Comparison

SatRadar vs PERIGEE

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Real-time satellite tracking
  • View ISS and Tiangong
  • Global navigation satellite systems
  • Weather satellite tracking
  • Detailed satellite information
  • Time travel visualization
  • GPU-accelerated performance
Features
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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.

About

PERIGEE

Track satellites, asteroids, and other celestial objects in real-time with a 3D map. See visible passes, get alerts, and explore the night sky with a planetarium view. Understand what's orbiting above and plan your stargazing.

Highlights
  • Real-time 3D satellite and debris tracking
  • Visible pass predictions and alerts
  • Sky View planetarium with phone pointing
  • Asteroid approach and fireball tracking
  • Rocket launch schedule
  • Time control for orbit simulation
Features
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See what is orbiting above you — and understand what you're looking at. PERIGEE is a real-time 3D map of everything near Earth: 19,000+ satellites and debris fragments, the ISS, close asteroid approaches, atmospheric fireballs, rocket launches and freshly fallen meteorites. Set your location and SKY shows what is crossing your sky right now and the next pass you can actually see. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. FREE - The next visible passes over your location, with time, direction and height - One free alert before the best visible Space Station pass, on nights there is one - SKY VIEW: a full-sky planetarium — point your phone and browse the real sky - Live 3D globe of 19,000+ tracked objects, propagated in real time - Tap anything: orbit, altitude, speed, size, plain-language explanation - Search any satellite, asteroid or launch - Close asteroid approaches, fireballs, launch schedule, the Moon, aurora ovals, day/night line PERIGEE PRO — monthly, yearly, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. New subscribers get a free trial: 3 days on Monthly, 7 days on Yearly. - Alerts before every visible ISS and Tiangong pass, plus rocket launches, fireball reports and close asteroid flybys - Find in Sky: point your phone and spot a satellite overhead - Time control: warp, reverse, scrub, jump to any date - Guided tours and replays: ride one ISS orbit, replay Chelyabinsk, watch an ascent - Meteorite Fall Watch: fireballs likely to have dropped meteorites, with a search corridor - Daily Earth: yesterday's whole planet in real satellite photos, updated every day (NASA GIBS) - Debris layer (2,600+ fragments), full 24-hour pass schedule, Open in Maps Positions are calculated from published orbital elements, not live telemetry. An object being overhead is not a promise you will see it: brightness, sunlight, darkness, weather and obstructions all matter. PERIGEE tells you which passes are lit and visible. Data sources: CelesTrak, NASA/JPL (CNEOS, Sentry, GIBS), Launch Library 2, Global Meteor Network (CC BY 4.0), the Meteoritical Society, OpenStreetMap. PERIGEE is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA. Monthly and Yearly renew automatically; cancel anytime in Settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Privacy policy: https://perigee.earth/privacy.html — Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SatRadar4 screens
PERIGEE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PERIGEE at 5.0 against SatRadar's 4.7. SatRadar's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, ratings volume, 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. SatRadar sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and PERIGEE sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PERIGEE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SatRadar ships an update every 2 days, PERIGEE weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SatRadar versus PERIGEE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSatRadarPERIGEE
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid HodgeAndrew Malik

Customer experience

SatRadar

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

PERIGEE

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SatRadar

One-time2
  • Time Travel$4.99
  • Unlock Starlink$9.99
2 purchases

PERIGEE

Subscriptions2
  • PERIGEE Pro Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • PERIGEE Pro Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is SatRadar free?
SatRadar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PERIGEE free?
PERIGEE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SatRadar or PERIGEE?
PERIGEE is rated higher. SatRadar averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while PERIGEE averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do SatRadar or PERIGEE have ads?
Neither SatRadar nor PERIGEE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SatRadar or PERIGEE?
SatRadar ships an update every 2 days, and PERIGEE weekly. Most recently, SatRadar was updated on October 8, 2026 and PERIGEE on October 9, 2026.

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