Planets vs Moonbound
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!!
Moonbound
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Moonbound tells you what is worth looking at on the Moon tonight. Open it and you see the sky as it really is: the Moon where it sits on tonight's pass, how high it is, which way to face, and how much of it is lit. Drag across the sky to see where it will be later on. Below that are the sights worth your time tonight, picked from the way the Moon is lit and tilted right now. Each one tells you why tonight suits it, where to find it on the disc, and what happened there. The next seven days are one tap away, so you can tell whether to go out tonight or wait for a better night. Also inside: A catalogue of 40 classic sights, from the dark seas you can pick out with binoculars to craters and valleys that need a telescope A compass that points you to the Moon A red light mode that keeps your eyes used to the dark An alert on the nights that are genuinely special, when the light falls just right on something worth seeing A camera view to help you line up a photo through your telescope All of that works without paying. Moonbound Pro adds the 14 harder sights: telescope targets, the Apollo landing sites, and the seas that only swing into view when the Moon tilts the right way. Monthly, yearly, or buy it once and keep it. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Planets at none against Moonbound's 3. Planets also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). Moonbound's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 72 months). 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. Moonbound sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Planets asks for nothing beyond the download.
Planets ships an update every 72 months, Moonbound fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planets | Moonbound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 72 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eran Katsav | Francesco Chiusolo |
In-app purchases
Planets
No in-app purchases
Moonbound
- Moonbound Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Moonbound Pro Yearly$8.991 Year
- Moonbound Pro Lifetime$12.99









