Deconstruct Sun vs Shrimpodoro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deconstruct Sun
Analyze solar exposure for any location before building or planting. Trace obstructions on your horizon and receive precise direct sunlight hours for different times of the year. Organize multiple sites into projects and export detailed sun studies.
- Solar site analysis
- Trace horizon obstructions
- Direct sunlight hour calculation
- Year-round sun path visualization
- Project site grouping
- PDF sun study export
- Plant hardiness zone identification
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Know the sun before you build, plant, or place a panel. Deconstruct Sun turns your phone into a solar site-analysis tool. Stand where a garden bed, greenhouse, patio, or solar array will go, trace the buildings and trees on the horizon, and get the number that actually matters: how many hours of direct sunlight that exact spot receives, today, at the solstices, and at the equinoxes. It works the way a designer thinks. The sun's path is drawn as an arc across a sky chart; your obstructions are a skyline you paint over it. Where the sun clears your skyline, it shines. Where a building or a tree blocks it, it doesn't. The math is honest, a five-minute-step calculation over the real solar geometry for your latitude and date. THE NUMBER BEHIND THE PLANT TAG Full sun, part sun, part shade, full shade. Every one of those is a claim about hours of direct sun, and almost every site is guessed at rather than measured. Deconstruct Sun gives you the real figure for one spot, so you can put the right plant in the right place instead of hoping. TRACE THE REAL HORIZON Don't guess the skyline, trace it. Photograph the view, or import a wide shot, and paint the obstructions directly over your own photo. A guided sun-arc sweep walks you through a few framed shots that follow the sun's band across the sky, and a live overlay projects the sun's path onto the camera so you can see where it will travel before you capture. SEE THE WHOLE YEAR One tap shows direct-sun hours for the summer solstice, winter solstice, and both equinoxes, and today, so you can tell a spot that bakes in June but goes dark in December from one that works year-round. WORK A WHOLE PROPERTY Group sites into a project: a foundation bed, a vegetable garden, the pool surround, all under one address or client. Then export a single combined PDF covering every site. It is the difference between a stack of separate studies and one document you can hand over. KNOW THE HARDINESS ZONE Every US site shows its plant hardiness zone, derived from the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map and read from a copy stored inside the app. No connection needed, and your coordinates are never sent anywhere to look it up. A site near a zone boundary is told so, rather than claiming a precision the data doesn't have. SHARE A REAL STUDY Export a clean, branded PDF sun study for a client or your own records, one site at a time or a whole project at once. Or share a photo-real composite of the site with the sun arcs drawn over your skyline. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. Your sites, coordinates, skylines, and photos are never uploaded. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. You can also hide precise coordinates from the app's own screens, and every PDF export asks before printing them, so a study you send to a client need not carry the exact location of someone's home. FREE • Sun-path charts for any location and date • Hand-paint the obstruction skyline • Today's direct-sun, daylight, first-light, and last-light hours • Plant hardiness zone for US sites, offline • Projects, to group sites by property or client • Privacy controls for precise coordinates PRO: a one-time unlock, no subscription • Trace the skyline over your own photos (camera + import) • Guided sun-arc capture with a live sun-path overlay • Full-year seasonal breakdown (solstices and equinoxes) • Photo-real composite and a landscape trace view • Branded PDF sun-study export • Combined multi-site PDF for an entire project Deconstruct Sun does not need an internet connection to do its analysis. Sun position is computed on your device from published astronomical formulas. Hardiness zones are derived from the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (USDA Agricultural Research Service with PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University) and are not the official map. Built by a landscape architect in North Carolina. Questions or feedback: design@deconstructterrain.com
Shrimpodoro
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Your pomodoro breaks are making you tired. Five minutes of scrolling turns into forty, and you come back curled up like a shrimp. Shrimpodoro is a pomodoro timer with one rule: your next pomodoro stays locked until you squat. HOW A ROUND WORKS • Focus for 5–120 minutes (25 by default). A tiny hand-drawn version of you types along and slowly curls into a shrimp. • Time's up. The next pomodoro is locked. • Do 5, 10 or 20 squats. Your front camera counts every rep right on your iPhone. Video is never recorded or uploaded, and it works up close, even with your feet out of frame. • A pink tomato drops into your pile, and the next round unlocks. TWO THINGS TO COLLECT • Tomatoes for focus: finish a round and squat for a pink tomato. Skip or give up and it's a black one. They pile up on your home screen all day. • Landmarks for squats: every squat climbs 1 meter. Unlock 38 badges, from a little house to the Eiffel Tower, Mt. Fuji and Everest (8,849 m). ALSO • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, StandBy, and a Dynamic Island timer • Siri: "Start a pomodoro with Shrimpodoro" or "Add 10 minutes in Shrimpodoro" • Day, week, month and year stats • Share your day as an image or a short video • No account, no sign-up. Your history stays on your iPhone. WHY SQUATS Short movement breaks during long sitting are linked to less fatigue and better mood, and a minute of squats every 20 minutes helped keep brain blood flow from dropping during hours of sitting. Standing up alone isn't enough. Moving is. FREE AND PRO Free: unlimited pomodoros and all 38 landmark badges. Shrimpodoro Pro: month and year reports, focus insights (your golden hour, the minute you tend to quit, and whether you’re improving), and sharing without a watermark. Monthly, yearly or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage them in your Apple ID settings. Terms: https://www.shrimpodoro.com/terms Privacy: https://www.shrimpodoro.com/privacy Shrimpodoro is not a medical app. Squat only if it's safe for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Shrimpodoro at daily against Deconstruct Sun's fortnightly. Deconstruct Sun's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Deconstruct Sun sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Shrimpodoro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Deconstruct Sun ships an update fortnightly, Shrimpodoro daily. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deconstruct Sun | Shrimpodoro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Harrell | 千皓 罗 |
In-app purchases
Deconstruct Sun
- Pro$11.99
Shrimpodoro
- Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$16.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$14.99









