Comparison

Sky Guide vs Pet Recipe

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

Head to head
About

Sky Guide

Identify stars, constellations, planets, and satellites in real-time by holding your device overhead. Explore celestial bodies with AR overlays, track satellites like the ISS, and travel through time to view past and future astronomical events. Perfect for both novice and experienced stargazers.

Highlights
  • Automatic celestial object identification
  • Augmented reality sky overlay
  • Satellite tracking and notifications
  • Time travel for past/future viewing
  • Personalized astronomical event calendar
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Bring the beauty of the stars down to Earth. Hold Sky Guide® overhead to automatically identify any star, constellation, planet or satellite! Easy to use and powerful, it’s epic stargazing for any experience level. Is it a star or the planet Mars? Knowing what’s up in your night sky is easier than ever. Sky Guide’s AR mode superimposes figures onto your real sky so visualizing the heavens becomes effortless. Have you ever wished you could recognize constellations but didn’t want to fumble around with paper star charts? Now you can. A speck of light crosses the night sky, growing brighter. What could it be? You don’t have to wonder anymore. Track a bright satellite and receive perfectly-timed notifications whenever the International Space Station is about to fly over your location. With Sky Guide, you’ll be saying ‘Goodbye, aliens’ and ‘Hellooooo, astronauts!’ Voyage to the past or future with cinematic time controls. Know where the Moon will be later in the evening so you can capture that perfect photo or be an eyewitness to history’s greatest comets. Whether you’re searching for Sagittarius, Saturn, or the next big meteor shower, Sky Guide is jam-packed with information and rich graphics that will satisfy the most curious minds. Plus, stay current with location-filtered events like solar and lunar eclipses with Sky Guide’s personalized Calendar. Camping in the backcountry? Sky Guide can function with or without Wi-Fi, cellular service or GPS, so everything is at your fingertips no matter where you go. Join the millions who have discovered a more personal connection to the stars with Sky Guide. It might forever change the way you look up. Terms of Use: https://www.fifthstarlabs.com/terms-of-use

About

Pet Recipe

This app helps pet owners create custom raw and cooked meat recipes for their cats and dogs. It offers feeding amount calculations, ingredient analysis, nutritional breakdowns, and tools to track pet weight and daily records.

Highlights
  • Feeding amount calculation
  • Custom recipe creation
  • Ingredient and nutrient analysis
  • Pet weight chart analysis
  • Daily pet record keeping
  • Discover community recipes
Features
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Pet Recipe is an APP designed to provide feeding amount calculation, recipe recommendation, recipe creation, weight chart analysis, pet daily records, and recipe nutrition analysis for users who make raw and cooked meat for cats and dogs. Simple pages, exquisite designs, and clear diagrams have become the impression that thousands of self-made pet owner have on us. Main function introduction: Pet information: The homepage supports multi-pet display and custom pet sorting. You can easily view basic information such as the pet's age, companionship time, daily feeding amount, weight, nickname, date of birth, introduction, breed, etc. Ingredients: Contains common ingredients on the market, supports customized ingredients, supports classification queries by white meat, red meat, muscle tissue, fish, shellfish, liver, offal, cereals, potatoes, fruits and vegetables, supports searching for ingredients by keywords, and query results Supports multiple sorting processes. In addition, the ingredient details include data on various nutritional elements. Nutrients: Contains commonly used nutrients, such as calcium, manganese, iodine, vitamin B, vitamin E, taurine, and fish oil. Support custom nutrients. Feeding amount calculation: Supports calculation of pet’s daily feeding amount based on caloric coefficient and weight coefficient. In addition, common coefficient recommendations are also provided. The calculation results also include the amount of nutrients added, which is very user-friendly. Homemade recipes: Select the feeding ratio, and the ingredient data can be calculated, analyzed, and summarized in real time based on the table. Don’t know if the nutritional information of the recipe is reasonable? It can be easily determined through data analysis and NRC nutritional requirement reference functions. Discover recipes: If a newbie doesn’t know how to mix recipes by himself, he can copy other people’s published recipes here. In addition, we can also discuss here the problems encountered in recipe feeding, as well as various problems encountered in the growth of pets. Pet weight: The trend of pet weight changes can be clearly found through the chart. Additionally, we provide standard adult weight ranges for various pets. Daily records: You can also record every bit of your pet's growth process, such as bathing, vaccines, deworming, physical examinations, important events, etc. Programmers and scrappers are working hard to develop more practical little functions, so stay tuned. If you like our products, remember to share them with your friends. It’s never too good to give a good review~

Screenshots

Sky Guide4 screens
Pet Recipe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sky Guide at 4.8 against Pet Recipe's 1.0. Sky Guide also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (379K vs 1). Pet Recipe's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sky Guide sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pet Recipe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sky Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sky Guide has 379K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Sky Guide's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pet Recipe's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sky Guide ships an update every 2 weeks, Pet Recipe every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Sky Guide versus Pet Recipe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSky GuidePet Recipe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (379K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings379K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#34 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size380 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFifth Star Labs LLCShenzhen XiyouDiary Network Technology Co., Ltd

Customer experience

Sky Guide

All ratings377,838 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews2,780 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative10.6%

Pet Recipe

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Sky Guide

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App freezes when near polar regions
  • Occasional crashes or performance issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more detailed information on moons of planets
  • Implement mosaic planning tools for astrophotography
  • Provide earlier notifications for satellite/ISS passes
  • Allow users to share their observations and photos
  • Improve integration with telescope/camera equipment

Pet Recipe

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Sky Guide

Subscriptions4
  • PLUS$4.991 Month
  • PRO$8.991 Month
  • PLUS7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • PRO7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time2
  • All Constellations$1.99
  • PRO Lifetime$249.99
None

Pet Recipe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sky Guide free?
Sky Guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pet Recipe free?
Pet Recipe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sky Guide or Pet Recipe?
Sky Guide is rated higher. Sky Guide averages 4.8 out of 5 from 379K ratings, while Pet Recipe averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sky Guide or Pet Recipe have ads?
Neither Sky Guide nor Pet Recipe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sky Guide or Pet Recipe?
Sky Guide ships an update every 2 weeks, and Pet Recipe every 3 months. Most recently, Sky Guide was updated on November 3, 2026 and Pet Recipe on October 30, 2026.

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