Orbit vs Sun Alarm
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
Sun Alarm
Never miss a sunrise or sunset with this app. It calculates solar event times for your location and allows you to set custom notifications. Stay in sync with natural light cycles for photography or daily planning.
- Sunrise and sunset time calculation
- Customizable event notifications
- Real-time location updates
- Countdown to sun events
- 12/24 hour time format toggle
- Apple Watch support
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Don't miss a sunrise or sunset again. Whether you want to live with the sun, do nice photos or just want to know when it's getting dark. This app calculates the sunrise and sunset times for your current location and lets you set up a notification for each event. Features: - Set alarms for sunset and -rise independently - Fires the notification before, after or at the exact time - Counts down to the next sun events - Updates while you move to the sunrise/set times of your current location - Toggle between 12 and 24 hours - Supports the Apple Watch - iPad multitasking (split-view) support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Orbit at 65% against Sun Alarm's 0%. Orbit also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.0) and chart position (#153 vs unranked). Sun Alarm's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 27 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Orbit costs $0.99 and Sun Alarm $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Orbit holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. 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 0% of Sun Alarm's.
Orbit ships an update every 27 months, Sun Alarm every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Orbit | Sun Alarm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #153 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tapclay | Piet Jonas |
Customer experience
Orbit
Sun Alarm
In-app purchases
Orbit
No in-app purchases
Sun Alarm
No in-app purchases
