Comparison

Eclipseando vs Drydown

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

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About

Eclipseando

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The total solar eclipse of August 12, 2026, town by town: your exact times, and whether it truly goes dark where you'll be. 9,255 towns across Spain, Portugal, Iceland, the UK, Ireland and four more countries, all calculated inside your phone, with no signal. WHAT IT TELLS YOU, IN THREE SECONDS Β· Whether it goes dark where you are, or only dims. No hedging. Β· First contact, maximum and end, in local time. Β· How many seconds totality lasts, if there is any. Β· How much of the Sun is covered, and how high it will be. DO I NEED TO TRAVEL? HOW FAR? Late in the day, with the Sun low, the Moon's shadow crosses mainland Spain and the Balearics, and half the country is left out. Destinations are ranked by what you gain, not by how close they are. The nearest town with totality usually buys you 12 seconds, which is nothing. From Madrid, El Molar is 28 km away and gets 61. From Seville, the nearest 60 seconds is 422 km away, and the app tells you not to go. STAYING IN MADRID OR BARCELONA? Madrid reaches 99.9%, Barcelona 99.8%, Seville and MΓ‘laga 94.7%. It does not go dark there, the corona never appears, and you must not look without a certified filter at any point. The gap between 99.9% and 100% is not 0.1%: it is seeing it or not seeing it. Half of Spain is in that position: 4,065 of its 8,131 towns get only a partial, a median of 99.3% of the Sun covered. And 99.3% is not "almost totality". It is a different thing. NOT IN SPAIN? Iceland, Ireland, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Portugal and Morocco are in the app too, town by town: total or partial, local time, coverage and Sun height. THE SUN WILL BE VERY LOW. CHOOSE YOUR SPOT A median of 7.1Β° above the horizon, and under 10Β° in 7,638 of Spain's 8,131 towns. At that height a three-story building 80 meters away hides the Sun completely. The app gives you that height in degrees for your town, to check against your own horizon with your own eyes. And something almost nobody mentions: in 6,494 towns the eclipse never ends, the Sun sets first. GLASSES AND SAFETY Never look at the Sun without a certified filter. The prompt to take it off appears only where there is totality and only while it lasts long enough to be real. Everywhere else the app says what has to be said: the filter does not come off at any point. THE CAMERA Photos come stamped with your town, the exact time and the percentage of the Sun covered. Video is recorded clean, and to share it the app makes the video card: one frame of your clip with the stamp already on it, instantly. Plus an automatic shutter for the minutes that matter, so you are not staring at a screen when you should be looking up. The filter warning stays in front, always. WHAT USES THE INTERNET, AND WHAT DOES NOT The eclipse does not. Times, map and all 9,255 towns are computed on the device, so a crowded hilltop with a jammed network changes nothing. One single thing needs a connection, and only if you open it: the cloud report, where people tap to say what is overhead and you see what the towns around you report. Nothing else leaves the phone. Your location, if you give it, stays on the device: only the town name is kept, and you can type it by hand. WHAT IS FREE, WHAT IS PAID Free: the times, the duration, the percentage, total or partial here, the filter warnings, the search, the widgets and the camera with its stamp. Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription: three develop presets made for eclipse light, your totality photos in a single strip, and the option to remove the stamp. FIND YOUR TOWN With its province next to it, because 17 names repeat. And under the names people actually use: type Ibiza, Gerona or San SebastiΓ‘n and you get Eivissa, Girona and Donostia. DATA AND SOURCES Our own calculations with JPL DE440s ephemerides. Municipal boundaries from Spain's Instituto GeogrΓ‘fico Nacional (CC BY 4.0). Eclipseando is independent, not connected to any official body. Extended pages, maps and methodology at eclipseando.es.

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Drydown

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You own forty bottles. You wear five. Drydown is a fragrance wardrobe for people whose collection has quietly turned into a museum. It answers one question every morning β€” what should I wear today? β€” and it answers it by pushing you toward the bottles you have been ignoring. Count sprays, not guesses You cannot see through a black bottle. So Drydown does not ask you to estimate. Log the sprays when you wear something and it works out what's left, what each wearing costs you, and roughly when the bottle runs dry β€” and it says so plainly when it does not yet have enough history to know. A suggestion that explains itself Pick the weather and where you're going. Drydown weighs how long it's been, whether the scent suits the day, what the bottle has cost you per wear, and how much is left β€” then tells you exactly why it picked what it picked. No black box. See what your collection is actually doing How much of your shelf you wore this quarter. Which bottles haven't moved since spring. Your scent profile by family β€” and the gap between what you bought and what you actually reach for. Decants and samples too Tracked in millilitres, with their own spray sizes, alongside full bottles. Because the sample you never got round to trying is how the next blind buy happens. Cards worth posting Your scent of the day, your profile, your year β€” as cards designed to be shared, at full resolution, with no watermark across the middle. Already keeping a spreadsheet? Import it. Drydown works out which columns are which. That's free, and always will be. Free forever, for the part you use daily Unlimited bottles β€” no three-bottle trial, no ten-bottle cap. Daily logging, suggestions, your shelf, your scent profile, and sharing. All free. Drydown Pro adds the long view: cost per wear, run-out estimates, decant and sample inventory, the owned-versus-worn breakdown, monthly and yearly recaps, and backup and CSV export. $19.99/year, or $49.99 once. There is no weekly plan and there never will be. A list that keeps up New fragrances are added to the built-in list continuously and arrive without waiting for an app update. Anything still missing takes about ten seconds to add by hand, and behaves exactly like a built-in entry. Nothing about you leaves your phone No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. Your collection is a database on your iPhone and nowhere else β€” which is why the privacy label says Data Not Collected. The only thing Drydown ever downloads is the public fragrance list, and you can switch that off. Everything else works on a plane. Drydown Pro β€” pricing and terms Yearly: $19.99 per year Monthly: $3.99 per month One-time: $49.99, a single purchase that does not renew Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage or cancel at any time in Settings β†’ your name β†’ Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aftertext.one/drydown/privacy.html

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Drydown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Eclipseando at none against Drydown's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Drydown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Eclipseando asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Eclipseando versus Drydown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEclipseandoDrydown
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size9 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developervictor gomez bellidoRolf Eriksen

In-app purchases

None

Eclipseando

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Drydown

Subscriptions2
  • Drydown Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Drydown Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Drydown Pro, One-Time$49.99

Questions

Is Eclipseando free?
Eclipseando is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drydown free?
Drydown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Eclipseando or Drydown have ads?
Neither Eclipseando nor Drydown shows ads.

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