Comparison

Sun Surveyor Lite vs Trusted image

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

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About

Sun Surveyor Lite

This app helps photographers, filmmakers, and professionals visualize and plan around the sun's path. It predicts sunrise, sunset, and twilight times, and offers tools to understand light and shadows for optimal planning.

Highlights
  • Predict sunrise and sunset times
  • Visualize sun's path
  • Golden hour and blue hour planning
  • Twilight time calculations
  • Sun shadow information
  • Visual time machine
Features
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Sun Surveyor Lite takes the mystery out of the sunrise, sunset and magic hours, helping photographers and filmmakers scout the best locations, plan effectively, and get the perfect shot. Solar Industry (PV) Professionals, architects, real estate agents, and gardeners will also find a wealth of empowering, interactive features. The 3D Compass and detailed Ephemeris provide a wealth of information about the largest natural light source in the galaxy: - Predict and plan for the golden hour, blue hour and every sunrise & sunset - Visualize the sun's path throughout the day or through the year Additional features: - Visual time machine - take a quick glance at the light for a day, or dial in desired compositions easily - Twilight times - civil, nautical, astronomical - Solstice and Equinox visualization - Sun shadow information - calculate the length of shadows cast by objects - Magnetic declination compensation Check out the Full Version of Sun Surveyor for more: - Live Camera View - augmented reality projections of the sun and moon paths, pinpoint the time the sun or moon will be at a particular location in the sky - Interactive Map View - plan a remote shot or PV array placement, interact with a top-down perspective of sun and moon paths and events - Street View Panoramas - 360 degree spherical panoramas with selected sun, moon and milky way events overlaid, where available - Moon Information: moon position, moonrise, moonset, moon phases, apogee, perigee, distance and a Super Moon finder - Show clients the quality and quantity of seasonal sunlight at a remote location - Understand potential shade of surroundings and discover any obstructions - Create images of the summer and winter Solstice & Equinox paths for a site - Prepare night photography shots with the Milky Way & star trail features - Offline usage (excludes Map View, Street View) - enter coordinates, save & load locations with no data connection or GPS available - Measure distance, and difference between elevations, and vertical angle differentials with the Map view - Import and export Google Earth .kmz/.kml locations

About

Trusted image

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Capture photos and sign them using unique Trusted image Service!  Be a part of the new content trust level. Trusted image signed photos are regular JPEG files with our unique signature integrated to verify image (photo) consistency in time. The Service is designed to operate without user registration, passwords or personal data sharing, and so does this application. Capture moments without filters, without AIs, just light, depth and sensors... and The Trusted image Signature. What's differentiates such photo from others is its ability to be later identified and verified against several key indices such as image, depth, date and time and location integrities. This allows: - you to provide authentic/trusted photo content when necessary or you just want to - the consumers of such content the ability to verify themselves, that the photo they're looking at (or process automatically) doesn't get tampered by accident or intentionally ... but also requires a little bit of care around, such content can be precious. Signing: - Your captured photos are sent at your command to the Trusted image Service to be signed - You can export or delete signed photos. Unsigned photos can be signed or deleted. - Create smaller, signed copies of your photos for easy sharing. IMPORTANT: Always keep your signed photo originals safe if you want to later operate with them in terms of full authenticity with authorship proves. Preferred locations are your Photos library/iCloud Folder/Local folder. You can check by exporting single signed photo, copying it from the destination location, paste to the Trusted image app and verifying. If the result is all "Original", the destination is safe. Export, Privacy & Usage: - We've implemented several handy metadata export variants for exported photos depending on your needs and preferences (Full, No GPS, No Date-Time, No GPS and Date-Time) so you can publish content while maintaining your privacy. You can export/share signed photos to your Photos or any available location. WARNING: Please, choose a location/share that doesn't modify the photo as it will cause the pixels signature corruption on exported photo. You can also verify photos using the application.  1. Just copy any JPEG image presumably signed by the Trusted image Service into your iPhone's pasteboard 2. Launch or switch to the Trusted image app and allow the pasteboard input when asked. 3. You'll be presented with the simple verification interface. NOTES:  The Trusted image paradigm doesn't allow photo edits, therefore the application won't allow you to do any modifications above the camera settings prior to the capture. The depth capture requirement limits capture capabilities. Every network operation is highly secured and encrypted and occurs in one cycle. No photo unrelated data are being collected or sent ever outside your device. Signatures and Verifications are rate limited by your current tier. INTERFACE TIP: The application is focused on single-hand operations preparing the capture (focus, zoom, exposure, etc.) so you can setup most of available settings while holding the phone with the same hand.  You can switch left/right (top/bottom) sides of the capture interface by dragging the capture button towards your preferred side for the controls. EULA: https://www.newball.cz/en/trusted-image-eula/

Screenshots

Sun Surveyor Lite4 screens
Trusted image4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sun Surveyor Lite at none against Trusted image's 1. Sun Surveyor Lite also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Trusted image sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Sun Surveyor Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sun Surveyor Lite versus Trusted image: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSun Surveyor LiteTrusted image
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (37 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings37 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam RatanaNew Ball s.r.o.

Bugs and requests

Sun Surveyor Lite

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Sun no longer appears where it should
  • Sun direction is wrong indoors without GPS
  • Sun is off by more than 10 degrees
  • Sunrise time not working
  • App crashes when selecting location
Show 6 more
  • Latest update stopped working
  • Compass is always off
  • Compass is reversed
  • Lite version has an obscuring dialog box
  • Map view is not working correctly
  • App crashes on iPhone 5 iOS 7

Requested features

9 requests
  • Make the version free
  • Move UI options
  • Add dark mode
  • Add day-length feature
  • Add UV index
Show 4 more
  • Add sunrise alarm
  • Fix time zone for Russia
  • Allow user to move UI elements
  • Offer a trial for the full version

Trusted image

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Sun Surveyor Lite

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Trusted image

Subscriptions1
  • Basic$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Sun Surveyor Lite free?
Sun Surveyor Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Trusted image free?
Trusted image is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sun Surveyor Lite or Trusted image have ads?
Neither Sun Surveyor Lite nor Trusted image shows ads.

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