Comparison

Daylight Tracker vs Sun Light

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Outdoor time tracking
  • Widgets and complications
  • Visually appealing graphs
  • Daily summary push notifications
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Daylight Tracker4 screens
Sun Light3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Daylight Tracker versus Sun Light: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaylight TrackerSun Light
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.2 (5 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBernhard HeringJAMES JAY QUACKENBUSH

Customer experience

Daylight Tracker

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Sun Light

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Daylight Tracker

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Sun Light

Subscriptions1
  • Sun Light Pro7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time2
  • Tip$4.99
  • Sun Light Pro Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Daylight Tracker free?
Daylight Tracker costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sun Light free?
Sun Light is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daylight Tracker or Sun Light?
Sun Light is rated higher. Daylight Tracker averages 3.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Sun Light averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Daylight Tracker or Sun Light have ads?
Neither Daylight Tracker nor Sun Light shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daylight Tracker or Sun Light?
Daylight Tracker ships an update every 7 months, and Sun Light every 8 days. Most recently, Daylight Tracker was updated on October 10, 2026 and Sun Light on October 8, 2026.

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