LastLight Pro vs Spotter Tools Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LastLight Pro
Get precise sunset and last usable light times directly on your Lock Screen and Home Screen. This app calculates the exact moment outdoor light becomes unusable, perfect for photographers, hikers, and outdoor enthusiasts.
- Precise sunset and last usable light times
- Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
- Customizable display options
- Adjustable text alignment and bold font
- 15 color options for sunset icon
- Calculates First Light, Sunrise, Sunset, and Last Light
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LastLight gives you precise sunset and last usable light times right on your Lock Screen and Home Screen—so you never miss the perfect moment. WHAT MAKES LASTLIGHT DIFFERENT Most apps just show sunset. LastLight goes further by calculating the exact moment when outdoor light becomes truly unusable—what we call "Last Light." This carefully calculated time tells you when you need to wrap up outdoor activities, set up camp, or head home before darkness sets in. Whether you're a photographer chasing perfect light, a hiker planning your trail time, or someone who simply wants to make the most of daylight—LastLight delivers the precision you need. DESIGNED FOR LOCK SCREEN & HOME SCREEN LastLight was built specifically for iOS widgets, giving you instant access to critical timing information without ever opening an app. Lock Screen Widgets: - Rectangular widget below the time—your main glanceable display - Four independent circular widgets: First Light, Sunrise, Sunset, and Last Light - Perfect for Always-On Display on iPhone 14 Pro and newer Home Screen Widgets: - Small, Medium, and Large sizes - Beautiful sunset icon with customizable color (15 color options) - Clean, readable design that complements any Home Screen aesthetic HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE Every widget can be personalized to match your preferences: Display Options: - Choose what to show: First Light, Sunrise, Sunset, or Last Light - Three configurable lines—show only what matters to you - Hide or display individual time points Alignment Control: - Lock Screen: Adjust vertical and horizontal positioning - Home Screen: Center or left-align text - Fine-tune every widget independently Bold Font Options: - Make important information stand out - Customize which lines use bold text - Three intensity levels: Bold, Bolder, Boldest - Different settings for Lock Screen vs Home Screen widgets Icon Customization: - Choose from 15 vibrant colors for the sunset icon - Match your wallpaper or personal style PERFECT FOR EVERY OUTDOOR ACTIVITY Photographers: - Know exactly when usable light disappears - Never waste time waiting for darkness that's already arrived Hikers & Campers: - Calculate remaining daylight for trail navigation - Time your arrival at camp before darkness - Plan activities around actual usable light—not just sunset Outdoor Enthusiasts: - Coordinate evening activities with precision - Maximize daylight for outdoor projects - Safe planning for activities requiring natural light Daily Life: - Know how much daylight remains after work - Plan evening walks or runs - Time outdoor chores and activities FOUR PRECISE TIME POINTS: - First Light: The moment usable morning light begins - Sunrise: When the sun crosses the horizon in the morning - Sunset: When the sun crosses the horizon in the evening - Last Light: The moment when outdoor light becomes unusable All times are calculated with scientific precision for your exact location and automatically account for your timezone, daylight saving time, and seasonal variations. NO SUBSCRIPTIONS. NO TRACKING. NO ADS. Just $0.99 once. You own it forever. LastLight respects your privacy—all location calculations happen on your device. We don't collect, track, or sell your data. Ever. WHY CHOOSE LASTLIGHT: - Purpose-built for iOS Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets - Shows critical "last usable light" time—not just sunset - Exceptionally customizable—make it yours - Scientifically precise calculations - Beautiful, clean interface - Works anywhere in the world - One-time purchase—no subscription required - No ads, no tracking, complete privacy - Supports iOS 18 and iOS 26 - Regular updates and improvements Perfect for photographers, hikers, campers, outdoor workers, and anyone who needs to know exactly when usable daylight ends. Download LastLight today and never miss the last light of the day.
Spotter Tools Pro
This advanced weather app provides detailed radar, forecasts, and alerts for weather enthusiasts and storm chasers. It offers turn-by-turn navigation overlaid with live weather data, reporting tools, and thousands of live camera feeds.
- GPU-rendered NEXRAD radar
- Turn-by-turn navigation with live radar overlay
- Spotter Network reporting and beacon
- Live wind and soundings
- Worldwide tropical storm tracking
- Thousands of live camera feeds
- Smart push alerts with polygon preview
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Spotter Tools Pro is a severe weather app for weather enthusiasts, storm chasers, and trained spotters. GPU-rendered NEXRAD radar, turn-by-turn directions, live wind flow, soundings, lightning, satellite, worldwide tropical, air quality, five forecast models, IBW alerts, live chasers, and thousands of live cameras. Plus Spotter Network reporting and Chaser Mode. Buy once. No subscription, no ads, no third-party trackers. TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS Drive to any address, town, or map point with your route drawn over live radar and warnings. Turn banner with distance and arrival time, spoken prompts that lower your music, and automatic rerouting. Start from search or a long-press. SPOTTER NETWORK REPORTING & BEACON Tornado, funnel cloud, wall cloud, hail, measured wind, flood, flash flood, and damage, each with the exact fields Spotter Network expects. Reports queue offline and auto-upload. Foreground and background GPS beacon with a configurable interval. RADAR: LEVEL 2, LEVEL III & TDWR Crisp at any zoom. Single-site Level 2 decoded on-device: Reflectivity, Velocity, Correlation Coefficient, Spectrum Width, and Storm-Relative Velocity. Plus WSR-88D Level III, dual-pol (ZDR, CC, KDP, HCA), derived products (VIL, Digital Precip Rate, rotation), storm tracks, mesocyclone and TVS markers, a VAD Wind Profile, and the 45-site TDWR network. Add a Mesoanalysis layer (SPC-style severe parameters) and a Storm Cell Deep Dive. Dual-view split-screen compare. 16 .pal color tables, or import your own. ANIMATED & COMPOSITE RADAR Loop recent volumes. Add a GPU-crisp CONUS MRMS mosaic drawn from the full product catalog, including the FLASH flash-flood suite, with up to 12-hour playback and tap-to-read values. LIVE WIND & SOUNDINGS Animated surface-wind particles colored by speed. On-device skew-T soundings, hodographs, and full analysis: tap anywhere for a profile (balloon or HRRR). LIGHTNING, SATELLITE & TROPICAL Live GOES GLM lightning; GOES East and West satellite (Infrared, Water Vapor, Visible, GeoColor) with a radar-synced cloud loop; and worldwide tropical: outlook areas, storm cones, spaghetti tracks, intensity, and wind-arrival times. WEATHER MODELS Overlay HRRR, GFS, RRFS, NAM, and ECMWF guidance (reflectivity, temp, wind, CAPE, precip) with a time bar. OBSERVATIONS & LAYERS RTMA surface observations (temperature, dew point, theta-e, wind, gusts), MRMS observed precipitation, METARs, EPA AirNow air quality, and WPC surface fronts and pressure centers. LIVE STORM CHASERS Watch major chasers stream live via YouTube and Facebook Live, right on the map. Live badges show who's on air. LIVE TRAFFIC & SKY CAMERAS Tens of thousands of DOT cameras across 37 states, plus FAA, Windy, NOAA buoy, USGS volcano, NPS, ALERTWildfire, and curated webcams. Live video where offered, stills elsewhere. SMART PUSH ALERTS Background NWS warnings with a polygon preview. Filter modes: Standard, Outbreak, and PDS/Emergency only. Watch zones: current location, home, city, state, or nationwide. Severe-alert tone, plus optional Critical Alerts so a Tornado Emergency or PDS warning sounds through silent mode and Focus. Each warning shows an estimated population inside the polygon. NWS & SPC ON THE MAP - 50+ NWS warning polygons, toggleable - Tornado and severe thunderstorm watch boxes - SPC Mesoscale Discussions and WPC flood discussions, full text on tap - Outlooks: convective Day 1 to 8, thunderstorm, excessive rainfall, fire weather, winter storm severity, CPC 6 to 10 day, drought - SPC storm reports plus the live Spotter Network feed MORE City and place search, long-press map menu, distance and bearing tools, freehand drawing, and storm-track projection. Optional account and opt-in Presence to see other users on the map. Per-event colors, county and state lines, 6 themes (OLED black). Privacy Policy: https://spottertoolspro.vercel.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://spottertoolspro.vercel.app/terms Support: spottertoolspro@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: LastLight Pro at $0.99 against Spotter Tools Pro's $19.99. LastLight Pro also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). Spotter Tools Pro's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
LastLight Pro costs $0.99 and Spotter Tools Pro $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LastLight Pro against 5.0 for Spotter Tools Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spotter Tools Pro has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
LastLight Pro ships an update daily, Spotter Tools Pro every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LastLight Pro | Spotter Tools Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Staab | DUSTIN GARNER |
Customer experience
LastLight Pro
Spotter Tools Pro
In-app purchases
LastLight Pro
No in-app purchases
Spotter Tools Pro
No in-app purchases
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