Satellite Tracker° vs SatRadar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Satellite Tracker°
Track over 14,000 satellites in real-time on a 3D globe. Predict visible passes over your location, view live flyovers, and explore detailed satellite data. Monitor space debris and reentry events.
- Real-time 3D satellite tracking
- Visible pass predictions
- Live overhead satellite view
- Ground track map with visibility
- Detailed satellite database
- Collision and reentry alerts
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Never miss a satellite pass - I'm looking at you, stargazers! Track 14,000+ satellites in real time on an interactive 3D globe, predict visible passes over your location, and explore the cosmos like never before. KEY FEATURES: REAL-TIME 3D GLOBE -Track 14,000+ satellites orbiting Earth in real time -Interactive 3D globe with day/night shading -Tap any satellite for orbit path and details -Filter by type: Starlink, stations, debris, and more PASS PREDICTIONS -Know exactly when satellites fly over your location -Visible pass times with brightness estimates -Elevation, direction, and duration data -Plan your next sighting with confidence VISIBLE RIGHT NOW -See which satellites are overhead in real time -Live countdowns to upcoming passes -Elevation and trajectory data -Never miss a flyover again GROUND TRACK MAP -Projected satellite paths across the globe -Visibility cone overlay -Real-time position tracking SATELLITE DATABASE -Detailed orbit data: altitude, speed, inclination -Operator and mission history -Orbit type classification -Launch date and status COLLISION ALERTS -Track dangerous close approaches in space -3D visualization of conjunction events -Risk ratings and miss distance data -Monitor debris threats in real time REENTRY TRACKING -Monitor satellites falling back to Earth -Predicted reentry times and locations -Countdown timers to atmospheric entry CUSTOMIZATION & FEATURES Full dark mode interface Detailed satellite info cards Filter and search tools In-app support and sharing DATA SOURCES: Space-Track.org (US Space Command) CelesTrak TLE (Two-Line Element) orbital data GO PRO ($14.99/year, or $49.99 lifetime) PRO FEATURES Visible Right Now: live overhead satellite tracking with countdowns Custom Watchlist: build your personal satellite collection Pass Notifications: push alerts before your favorite satellites pass over Collision Alerts: 3D close-approach visualizations with risk ratings Reentry Tracking: monitor satellites falling to Earth with predictions PERFECT FOR: Stargazers, amateur astronomers, space enthusiasts, satellite engineers, astrophotographers, and anyone who looks up. NOTE: Pass visibility depends on weather conditions and observer location. Best viewing occurs during twilight hours when satellites are sunlit against a dark sky. Clear skies. Stay curious. Terms of Use: https://www.satellitetrackerlive.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.satellitetrackerlive.com/privacy
SatRadar
Track thousands of satellites in real-time, from the ISS to Starlink constellations. Explore orbital paths, view satellite details, and even travel back in time to witness the history of space exploration. The app offers a detailed view of human activity in low Earth orbit.
- Real-time satellite tracking
- View ISS and Tiangong
- Global navigation satellite systems
- Weather satellite tracking
- Detailed satellite information
- Time travel visualization
- GPU-accelerated performance
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Free. No account, no subscription, no ads. The free version tracks everything, not just the ISS. Ten thousand satellites are flying over your head right now. SatRadar shows you every one of them, where they actually are, doing what they actually do — drawn from the same orbital telemetry that mission controllers and ground stations use every day. Open the app and the sky is already alive. Accurate to the second: real orbital telemetry, the same TLE data NORAD publishes, checked against ground truth. This is the sky we built. The Space Age started as one beep from Sputnik in 1957 and turned into a near-continuous procession of launches that has put more than ten thousand active spacecraft above us — Starlink and OneWeb meshing the planet in broadband, the GPS / GLONASS / Galileo / BeiDou networks holding civilisation's clocks, weather sentinels watching whole oceans, the ISS and Tiangong with humans aboard. SatRadar lets you watch all of it move, in real time, at the scale it actually is. Free to use, with no account required: • The International Space Station and Tiangong, traced across the sky in real time • The complete global navigation networks: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou • Weather sentinels watching from geostationary perches: GOES, NOAA, METEOSAT • Full orbital trails on the GNSS fleet, so you can see the mathematical poetry of a 12-hour orbit at a glance • Tap any satellite to see what it is, where it is going, and how high above you it sits right now A one-time Starlink unlock opens the full mesh — nearly ten thousand satellites appearing as a living lattice around the planet, every laser cross-link drawn between its real endpoints, every hop between birds animated in actual sequence. The same unlock brings the rest of low Earth orbit with it: OneWeb threads its broadband shell, Iridium NEXT lights up the polar planes, the commercial Earth-observation fleets from Planet, Spire, and IceEye start watching, and the communications constellations of Astranis, O3B, Orbcomm, and Globalstar show up in their actual orbital planes. It is the most complete picture of human activity in low Earth orbit you can hold in your hand. A second one-time unlock — Time Travel — turns the whole thing into a time machine. Go back to October 1957 and the sky empties to a single object: Sputnik 1, circling a planet that had never seen an artificial moon. Move forward and watch it fill in: GPS through the 80s and 90s, the ISS assembling itself from 1998, the low-Earth shell suddenly igniting as Starlink starts launching in 2019 — sixty birds at a time, piling up into the mesh that wraps the planet today. Every satellite appears on its real birthday and moves on its real orbit. Six decades of the Space Age, laid out in front of you. The smoothness is the point. Real-time orbital propagation at constellation scale is genuinely difficult — most viewers buckle under a few hundred objects. SatRadar runs a custom GPU-side SGP4 propagator that holds every satellite at sixty frames a second, on a phone, while you rotate the globe and zoom from city to constellation in one continuous gesture. A few more touches that took a while: • Day and night terminator drawn live across the Earth, with atmospheric scattering at the edge • A stylised, richly textured globe — 8K Earth with live map tiles at close zoom • A star-accurate sky: the Sun, Moon, and the brightest stars in their true positions, every frame • Follow any satellite: lock the camera to it and ride along as it crosses the planet Both unlocks are optional one-time purchases — the app is complete without them. Never a subscription. Family Sharing supported, restored automatically across your iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. Look up. Then look here. We are absolutely a spacefaring species — finally, suddenly, ridiculously — and you are walking around under the proof of it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SatRadar at 4.7 against Satellite Tracker°'s 4.4. Satellite Tracker°'s advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 days) and ratings volume (10 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Satellite Tracker° sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year and SatRadar sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SatRadar holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively.
Satellite Tracker° ships an update daily, SatRadar every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Satellite Tracker° | SatRadar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (10 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ridge Labs LLC | David Hodge |
Customer experience
Satellite Tracker°
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In-app purchases
Satellite Tracker°
- Satellite Tracker Pro Annual3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Satellite Tracker Pro Lifetime$49.99
SatRadar
- Time Travel$4.99
- Unlock Starlink$9.99
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