Comparison

CelestialGuide vs Philosophy Classics Books

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

Head to head
About

CelestialGuide

Explore the cosmos with an interactive sky map that displays stars, planets, and celestial events. Point your device at the sky to see a real-time representation of your surroundings, with adjustable visibility settings for stars.

Highlights
  • Interactive sky map
  • Real-time celestial tracking
  • Adjustable star visibility
  • Planet and comet locations
  • Eclipse and transit rendering
  • Messier Object database
  • Virtual Orrery
Features
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Celestial Guide is an interactive database of information about stars and planets. Its basic interface is a map of the sky as seen from any point on Earth at any point in time. The user can manually choose the time and location, or the iPhone's or iPad's GPS and clock can be used to select the current time and location. If the device is pointed at the sky, the map on the screen will be presented corresponding to the actual view in that direction. The star database includes stars brighter than magnitude 9. The user can select the minimum visible magnitude, which allows the map to conform to the stars which are visible to the user based on local viewing conditions. CelestialGuide presents accurate locations of planets and comets, including rendering of eclipses, transits and occultations that are visible from the selected location. CelestialGuide also has a database of Messier Objects. CelestialGuide also includes a Virtual Orrery, displaying the relative position of the planets and comets at any point in time.

About

Philosophy Classics Books

Access a curated collection of classic philosophy texts with human narration. Enjoy reading, listening, or a combination of both with synchronized audio and text. Explore works from renowned philosophers and enhance your understanding with highlighted notes.

Highlights
  • Human narrated audiobooks
  • Read-along synchronized text
  • Day/night reading modes
  • Highlighting and note-taking
  • Extensive library of classics
  • Offline access to books
Features
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This app provides philosophy classics books with human narration. It includes read along feature: professional recorded narration plays along while you read. You can enjoy a book by reading or listening or reading and listening at the same time. ■ Books - Apology, The Republic, Crito, Symposium, Meno, Phaedo, Euthyphro, Theaetetus, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Gorgias, Parmenides, Timaeus, Cratylus by Plato - The Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, Politics, Rhetoric by Aristotle - Confessions, City of God by Augustine of Hippo - The Art of War by Sun Tzu - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book 1, 2, 3, 4 by John Locke - Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche - The Analects of Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius by Confucius - The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - Tao Te Ching by Laozi - Meditations on First Philosophy, Selections from the Principles of Philosophy, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth by René Descartes - Candide by Voltaire - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill - Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza - Utopia by Thomas More - The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer - Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius -... - Overall 55 books ■ Philosophers -Aristotle, Arthur Schopenhauer, Augustine of Hippo, Benedict de Spinoza, Bertrand Russell, Blaise Pascal, Boethius, Confucius, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Laozi, Marcus Aurelius, Niccolò Machiavelli, Plat, René Descartes, Sun Tzu, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas More, Voltaire ■ Read along books - Text synced with human narration - Day/night mode - Highlight, note - Play audio only or read & play at the same time

Screenshots

CelestialGuide4 screens
Philosophy Classics Books4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CelestialGuide at $0.99 against Philosophy Classics Books's $1.99. Philosophy Classics Books's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

CelestialGuide costs $0.99 and Philosophy Classics Books $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.0 for CelestialGuide against 1.0 for Philosophy Classics Books. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CelestialGuide versus Philosophy Classics Books: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCelestialGuidePhilosophy Classics Books
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 17 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeoffrey DommNgoc Anh

Customer experience

CelestialGuide

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Philosophy Classics Books

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

CelestialGuide

No in-app purchases

None

Philosophy Classics Books

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CelestialGuide free?
CelestialGuide costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Philosophy Classics Books free?
Philosophy Classics Books costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CelestialGuide or Philosophy Classics Books?
CelestialGuide and Philosophy Classics Books are both rated 1.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do CelestialGuide or Philosophy Classics Books have ads?
Neither CelestialGuide nor Philosophy Classics Books shows ads.

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