Vikram Samvat vs EarthView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vikram Samvat
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Vikram Samvat is an elegant Gujarati Hindu Lunar Calendar app. Features: • View daily Tithis, Paksh, and Month. • Converter: Easily convert any Gregorian date to Vikram Samvat Tithi. • English and Gujarati language support. • Spiritual header with daily inspiration. Keep track of Ekadashi, Poonam, Amas, and festivals with ease.
EarthView
Experience the real Solar System with live NASA imagery and an AI guide. Watch Earth rotate, journey to other planets with narrated tours, and ask questions about what you see. It's a pocket-sized window to space, offering the overview effect.
- Live, auto-rotating Earth imagery
- Narrated AI-guided tours of planets
- Real NASA mission imagery
- Interactive AI guide for questions
- Live Sun and Earth time-lapses
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Most "space" apps show you renders, simulations, or a wall of data. EarthView does something different: it shows you the real Solar System — and gives it a voice. It opens on Earth, live. The natural-color imagery comes straight from NASA's EPIC camera aboard the DSCOVR satellite, a million miles away at the Sun–Earth L1 point, looking back at the fully lit face of our planet. The frames auto-play, so you watch Earth actually rotate through the day. No telescope. No CGI. The real planet, as it looked today. Then start the journey. A calm AI guide flies you outward through the Solar System — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune — and the Sun, narrating each world as you arrive, in genuine NASA mission imagery. Pick a theme and it plans the route for you. Curious about what you're seeing? Ask the guide — it answers about the exact world on your screen. - A narrated, AI-guided tour — every world spoken as you arrive - Live, auto-rotating Earth from NASA DSCOVR·EPIC, refreshed daily - Live Sun and Earth time-lapses from real feeds (SDO, GOES) — not loops - Real Mars rover imagery and curated NASA stills for every planet - Ask the guide anything, grounded in what you're looking at - No account, no ads, no in-app purchases — opens straight on Earth EarthView isn't a data tool or a research app. It's a small, beautiful window on the real Solar System, with a guide in your ear — the overview effect, in your pocket. (Note: NASA's EPIC imagery publishes with a short delay, so "live" means the latest real captured set, refreshed daily — not a real-time video feed.) Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Vikram Samvat at daily against EarthView's every 6 weeks. EarthView's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Vikram Samvat ships an update daily, EarthView every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Vikram Samvat | EarthView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nigam Patel | Emre Gurbuzer |
In-app purchases
Vikram Samvat
No in-app purchases
EarthView
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do Vikram Samvat or EarthView have ads?
Which is updated more often, Vikram Samvat or EarthView?
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