Distant Suns 5 vs CleverArium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Distant Suns 5
Explore the cosmos with a realistic and user-friendly astronomy app. Discover constellations, planets, and celestial events with detailed information and stunning visuals. Perfect for both casual stargazers and serious astronomers.
- Realistic night sky display
- View from Earth or solar system
- Over 18 million stars
- Integrated NASA space events
- Stories behind constellations
- Night vision color mode
- Hubble Space Telescope images
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Distant Suns: The night sky, reimagined. 2013 finalist in the Family category of TabTimes' best tablet app contest; "I am putting together some mobile astronomy apps for our local "Sky's the Limit" Observatory in Twentynine Palms, CA. I have been searching for something as good as, or better than, Distant Suns. Short answer: I have not found it yet. ...nothing portrays the night sky as well as Distant Suns. Distant Suns has been your personal guide to the cosmos since 1985. First on the desktop, now right in your hands. While others play games, you can travel to the stars. Award-winning Distant Suns has the reputation of both having one of the most realistic displays of the night sky, while being one of the easiest to use astronomy apps for casual sky watchers as well as serious astronomers. •Named in the "100 Essential Apps" by iLounge •Featured on NPR's MarketPlace Features include: •No Internet required. Just a sense of wonder. •View from the Earth or out in the solar system •Simply aim and gaze. •Over 18 million pinpoint stars scintillating like diamond dust in the palm of your hand (18 mil? Yup.) •Integrated with NASA's Night Sky Network space events in your area (US only at present) •What's Up? Gives a quick one snapshot overview of the evening's sky •Realistic ghostly band of the Milky Way •Stories behind each constellation •Viewpoint Lock keeps any object centered •Current weather patterns on the earth, updated daily •Change the look of the stars •Galaxies, nebula and star clusters •Hubble Space Telescope images •All 8 planets (or 9 for you purists) •GPS aware •Special color mode preserves your night vision. •Touch the sky to reveal hidden data for each object •Planetary data and information First Light is a proud member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers with family-friendly apps. Twitter: @distantsuns Support: www.distantsuns.com
CleverArium
This app offers intelligent, networked fish care solutions. It simulates fish species, compatibility, and breeding, while also acting as a remote controller and viewer for hardware components. It educates users on fish care and aquatic ecosystems, and facilitates sharing of aquatic life experiences.
- Multi-fish species simulation
- Compatibility & breeding simulators
- Remote control and viewing of hardware
- Live video streaming
- Autonomous 24/7 fish care
- Educational content on fish care
- Aquatic ecosystem information
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CleverArium™ is a Revolution in intelligent, networked fish care. CleverArium™ Mobile and Computer Apps provide over 3,400 real world multi-fish species, compatibility & breeding simulators that also serve as intelligent remote controllers, viewers & recorders for all CleverArium™ Components: hardware devices, sensors & cameras. CleverArium™ Components are real aquarium upgrades that make keeping, breeding, remotely viewing, and intelligently caring for your fish easier and safer. CleverArium™ Components for sale summer 2021, email Sales for Pre-orders and more information: Sales@CleverArium.com CleverArium™ Educator informs about proper fish care and environmental effects both in captivity and in the wild. CleverArium™ Aquatic Ecologist is a water ecosystem preservation, protection, and information sharing tool. CleverArium™ FishyCam™ & CleverCam™ have 24/7 live video streaming support so you can watch and share your fish's feeding frenzies and newly spawned fry even while on the go and with your friends. See Club feature below: CleverArium™ Remote uses full system local & remote controllers along with anticipatory intelligence to autonomously do what's best for your fish 24/7. It will remotely notify you of operational states as you see the desire or need via email, text, or app notifications. CleverArium™ allows like-minded fish enthusiasts and eco-conscious individuals to share and enjoy the wonder that is aquatic life. Private & Group Sharing and Scientific Metadata Collection Features coming soon: - CleverArium™ Breeder option allows breeders to save and replay their especially successful CleverArium™ Repro history. So for proven and reproducible maximum spawned fry or growth techniques & the largest award-winning fish, one goes to the CleverArium™ FishNet™ breeder network & store. Use CleverArium™ Repro histories for easy, automatic, outstanding results, again and again for over 3,400 multi-fish species! - CleverArium™ Club Featuring private & group friend invites with two seats administration for sharing of private & group messages, posts, videos, images and other networked social activities. - CleverArium™ Scientific is a science driven tool for fish species behavior analysis plus discovery. With dedicated camera components & real fish imaging/video recognition, specific scientific test cases using AI & ML fish behavior characteristics analysis to automate metadata collection and collation, great strides in the understanding of all known fish species behavior and response to specific environmental change is endless with 24/7 data collection and processing. - CleverArium™ Collective lets users opt-in to Anonymous Scientific fish data collection for best use cases for all fish species for increased distributed intelligence gathering. One can further the collective scientific fish knowledge every day while just blissfully enjoying and caring for their fish. - CleverArium™ NASA allows for real possibility of future space-breeding of fish for the sake of Fish and Humankind throughout our Solar System.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Distant Suns 5 at 77% against CleverArium's 0%. Distant Suns 5 also leads on ratings volume (97 vs 1). CleverArium's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.3). On ads and device support 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
CleverArium is free to download; Distant Suns 5 costs $2.99 up front. Distant Suns 5 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CleverArium asks for nothing beyond the download.
CleverArium holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Distant Suns 5 has 97 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of Distant Suns 5's written reviews are positive against 0% of CleverArium's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Distant Suns 5 | CleverArium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (97 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 815 MB | 224 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mike Smithwick | Code Robert LLC |
Customer experience
Distant Suns 5
CleverArium
Bugs and requests
Distant Suns 5
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes when accessing preferences
- Inability to sync with iCloud
- Unresponsive or freezing app
- Incorrect or outdated information displayed
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add more detailed information on celestial objects
- Improve compass and tracking functionality
- Provide better support for astrophotography
- Introduce a dark mode for night viewing
- Add more customization options for the user interface
CleverArium
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Distant Suns 5
- Hubble Guide Star Catalog$0.99
CleverArium
No in-app purchases
Questions
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