Sundown vs Sunplot

Sundown helps you plan your day in harmony with the sun. Whether you’re timing a sunset walk or organizing daily routines around natural light, Sundown makes scheduling effortless by linking your events to the sun’s daily cycle at your location. No more guesswork or mental arithmetic – just simple, intuitive planning aligned with the rhythm of the sun! • Set up an alarm clock linked to the local sunrise time. • Plan your runs, hikes, or walks to finish just before sunset. • Capture the perfect photo during the “golden hour” before sunset. • Set reminders for evening routines, like closing the garage door after dark. • Sync work tasks or outdoor projects with daylight hours. • Plan your mealtimes or sleep cycles around the sun. • Schedule stargazing activities based on astronomical twilight hours. • Never forget to walk the dog before dark – Sundown keeps you on track! Key features: • Get accurate times for sunrise, sunset, dawn, dusk, solar noon, and solar midnight, as well as nautical and astronomical variants. • Set recurring events tied to solar movements with just a few taps. • Customize your timeline to show only the events that matter to you. • Plan ahead by viewing your scheduled event times for future dates. • Data available for 57,000 locations around the world. • Or get precise timings for your exact location. • View summary charts and statistics for the entire year. • Track the sun’s path across the horizon in a beautifully crafted app. • Works anywhere – no internet connection required. • No ads. No tracking. Your data stays completely private. Sundown Gold (one-time purchase): • Get timely alerts for your scheduled events, so you’ll never miss a moment. • Add the widget to your home/lock screen to track upcoming events without even opening the app. • Personalize the app and widget by changing the theme color to suit your mood or style. • Keep track of events with countdown timers visible on your lock screen and Apple Watch. • Set up multiple favorite locations. ---------------- By downloading Sundown, you agree to: • Apple’s standard end user license agreement (EULA), available at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Sundown’s privacy policy, available at: https://sundown.recursive.ink/privacy

Every seed packet says "full sun" or "part shade". Almost nobody knows which one their own garden is. Sunplot answers it with a number. Stand where the bed is, hold the phone up, and trace the roofs and trees around you with a finger. Then it walks the whole day a minute at a time and counts only the light that actually reaches that spot. WHY THE ANSWER IS DIFFERENT Other sun apps show you where the sun is. That is the easy half. The half that decides the answer is what stands in the way — the fence, the garage, the lime tree next door. Sunplot measures that skyline with the camera and subtracts it. A bed under open sky and the same bed behind a two-storey terrace are not the same bed, and the number knows it. FREE • Today's hours of direct sun at a spot, and what that means: full sun, part sun, part shade, full shade • What will grow there — 42 plants sorted into will do well, will manage, and too much sun • The map: where the sun arrives from, where it leaves, and where it is right now, with a slider through the day • The sky view: the sun's path drawn over the camera, and the skyline tracing that makes the answer real ONE PAYMENT UNLOCKS • The whole year at a spot — when full sun starts and ends, and the weeks it gets none at all • As many spots as you like — the bed by the fence and the bed by the garage answer differently • Which is better? Every spot side by side, ranked • A word before the sun arrives, so a short winter afternoon is not missed • The home screen widget One payment. No subscription, nothing renews, nothing to cancel. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT KNOWS The compass in a phone can be badly wrong, and most sun apps draw a confident line anyway. Sunplot says so on screen when it does not trust its own reading. Before you have traced anything it labels the figure as open sky — the most the spot could get — instead of pretending to know. It is a gardening and planning tool, not a survey instrument. Check anything expensive against a professional measurement. NOTHING LEAVES THE PHONE No account, no server, no analytics, no third-party code, and nothing to sign up for. Everything is worked out on the device and stays there. It works with no signal at all. GOOD FOR Vegetable beds, borders and allotments. Balconies and window boxes. Greenhouses and cold frames. Roof pitches for solar panels. Working out which corner will take a shade planting, and which window a houseplant will survive.