Comparison

ASGuide vs Skylob

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ASGuide

Explore the night sky with this astronomy companion. Discover planets, galaxies, nebulae, and more visible from your location. Generate custom viewing lists and preview celestial objects with an interactive sky atlas.

Highlights
  • Discover celestial objects visible from your location
  • Generate custom viewing lists
  • View detailed observation information
  • Interactive sky atlas preview
  • Dark mode for nighttime viewing
  • Sunrise/sunset and moon phase dashboard
Features
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Discover the wonders visible in your sky tonight. ASGuide (Astronomy Sky Guide) turns your location and observing time into a personal guide to the night sky. Discover visible planets, galaxies, nebulae, stars, star clusters, and galactic regions. Plan an observation, explore from home, or find your next celestial target. Find objects worth viewing and learn more about every discovery: - See what is visible from your location and when to observe it. View rise, transit, and set times. - Filter by magnitude, altitude above the horizon, constellation, object type, and more. - Search by common name, catalog number, constellation, object type, or detailed classification. - Browse the solar system and deep-sky categories. - Return quickly to recent searches and recently viewed objects. - See which planets are visible. - Save favorite objects for future viewing. - Use your current location or select any location on Earth. - Check sunrise, sunset, twilight, and night times. - Follow the current moon phase, illumination, moonrise, moonset, and the next new and full moons. - Open high-resolution imagery and explore objects with the interactive sky atlas. Customize the Home screen with the information that matters to you. Use the dark appearance for nighttime observations, or the standard iOS appearance. Your next night-sky discovery starts with ASGuide.

About

Skylob

Explore the vastness of the observable universe, from its immense size to the accelerating expansion driven by dark energy. Discover how our cosmological horizon is shrinking, making parts of the cosmos permanently unknowable. This app invites contemplation on our place within this cosmic immensity.

Highlights
  • Observable universe scale
  • Dark energy and expansion
  • Cosmological horizon explained
  • Our place in the cosmos
  • Scientific concepts simplified
Features
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The observable universe stretches roughly 93 billion light-years across and holds an estimated one billion trillion stars. Yet the universe's expansion tells a stranger story: dark energy is accelerating galaxies away from one another at rates that exceed the speed of light, shrinking our cosmological horizon: The boundary beyond which no signal can ever reach us, to about 16 billion light-years. Beyond that threshold, the cosmos becomes permanently unknowable. And within all of that immensity, as Carl Sagan so movingly reminded us, we live on a pale blue dot. A single, fragile mote among countless heavenly bodies, most of which have never been named, let alone explored. That vastness isn't cause for despair, it's an invitation.

Screenshots

ASGuide4 screens
Skylob4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Skylob at every 3 weeks against ASGuide's every 4 months. Skylob also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). ASGuide's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Skylob holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ASGuide has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ASGuide ships an update every 4 months, Skylob every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ASGuide versus Skylob: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterASGuideSkylob
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhilip PerezKyle Cheng

Customer experience

ASGuide

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Skylob

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ASGuide

No in-app purchases

None

Skylob

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ASGuide free?
ASGuide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skylob free?
Skylob is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ASGuide or Skylob?
Skylob is rated higher. ASGuide averages 4.8 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Skylob averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ASGuide or Skylob have ads?
Neither ASGuide nor Skylob shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ASGuide or Skylob?
ASGuide ships an update every 4 months, and Skylob every 3 weeks. Most recently, ASGuide was updated on October 1, 2026 and Skylob on September 23, 2026.

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