Comparison

Sunset Mania vs ArchCam

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

Head to head
About

Sunset Mania

This app predicts the quality of sunsets and sunrises based on weather conditions like clouds, horizon clarity, and air quality. It provides a daily score and a 3-day outlook, with premium features for extended forecasts and stargazing.

Highlights
  • Sunset/sunrise weather prediction
  • Daily quality score (0-100)
  • Golden-hour and sun-path timeline
  • 3-day outlook
  • Extended photo calendar (premium)
  • Stargazing forecast (premium)
  • Home & lock screen widget
Features
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A clear sky and a good sunset aren't the same thing. Sunset Mania reads the weather right at YOUR sunset or sunrise — not the current conditions — and tells you in one number, hours ahead, whether it's worth grabbing the camera. WHAT IT LOOKS AT Same things you'd check yourself, weighed against the forecast: • The clouds — wispy high cloud and patchy mid-level catch the light and glow; a bare sky is flat and a grey lid smothers it • A clear horizon — the colour only fires if the sun finds a gap low on its side of the sky • Clean air — crisp, dry air makes colour pop; haze and pollution wash it out • The afterglow — the pinks and golds that hang on after the sun's gone It leans on more than one weather model and shows you how confident that outlook really is — so you know when to trust it and when to look again later. FREE, EVERY DAY • Tonight and tomorrow, scored 0–100 with a plain verdict: Grab your camera / Maybe / Skip • Golden-hour window and exactly where the sun will drop • Today's Light — golden hour, blue hour, and twilight times on a beautiful sun-path timeline. • 3-day outlook • Little flags worth chasing: golden clouds, storm light, fog, mirror-calm water • A great-evening alert — a heads-up when a night clears your score threshold • A home & lock screen widget with a live countdown • A shot log — rate what you actually saw and the app learns how well its calls match your evenings PREMIUM • Extended photo calendar — up to 16 days out, with per-day model confidence • Moon & photo intel — moon phase, rise/set and direction, plus storm-light and fog signals • Stargazing forecast — hour-by-hour night-sky quality, moonlight wash-out, and visible International Space Station passes • Worth-the-drive map — nearby spots shaded for where the light, or the dark, will be best Premium is a subscription — annual with a 7-day free trial, or monthly. NO ACCOUNT. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. Your location is used only to fetch your local sky forecast — it isn't linked to you and is never used to track you. Weather data from Open-Meteo. Get out there for the good ones. Save your evening on the rest. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://etemvisuals.com/pages/sunset-mania-privacy-policy

About

ArchCam

This app automatically corrects perspective and levels horizons in your photos, making buildings upright and people look natural in wide shots. It offers live preview and a studio editor for further refinement, with all processing done on your device.

Highlights
  • Automatic vertical perspective correction
  • Natural wide photo distortion reduction
  • Horizon leveling
  • Document and artwork modes
  • Live preview and studio editor
  • On-device private processing
Features
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ArchCam keeps buildings upright, horizons level, and people looking more natural near the edges of wide photos. See corrections while you shoot, then refine them in Studio Editor. Your original stays recoverable. AUTOMATIC VERTICAL PERSPECTIVE Point the camera up or down at buildings or interiors. Verticals uses camera orientation and lens information to straighten converging upright lines, similar to the shift movement of a perspective-control lens. MORE NATURAL WIDE PHOTOS Reduce stretching of faces and figures near frame edges in group photos and selfies. Wide uses a curved, fisheye-like projection, so straight lines may bend. It works with front and rear cameras, not just ultra-wide lenses. LEVEL HORIZONS Automatically straighten tilted horizons. For most everyday photos, this is the only correction you need. Turn it off for deliberately angled compositions. DOCUMENT AND ARTWORK MODES Document mode straightens flat subjects photographed from above with the rear camera. Artwork mode adds manual horizontal perspective for paintings, posters, and building facades photographed from one side. PREVIEW OR OUTLINE See enabled corrections live in Preview, or use Outline to show the future corrected frame with less processing and typically lower battery use. Both save the same enabled corrections. REFINE IN STUDIO EDITOR Edit ArchCam or library photos with Horizon, Vertical and Horizontal perspective, 4-Corner, Wide, and Color tools. Live Photo editing retains motion and sound; geometry edits preserve the chosen Portrait appearance. COMPARE AND KEEP Compare Original and ArchCam versions, save either, or keep both as separate photos. Review actions are free. Studio Editor and Artwork capture share 10 free saves; an optional one-time purchase removes the limit. LIVE PHOTO CAPTURE Capture motion around the full-resolution still photo, with optional sound. APPLE WATCH REMOTE Frame shots with a live view on Apple Watch, zoom with the Digital Crown, toggle Wide correction, and use a shutter timer. Keep ArchCam open on your paired, unlocked iPhone. CAMERA CONTROLS Adjust exposure and white balance, pinch to zoom, switch cameras, and shoot with either volume button. Tap to focus or touch and hold for focus and exposure lock. PRIVATE PHOTO PROCESSING Photos are processed on your iPhone, with no ArchCam account, advertising, analytics, tracking, or image-processing backend. Apple handles Studio purchases; Photos may sync through your iCloud settings.

Screenshots

Sunset Mania4 screens
ArchCam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ArchCam at 5.0 against Sunset Mania's 1.0. ArchCam also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). Sunset Mania's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Sunset Mania sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $12.99 per year and ArchCam sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ArchCam holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ArchCam has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sunset Mania ships an update every 4 days, ArchCam every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Sunset Mania versus ArchCam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSunset ManiaArchCam
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEtem UyarAlpine Dog Apps LLC

Customer experience

Sunset Mania

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

ArchCam

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sunset Mania

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$12.991 Year
1 purchases

ArchCam

One-time1
  • ArchCam Studio$9.99

Questions

Is Sunset Mania free?
Sunset Mania is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ArchCam free?
ArchCam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sunset Mania or ArchCam?
ArchCam is rated higher. Sunset Mania averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while ArchCam averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Sunset Mania or ArchCam have ads?
Neither Sunset Mania nor ArchCam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sunset Mania or ArchCam?
Sunset Mania ships an update every 4 days, and ArchCam every 8 days. Most recently, Sunset Mania was updated on November 5, 2026 and ArchCam on October 31, 2026.

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