Comparison

EarthPhase vs EarthView

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

Head to head
About

EarthPhase

Explore a beautifully designed, interactive solar system with real-time celestial data. Track moon and Earth phases, view planet positions, and travel through time to discover cosmic events and facts.

Highlights
  • Interactive solar system map
  • Real-time moon and Earth phases
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Time travel slider for past/future events
  • Discover cosmic facts and mechanics
  • Accurate planet positions and orbits
Features
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EarthPhase is your personal, beautifully designed pocket solar system, with all features completely free. Built with a stunning matte, low-key aesthetic, it brings the exact state of the solar system directly to your device. Whether you are an astronomy enthusiast or simply love a clean, minimalist Home Screen, EarthPhase tracks the cosmos in real-time. WIDGET SUITE Never miss a cosmic event. EarthPhase offers a variety of widgets designed to blend seamlessly with your custom setups: Home Screen Trackers: Keep an eye on the current Moon and Earth phases with perfectly rendered, dynamic icons. Lock Screen Data: Add circular planet icons or detailed rectangular widgets that display the exact live illumination percentage of the Moon or Earth right below your clock. Live Solar System: Place a dynamic map of the inner and outer planets on your Home Screen, available in multiple sizes. INTERACTIVE SOLAR SYSTEM Dive into the app to explore a highly accurate, interactive schematic of our solar system. Tap any planet to zoom in on its specific orbit, view its position relative to the Sun, and explore its major moons. TIME TRAVEL SLIDER Wondering what the moon phase was on the day you were born? Or when the next supermoon will happen? Use the precision control panel to scrub backward and forward through time. The entire solar system and moon phase engine will smoothly animate to reflect the exact celestial state of any date and time you choose. DISCOVER THE COSMOS Expand your knowledge with a massive library of scientifically accurate, lesser-known facts. Learn about the bizarre orbital mechanics of Jupiter's outer moons, the metal snow on Venus, or the true scale of the Martian canyons.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

EarthPhase4 screens
EarthView4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EarthView at none against EarthPhase's 2. EarthView also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). EarthPhase's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. EarthPhase sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. EarthView asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
EarthPhase versus EarthView: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEarthPhaseEarthView
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequency—Every 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNathan ColemanEmre Gurbuzer

Customer experience

EarthPhase

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

EarthView

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

EarthPhase

One-time2
  • Tip$0.99
  • Tip$4.99
None

EarthView

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EarthPhase free?
EarthPhase is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EarthView free?
EarthView is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EarthPhase or EarthView?
EarthPhase and EarthView are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do EarthPhase or EarthView have ads?
Neither EarthPhase nor EarthView shows ads.

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