Arrebol vs Nenrin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Arrebol
Plan your perfect outdoor photos with precise sunrise, sunset, and celestial event data. Visualize light, shadows, and constellations in augmented reality. Get alerts for golden hours and celestial phenomena.
- Sunrise/sunset and golden hour alerts
- Celestial event tracking (eclipses, meteor showers)
- AR sky path and constellation finder
- Shadow direction and length visualization
- Earth's light and city light mapping
- Multi-location support
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• Sunrise, sunset, golden and blue hour, with a countdown and alerts • Chance of a burning sky, 24-hour cloud and a 10-day outlook • Shot plans: pick your spot and your subject, and find when the sun or moon lines up • Earth’s Light: turn the globe to see day, twilight and city lights everywhere right now • Shadow: how long it falls right now, and which way • Constellations in AR: hold up your phone to find all 88 • Sun & moon map and AR sky path • Eclipses, meteor showers, aurora • Multiple saved places, each in its local time • Widgets and Dynamic Island countdown Sun and moon positions, rises and sets are checked against NASA JPL ephemerides. Weather: Apple Weather. Space weather: NOAA SWPC. Eclipse predictions: Fred Espenak, NASA GSFC. Earth imagery: NASA. Terrain: Copernicus DEM, ESA WorldCover.
Nenrin
This app acts as a digital diary, organizing entries into a single Markdown file for each day of the year. It allows you to revisit past entries, track your writing consistency with a heatmap, and search your entire diary history. Photos from the day can be attached to your entries.
- Daily Markdown file organization
- Yearly entry stacking
- Past entry navigation
- Monthly writing heatmap
- Full-text search
- Photo attachment
- Home screen widget
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Nenrin (年輪, "tree rings") is a diary made of just 365 files: one Markdown file for each day of the year. Whatever you write on a given day goes into that day's file under a "## year" heading — so every year's entry for today stacks on the same page. Write today, and next year's you opens this page and reads it. The more years you keep it, the better it gets. TODAY The app opens on today's page. Past years sit in a row of chips above the entry; tap one to switch, or hold the text and pull down to go back a year. Years you skipped on this day are pointed out, and you can fill them in any time. The entry is a Markdown editor: headings, lists, quotes and bold are highlighted as you type, with a row of marks above the keyboard for quick insertion. Photos you took on this day appear below the entry — read from your library, never written into the file. YEAR A heatmap of all twelve months. Each cell is one file; the darker it is, the more years that day has been written in. One ring a year, deeper each time. Full-text search covers every year in all 365 files: search a word and watch it cross the years. ON THIS DAY A home-screen widget that shows what you wrote on today's date in past years. NIGHTLY REMINDER A nudge at the time you choose to write today's lines. YOUR FILES, YOUR RULES • Plain Markdown you can open in any editor • Keep it on your iPhone (visible in the Files app) or point it at a folder in iCloud Drive • Point Nenrin for Mac at the same folder and both write the same diary; saves replace only the current year's section, so writing on two devices never overwrites the other • No account, no server of ours — your diary lives only on your devices and in your own iCloud Drive
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Arrebol at 67% against Nenrin's 0%. Arrebol also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Nenrin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Arrebol asks for nothing beyond the download.
Arrebol holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Arrebol's written reviews are positive against 0% of Nenrin's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arrebol | Nenrin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jiawen Sun | 鹏鹏 任 |
Customer experience
Arrebol
Nenrin
In-app purchases
Arrebol
No in-app purchases
Nenrin
- Nenrin Pro Lifetime$5.99







