RoboTou Stacker vs AstroFinish
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RoboTou Stacker
Combine multiple photos directly on your device for enhanced results. This app offers automatic masking and alignment for various photography needs, including starry skies and light trails. Process your images locally without needing an account or cloud sync.
- On-device image stacking
- Automatic masking and alignment
- Starry sky stacking
- Star trail stacking
- Car-light trail stacking
- Local preview generation
- Export to Photos
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Bring image stacking and AI star removal to your iPhone and iPad. RoboTou Stacker gives night-sky and landscape photographers practical tools for processing photos directly on their devices. Import images from Photos, Files, or a folder, choose a processing mode, preview the result, and save it back to Photos. Image processing runs locally, with no account registration or photo uploads required. CHOOSE YOUR WORKFLOW • Starry Sky Stack: Automatically generate a sky mask, align the stars, and process the sky and foreground separately. • Landscape Stack: Combine multiple photos of a static scene captured from a fixed position. • Star & Light Trails Stack: Use maximum-value stacking to combine star trails and vehicle light trails. • Star Trail Pro: Stack up to 100 images with a fade-enhanced workflow. • AI Star Removal: Process a single image on your device to create a starless image for further sky-background editing. OUTPUT YOUR WAY Choose a 4K or 1080p output preset while preserving the original aspect ratio. Smaller source images retain their original resolution. Both stacking and AI Star Removal follow your in-app resolution setting. MADE FOR YOUR DEVICE Switch between English and Chinese. Layouts optimized for the unfolded iPhone Duo display make better use of screen space across Home, mode selection, importing, and Settings. FREE FEATURES AND ROBOTOU PRO Landscape Stack and basic Star & Light Trails Stack are free. Starry Sky Stack, Star Trail Pro, and AI Star Removal require RoboTou Pro, available as an auto-renewing annual subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.robotou.cn/robotou-stacker-ios-privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
AstroFinish
Edit astrophotography images directly on your iPhone. Enhance deep-sky objects, clean up skies, and sharpen moon shots with specialized tools. Supports various image formats and offers batch processing for efficient editing.
- Auto Astro Polish
- Deep Sky enhancement
- Moon sharpening
- Nebula and galaxy detail
- Denoise and star reduction
- Batch processing
- RAW and FITS support
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AstroFinish is a darkroom for astrophotography on iPhone. It is built for the shots that come off smart telescopes, backyard rigs, and late-night moon sessions: the ones that are almost there, but need a cleaner sky and a better finish. Start fast with Auto Astro Polish, Deep Sky, Moon Sharp, and other built-in looks. Or dial it in by hand with controls made for space photos, including black point, glow cleanup, nebula reveal, galaxy detail, denoise, star reduction, and moon sharpening. Import from Photos or Files, work with JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, RAW-style images, and FITS sessions, then export finished images or shareable before/after cards. Batch Finish helps run one look across a queue when you came home with more than one keeper. AstroFinish stays local. No account. No cloud upload. No tracking SDKs. Your captures stay on your iPhone unless you choose to share or save them. Built for: Smart telescope captures Deep-sky photos, nebulae, galaxies, star fields, and moon shots Quick fixes when the sky glow gets rude Manual finishing when you want the last word FITS reveal and stack workflows Local exports, share sheets, and before/after cards AstroFinish is for people who would rather be outside collecting photons than fighting a desktop editor at 1 a.m.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AstroFinish at none against RoboTou Stacker's 2. AstroFinish also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. RoboTou Stacker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per year. AstroFinish asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for RoboTou Stacker against 4.9 for AstroFinish. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AstroFinish has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
RoboTou Stacker ships an update every 5 days, AstroFinish every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | RoboTou Stacker | AstroFinish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 振国 吴 | Cody Adams |
Customer experience
RoboTou Stacker
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In-app purchases
RoboTou Stacker
- RoboTou Stacker Pro Annual$7.991 Year
- RoboTou Stacker Pro Lifetime$39.99
AstroFinish
No in-app purchases







