Daylight Tracker vs Sun Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daylight Tracker
Track and visualize your time spent outdoors with this iOS and watchOS application. It offers widgets, complications, and graphs for at-a-glance insights into your outdoor activities. Subscribe to daily summaries to stay motivated.
- Outdoor time tracking
- Widgets and complications
- Visually appealing graphs
- Daily summary push notifications
- User-friendly interface
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Make daylight a daily habit. Set a personal daylight goal and see how much time you have spent outside today. A compatible Apple Watch records Time in Daylight in HealthKit, so your daily progress updates without starting a timer. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE • See immediately whether you still need daylight today or have reached your goal. • Check daylight time, goal progress, and minutes remaining. • Keep your daily focus visible with iPhone widgets, Watch widgets, and watch-face complications. • Get one positive local alert on Apple Watch when you reach your goal. APPLE WATCH FIRST • Use the Watch app for Today, recent history, trends, and settings. • Keep tracking and receive the goal alert even when your iPhone is not nearby. • Synchronize your goal and preferences between iPhone and Apple Watch. LOCAL UV CONTEXT • Enable location deliberately when you want to see local UV information. • View the hourly UV index and daily maximum from Apple Weather. • Match HealthKit daylight intervals with hourly UV values using stored coarse location anchors. • Visible location and weather coverage show how complete that estimate is. • Optionally choose a skin-response preset for carefully worded guidance — never as a claimed safe exposure time. UNDERSTAND YOUR ROUTINE • Explore daylight duration and brightness in clear charts. • Compare days, weeks, and longer-term progress. • Choose a daily goal that fits your routine. • No account is required. Daylight reads Time in Daylight and ambient-light data from Apple Health. Data availability and update timing depend on your Apple Watch model, how it is worn, and HealthKit background delivery. Location access starts only when you activate the UV feature. On iPhone, the app then uses power-efficient significant location changes instead of continuous GPS. You can delete its location history from Settings after a warning and confirmation. The UV context estimate is not a measurement of your personal UV dose or skin exposure. Daylight duration, brightness, and UV index do not determine vitamin D or a safe amount of time in the sun. This app does not provide medical advice. Follow local sun-protection guidance. ACCESS OPTIONS New customers can explore the app for two days from their first download without an automatic charge. After that, a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase is required. Choosing a plan starts a paid purchase immediately. Previous paid-app customers retain permanent access. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Payment is charged to your Apple Account on confirmation. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://www.blogboxapp.de/datenschutz
Sun Light
Track your daily sunlight exposure with this simple app. It uses your Apple Watch data to fill a daily progress ring, track streaks, and show your history. Enjoy a straightforward approach to monitoring your time spent outdoors.
- Daily daylight progress ring
- Streak tracking
- 7-day history chart
- Morning, afternoon, and evening breakdown
- Custom daily goal
- Sunrise and sunset times
- Home and lock screen widgets
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Get outside. Sun Light does the rest. Sun Light turns your daily sunlight into a simple ring, a streak, and a clear picture of when you actually got your light — morning, afternoon, or evening. Most people get less daylight than they think. Sun Light makes it visible in one glance, from your home screen or your wrist. WHAT YOU GET • Daily daylight ring and streak • Morning light window — see your first daylight of the day against sunrise • Morning, afternoon and evening breakdown • 7-day history chart • Shareable daily card • Custom daily goal • Sunrise and sunset times • Home screen and lock screen widgets • Apple Watch app and complications HOW TRACKING WORKS With an Apple Watch, daylight is recorded automatically — nothing to start or stop. Apple Watch writes Time in Daylight to Apple Health and Sun Light reads it. Without an Apple Watch, use a Sun Session: tap start when you head outside, tap stop when you come back. Sun Light saves those minutes to Apple Health too. Automatic tracking requires Apple Watch Series 6 or later, Apple Watch SE (2nd generation), or Apple Watch Ultra, on watchOS 10 or later. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No server. No analytics. No ads. Your daylight data stays in Apple Health on your devices. SUN LIGHT PRO Sun Light is free, and everything above stays free — including the shareable daily card. Pro adds your morning light window history and unlimited history beyond the last seven days. 7-day free trial, then $24.99/year — or $49.99 once for lifetime access. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sun Light at 100% against Daylight Tracker's 33%. Sun Light also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.5 vs 3.2). Daylight Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ratings volume, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Sun Light is free to download; Daylight Tracker costs $1.99 up front. Sun Light sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year. Daylight Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sun Light holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Daylight Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sun Light's.
Daylight Tracker ships an update every 7 months, Sun Light every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daylight Tracker | Sun Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.2 (5 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bernhard Hering | JAMES JAY QUACKENBUSH |
Customer experience
Daylight Tracker
Sun Light
In-app purchases
Daylight Tracker
No in-app purchases
Sun Light
- Sun Light Pro7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Tip$4.99
- Sun Light Pro Lifetime$49.99
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