Skyglass Camera vs Count
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skyglass Camera
Measure the exact blueness of the sky using your device's camera. Collect and save your sky measurements with time and location, and share them with custom cards. This app offers a modern digital interpretation of historic sky measurement science.
- Measure sky blueness with camera
- Interactive 52-shade color wheel
- Save sky measurements with time/location
- Share sky colors with custom cards
- Minimalist interface with scientific aesthetics
- Haptic feedback
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Skyglass reads the colour of the sky and gives it a name. Point your phone upward and the wheel turns to meet the sky: a pale Frost Blue on a cold morning, Smalt after rain, Gull Wing on a day the clouds never lift. Press the shutter and that sky is kept, with the time and the place you saw it. Inspired by the cyanometer, the ring of 52 painted blues Horace-Bénédict de Saussure carried up Mont Blanc in 1789 to measure the sky. Skyglass keeps his 52 steps and adds five more wheels for all the kinds of sky we see. SIX WHEELS • Pure, the classic cyanometer blues • Green-blue, for lagoon light and hazy afternoons • Violet-blue, for the last light before dark • Amber and Gold, for dusk and dawn • Storm grey, for weather Each wheel has 52 named shades, 312 in all. Skyglass picks the wheel and the shade for you, live, as you look up. IT KNOWS WHAT IS SKY An on-device algorithm checks that you are actually pointing at the sky, so a wall, a screen or a coat never gets a name. The algorithm and the colour reading both run on your phone. YOUR BLUES Every capture lands in your timeline, day by day. Switch to Colours and they gather into piles, one for each shade you have found, so you can see which skies you keep meeting. THE MAP Your captures get pinned where you saw them. So you can collect skies all over the world. SHARE A SKY Each capture makes a card: the sky, its name, the time and place, and a little line of poetry. Send it to the person you thought of.
Count
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Make room for the moments that matter. Count helps you look forward to the good things and remember the days that stay with you. From a big adventure to dinner with friends, give every moment a place of its own. COUNT DOWN AND LOOK BACK See how many days remain until your next plan, or count the days since a favourite memory. Keep upcoming moments and memories together in one personal space. CHOOSE YOUR CALENDAR MOMENTS Connect Apple Calendar or Google Calendar and select the events you want to save. You decide which dates become moments in Count. MAKE IT PERSONAL Use your own photos, choose a style, and set reminders for the dates that matter. Add repeating birthdays and anniversaries, and see your plans in the calendar view. KEEP THE GOOD THINGS CLOSE Add Count widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen to keep your moments in view. START FREE Save up to five moments for free, with personal photos, standard widgets and reminders. You can use Count without creating an account. MORE MOMENTS WITH COUNT PLUS Unlock unlimited moments, extra fonts and card styles, collections, and multiple reminders. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or get Lifetime with one payment. Eligible new subscribers can try a subscription free for seven days. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled. Prices and trial eligibility are shown before purchase. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Skyglass Camera and Count are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Skyglass Camera | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ben Strak | James Storer |
In-app purchases
Skyglass Camera
No in-app purchases
Count
No in-app purchases









