Comparison

Asteroid Alerts vs Skyfall Scout

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

Head to head
About

Asteroid Alerts

Discover upcoming asteroid flybys, meteor showers, and celestial events visible tonight. Get detailed information on near-Earth asteroids, including impact risks, and learn about the cosmos with illustrated guides. Receive timely alerts for significant astronomical occurrences.

Highlights
  • Near-Earth asteroid tracking
  • Meteor shower and fireball alerts
  • Tonight's sky viewing guide
  • 60-day celestial event calendar
  • Illustrated astronomical guides
  • Customizable event notifications
Features
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Know what's passing Earth, and what to step outside for tonight. Asteroid Alerts follows every near-Earth asteroid, fireball and meteor shower that matters, and puts the one thing worth knowing on a single screen. TODAY The featured event: an asteroid on NASA's impact-risk list, a close flyby, a shower at its peak. TONIGHT Everything in your sky tonight, each with its own viewing window: the Moon, the planets, active meteor showers, comets bright enough to find, close pairings of the Moon and planets, and aurora when a forecast reaches your latitude. Times and directions are computed for your time zone's main city, or for where you are if you share an approximate location, with where to look. CALENDAR The next sixty days of flybys, meteor showers, eclipses, comets, aurora and mission milestones, day by day, with filters for each. ASTEROID PAGES Every asteroid passing nearby with its size and close approach distance, NASA's impact odds, and what an impact of that size would actually mean. LEARN Illustrated guides, from asteroids and comets to meteors, aurora, the Moon and planets, and the missions visiting them. ALERTS WHEN IT MATTERS Get notified when an asteroid is added to NASA's impact-risk list, when a rare close flyby is coming, when a major fireball lights up the sky, and when a mission reaches a milestone. Know about tonight's sky for meteor shower peaks, eclipses, strong aurora and bright comets. FREE. NO ACCOUNT. NO ADS.

About

Skyfall Scout

Features
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Skyfall Scout brings public meteor, fireball, and meteorite data into a simple map-first field companion. FEATURES - Global fireball radar map with specific event details: named region, impact energy with TNT equivalent, peak-brightness altitude, and position uncertainty - Meteor shower calendar with peak windows - Historical meteorite database with search and filters - Regional alerts by energy and radius - Transparent data source coverage and licensing - App UI localized in 16 languages SKYFALL SCOUT PRO (OPTIONAL) Unlimited regional alerts, CSV and GeoJSON export with attribution, event favorites, and an Observation Planner (tonight's moon phase, a 14-night dark-sky forecast, and a visibility score for each upcoming shower). Night-vision and retro field themes are free for everyone. Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled in your App Store account settings. Map markers are approximate public data for education, planning, and awareness - not recovery guarantees or land-access permission. The app includes legal and safety reminders covering meteorite ownership, export rules, private land, protected areas, and map accuracy. Data sources include NASA/JPL, NOAA/NASA-derived sources, and open community datasets; attribution is shown in the app. No endorsement by any data provider is implied. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Asteroid Alerts4 screens
Skyfall Scout4 screens

Verdict

The call

Asteroid Alerts and Skyfall Scout are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

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

Asteroid Alerts ships an update every 3 weeks, Skyfall Scout every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Asteroid Alerts versus Skyfall Scout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsteroid AlertsSkyfall Scout
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB67 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperFrancesca DeMeoHot Season Enterprise, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Asteroid Alerts

No in-app purchases

None

Skyfall Scout

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Asteroid Alerts free?
Asteroid Alerts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skyfall Scout free?
Skyfall Scout is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Asteroid Alerts or Skyfall Scout have ads?
Neither Asteroid Alerts nor Skyfall Scout shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Asteroid Alerts or Skyfall Scout?
Asteroid Alerts ships an update every 3 weeks, and Skyfall Scout every 11 days. Most recently, Asteroid Alerts was updated on November 5, 2026 and Skyfall Scout on October 31, 2026.

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