Yi's Blog vs Eclipse Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yi's Blog
A personal blog application to share thoughts and ideas. Offers a simple platform for users to create and publish content. Ideal for personal journaling and sharing with a wider audience.
- Personal blogging platform
- Content creation and publishing
- Simple user interface
- Idea sharing
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Small world • Big idea
Eclipse Map
Explore solar and lunar eclipses from -1999 to 3000. Visualize eclipse paths on a map and calculate observable events and times for any location on Earth.
- Eclipse data from -1999 to 3000
- Visualize eclipse paths on a map
- Calculate observable events and times
- Query eclipse type and time
- Location-specific eclipse predictions
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The "Eclipse Map" app provides solar and lunar eclipse data from -1999 to 3000, and can query the time and type of any solar or lunar eclipse in 5000 years. The "Eclipse Map" app visualizes the distribution area of each solar or lunar eclipse on the earth on the map by calculation. It can also calculate the observable events and event times of any point on the map during the solar or lunar eclipse. In addition, it can also calculate the observable events and time of each solar or lunar eclipse at a given location .
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Yi's Blog at Free against Eclipse Map's $2.99. Eclipse Map's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On rating, 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
Yi's Blog is free to download; Eclipse Map costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Yi's Blog against 4.9 for Eclipse Map. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Eclipse Map has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Yi's Blog ships an update every 4 months, Eclipse Map every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yi's Blog | Eclipse Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yi Zhang | 雪平 王 |
Customer experience
Yi's Blog
Eclipse Map
In-app purchases
Yi's Blog
No in-app purchases
Eclipse Map
No in-app purchases
