Pocket Planets vs Planets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Planets
Explore our solar system with detailed information on planets, moons, and astronauts. Track who is currently in space and receive notifications about new launches. Discover physical and orbital characteristics, atmospheric data, and view NASA images.
- Detailed planet and moon data
- Astronaut mission information
- Real-time space tracking
- Launch notifications
- NASA image gallery
- Orbital characteristic visualization
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Pocket Planets gives you all the information you need about our solar system and human activity in space. Learn more about all 565 astronauts who been to space. What was their mission? How long had they been up there? See who is in space now! Get notified when somebody goes into space. Get up to date information about every planet and moon in the solar system. Including: - Physical characteristics: mass, radius, density, gravity, escape velocity - Orbital characteristics: real-time distance from the Sun and Earth, orbital period, orbital speed, eccentricity, apsis, periapsis, visualise orbit - Atmosphere: pressure, atmospheric composition - Images from Nasa - Moons: compare their size and distance
Planets
Explore the solar system from your home with this augmented reality app. Place planets anywhere, walk around them, and examine their real surfaces up close. Experience the vastness of space without leaving your house.
- Augmented reality planet placement
- Explore real planet surfaces
- Walk through the solar system
- Interactive planet exploration
- Place planets anywhere
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Have you ever dreamt of walking through the planets? Have you ever dreamt of touching Jupiter? Mars? maybe Venus or Saturn? now you can do it! Just open the app, touch the screen and put the solar system planets everywhere in your living room, bed room yard or anywhere else you want! look on top of them, stroll through them, you will see their real live surface, look closely at the moon creators touch Saturn rings and much more... This app is designed to give you live experience of all the solar system planets using it real surface view. You can plant the planets anywhere you want, you can walk through them, you can jump over them and most important you can explore them all without having to leave your house!!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Planets at none against Pocket Planets's shown. Planets also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Pocket Planets's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 72 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Pocket Planets holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Planets has 22 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pocket Planets ships an update every 3 weeks, Planets every 72 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Planets | Planets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (22 ratings) — better | 4.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 72 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ad Lunam Kereskedelmi es Szolgaltato Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag | Eran Katsav |
Customer experience
Pocket Planets
Planets
In-app purchases
Pocket Planets
No in-app purchases
Planets
No in-app purchases
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