Comparison

MORSE CODE + vs The Sky Now

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

Head to head
About

MORSE CODE +

Learn and practice Morse code with interactive audio, haptic feedback, and a visual decision tree. Encode messages, decode incoming signals, and share secret communications. Includes home screen widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Real-time audio and haptic feedback
  • Visual decision tree for encoding
  • Tap-based decoding with dot/dash distinction
  • iMessage integration for secret messages
  • Home screen widgets for quick access
  • Full character set (A-Z, 0-9, punctuation)
  • Adjustable speed (5-40 WPM)
Features
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Learn and practice Morse code with real-time audio, haptic feedback, and a unique visual decision tree. ENCODE — Type any message and watch it come alive as Morse code. Hear the beeps, feel the taps, and follow the path through an interactive binary tree that shows exactly how each letter is encoded. DECODE — Test your skills by tapping out Morse code yourself. A single tap button distinguishes dots from dashes by press duration, or use Easy Mode with separate buttons. The tree highlights your path in real time as you tap. VISUALIZE — The signature Morse decision tree shows every letter, number, and symbol. Follow branches left for dashes and right for dots. Tap any node to learn its character. SHARE — Send secret Morse messages through iMessage. Recipients see an animated Morse sequence and tap to reveal the decoded text. WIDGETS — Add Morse code to your home screen with Word of the Day, a Morse Quiz, and a quick-reference Translator widget. Features: • Full character set: A-Z, 0-9, and punctuation • Adjustable speed (5-40 WPM) • Audio beeps, haptic feedback, and flashlight signaling • Copy, share, and send Morse code MORSE Premium ($1.99) unlocks iMessage, widgets, and removes ads.

About

The Sky Now

Features
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The Sky Now is an illustrated, offline guide to the night sky, built around a curated catalog of well-known stars, planets, Messier objects, and satellites. SKY CHART — pan and zoom an interactive chart of 24 curated objects: bright stars, the visible planets, a few showpiece nebulae, clusters, and galaxies, each with real astronomical facts (magnitude, distance, right ascension/declination). Toggle constellation lines, a coordinate grid, and labels, or switch to a red night-vision theme to protect your dark adaptation. Scrub through hours or days to watch the sky's simplified rotation. TONIGHT & OBSERVE — a "Tonight" panel highlights a few objects worth seeking out, and a personal observation log lets you check off what you've actually seen. SATELLITES — a guide to 13 notable satellites and objects, including the ISS, Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope, weather and navigation satellites, and a couple of tracked debris fragments, with real specs (altitude, orbital period, inclination) and an optional reminder notification ahead of an approximate pass. SCOPE — a demo telescope-mount panel modeled on the ASCOM Alpaca/INDI protocols real equatorial mounts use, for exploring the workflow without needing hardware. This is an offline, illustrative reference, not a precision tracker: satellite pass times and sky positions are representative, not computed from live orbital data or your GPS location, and the app ships with four preset observing locations (Chicago, Mauna Kea, London, Sydney) rather than device location. No account, no ads, no in-app purchases, and no data collection of any kind.

Screenshots

MORSE CODE +4 screens
The Sky Now2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Sky Now at none against MORSE CODE +'s 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MORSE CODE + sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. The Sky Now asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MORSE CODE + ships an update monthly, The Sky Now every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
MORSE CODE + versus The Sky Now: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMORSE CODE +The Sky Now
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDibsly LLCAmol Srivastava

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MORSE CODE +

One-time1
  • MORSE Premium$1.99
None

The Sky Now

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MORSE CODE + free?
MORSE CODE + is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Sky Now free?
The Sky Now is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MORSE CODE + or The Sky Now have ads?
Neither MORSE CODE + nor The Sky Now shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MORSE CODE + or The Sky Now?
MORSE CODE + ships an update monthly, and The Sky Now every 6 weeks. Most recently, MORSE CODE + was updated on October 24, 2026 and The Sky Now on October 29, 2026.

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