Comparison

Every Planet vs SkyLens Star

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

Head to head
About

Every Planet

Features
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Every Planet turns the whole observable universe into something you can hold in your hand. Tap once and the World Forge builds a planet that has never existed before: an ocean world wrapped in cloud, a ringed gas giant, a lava world cracked with light, a frozen wanderer far from its star. Every world is unique and generated from a single seed, so the one you just made is one you will never see again unless you keep it. The worlds are imagined. The physics behind them is not. Every planet carries an honest science dossier. Its year is computed with Kepler's third law. Its warmth comes from the real luminosity of its star and the greenhouse effect of its air. You see its distance from Earth, the year your light would arrive, the length of its day, its host star's temperature, and whether liquid water is even possible. Estimates carry honest uncertainty, the way real astronomy does. WHAT YOU CAN DO Forge a world Make a new world in a tap, or aim the Forge toward what you want to find: water, a giant, two suns, or simply something strange. Keep the ones worth keeping Save a world to your Archive, give it a name, and write a note about why you stopped there. Unsaved worlds are gone the moment you move on, so the good ones are worth catching. Read the real science Open any world's dossier for a plain, careful explanation of its orbit, star, mass, and light, tied back to the methods astronomers actually use. Learn the universe, and remember it The Observatory holds short daily recall questions built on spaced repetition, so real ideas actually stick. Track a gentle streak and watch how much of the sky feels familiar. Travel outward Every discovery carries you about eight percent deeper into space, past real landmarks, all the way to the edge of the observable universe. Go deeper in the Observatory An orbit lab to move a world through space, a field guide to the stars that make planets possible, an atlas of twelve genuinely strange real worlds, a guide to how we find planets we cannot see, and the big numbers that put it all in scale. QUIET BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Everything you make stays on your device. Optional ambient audio for the long trip outward. Built to be calm, factual, and yours. There are around seven hundred quintillion rocky planets out there. Humanity has confirmed about six thousand. Every Planet is a small, honest way to feel that scale, one world at a time.

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SkyLens Star

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Point your phone at the sky and SkyLens Star tells you what you are looking at. Names appear over your camera's live view โ€” the Sun, the Moon and its current phase, five planets, about 45 of the brightest stars, and 8 constellation figures drawn in. Everything is computed from real astronomical algorithms for your exact coordinates and the exact moment you are standing there, not read off a canned star chart. WHY IT ACTUALLY LINES UP Every phone's compass gets pulled off course by steel in walls, desks, speakers and magnetic cases โ€” often by 10 to 30 degrees. Most sky apps leave you to guess. SkyLens Star gives you a fix: point at the Moon or the Sun, tap Snap, and the app measures its own error against a body you can plainly see and corrects itself. There is a manual offset slider too, if you want to nudge it yourself. TAP ANYTHING Every labelled object opens a card with its altitude, azimuth, brightness, and a short plain-language description of what it actually is. The descriptions ship inside the app, so they read the same on a mountain with no signal. WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE No account. No sign-in. No network requests at all. Airplane mode makes no difference to how it behaves. NOTHING IS COLLECTED The camera feed is drawn on screen and never recorded, saved, or sent anywhere. Your location is used only to compute the sky above you, in memory, and never leaves your phone. There are no ads, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind. SEVEN LANGUAGES English, Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese. Switch from the gear icon inside the app โ€” you do not have to change your phone's system language. A NOTE ON USE SkyLens Star is for casual observation and learning. It is not a navigation instrument. Never look directly at the Sun, with your eyes or through the camera. And watch your step โ€” this app has you looking up.

Screenshots

Every Planet4 screens
SkyLens Star4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Every Planet at none against SkyLens Star's 1. SkyLens Star's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 18 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. SkyLens Star sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Every Planet asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Every Planet ships an update every 18 months, SkyLens Star monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Every Planet versus SkyLens Star: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEvery PlanetSkyLens Star
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 18 monthsMonthly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size48 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTIBOR CZEKAYๆ‰ฟๅฎ‡ ไธ‡

In-app purchases

None

Every Planet

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

SkyLens Star

One-time1
  • All Constellations$2.99

Questions

Is Every Planet free?
Every Planet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SkyLens Star free?
SkyLens Star is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Every Planet or SkyLens Star have ads?
Neither Every Planet nor SkyLens Star shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Every Planet or SkyLens Star?
Every Planet ships an update every 18 months, and SkyLens Star monthly. Most recently, Every Planet was updated on November 7, 2026 and SkyLens Star on November 8, 2026.

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