Comparison

StarEdit vs Nightfall Atlas

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

Nightfall Atlas

This app assists astrophotographers in planning observing sessions by considering location, gear, sky conditions, Moon phase, and potential field risks. It helps users decide what to image, when to start, and whether a night is suitable for photography.

Highlights
  • Tonight and week-ahead planning
  • Target visibility and imaging window recommendations
  • Weather, Moon, darkness, and field-risk signals
  • Saved target and plan reminders
  • Native widgets and observing alerts
  • Plan sharing and image export
  • Equipment-aware planning
Features
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Nightfall Atlas helps astrophotographers decide what is worth imaging tonight. Plan observing sessions around your location, gear, sky conditions, Moon phase, darkness windows, target visibility, and field risks like wind, dew, freezing temperatures, clouds, and precipitation. Build tonight or week-ahead plans, save target windows, export plan cards, add sessions to your calendar, and get native alerts when conditions or saved targets line up. Nightfall is built for practical field decisions: what to shoot, when to start, what might get in the way, and whether tonight is worth setting up for. Features include: - Tonight and week-ahead astrophotography planning - Target visibility and imaging-window recommendations - Weather, Moon, darkness, and field-risk signals - Saved target and saved plan reminders - Native widgets and observing alerts - Plan sharing and image export - Equipment-aware planning for common astrophotography workflows Nightfall Atlas is a planning companion for backyard and field astrophotography, built to help you spend less time guessing and more time imaging.

Screenshots

StarEdit4 screens
Nightfall Atlas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Nightfall Atlas at every 3 days against StarEdit's every 3 weeks. Nightfall Atlas also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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

Nightfall Atlas holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StarEdit ships an update every 3 weeks, Nightfall Atlas every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
StarEdit versus Nightfall Atlas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStarEditNightfall Atlas
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeryong chong lohBuilder of Things Studio LLC

Customer experience

StarEdit

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

Nightfall Atlas

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

StarEdit

No in-app purchases

None

Nightfall Atlas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StarEdit free?
StarEdit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nightfall Atlas free?
Nightfall Atlas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, StarEdit or Nightfall Atlas?
Nightfall Atlas is rated higher. StarEdit averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Nightfall Atlas averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do StarEdit or Nightfall Atlas have ads?
Neither StarEdit nor Nightfall Atlas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StarEdit or Nightfall Atlas?
StarEdit ships an update every 3 weeks, and Nightfall Atlas every 3 days. Most recently, StarEdit was updated on September 22, 2026 and Nightfall Atlas on October 10, 2026.

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