Comparison

At Dusk vs Arrebol

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

Head to head
About

At Dusk

This app provides photographers with real-time light quality, precise sunrise/sunset times, and the sun's path. It integrates live weather data to help users determine the best times for shooting and avoid missing magic hours.

Highlights
  • Live light quality score and color temperature
  • Precise golden hour, sunrise, and sunset times
  • Usable light remaining countdown
  • Live sun and moon path visualization
  • Detailed sky phases and twilight information
  • Integrated live weather data
  • Home-screen widgets for at-a-glance info
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At Dusk: Your Natural Light Companion For photographers who live and die by the light. At Dusk tells you how good the light is right now, how long it will last, and exactly when the magic hours arrive, so you're never guessing and never caught out. A precise light engine blends solar and lunar geometry with live weather, elevation, and air quality, turning "is it worth heading out?" into a single glance. WHAT YOU GET • Live light quality. A clear read on the light right now, from Poor to Excellent, with the exact score and color temperature. • Golden hour, sunrise, sunset. Precise times and countdowns, with compass bearings so you know where the sun will rise and set. • Usable light remaining. How much shooting light you actually have left before the window closes. • The sun's path. A live arc across your sky showing the sun's real position, altitude, and direction, moment to moment. • The moon, in full. Phase and illumination, moonrise and moonset with bearings, and dark-sky windows for astro and night work. • Sky Detail. A dedicated sun and moon compass with every light phase, from golden and blue hour to civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight. • Live weather. Cloud, humidity, wind, and UV, folded straight into the light picture. • Home-screen widgets. Your usable light, live sun arc, and light quality at a glance, all day. • Built for iPad. A full dashboard that puts everything on one screen at once. • Make it yours. Customizable themes and a clean, glare-free design tuned for the field. Premium and ad-free. No accounts, no clutter, just the light. Made for landscape, portrait, wedding, and travel photographers, and anyone chasing dawn, dusk, and every good hour in between.

About

Arrebol

This app provides accurate sunrise and sunset times for your current location. It offers beautiful widgets and lock screen displays, working entirely offline with no data collection. Ideal for those who enjoy nature's daily cycles and value privacy.

Highlights
  • Automatic location-based calculations
  • Home screen widgets
  • Lock screen time display
  • Manual location search
  • Offline functionality
  • Privacy-focused
Features
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Drag through the day and watch the light change: sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour and the chance of a burning sky, at a glance. • Sunrise, sunset, golden and blue hour, with a countdown • Earth’s Light: turn the globe to see day, twilight and city lights everywhere right now • Shadow: a 3D tree in this moment’s sunlight, showing how long its shadow falls and which way • Chance of a burning sky, and a sky drawn from the forecast • Constellations in AR: hold up your phone to find all 88 • Sun & moon map and AR sky path • Sunrise, sunset and golden hour alerts • Multiple saved places, each in its local time • 24-hour cloud and 10-day outlook • Eclipses, meteor showers, aurora • Widgets and Dynamic Island countdown Weather: Apple Weather. Space weather: NOAA SWPC. Eclipse predictions: Fred Espenak, NASA GSFC. Earth imagery: NASA.

Screenshots

At Dusk4 screens
Arrebol4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Arrebol at 4.6 against At Dusk's 1.0. Arrebol also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. At Dusk sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Arrebol asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arrebol holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arrebol has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

At Dusk ships an update every 2 days, Arrebol every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
At Dusk versus Arrebol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAt DuskArrebol
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.6 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDat PhamJiawen Sun

Customer experience

At Dusk

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Arrebol

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

At Dusk

One-time3
  • At Dusk Small Tip$0.99
  • At Dusk Medium Tip$2.99
  • At Dusk Large Tip$4.99
None

Arrebol

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is At Dusk free?
At Dusk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arrebol free?
Arrebol is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, At Dusk or Arrebol?
Arrebol is rated higher. At Dusk averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Arrebol averages 4.6 from 5 ratings.
Do At Dusk or Arrebol have ads?
Neither At Dusk nor Arrebol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, At Dusk or Arrebol?
At Dusk ships an update every 2 days, and Arrebol every 3 days. Most recently, At Dusk was updated on October 8, 2026 and Arrebol on October 28, 2026.

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