Daylight BASIC vs Arrebol
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daylight BASIC
This app displays daily and future sunshine hours, along with sunrise and sunset times for your current location. It also tracks changes in sunshine duration over various periods, including comparisons to solstices.
- Sunshine hours display
- Sunrise and sunset times
- Future time projections
- Sunshine hour difference tracking
- Location-based data
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Shows you the sunshine hours as well as the sunrise and sunset times of your current location. Wherever you are. ・sunshine hours for today, tomorrow, in a week and in a month ・sunrise and sunset times for today, tomorrow, in a week and in a month ・difference of sunshine hours for yesterday, today, tomorrow, in a week, in a month and in relation to solstices
Arrebol
Plan your perfect outdoor photos with precise sunrise, sunset, and celestial event data. Visualize light, shadows, and constellations in augmented reality. Get alerts for golden hours and celestial phenomena.
- Sunrise/sunset and golden hour alerts
- Celestial event tracking (eclipses, meteor showers)
- AR sky path and constellation finder
- Shadow direction and length visualization
- Earth's light and city light mapping
- Multi-location support
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• Sunrise, sunset, golden and blue hour, with a countdown and alerts • Chance of a burning sky, 24-hour cloud and a 10-day outlook • Shot plans: pick your spot and your subject, and find when the sun or moon lines up • Earth’s Light: turn the globe to see day, twilight and city lights everywhere right now • Shadow: how long it falls right now, and which way • Constellations in AR: hold up your phone to find all 88 • Sun & moon map and AR sky path • Eclipses, meteor showers, aurora • Multiple saved places, each in its local time • Widgets and Dynamic Island countdown Sun and moon positions, rises and sets are checked against NASA JPL ephemerides. Weather: Apple Weather. Space weather: NOAA SWPC. Eclipse predictions: Fred Espenak, NASA GSFC. Earth imagery: NASA. Terrain: Copernicus DEM, ESA WorldCover.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Arrebol at 4.6 against Daylight BASIC's 2.0. Arrebol also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Daylight BASIC's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Arrebol holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Daylight BASIC's written reviews are positive against 67% of Arrebol's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Daylight BASIC ships an update every 2 months, Arrebol every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daylight BASIC | Arrebol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (6 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | factsoft ag | Jiawen Sun |
Customer experience
Daylight BASIC
Arrebol
In-app purchases
Daylight BASIC
No in-app purchases
Arrebol
No in-app purchases
