Moon Lunation vs Earthquake Notifications & Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moon Lunation
This app provides detailed lunar phase information for any date between 2000 and 2050. It calculates phases offline using precise astronomical geometry, displaying illuminated percentages and event times. Users can explore monthly calendars, visualize entire lunations, and view a 3D model of the Moon's surface.
- Offline moon phase computation
- Date range 2000-2050
- Illuminated percentage display
- Lunar age and event times
- Monthly calendar view
- Lunation cycle visualization
- 3D Moon surface model
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Moon Lunation shows you the Moon's phase for any date between 2000 and 2050, and now the tides it drives, all computed on your device from the actual geometry of the Sun, Earth and Moon. Moon Lunation is free. No connection. No account. No data collected. No ads, ever. TODAY The current phase, the illuminated percentage, how far through the lunation you are, and the next principal event in your local time. CALENDAR Any month from 2000 to 2050, with new moons, first quarters, full moons and last quarters marked on the local dates they occur. CYCLE Watch a lunation play out from one new moon to the next. The timeline runs between two actual computed new moons, so its length varies rather than being forced to 29.5 days. Scrub it with your finger, or play it through. TIDES, WITH MOON LUNATION PRO See today's tide curve set against the highest high and lowest low of the station's year, marked by two dashed lines, with a line of text giving each with its date. Also the next high and low tide and seven days of highs and lows, in metres or feet. Predictions are calculated on your device from each station's tidal constants, so Tides works with no connection. Tides covers about 1,250 stations around the United States and 37 around the UK and the Isle of Man, from 2026 to 2030. On iPhone and iPad it can find the nearest station from your location, or you can choose a city. On Mac, you choose a city. Keep up to five favourite places. These are astronomical predictions. Weather can change the real water level, and they are not for navigation. SOLAR SYSTEM, WITH MOON LUNATION PRO See the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon and Mars in 3D, placed by the same offline astronomy. On Mac, all eight planets, out to Neptune. Drag to orbit, pinch or scroll to zoom, tap a body for its distances, and scrub the timeline to watch the planets move. Moon Lunation Pro is a one-time in-app purchase, not a subscription, and unlocks both Tides and the Solar System. If you already have Pro, or paid for Lunation or Moon Lunation before it became free, Tides is included at no extra cost. Family Sharing is on. ON MAC A native Mac app with a sidebar and inspector, keyboard control, a menu-bar Moon and desktop widgets. THE MOON ITSELF The surface is built from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery, in a fixed north-up view of the near side. The lit region is drawn from the computed phase, so what you see is the geometry. The light now falls off toward the terminator, the edge between light and dark is soft, and the unlit side shows a faint earthshine, strongest near new moon. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO • Phases cover 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2050, and tides cover 2026 to 2030. Outside them, the app says so rather than guessing. • It is a north-up diagram of the phase, not a picture of how the Moon looks in your sky tonight. • It does not show libration, eclipses, moonrise or moonset. • Phase times are geocentric, not for your location. PRIVACY Moon Lunation collects no data: no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking and no account. The app makes no network requests of its own. Phases, the calendar and the cycle never use your location. On iPhone and iPad, only after you allow it, Tides uses it to find the nearest tide station; the app does not save or send it. It keeps a small count of days used, on the device, to decide when to ask the system for a review. Tides remembers your place setting and up to five favourite stations, and Clear Saved Places removes them. On Mac, Tides does not use your location. It works in Airplane Mode, on the first launch and every launch after. iPhone, iPad and Mac. Requires iOS 17, iPadOS 17, or macOS 14 or later. Lunar imagery courtesy of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. Tide predictions use NOAA data and Environment Agency tide gauge data (Open Government Licence v3.0). City names from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). None of these organisations endorses this app.
Earthquake Notifications & Map
Track recent seismic activity and explore earthquake data on a map. Set up custom alerts for areas that matter to you, with options to filter by magnitude and distance. Monitor multiple locations with a premium subscription.
- Browse recent seismic events
- View earthquake details and map locations
- Monitor specific 'My Places' for nearby earthquakes
- Filter events by minimum magnitude and distance
- Receive alerts for seismic activity
- Track multiple municipalities with Premium
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Follow recent earthquakes and explore seismic activity near the places that matter to you. EARTHQUAKES AND MAPS Browse recent seismic events with magnitude, depth, location, date and time. Open each event for more details and view it on the map to better understand where it occurred. MY PLACES Choose the places that matter to you and explore earthquakes occurring nearby. With My Places, you can select an Italian municipality and browse seismic events matching your filters. For each place, you can set: • the minimum magnitude; • the maximum distance, from 10 to 100 km. The place details show events that match your selected filters, including their distance from the municipality. You can change the filters or remove a place at any time. FREE AND PREMIUM Monitor one Italian municipality for free. With Premium, available as a monthly subscription, you can add and monitor multiple municipalities. You can manage your subscription and restore purchases from the app settings. SEISMIC DATA Earthquake data comes from the official services of INGV — Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. Information availability and updates depend on your internet connection and the data services used by the app. TERREMOTO is an information tool. It does not predict earthquakes and does not replace official warning systems, communications from public authorities or civil protection guidance. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Earthquake Notifications & Map at 63% against Moon Lunation's 6%. Earthquake Notifications & Map also leads on monetization model (freemium vs paid). Moon Lunation's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Moon Lunation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Earthquake Notifications & Map sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Moon Lunation ships an update every 3 weeks, Earthquake Notifications & Map every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moon Lunation | Earthquake Notifications & Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 5.7% of reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | TraLand.com | Sandro Stancampiano |
Customer experience
Moon Lunation
Earthquake Notifications & Map
In-app purchases
Moon Lunation
- Moon Lunation Pro$1.99
Earthquake Notifications & Map
- TERREMOTO Premium$0.991 Month
Questions
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