Comparison

StarEdit vs Ephemis

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

Ephemis

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Ephemis ranks the best deep-sky targets to photograph tonight — matched to your gear, your sky, and the Moon. It does the planning math so you can spend clear nights imaging instead of guessing. Point it at a date and location, tell it about your telescope and camera, and Ephemis scores thousands of galaxies, nebulae, and clusters by how well they fit your field of view and how long they stay high in a dark sky. WHAT IT DOES • Ranks 16,000+ deep-sky objects for any night, at any site • Scores each target on framing, altitude, available dark hours, Moon interference, and feasibility for your setup • Models real darkness — astronomical, nautical, or civil twilight — not just sunset to sunrise • Full Moon avoidance with broadband and narrowband profiles, plus per-night Moon tracks • Field-of-view fit for your exact optic and sensor, including multi-panel mosaics • Altitude charts with transit time, meridian flip, and your local horizon limits • Save targets to a project list, set hour goals, and log your imaging sessions • Best Nights view to find when a target peaks over the coming weeks BUILT FOR THE FIELD • Fully offline — every catalog is bundled, so it works with no signal under a dark sky • Messier, NGC/IC, Sharpless, Barnard, van den Bergh, LBN and LDN catalogs included • Native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with iCloud sync of your rigs, sites, and targets • Deep links to AstroBin references and Clear Outside forecasts Set up your rig and observing site once, and every night Ephemis tells you exactly where to point.

Screenshots

StarEdit4 screens
Ephemis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ephemis at every 3 days against StarEdit's every 3 weeks. StarEdit's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StarEdit ships an update every 3 weeks, Ephemis every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
StarEdit versus Ephemis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStarEditEphemis
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeryong chong lohDavid Roka

In-app purchases

None

StarEdit

No in-app purchases

None

Ephemis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StarEdit free?
StarEdit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ephemis free?
Ephemis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do StarEdit or Ephemis have ads?
Neither StarEdit nor Ephemis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StarEdit or Ephemis?
StarEdit ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ephemis every 3 days. Most recently, StarEdit was updated on September 22, 2026 and Ephemis on September 30, 2026.

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