Fix the toggle button for connection mode
- Full screen function for Sony A7RIII
- Fix Dropbox connection
SunScout
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CamRanger 2
No in-app purchases
SunScout
- Full Unlock$9.99
Questions
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