Comparison

Sunset Challenge vs Nightfall Atlas

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

Head to head
About

Sunset Challenge

Share your best sunset photos and explore a global gallery of stunning skies. Engage with a community by liking photos and participating in weekly rankings. Experience a simple, immersive interface focused on beautiful moments.

Highlights
  • Share sunset photos
  • Explore global sunset gallery
  • Like and rank photos
  • Automatic location tagging
  • Minimalist interface
  • Community engagement
Features
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Sunset Challenge is a social app dedicated to a universal moment: the sunset. Every day, capture and share your most beautiful sunset, discover stunning sunsets from users around the world, and take part in a weekly ranking powered by the community’s likes. Key Features • Share your sunsets Take a photo or choose one from your gallery and post it in just a few seconds. • Explore a unique gallery Discover sunsets shared by the community from all around the world. • Likes & rankings Like your favorite photos and see the most popular sunsets of the week. • Automatic location Each sunset is associated with its city and country, letting you travel through images. • Simple & immersive experience A clean, minimalist interface designed to highlight photos and the moment itself. A community around a shared moment Sunset Challenge is more than a photo app. It’s a community built around a daily, natural, and universal moment. Whether you’re a photography enthusiast or simply enjoy beautiful moments, join the challenge. Privacy first Your data is protected and used only to ensure the proper functioning of the app.

About

Nightfall Atlas

This app assists astrophotographers in planning observing sessions by considering location, gear, sky conditions, Moon phase, and potential field risks. It helps users decide what to image, when to start, and whether a night is suitable for photography.

Highlights
  • Tonight and week-ahead planning
  • Target visibility and imaging window recommendations
  • Weather, Moon, darkness, and field-risk signals
  • Saved target and plan reminders
  • Native widgets and observing alerts
  • Plan sharing and image export
  • Equipment-aware planning
Features
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Make the most of your next clear night. Nightfall Atlas helps you choose what to photograph, when to photograph it, and where to set up—with equipment-aware target recommendations, observing conditions, and Scout’s camera-based sky preview. PLAN YOUR NEXT IMAGING SESSION Plan around your location, gear, sky conditions, Moon phase, darkness windows, and target visibility. Check practical field risks like wind, dew, freezing temperatures, clouds, and precipitation before setting up. Build tonight or week-ahead plans, save target windows, export plan cards, add sessions to your calendar, and get native alerts when conditions or saved targets line up. SCOUT YOUR SKY BEFORE YOU SET UP What could you photograph through that gap in the trees—and where will it be later tonight? Scout brings target discovery and planning into your phone’s camera view. • Discover targets where you’re pointing. Explore recommendations for your observing site, night, and equipment, or browse nebulae, galaxies, star clusters, solar-system objects, and saved targets. • Follow a target through the night. Overlay its approximate path and observing times on your surroundings to help judge where trees, roofs, or nearby buildings might get in the way. • Explore another night. Preview future dates, compare paths, and watch deep-sky target paths change through the season. • Save your setup idea. Capture a snapshot with the target’s path and time labels to revisit later. • Take prepared paths off-grid. With your catalog and observing site loaded beforehand, Scout can calculate cached deep-sky target paths without a connection. Solar-system targets require internet access. Scout works in daylight or under cloudy skies—no visible stars or star alignment required. Pointing is approximate and depends on your device’s sensors; Scout does not automatically detect obstructions. MORE TOOLS FOR YOUR NIGHT • Tonight and week-ahead astrophotography planning • Target visibility and imaging-window recommendations • Weather, Moon, darkness, and field-risk signals • Saved target and saved plan reminders • Native widgets and observing alerts • Plan sharing and image export • Equipment-aware planning for common astrophotography workflows From your backyard to your next dark-sky trip, Nightfall Atlas helps you spend less time guessing and more time imaging.

Screenshots

Sunset Challenge4 screens
Nightfall Atlas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Nightfall Atlas at every 3 days against Sunset Challenge's every 10 days. Nightfall Atlas also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sunset Challenge against 5.0 for Nightfall Atlas. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sunset Challenge ships an update every 10 days, Nightfall Atlas every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Sunset Challenge versus Nightfall Atlas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSunset ChallengeNightfall Atlas
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB35 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLudovic NGUIEBuilder of Things Studio LLC

Customer experience

Sunset Challenge

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Nightfall Atlas

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sunset Challenge

No in-app purchases

None

Nightfall Atlas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sunset Challenge free?
Sunset Challenge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nightfall Atlas free?
Nightfall Atlas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sunset Challenge or Nightfall Atlas?
Sunset Challenge and Nightfall Atlas are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Sunset Challenge or Nightfall Atlas have ads?
Neither Sunset Challenge nor Nightfall Atlas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sunset Challenge or Nightfall Atlas?
Sunset Challenge ships an update every 10 days, and Nightfall Atlas every 3 days. Most recently, Sunset Challenge was updated on October 25, 2026 and Nightfall Atlas on October 28, 2026.

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