Comparison

Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times vs Sunrise

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

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About

Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times

Precisely track sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and solar noon with stunning visualizations and real-time accuracy. Plan outdoor activities, photography shoots, or travel around natural light with customizable widgets and smart notifications.

Highlights
  • Real-time sunrise and sunset tracking
  • Golden hour and blue hour timing
  • Animated sun path visualization
  • Daylight progress ring and timeline
  • Customizable home and lock screen widgets
  • Smart notifications for light changes
  • Offline solar calculations
Features
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Track sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, and solar noon with precision, beauty, and real-time accuracy. Sunrise & Sunset Tracker combines stunning visualizations with accurate solar calculations for photographers, outdoor enthusiasts, travelers, and anyone who enjoys planning around natural light. Watch the sun travel across the sky with an animated sun path that shows exactly where sunlight will be throughout the day. Follow a live daylight progress ring, explore a detailed solar timeline, and discover year-round daylight trends with beautiful charts and analytics. Stay informed with real-time countdowns to the next sunrise and sunset, complete with live progress and daylight status. Track both morning and evening golden hour, as well as blue hour, so you never miss the perfect lighting conditions. Customize your Home Screen with widgets in multiple sizes showing sunrise, sunset, daylight, and live countdowns. Lock Screen widgets provide quick access to solar information, while Dynamic Island Live Activities keep your next sunrise or sunset visible throughout the day. Receive smart notifications before sunrise, sunset, or golden hour. Choose your preferred reminder times so you're always prepared for changing light conditions. Built using precise NOAA solar calculations, the app delivers highly accurate results directly on your device, even without an internet connection. Weather information is available through WeatherKit, and favorite locations can be saved for quick access. GPS updates solar times automatically as you travel, while timezone support ensures every location displays the correct local time. Explore detailed analytics that reveal how daylight changes throughout the year. View sunrise and sunset trends, monitor daylight duration, identify the longest and shortest days, and examine the sun's elevation throughout the day with interactive charts. Privacy comes first. The app contains no ads, no tracking, no analytics, and collects no personal data. Solar calculations run locally on your device for fast performance and minimal battery usage. Even without internet access, all solar calculations and countdowns continue to work. Accessibility is built into every feature with full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type compatibility, Reduce Motion support, and colorblind-friendly design to ensure everyone can enjoy the experience. Photographers can precisely plan shoots around golden hour and blue hour with accurate timing and photography-focused guidance. Save favorite locations such as studios, parks, or event venues to instantly view local sunrise, sunset, and daylight information whenever you arrive. Outdoor enthusiasts can plan hikes, camping trips, kayaking adventures, and other activities around available daylight while tracking seasonal changes throughout the year. Travelers can save destinations and automatically receive accurate sunrise and sunset information based on local GPS coordinates and time zones, making it easy to plan anywhere in the world. The app includes real-time tracking for sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, and solar noon, interactive sun path visualizations, year-long daylight analytics, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Dynamic Island Live Activities, configurable notifications, unlimited favorite locations, Light and Dark themes, full accessibility support, offline solar calculations, WeatherKit integration, Siri Shortcuts, deep linking, and all features completely free with no subscriptions or advertisements.

About

Sunrise

Features
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Sunrise shows when the sun rises and sets where you are — and the times that matter for flying. Built for pilots, student pilots and flight school operations, and beautiful enough for everyone. WHAT YOU SEE • Sunrise and sunset for your current location • Civil twilight: BMCT and EECT (sun 6° below the horizon), the EASA / SERA day/night boundary • In the Netherlands: UDP start and end (uniform daylight period, 15 minutes before sunrise to 15 minutes after sunset, as in AIP GEN 2.7) • Solar noon and total daylight • A countdown to the next event: "Sunset in 1h 12m" • Local time or UTC in aviation style (0542Z) with one tap • An optional reminder before UDP ends, also on your Apple Watch ANY DATE Scroll the date wheel, tap the arrows or swipe across the sun's path to plan a flight days or months ahead. A SKY THAT FOLLOWS THE SUN The whole screen follows the real position of the sun: deep blue night with stars, pink dawn, bright day, golden evening. The sun — or the moon at night — travels along today's arc. APPLE WATCH The next event, today's sun times and the pilot times on your wrist, plus a UDP complication for your watch face. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything is calculated on your device with the NOAA solar algorithm. No account, no sign-in, and your location is never shared with us or with advertisers. Works on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Free, supported by a single small banner on iPhone and iPad. For planning and information only. Not for operational use: always check the AIP and NOTAMs.

Screenshots

Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times4 screens
Sunrise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times at none against Sunrise's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times versus Sunrise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSunrise Sunset Tracker TimesSunrise
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFarouk NasserMenno van Luijn

In-app purchases

None

Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times

No in-app purchases

None

Sunrise

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times free?
Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sunrise free?
Sunrise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times or Sunrise have ads?
Sunrise shows ads; Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times does not.
Which is updated more often, Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times or Sunrise?
Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times ships an update every 3 weeks, and Sunrise every 3 weeks. Most recently, Sunrise Sunset Tracker Times was updated on October 31, 2026 and Sunrise on October 31, 2026.

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