Comparison

StarEdit vs AstroFinish

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

Head to head
About

StarEdit

Easily remove stars from your galaxy photos to make intuitive edits. Adjust star count, size, and saturation, then combine starless and star images for social media. This app uses AI for convenient mobile editing.

Highlights
  • Instantly remove stars from photos
  • Adjust star count, size, and saturation
  • Apply curve and color adjustments
  • Combine starless and star images
  • AI-powered mobile editing
  • Edit target and sky in starless images
Features
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A specialised app to instantly remove stars from your photo so that you can make intuitive changes to your galaxy. Then add back the stars. Besides applying curve and color to your galaxy/nebulae, you could also adjust the number of star, size of star and saturation of star. Then combine the starless and star into a single image for your social media post. Traditionally, user has to download and remove stars on a laptop. This app makes it convenient and easy to do it on the phone using AI. Workflow: 1) Starless > Curve > Color 2) Star > Curve > Color 3) Both > Curve > Color Additional editing for Target and Sky in the Starless image if device has 4G RAM or more. Note: - The app is designed for seestar image of resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels. Larger image will need longer time to load and remove stars. Requirement: - App works best with 4G RAM and above. If the device has less than 4G RAM, it will use lesser weights for AI and produce degraded image. - Image is optimised at 1920 x 1080 pixels. Support: Please write to ustransit74@gmail.com. If the app does not process the stars in your image correctly, please send me your original photo. I will add your photo to the next AI training. A new app update will then be release. Video tutorial is available at https://www.instagram.com/ycbsl

About

AstroFinish

Edit astrophotography images directly on your iPhone. Enhance deep-sky objects, clean up skies, and sharpen moon shots with specialized tools. Supports various image formats and offers batch processing for efficient editing.

Highlights
  • Auto Astro Polish
  • Deep Sky enhancement
  • Moon sharpening
  • Nebula and galaxy detail
  • Denoise and star reduction
  • Batch processing
  • RAW and FITS support
Features
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AstroFinish is a darkroom for astrophotography on iPhone. It is built for the shots that come off smart telescopes, backyard rigs, and late-night moon sessions: the ones that are almost there, but need a cleaner sky and a better finish. Start fast with Auto Astro Polish, Deep Sky, Moon Sharp, and other built-in looks. Or dial it in by hand with controls made for space photos, including black point, glow cleanup, nebula reveal, galaxy detail, denoise, star reduction, and moon sharpening. Import from Photos or Files, work with JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, RAW-style images, and FITS sessions, then export finished images or shareable before/after cards. Batch Finish helps run one look across a queue when you came home with more than one keeper. AstroFinish stays local. No account. No cloud upload. No tracking SDKs. Your captures stay on your iPhone unless you choose to share or save them. Built for: Smart telescope captures Deep-sky photos, nebulae, galaxies, star fields, and moon shots Quick fixes when the sky glow gets rude Manual finishing when you want the last word FITS reveal and stack workflows Local exports, share sheets, and before/after cards AstroFinish is for people who would rather be outside collecting photons than fighting a desktop editor at 1 a.m.

Screenshots

StarEdit4 screens
AstroFinish4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: AstroFinish at every 4 days against StarEdit's every 3 weeks. AstroFinish also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). StarEdit's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AstroFinish holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StarEdit ships an update every 3 weeks, AstroFinish every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
StarEdit versus AstroFinish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStarEditAstroFinish
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeryong chong lohCody Adams

Customer experience

StarEdit

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative30.0%

AstroFinish

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

StarEdit

No in-app purchases

None

AstroFinish

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StarEdit free?
StarEdit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AstroFinish free?
AstroFinish is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, StarEdit or AstroFinish?
AstroFinish is rated higher. StarEdit averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while AstroFinish averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do StarEdit or AstroFinish have ads?
Neither StarEdit nor AstroFinish shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StarEdit or AstroFinish?
StarEdit ships an update every 3 weeks, and AstroFinish every 4 days. Most recently, StarEdit was updated on September 7, 2026 and AstroFinish on September 3, 2026.

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