Humanform vs AstroShort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Humanform
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Predict 148 body measurements in 3D. Set age, country, gender, and percentile to explore anthropometric and ergonomic data — on your device, not in the cloud. Humanform is a reference app for product designers, ergonomists, engineers, researchers, and anyone who needs human body measurement data. Look up stature, sitting height, reach, girth, hand and foot dimensions, and more. Scale every prediction across 177 countries. What you can do • Browse 148 body measurements on an interactive 3D body • Dial age 1–88, percentile 1–99, and female, male, or everyone • Compare countries, ages, and genders in charts and tables • Convert millimetres, centimetres, and inches • Search the catalog, save Personas, and keep work in Vault • Use a shared sidebar on iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro • Look up measurements quickly on Apple Watch • Keep data on-device — Humanform does not collect personal information Free and Pro The free app includes six core measurements so you can try predictions, 3D Explore, and unit conversion. Humanform Pro unlocks all 148 measurements plus Design Fit, Synthetic Population, Connected Dimensions, growth and comparison charts, multi-scenario tables, export (CSV, JSON, Markdown), and Shortcuts-style workflows. Subscriptions Humanform Monthly — $9.99 per month Humanform Yearly — $79.99 per year Subscriptions are auto-renewable. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Prices may vary by region. Privacy Policy: https://www.humanform.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
AstroShort
Explore the entire universe from your fingertips, flying between planets, moons, and even black holes. Dive deep into factual information sourced from NASA, with interactive real-world locations and animated scenes. Offers both an explorer and a kid-friendly mode for all ages.
- Interactive solar system exploration
- Detailed planet and moon information
- Real-world location exploration
- Animated scenes and landmarks
- Explorer and Kid modes
- Offline functionality
- User-submitted feature ideas
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Astro Explorer was built together — with curiosity, a sense of social connection, learning and education at its heart. It began as a gift from a dad to his kid, and grew into a hand-built universe for curious minds of every age. THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, BY TOUCH Fly between the Sun, all eight planets and the Moon. Zoom from a planet up close all the way out to the Milky Way — and the real black hole at its heart, Sagittarius A*, shown as the 2022 Event Horizon Telescope image. Nothing here needs reading to explore — a child who can't read yet can pilot the entire universe with a fingertip. DEEP FACTS ON EVERY PLANET Tap any planet — all eight, plus Pluto — to open its observation plate: its moons, its weather, the missions we've sent, and how it truly sizes up. The facts go deep, in plain language, and every one is sourced straight from NASA fact sheets and JPL. GO INSIDE REAL WORLDS Earth, Mars and the Moon aren't just spheres. Drill down to real places — the Grand Canyon, Olympus Mons, the Sea of Tranquility — meet animals, visit landmarks, and watch each place come alive with its own animated scene. Every fact carries its source, straight from NASA planetary fact sheets and the International Astronomical Union. TWO WAYS TO EXPLORE - Explorer mode (the default): a clean, premium look where grown-up facts, side-by-side planet comparisons and a daily discovery feed are one tap away. - Kid mode: a playful skin made for little hands — bigger buttons, a gentler pace, and deeper content tucked safely behind a parent hold-gesture. BUILT BY ITS EXPLORERS Here's the part we love most. Have an idea for the app? A child can simply say it out loud. Their words are turned into text right on your device, a grown-up reads it and decides whether to send it — anonymously, never any audio, never any account. On the Builders Board inside the app you can watch ideas from explorers around the world come together: what's being considered, what's being built, and what just shipped. Great ideas can become real features in days. This app is built by its explorers. HONEST BY DESIGN - Works fully offline — every planet, place and fact, with zero connection. - No accounts. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Ever. - The only thing that ever touches the internet is the daily discovery feed: a single anonymous download of the same public file everyone gets, with no identifiers and no cookies. Offline, it shows the last feed with a visible date. - Facts are sourced and scale is honest: planets are stylized so small worlds stay visible, but the truths always hold — Jupiter is always the biggest, Mercury always closest to the Sun. Made for families. A friendly narrator reads names and facts aloud, so a pre-reader can explore and learn by ear. Safe for the youngest explorer to use alone, deep enough for the most curious adult.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AstroShort at none against Humanform's 1. AstroShort also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Humanform's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (5 vs 3). On price and ads 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
Both are free to download. Humanform sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. AstroShort asks for nothing beyond the download.
Humanform ships an update every 2 days, AstroShort every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Humanform | AstroShort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Douglas Kilby | Edon Zogaj |
In-app purchases
Humanform
- Humanform Monthly$9.991 Month
AstroShort
No in-app purchases
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