Stellar vs Sundle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stellar
This app offers advanced control for creating timelapses and capturing single shots with customizable intervals and delays. It supports manual camera settings, dual camera capture, and various output formats, including RAW. Remote control and Apple Watch integration are also available.
- Interval shooting
- Manual camera controls
- Dual camera capture
- RAW photo output
- Remote control
- Apple Watch integration
- Timelapse video creation
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Stellar is a precision interval camera built for photographers who want complete control from a quick self-timer shot to a multi-hour timelapse session. CAPTURE • Interval shooting: every 2, 5, 10, 30, or 60 seconds • Single shot mode with start delay. Use Stellar as a self-timer • Set a shot count (1 to ∞) or a duration limit (30s to 1h) • Schedule a session to fire automatically at a specific time • Visual countdown before the session starts CAMERA CONTROLS • Switch between Ultra Wide, Wide, and Telephoto lenses (If supported) • Manual shutter speed, ISO, and exposure compensation • Manual focus with barrel-style slider and haptic feedback • Barrel-style zoom with haptic tick feedback • Flash: Off / Auto / On • AE/AF lock and tap-to-focus DUAL CAMERA • Multicam: Capture front and back cameras simultaneously • Picture-in-Picture layout: draggable and swappable • Both lenses fire at the exact same time PHOTO OUTPUT • Formats: HEIC, JPEG, RAW, RAW+HEIC, RAW+JPEG • Aspect ratios: Original, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 • Optional geotagging. Embed GPS location in EXIF metadata • Sessions automatically saved to a named album in Photos TIMELAPSE VIDEO • Build a timelapse from any session or photo library • Share photos from the iOS Photos app directly into Stellar to generate a timelapse • Frame rate: 24 or 30 fps • Quality: 1080p, 1440p, or 4K • Speed: 0.5×, 1×, 2×, 3×, or 4× • Reverse playback option • Export and share in seconds REMOTE CONTROL • Control a second iPhone over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth • Start, stop, and preview shots remotely APPLE WATCH • Start and stop capture from your wrist • Live preview on the watch face after each shot • Shot counter displayed during active sessions FRAMING AIDS • Ghost overlay: match composition to the previous shot • 3×3 grid for rule-of-thirds framing • Horizon level indicator • Aspect ratio crop guides GALLERY • Browse, view full-screen, share, or delete photos & videos captured by Stellar FEEDBACK & SETTINGS • Shutter sound and haptic feedback • LED countdown: flashes 3-2-1 before each shot • Battery saver mode: dims screen during long sessions • Sleep mode: pause and resume without losing your session • Presets: save and load named setting combinations • Storage warning before starting a session Download Stellar. Every second counts.
Sundle
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Sundle shows when and where the light will fall, right where you are. Plenty of apps tell you what time the sun sets. Sundle also tells you which direction the light comes from, where shadows will lie, and where the moon and the Milky Way will sit in tonight's sky. Today's light See where the sun is right now. The countdown to the next golden hour runs large, with the sun's direction and shadow length resting quietly underneath. Numbers on their own don't help much. Instead of "altitude 69.4°", Sundle says "shadows are shortest, 0.4x your height" — an angle means little to a photographer, but a shadow length means something. Light map The sun's direction and the shadow direction are drawn on the map. Slide through the day to see where the light will come from at three in the afternoon, so you can tell before you leave whether a building blocks it or you'll be shooting into the sun. In AR mode, point your phone at the sky and today's solar path is drawn over the camera view. Calendar Move through dates to preview golden hour and blue hour. Moon phase, moonrise and moonset, and the window when the galactic center is visible are all there — along with whether moonlight will wash it out. 64 spots Photography spots across Korea, each with its region, tags, and a short note. How open the horizon is in each direction is calculated from terrain elevation, so a sunrise trip doesn't end up behind a mountain. You can save your own spots by tapping the map. Reminders Sundle lets you know before golden hour and blue hour begin — anywhere from 10 to 90 minutes ahead. It's fine if you can't make it. Tomorrow brings another. Widgets and Apple Watch See the time to the next golden hour from your Home Screen and Lock Screen. As it gets close, a live countdown appears on the Lock Screen. The Apple Watch app works on its own, without your iPhone. Everything is calculated on your wrist. Accurate Sun calculations use the NOAA algorithm. Twenty-two verification tests check the results against published Korea Meteorological Administration values, such as the Seoul summer solstice sunrise at 05:11 and sunset at 19:57. No internet needed Every astronomical calculation runs on your device. It works the same in airplane mode or deep in the mountains. There is no account, no server, and your location is never stored or collected. (Apple Maps is used for one thing only: showing the name of where you are, at the top of the screen. With no connection it simply says "Current location" and every calculation still works.) There are no ads. Sundle Pro One payment, once. Not a subscription. AR sky overlay · unlimited date previews · unlimited saved spots Astronomical calculations, golden hour, sunrise and sunset, the moon, the Milky Way, and the widgets stay free. A few notes The weather-based light score is still in progress and currently shows sample values. The app labels it that way on screen. AR mode works on physical devices only. The built-in spots are in Korea. Sun, moon, and Milky Way calculations work anywhere in the world.
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Verdict
Stellar and Sundle 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stellar ships an update every 4 days, Sundle every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Stellar | Sundle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gabriel Pires | Woosoo Kim |
In-app purchases
Stellar
No in-app purchases
Sundle
No in-app purchases









