SolarNav 3D vs Orrery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SolarNav 3D
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Watch the solar system as it is, right now. SolarNav lets you explore the Sun, the planets, dwarf planets, their moons, and the asteroid belts in 3D, all shown in their real, continuously updated positions. Navigate freely through space, approach any celestial body, and watch each planet and moon rotate, always facing the Sun as it truly does. TRAVEL THROUGH TIME Go three centuries into the past or just as far into the future. Play continuously, fast-forward, or jump straight to any date you choose. EXPERIENCE AN ECLIPSE Browse every solar and lunar eclipse around a given date. Pick an observing location and watch the eclipse unfold from the ground, as if you were there. EXPLORE 26 celestial bodies and their asteroid belts, each with a detailed info card: distance, size, temperature, composition, and fun facts. No connection required. No data collected.
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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SolarNav 3D at none against Orrery's 3. SolarNav 3D also leads on ads (none vs shown). Orrery's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Orrery sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. SolarNav 3D asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | SolarNav 3D | Orrery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Frederic Sala | khushnidjon Keldiboev |
In-app purchases
SolarNav 3D
No in-app purchases
Orrery
- Orrery Pro — Monthly$3.991 Month
- Orrery Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Orrery Pro — Lifetime$39.99









