Comparison

All the Animals vs Orrery

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

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All the Animals

Features
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Spin a 3D globe, tap a glowing pin, and see what actually lives there. All the Animals is a wildlife reference organized by place rather than by alphabet. Most guides are arranged taxonomically, which works well if you already know what you are looking for. This one starts from the question people actually ask - what lives here? - because habitat explains most of what an animal is. A polar bear's fur, a fennec fox's ears and a camel's kidneys are all answers to the same problem posed by very different places. WHAT'S INSIDE - An interactive 3D globe you can spin and zoom, with a glowing pin for each habitat - 32 habitats, from the Amazon rainforest to the Antarctic ice, each with its climate and landscape - 91 featured animals with a photograph, key stats, fun facts and a full written profile covering behavior, diet, breeding and conservation - IUCN Red List conservation status on every featured animal - Search by common or scientific name, or just describe it - "white bear" finds the polar bear - and small typos are forgiven - Filter a habitat or your search results by animal group - A random-animal button for when you would rather just be surprised - A Wikipedia link on each animal for further reading - With Unlock everything: 6,594 more wild species from iNaturalist's open data, across all 32 habitats HOW IT WORKS Pick a region and you get a short introduction, its climate, its landscape and the animals found there - the featured animals first, then the wild species once you have unlocked them. Tap a featured animal for its photograph, its stats and a written profile: where it lives, how it feeds and breeds, what marks it out, and how it is faring. Wild species come with a photograph, a common name where one exists, the scientific name, their animal group, their diet where it is known, and the regions where they have been recorded. WHAT IS FREE, AND WHAT IS NOT Free: the globe, all 32 habitats with their climate and landscape, the search, and the 91 featured animals with their written profiles, supported by a single banner ad at the bottom of the screen. The featured animals live in 16 of the habitats; the other 16, from Patagonia to New Zealand, are filled in by the unlock. Unlock everything is a one-time in-app purchase. It adds the remaining 6,594 wild species across all 32 habitats - insects, birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, spiders and more - brings them into search, the filters and the random-animal button, and removes the ad. There is no subscription, nothing recurring, and no account to create. You buy it once and it stays yours; Restore purchase brings it back on a new device signed in to the same Apple Account. LANGUAGES The interface is translated into 25 languages. It starts in your device's language, and you can switch it in the app. In French and German, habitat names, conservation statuses, diets and animal groups are translated as well. Animal names, profiles and habitat descriptions stay in English, as do some labels in the other languages. PHOTOGRAPHS AND DATA The wild species records and every photograph come from iNaturalist contributors under Creative Commons licenses (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA). Each animal's page shows its photo credit, with links to the license and to the original photo on iNaturalist. Conservation statuses follow the IUCN Red List. The written profiles are original to this app. Photographs need an internet connection to load. PRIVACY There is no account and there is no server of ours, so nothing about you is sent to us, and we run no analytics of our own. The banner ad in the free version is served by Google AdMob: where the law requires it, Google's consent form appears first, and iOS asks whether you allow tracking - you can say no. Unlock everything removes the ad. Privacy Policy: https://alltheanimals.vercel.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Orrery

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See the solar system as it really is — right now. Orrery draws every planet, moon and comet exactly where it is today, turning and tilted as it really is, ray-traced live on your iPhone. Spin a world under your finger, run time forward or back by centuries, and watch the planets move. EXPLORE • The Sun, eight planets, their moons, the dwarf planets, Vesta and Halley's Comet — placed from NASA JPL's data • Real surfaces from spacecraft maps: MESSENGER, Viking, Cassini, New Horizons and more • Saturn's rings, Earth's clouds and city lights, eclipses and moon shadows • A living Sun, with sunspots, flares and eruptions that follow the real solar cycle • Halley's Comet, tumbling as it really does, growing its coma and tails as it nears the Sun FLY THE MISSIONS Follow 18 spacecraft along their real paths — Voyager, Apollo 11, Artemis, Cassini, Juno, Perseverance, Parker Solar Probe, the James Webb Space Telescope and more — with the photographs they took. LOOK INSIDE Open up 16 worlds to see their cores, mantles and oceans, to scale. HEAR SPACE Real recordings from spacecraft: the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Earth's magnetic "chorus" and more. SKY ALERTS Eclipses, planets at their best, meteor showers and the view from Titan tonight — as gentle alerts, up to three a day and never at night, worked out on your iPhone. DARK SIDE A ship game among the worlds. Every world throws a long shadow away from the Sun, and a ship in one cannot be seen from afar, so hiding is the game: when a solar flare comes, get into a shadow. Five ships, three minutes, one life, against bots that fill the other seats. A training flight teaches the controls. It runs entirely on your iPhone, needs no account and sends nothing. Two ship colours come with Orrery Pro. YOUR BIRTHDAY SKY Tell Orrery the day you were born, once, and see your age on every planet, how far Earth has carried you round the Sun, and where the planets stood that day. Then travel to that day. The date stays on your iPhone. AND BEYOND • Earth's magnetic field, pressed by the solar wind • How the solar system travels through the galaxy, and the bubble that shields it • Stand on the Moon and Mars in 3D In English, Español, Português, Français, Русский, 中文 and O'zbekcha. ORRERY PRO Orrery is free to explore. The free plan shows a few ads, only at natural pauses after you finish something and never right after you open the app. A short video is optional and opens one locked item free for 30 minutes. Where the law asks, Orrery asks for your ad privacy choice before the first ad, and you can change it any time in Settings > Discover > Privacy choices. Orrery Pro takes every ad away and unlocks every mission, every interior, every sound, the 3D surfaces, the galaxy view, Earth's magnetic field, Ultra graphics and two Dark Side ship colours: yearly with a one-week free trial, monthly, or once for life. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://khushnid.github.io/orrery/privacy.html

Screenshots

All the Animals4 screens
Orrery4 screens

Verdict

The call

All the Animals and Orrery are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. All the Animals sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Orrery sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

All the Animals ships an update every 10 days, Orrery fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
All the Animals versus Orrery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAll the AnimalsOrrery
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB38 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperHALFDAN OVERGAARD LØV ASkhushnidjon Keldiboev

In-app purchases

1 purchases

All the Animals

One-time1
  • Unlock everything$3.99
3 purchases

Orrery

Subscriptions2
  • Orrery Pro — Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Orrery Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Orrery Pro — Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is All the Animals free?
All the Animals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orrery free?
Orrery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do All the Animals or Orrery have ads?
Both All the Animals and Orrery show ads.
Which is updated more often, All the Animals or Orrery?
All the Animals ships an update every 10 days, and Orrery fortnightly. Most recently, All the Animals was updated on October 29, 2026 and Orrery on October 31, 2026.

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