Comparison

Sun Position Heliora vs SunSpan

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

Head to head
About

Sun Position Heliora

Features
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Plan your perfect day with Sun Position Heliora - your ultimate sun tracker app. Get Sunrise & Sunset Reminders so you never miss golden hour or the perfect sunset again. With Sun Position Heliora, you can: • Track the sun position throughout the day with a beautiful, intuitive interface • View exact sunrise and sunset times for any date and any location • Discover golden hour and blue hour to capture stunning photos • Save multiple favorite spots and use the built-in sunseeker map to plan trips • Receive gentle sunrise & sunset reminders right on your device Whether you’re a photographer, traveler, or simply love watching the sky, Sun Position Heliora is the easiest way to stay connected with the sun. Download now and turn every day into a perfectly timed moment. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

SunSpan

Visualize an entire year of daylight, sunrise, sunset, and twilight on a single, intuitive chart. Easily inspect daily solar times and phases by tapping or dragging across the visual representation. Offers detailed insights into seasonal changes and astronomical events.

Highlights
  • Full-year daylight chart
  • Eight-stop twilight gradient
  • Inspect daily solar times
  • DST transitions marked
  • Location picker via map/GPS
  • Automatic time zone resolution
Features
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SunSpan — A Year of Daylight on One Screen SunSpan renders an entire year of sunrise, sunset, and twilight as a single chart. Each day is a vertical band shaded from astronomical night through nautical and civil twilight into full daylight, so the seasonal curve, the solstices, the equinoxes, and effects like white nights and polar day are visible at a glance. Tap or drag across the chart to select any day and see its sunrise, sunset, daylight length, and twilight phase times in a detail bubble. Features - Full-year daylight chart for any location, any year from 1900 to 2100 - Eight-stop twilight gradient: night, astronomical, nautical, civil, day - Tap or drag any day to inspect sunrise, sunset, daylight length, and twilight phase times - DST transitions marked on the chart - Location picker via satellite map, or automatic from device GPS - Time zone resolved automatically from the selected coordinates - Localized in English, Spanish, German, and Ukrainian Privacy No accounts, no analytics, no ads. Location is used only on-device to compute solar geometry and never leaves the device.

Screenshots

Sun Position Heliora3 screens
SunSpan4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sun Position Heliora and SunSpan 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sun Position Heliora versus SunSpan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSun Position HelioraSunSpan
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKarol LabudaMykhailo Chelnokov

In-app purchases

None

Sun Position Heliora

No in-app purchases

None

SunSpan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sun Position Heliora free?
Sun Position Heliora is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SunSpan free?
SunSpan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sun Position Heliora or SunSpan have ads?
Neither Sun Position Heliora nor SunSpan shows ads.

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