Comparison

Daylight vs Daylights

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Daylight

Displays precise sunrise and sunset times for your current location, adaptable to any date. It also calculates civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight periods. Ideal for photographers, cyclists, and stargazers.

Highlights
  • Sunrise and sunset times
  • Twilight period calculations
  • Civil twilight
  • Nautical twilight
  • Astronomical twilight
  • Location-based data
Features
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Display sunrise and sunset times for your current location, at any point in time. This application will use your current location to compute sunrise and sunset times, as well as twilight period for Civil, Nautical and Astronomical twilight. Perfect for photographers who want to prepare for the "Golden Hour", for bike riders who want to be home before nightfall or for amateur astronomers.

About

Daylights

Visualize daylight and night hours globally with three distinct styles. Explore how time zones and daylight saving changes affect your location's light cycles.

Highlights
  • Global daylight visualization
  • Three distinct visualization styles
  • Explore polar night and midnight sun
  • Daylight saving time impact simulation
  • Time zone shift simulation
Features
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Daylights is your calendar for daylight and night-dark hours around the year, all over the globe. It offers three alternative daylight visualization styles, allowing you to choose whichever feels the most intuitive to you: • The Classic: the 12-hour clock alternates between daylight and night-dark, whichever is shorter. • The Light: the 12-hour clock always shows daylight, overlapping with itself when necessary. • The Magic: a 24-hour clock shows the full day, and highlights the "magic hours" around sunrise and sunset! You can pick any location on the planet to look at the interplay of the polar night and the midnight sun at the big latitudes. And finally, you can see how the light and dark hours would shift in your hometown if daylight saving time became the permanent state of things or was removed altogether, or if they decided to move to the next or previous time zone.

Screenshots

Daylight3 screens
Daylights4 screens

Verdict

The call

Daylight and Daylights both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 87% of Daylight's written reviews are positive against 67% of Daylights's. Daylight also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Daylight against 4.7 for Daylights. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 55 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Daylight's written reviews are positive against 67% of Daylights's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daylight ships an update every 3 months, Daylights every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Daylight versus Daylights: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaylightDaylights
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (27 ratings)4.7 (55 ratings)
Positive reviews86.6% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2755 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhilippe CasgrainJanne Käki

Customer experience

Daylight

All ratings27 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral3.7%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews142 reviews
Positive86.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative5.6%

Daylights

All ratings55 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral7.3%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Daylight

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Location services not working correctly on iOS 16+
  • App assumes Chicago location regardless of settings
  • Date picker screen displays as white/unreadable
  • Back and Done buttons stuck behind status bar
  • App crashes when opening on some devices
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  • Screen freezes on date changes
  • Incorrect sunset/dusk time calculations
  • Font size changes unexpectedly after updates
  • Date doesn't change automatically
  • Clock display migrates off-screen
  • Crashes in January after new year
  • Incompatibility with iPhone 6 and iPod Touch
  • Daylight savings time not handled correctly

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add hour numerals/numbers to 24-hour clock face
  • Show current date prominently on main screen
  • Manual location selection capability
  • Moonrise and moonset times
  • Countdown timer until sunrise/sunset
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  • Ability to view data for locations other than current location
  • Home screen icon that updates throughout the day
  • Preset alarms that update across time zones
  • Display time remaining until sunset/sunrise
  • Show moon phase information more prominently
  • Text labels option (shorten to N and M)
  • Combination view overlaying all twilight types

Daylights

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Daylight

No in-app purchases

None

Daylights

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daylight free?
Daylight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daylights free?
Daylights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daylight or Daylights?
Daylight and Daylights are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 27 and 55 ratings respectively.
Do Daylight or Daylights have ads?
Neither Daylight nor Daylights shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daylight or Daylights?
Daylight ships an update every 3 months, and Daylights every 6 months. Most recently, Daylight was updated on September 29, 2026 and Daylights on September 8, 2026.

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