Look vs AstroOwl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Look
Create and share interactive 360° virtual tours of properties. Bundle multiple tours into a single project for a unified walkthrough experience. Share via a simple iCloud link for native viewing on iPhone and iPad.
- Interactive 360° walkthroughs
- Multi-tour projects
- iCloud sharing with access control
- Floorplan integration
- Offline tour creation and viewing
- Native iOS experience
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Capture an entire property — every floor, every room — as one interactive 360° walkthrough and share it with a single iCloud link. It opens in the Look app. Look is built for interior designers. It turns finished 360° panoramas into a virtual tour with a floor plan, shooting points and transitions — the whole editor is right in the app. No desktop software, no web builder. BUILDING A TOUR • Add a floor plan and place shooting points with a tap. • Import panoramas from Photos or Files — all at once, then assign them to points. • Set the viewing direction for every point. • Mark up the shot right inside the panorama: transitions between points, variant switches and comments go exactly where your finger puts them. SCENE VARIANTS Shoot one point in several states — day and night, before and after, parquet or tile, furnished or empty. Define the tour's parameters (ready-made templates: Lighting, Time of day, Flooring, Furniture — or your own) and the viewer flips between them right inside the panorama. PROJECTS Combine several tours — floors of a house, separate buildings, connected rooms — into one Project with transitions between them inside the 3D walkthrough. One link covers the whole property. VIEWING • Full immersion: turn the device and the panorama follows (can be switched off). • Floor-plan navigation: tap a point to jump to that room. • 3D transitions: arrows in the frame lead from room to room. • Viewing is free and unlimited — for you and for everyone you share a tour with. SHARING A TOUR • An iCloud link to a tour or Project: open to anyone who has it, or to invited people only. Revoke access with one tap. • A .lookapp file — send it by messenger or email; it opens in Look without iCloud. • To view it, the recipient needs the Look app — it is free. YOUR DATA STAYS IN YOUR iCLOUD Panoramas and plans are stored on the device and in your own iCloud (using your iCloud storage): synced between your devices, available offline once downloaded. There are no third-party servers — Look does not keep your work anywhere else. FREE AND LOOK PRO Free: up to 2 tours of your own, up to 2 transitions per tour, 1 panorama per point, one variant switch and one comment per point, up to 2 tours per Project. Viewing, importing and sharing are unlimited. Look Pro removes these limits: unlimited tours, transitions, panoramas per point, markup elements and floors per Project. Monthly or yearly plans; the monthly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. The subscription renews automatically and can be cancelled at any time in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://look.svasilev.com/privacy/
AstroOwl
This app helps night photographers plan and capture stunning Milky Way shots. It provides tools for predicting optimal shooting nights, composing shots with realistic simulations, and even controlling compatible cameras remotely.
- Best-nights calendar with weather and light pollution data
- Milky Way core position and visibility prediction
- Field of view simulation for chosen camera and lens
- Exposure recipe suggestions with NPF-aware limits
- AR mode for overlaying targets on live camera view
- Remote Sony Alpha camera control (Pro feature)
- Multi-frame sequence shooting on camera (Pro feature)
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AstroOwl is the night photographer's whole workflow in one app: find the night, frame the shot, prove the exposure, then drive the camera — without juggling three apps and an intervalometer at 2 AM in the dark. PLAN THE RIGHT NIGHT • Best-nights calendar scores the next several months for your location — moonlight, Milky Way visibility, darkness windows, weather, and light pollution, distilled to an honest verdict ("Fair — moonlight") instead of a mystery number • Milky Way core position, rise/set and darkness windows for any date • 33,000+ locations with offline time zones and measured/modeled sky darkness, including DarkSky International certified places • Scrub time with a knob and watch the whole sky move COMPOSE THE SHOT • Pick your camera and lens (or browse presets) and see the real field of view framed on the sky • Exposure recipes with NPF-aware shutter limits — start from presets matched to your subject (Milky Way, star trails, moon, timelapse…) and save your own • Simulate the result before you commit: realistic star trails, stacking, and noise for YOUR gear and settings • AR mode — hold the phone up and see targets over the live camera view SHOOT — HANDS OFF (Pro) • Connect your Sony Alpha camera over Wi-Fi and fire recipes directly • Multi-frame sequences run on the camera body itself — stacks, star trails, timelapses keep shooting even if the phone sleeps • Focus magnifier, session progress with ETA, automatic reconnect, and session recovery if anything drops mid-shoot • Your photos stay on your camera's card — they never pass through us FREE VS PRO The planner, composer, and simulator are free. AstroOwl Pro unlocks camera control and removes the free tier's monthly caps and watermark — as a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation; subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings. CAMERA COMPATIBILITY Camera control supports Sony Alpha bodies with built-in Wi-Fi (validated on the a7 IV). Planning, composing, and simulation work with any camera — or none at all. No account, no sign-up; the app works offline at dark-sky sites once you've planned. Terms of Use: https://astroowl.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://astroowl.app/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AstroOwl at fortnightly against Look's every 6 weeks. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Look sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and AstroOwl sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Look against 5.0 for AstroOwl. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Look ships an update every 6 weeks, AstroOwl fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Look | AstroOwl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergei Vasilev | Yong Tze Chi |
Customer experience
Look
AstroOwl
In-app purchases
Look
- Look Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Look Pro$89.991 Year
AstroOwl
- AstroOwl Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- AstroOwl Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- AstroOwl Pro Lifetime$14.99









