Sci vs Earth light map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sci
Customize your home screen with unique sci-fi themed widgets. Display various information like clocks, calendars, system stats, and fitness data with extensive styling options. Create multiple widgets in different sizes with personalized layouts, backgrounds, fonts, and colors.
- Customizable sci-fi widget styles
- Display clocks, calendars, system info
- Show fitness data (steps, distance)
- Multiple widget sizes (Large, Medium, Small)
- Personalize layout, background, fonts, colors
- Use custom background images
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Add some Sci-Fi to your Home Screen. This widget making tool is for displaying many types of information with great styling customization. You can display multiple widgets, all with their own unique style and info in Large, Medium, and Small widget sizes You can change the layout, background, fonts and colors, and even use your own images. *Offline contains the pre-made template backgrounds, but the background selection section needs internet to download from online. DISPLAYABLE INFORMATION: • Digital clock • Analog clock (some with second hand to show a little animation) • Calendar • Date/Day • System info (battery, brightness, memory, storage) • Countdown/Days since • Step count - Distance - Floors • Display contacts (just opens this widget app) These are generic sci-fi styles to to keep the coolness of how designers imagined future interfaces past and present on low and high budgets, but actual display real information instead of meaningless gobbledygook. * Please do not ask in reviews or by mail to include any trademarked names, logos, images or other properties. NSTEnterprises respects copyrights and will not include them.
Earth light map
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The app presents the earth daylight status at the chosen date and time on a mercatorian earth map projection. It indicates the curve where the sun is -0.8 degrees below the horizon (sunset or sunrise) as well as the curve where the sun is at -18 degrees below the horizon (astronomical twilight or dawn). It also depicts the sun and moon positions in the equatorial coordinate system, the moon's phase, next equinox/solstice notification , user location, next lunar eclipse & Easter date
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Earth light map at weekly against Sci's every 3 months. Earth light map also leads on price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On ads, 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
Sci costs $3.99 and Earth light map $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sci ships an update every 3 months, Earth light map weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sci | Earth light map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (46 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NSTE, LLC | Konstantinos Ladiellis |
In-app purchases
Sci
No in-app purchases
Earth light map
No in-app purchases
