Orbit vs SkyForge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orbit
Visualize the sun's movement and position with an intuitive clock interface and a sun compass. Utilize augmented reality to pinpoint the sun's location and track daylight hours for multiple saved places. This app works offline and is designed for photographers, travelers, surveyors, and architects.
- Intuitive clock visualization of sun movement
- Sun compass for accurate position tracking
- Augmented reality sun tracking
- Multiple location support
- Sunrise, sunset, dawn, and dusk times
- Offline functionality
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Tracking the sun position has never been so simple and beautiful. Orbit unique clock visualisation shows you the sun movement in a complete intuitive way. Turn the clock ring to see the sun movement and position at any time of the day. Orbit features a sun compass accurately tracks the sun position. Use augmented reality to track the sun position, with a pointer on the iPhone camera pointing you to the right direction. Add multiple locations to keep track of the day length, sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk time, sun position of your favorite places. Designed for photographer, traveller, surveyor and architect. Orbit will work even without internet connection. Features: ● Clock ring to track sun movement ● Sun compass to track the sun position ● Azimuth and elevation (numeric and pictorial) ● Check sun position on any location on any date ● Augmented reality view to track the sun using camera ● Sunrise and sunset time ● Day and night length, dawn and dusk time ● Browse any place their current local time Get Orbit now and be amazed how easy tracking the sun position, daylight length, and local time of your favorite places can be. _______________________ User reviews: - "Works in Arctic! It was great to find an app that gives a reasonable result in the Arctic here." - by Peter the gardener, UK - "Neat! Very nice app." - by Reitveld, USA - "Life saver" - by Dave C L, USA - "Perfect little app" - by Icantwinssss, USA _______________________ Support: Have any question or feedback? Please get in touch with our tech support at support@tapclay.com
SkyForge
Experience a dynamic, full-screen animated weather map as your primary interface. View detailed radar, wind streams, and temperature overlays, alongside a comprehensive 10-day forecast with interactive charts. Get severe weather alerts and air quality information for your current location or saved cities.
- Full-screen animated precipitation radar
- Live wind stream visualization
- 10-day forecast with daily briefs
- Interactive hourly forecast charts
- Severe weather watches and warnings
- Automatic location-based weather
- Dark and light map themes
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SkyForge makes the weather radar the whole app — a full-screen, buttery-smooth animated map is your home screen, and everything else floats cleanly on top. RADAR THAT MOVES • Precipitation radar with a silky continuous-dissolve animation • Radar HD — sharp, US-wide radar that steps in real 2-minute increments • Live wind streams — thousands of moving particles showing direction and speed • Temperature overlay with a color-graded legend • Zoom out far enough and the map becomes a spinning 3D globe A FORECAST WITH DEPTH • 10-day forecast — tap any day to expand a plain-English brief • Interactive charts for every day: temperature, precipitation, UV, wind, humidity, visibility, and pressure — drag to pinpoint any minute • Hourly forecast, current conditions, "feels like", and high/low • Air quality (US AQI), UV index, sunrise & sunset, dew point, and more BUILT FOR WHERE YOU ARE • Automatic radar and forecast for your current location • Save cities and reorder your list with a long-press • Dark and light map themes that remember your choice SEVERE WEATHER • Live watches, warnings, and advisories from the US National Weather Service, right at the top of your screen when they matter HONEST BY DESIGN • 100% free and ad-free • No account, no sign-up, no tracking • Your location is used only to fetch weather — never stored or sold Weather data from Open-Meteo, RainViewer, NOAA / National Weather Service, NASA GIBS, Iowa State Mesonet, and OpenWeatherMap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SkyForge at Free against Orbit's $0.99. SkyForge also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 65%). Orbit's advantage is chart position (#154 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). On ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
SkyForge is free to download; Orbit costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SkyForge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Orbit's written reviews are positive against 100% of SkyForge's.
Orbit ships an update every 27 months, SkyForge every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orbit | SkyForge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #154 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tapclay | Tyler Posey |
Customer experience
Orbit
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In-app purchases
Orbit
No in-app purchases
SkyForge
No in-app purchases









