Comparison

Astro Seeing vs Benidorm Beach

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

Head to head
About

Astro Seeing

Features
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Astro Seeing tells you when it's worth looking up. We aggregate weather forecasts from six leading sources — Open-Meteo, OpenWeatherMap, WeatherAPI, Tomorrow.io, AccuWeather, and Meteosource — plus atmospheric seeing data from 7Timer, and turn it all into one clear answer: how good are tonight's stargazing conditions? Tonight's verdict — plain-English recommendations from "excellent" to "poor" Multi-source consensus — see where forecasters agree, and where they disagree Seeing & transparency — real atmospheric stability data, not just cloud cover Field of View calculator — frame any target through your telescope and eyepiece or camera, with a live sky atlas and sampling advice Moon phase — tonight's phase, illumination, rise and set times ISS passes — know when to spot the International Space Station overhead Light pollution — Bortle scale estimate for your exact location Best viewing window — when the sky will be clearest tonight 7-day outlook — plan ahead with nighttime-specific weather averages Observing targets — deep-sky objects, planets, conjunctions and meteor showers visible from your area Hourly timeline — cloud cover, humidity, dew point and seeing, hour by hour Cloud cover chart — visual side-by-side comparison across every source No account required. No ads. Free. Made for backyard astronomers, astrophotographers, and anyone who's tired of generic weather apps that don't understand stargazing.

About

Benidorm Beach

Features
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Don't walk to the wrong beach. Benidorm has two great beaches — Levante and Poniente — and they face different directions. The wind that ruins one often makes the other perfect. Benidorm Beach does the maths for you and tells you which one is better right now. WHAT YOU GET • Today's pick — a clear score for each beach, updated live • Side-by-side compare — air temp, sea temp, "feels like", wind, waves and UV for both beaches at once • Transparent scoring — every score explains why one beach beats the other today • Monthly guide — what to expect through the year, plus what to wear • Sunrise and sunset times HONEST BY DESIGN Live sea and weather data is updated every hour from Open-Meteo. No invented numbers. When conditions are genuinely even between the two beaches, we say so. SIMPLE AND PRIVATE Free. No ads. No account needed. The app collects almost nothing about you. Available in English and Spanish. Temperature in °C or °F, wind in km/h, mph or m/s — your choice. Weather data provided by Open-Meteo.com.

Screenshots

Astro Seeing4 screens
Benidorm Beach4 screens

Verdict

The call

Astro Seeing and Benidorm Beach are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Astro Seeing versus Benidorm Beach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAstro SeeingBenidorm Beach
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOSHUA LEE WILKINSONByte Projects Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Astro Seeing

No in-app purchases

None

Benidorm Beach

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Astro Seeing free?
Astro Seeing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Benidorm Beach free?
Benidorm Beach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Astro Seeing or Benidorm Beach have ads?
Neither Astro Seeing nor Benidorm Beach shows ads.

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