Planets vs Solar System Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!!
Solar System Clock
Visualize the current or historical positions of planets in our solar system. Explore future or past planetary alignments and identify optimal times for observing planets in the night sky.
- Real-time planet positions
- Custom date selection
- Past and future alignments
- Optimal viewing time identification
- Solar System visualization
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See the positions of all planets in our Solar System based on the current date. Or, you can set your own custom date to see the alignment of our planets from a future date or a past date. You can use this app to find out the best time to watch a planet in the sky by finding out when it will be closest to Earth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Planets at 4.3 against Solar System Clock's 3.0. Planets also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). Solar System Clock's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 72 months). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Planets holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Planets ships an update every 72 months, Solar System Clock every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planets | Solar System Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 72 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eran Katsav | Mateusz Andrzejczuk |
In-app purchases
Planets
No in-app purchases
Solar System Clock
No in-app purchases
Questions
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