OwlPlot vs Orriva

Plan the shot before you drive. OwlPlot tells you when the light will be right, where the sun and moon will be standing, and whether tonight is worth staying up for. Free, with no account and no ads, and the astronomy works with no signal at all. KNOW WHEN TO GO • Golden hour and blue hour, morning and evening, to the minute • Sunrise, sunset, solar noon and every twilight phase • Moonrise, moonset, phase and illumination • A 0-100 score for right now, from cloud, rain, visibility and wind • The coming nights ranked, so you can pick the good one FOR THE MILKY WAY • When the galactic core rises, where it will be, and how high it gets • Astronomical darkness — when the sky is genuinely dark, not just dim • Moon interference, because a bright moon ends the session • Bortle sky darkness estimated for every spot you save, from satellite light-pollution data, so you know what you are working with • Seeing and transparency worked out from the forecast model POINT YOUR PHONE AT THE SKY • AR view places the sun, moon, planets and the Milky Way on the real scene • Scrub forward or back twelve hours and watch the arcs move • Draw your lens's field of view on the sky before you unpack the bag • Plan a panorama: overlap, frame count, sweep WORK OUT THE SHOT • Tonight's Recipe — ISO, aperture and shutter for what is actually up • NPF and 500-rule star trails, ND filters, timelapse intervals • Hyperfocal, depth of field and focus stacking • Moon framing: how big the moon really is at your focal length LINE IT UP • Alignment planner: the next 30 days of the sun or moon behind a landmark • Shot plans with a leave-by time, calendar export and a reminder • Eclipses for two years, ISS passes, meteor shower peaks ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN • Apple Watch app and complications with the next event • Widgets in three sizes with a live countdown • Live Activities on the Lock Screen through golden and blue hour ON THE COAST • Swell height, period and direction, with wind read against the beach • Tide state and water temperature from the nearest reporting buoy • Ten-day outlook, day and hour picking BUILT FOR THE DARK • Night vision turns the whole screen red so a glance at your phone does not cost you the half hour your eyes spent adapting • Dark throughout, with extra dimming below the system minimum HONEST BY DEFAULT • Free. No account, no ads, no subscription • Sun, moon and Milky Way maths runs on your device and works offline • When the weather service is unavailable, OwlPlot says so rather than showing you yesterday's numbers as if they were today's Weather by Open-Meteo. Light pollution from VIIRS / Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines. Sky darkness is an estimate and you can override it on any location.

Too many photos, too little time? Orriva finds the keepers from a burst, plans the light before you shoot, and develops your RAWs — completely offline, right on your device. THE KEEPER FINDER — FREE Import a burst of similar shots and Orriva suggests the sharpest one in each series. Double-tap to zoom to 100% and check the eyes yourself — the app only suggests, you decide. It never deletes anything on its own. PLAN THE LIGHT — FREE Blue hour and golden hour countdown, sunrise and sunset with compass bearings so you know where to stand, moon phase and local weather. The Horizont home-screen widget keeps it one glance away. CALCULATORS — FREE ND filter exposure times, hyperfocal distance, and the 500/NPF rule for night skies. PHOTO EDITOR (Pro) Looks with an adjustable strength slider, crop to popular ratios (1:1, 3:2, 4:5, 16:9), straighten the horizon, one-tap Auto, plus brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpening. Watermark, EXIF viewer, before/after compare and on-device face tools included. RAW DEVELOPING (Pro — first 5 free) Open RAW files from Sony, Canon, Nikon and more (ARW, CR3, NEF, DNG). Dial in exposure, white balance, noise reduction and sharpening by hand, guided by a live histogram. Your first five developments are free, so you can check your files come out right before you pay. MANUAL CAMERA & BATCH RESIZE (Pro) Full control over shutter speed, ISO and focus. Resize and watermark a whole shoot in one go. DESIGNED FOR IPHONE AND IPAD On iPad the editor, the keeper finder and RAW developing use the whole screen — library on the left, photo in the middle, controls on the right. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Orriva works fully offline. Your photos never leave your device — no accounts, no ads, no tracking, nothing uploaded. Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.