Celestia vs Every Planet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Celestia
Explore the universe in real-time 3D. Visit planets, moons, star clusters, and galaxies, viewing them from any point in space and time. Customize your experience with expandable content and detailed simulations.
- Real-time 3D space visualization
- Explore planets, moons, stars, galaxies
- Accurate solar system object positions
- Interactive planetarium mode
- Expandable content with add-ons
- Customizable celestial databases
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Celestia — real-time 3D visualization of space 3D Space Simulator | Celestia lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia simulates many different types of celestial objects. From planets and moons to star clusters and galaxies, you can visit every object in the expandable database and view it from any point in space and time. The position and movement of solar system objects is calculated accurately in real time at any rate desired. Interactive Planetarium | Celestia serves as a planetarium – for an observer on any celestial object. You can easily navigate to any world and land on its surface. When used as a planetarium, Celestia shows accurate positions of solar system objects in the sky. You can switch labels and other supporting features on and off with hotkeys, or zoom in and out on an object of interest, for example Jupiter’s system of moons. Expandable Content | Customize Celestia according to your needs. Celestia’s catalogues can be easily expanded. There are many different add-ons available containing new objects like comets or stars, high-resolution textures of Earth and other well mapped solar system bodies, as well as 3D models for asteroids and spacecraft on precise trajectories. Even fictional objects from well-known sci-fi franchises can be found. EULA(End User License Agreement): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Every Planet
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Every Planet turns the whole observable universe into something you can hold in your hand. Tap once and the World Forge builds a planet that has never existed before: an ocean world wrapped in cloud, a ringed gas giant, a lava world cracked with light, a frozen wanderer far from its star. Every world is unique and generated from a single seed, so the one you just made is one you will never see again unless you keep it. The worlds are imagined. The physics behind them is not. Every planet carries an honest science dossier. Its year is computed with Kepler's third law. Its warmth comes from the real luminosity of its star and the greenhouse effect of its air. You see its distance from Earth, the year your light would arrive, the length of its day, its host star's temperature, and whether liquid water is even possible. Estimates carry honest uncertainty, the way real astronomy does. WHAT YOU CAN DO Forge a world Make a new world in a tap, or aim the Forge toward what you want to find: water, a giant, two suns, or simply something strange. Keep the ones worth keeping Save a world to your Archive, give it a name, and write a note about why you stopped there. Unsaved worlds are gone the moment you move on, so the good ones are worth catching. Read the real science Open any world's dossier for a plain, careful explanation of its orbit, star, mass, and light, tied back to the methods astronomers actually use. Learn the universe, and remember it The Observatory holds short daily recall questions built on spaced repetition, so real ideas actually stick. Track a gentle streak and watch how much of the sky feels familiar. Travel outward Every discovery carries you about eight percent deeper into space, past real landmarks, all the way to the edge of the observable universe. Go deeper in the Observatory An orbit lab to move a world through space, a field guide to the stars that make planets possible, an atlas of twelve genuinely strange real worlds, a guide to how we find planets we cannot see, and the big numbers that put it all in scale. QUIET BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Everything you make stays on your device. Optional ambient audio for the long trip outward. Built to be calm, factual, and yours. There are around seven hundred quintillion rocky planets out there. Humanity has confirmed about six thousand. Every Planet is a small, honest way to feel that scale, one world at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Every Planet at none against Celestia's 4. Celestia's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 18 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Celestia sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Every Planet asks for nothing beyond the download.
Celestia ships an update fortnightly, Every Planet every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Celestia | Every Planet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (338 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 338 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 550 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 林峰 李 | TIBOR CZEKAY |
Bugs and requests
Celestia
Reported bugs
3 issues- Milky Way and other galaxy textures not loading properly
- Crashes when using certain add-ons
- Issues with planet and moon orbits not being accurate
Requested features
5 requests- Add more exoplanets and distant star systems
- Implement terrain generation for planets
- Expand to include more galaxies and the overall universe structure
- Add support for black holes, pulsars, and other exotic objects
- Improve controls and camera movement
Every Planet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Celestia
- Celestia PLUS (Weekly)7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Celestia PLUS (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Celestia PLUS (Yearly)$19.991 Year
- Celestia PLUS (Lifetime)$79.99
Every Planet
No in-app purchases









