Comparison

Umbrality vs Solar Eclipse

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

Head to head
About

Umbrality

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Umbrality is your guide to experiencing and following solar and lunar eclipses from your location. Check precise timings, eclipse phases, visibility, and sky conditions, and follow the event with tools designed to help you before and during the eclipse. With Umbrality you can: Follow eclipse phases based on your location. Check precise timings and key moments. Explore a live lunar eclipse simulation. Track eclipse progress in real time. Check visibility and sky conditions. Receive alerts and notifications at important moments. Prepare with observation tips and guides. Plan your eclipse photography.

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Solar Eclipse

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Will you actually see totality from where you will be standing? Most eclipse apps answer that with a computed guess. This one answers it with the data. Inside Spain, Eclipse publishes the verdict from the Instituto Geografico Nacional for every municipality. That matters more than it sounds. A textbook calculation puts Madrid just inside the path of totality. The IGN puts it outside, at 99.90 percent. An app that says otherwise gets proven wrong in public, on the day. THREE ECLIPSES, ONE APP 2 August 2027 is the big one: totality runs from southern Spain across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, where Luxor gets 6 minutes 23 seconds, the longest over land in decades. 26 January 2028 is an annular eclipse, the ring of fire, and it crosses Spain at sunset with the Sun only a few degrees above the horizon. Both are already in the app. It moves to the next one on its own, with no update needed. WHAT YOU GET - A straight answer for your exact place. Total, annular, partial, or right on the limit. When your spot sits on the edge, the app says so instead of guessing, and names the nearest town that is safely inside. - Every contact time to the second, in the local time of the place you asked about. - Which way to look. A live compass points you at the right patch of sky, with the Sun's exact height above the horizon so you can check today that no building or ridge is in the way. - Times clipped to sunset. Where an eclipse ends below the horizon, showing a time you cannot observe is worse than showing nothing. - Cloud cover for your spot, from Apple Weather, so you know whether to drive. - Alerts before each phase, scheduled on your device. - The full path map, with the centre line and both limits. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL Everything except the cloud forecast runs entirely on your device. No account, no server, no connection. On eclipse day, when everyone opens their eclipse app in the same few minutes, that is the difference between an answer and a spinning wheel. NOTHING IS COLLECTED No tracking, no analytics, no account. Your location never leaves your phone. The only network request is Apple's own weather service. SAFETY FIRST Never look at the Sun without certified ISO 12312-2 filters. An annular eclipse has no safe moment at all: even a perfect ring is direct sunlight. The app says so, and never tells you to remove your glasses unless you are genuinely inside totality. Data: Instituto Geografico Nacional (CNIG), NASA/Fred Espenak, GeoNames.

Screenshots

Umbrality3 screens
Solar Eclipse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Solar Eclipse at weekly against Umbrality's every 3 weeks. Umbrality's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Umbrality ships an update every 3 weeks, Solar Eclipse weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Umbrality versus Solar Eclipse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUmbralitySolar Eclipse
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size106 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlejandro SantiagoBigBalli Consulting llc

In-app purchases

None

Umbrality

No in-app purchases

None

Solar Eclipse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Umbrality free?
Umbrality is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Solar Eclipse free?
Solar Eclipse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Umbrality or Solar Eclipse have ads?
Neither Umbrality nor Solar Eclipse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Umbrality or Solar Eclipse?
Umbrality ships an update every 3 weeks, and Solar Eclipse weekly. Most recently, Umbrality was updated on September 22, 2026 and Solar Eclipse on September 21, 2026.

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