Comparison

And Today Is vs Orbitrack

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

Head to head
About

And Today Is

Discover daily events, holidays, and fun facts celebrated worldwide. This app provides detailed information on over 4,500 events and allows you to add them to your home screen with customizable widgets.

Highlights
  • Daily event discovery
  • Comprehensive event database
  • Home screen widgets
  • Event search functionality
  • Customizable event collections
  • Detailed event information
Features
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Understand the world a little better, every day. What makes today worth knowing? And Today Is turns the world’s calendar into a daily discovery experience. Open the app to find meaningful days from around the globe—and explore the stories, ideas, traditions, and events behind them. DISCOVER WHAT TODAY MEANS See a featured story and find more reasons every date matters. Go beyond the name of the day with context, history, and facts worth knowing. EXPLORE THE WORLD THROUGH ITS DATES Browse 4,500+ holidays, observances, commemorations, and other meaningful dates. Explore the calendar, travel across the map, search for a specific occasion, or follow your curiosity through collections covering culture, food, science, nature, technology, and more. KEEP MEANINGFUL DAYS CLOSE Save the events you care about, organize them into your own lists, and set reminders before they arrive. BRING TODAY TO YOUR HOME SCREEN Use widgets to see today’s story, useful date information, and saved events at a glance. THERE’S MORE TO TODAY THAN THE DATE See the season, moon phase, week number, year progress, and more. Test what you know with quizzes or explore other ways cultures organize time through alternative calendars. Tomorrow brings a new date, a new story, and another reason to look closer. Download And Today Is and discover what makes today interesting.

About

Orbitrack

Explore thousands of satellites in orbit with this augmented and virtual reality spaceflight simulator. Visualize spacecraft, track their paths, and learn about their missions with detailed 3D models and real-time data. Experience space from a new perspective.

Highlights
  • Augmented and Virtual Reality modes
  • Track over 5000 spacecraft
  • Detailed 3D satellite models
  • Voice-controlled VR
  • Radio frequency data for amateur satellites
  • Real-time satellite data updates
  • Time Flow controls
Features
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Orbitrack is a brand-new, Augmented-and-Virtual-Reality satellite tracker and spaceflight simulator! It's your pocket guide to the thousands of spacecraft in orbit around our home planet. 1) More than 16,000 spacecraft, including all active satellites, classified military satellites, the International Space Station, and SpaceX's Starlink communication satellites. 2) Rich new graphics, rewritten using Apple's Metal graphics API, show atmospheric effects, city lights on Earth’s night side, and highly-detailed 3D satellite models. 3) Voice-controlled Virtual Reality mode that works with any smartphone VR viewer. iPhone only. 4) A true "augmented reality" mode that helps you find satellites in the sky by blending the sky chart with video from your phone's camera. Works with Orbit and Satellite views too! 5) Radio frequency data for amateur radio satellites. 6) Updated descriptions for hundreds of spacecraft. Every satellite now has a description from n2yo.com. 7) Supports the latest Apple hardware and software: iPhone 18, iPad Pro, and iOS 27. Check the Mac App Store for our MacOS version! 8) Requires at least iPhone 8 or iPad (5th generation or later) with 64-bit processor and iOS 16.6 or later. 9) New sound effects and ambient background music. 10) New Time Flow controls let you easily set the date and time, and animate the view. If you're new to Orbitrack, here's what it can do: • Track thousands of satellites. Orbitrack will tell you when spacecraft pass overhead, show you where to find them in the sky, and let you track them across the planet. • Teach you about the International Space Station, Starlink, and hundreds of other satellites in orbit, with comprehensive mission descriptions. • Show the view from any satellite, and see the Earth from orbit just as the “bird” sees it! Orbitrack includes detailed 3D models for dozens of satellites – see them up close from any angle! • Stay on top of the space race. Orbitrack updates its satellite data from n2yo.com and celestrak.com every hour. When new spacecraft are launched, maneuver into new orbits, or fall back into the atmosphere, Orbitrack shows you what’s happening up there, right now. Orbitrack isn’t just powerful – it’s incredibly easy to use! You don’t need an aerospace degree to become an expert satellite tracker. Orbitrack puts advanced capabilities at your fingertips, with the same intuitive touch interface you use every day. The new VR mode is an out-of-this-world experience. Become an astronaut without ever leaving Planet Earth! And if that’s not enough, Orbitrack includes detailed, built-in Help – and expert, responsive technical support.

Screenshots

And Today Is4 screens
Orbitrack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: And Today Is at Free against Orbitrack's $4.99. Orbitrack's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 41%) and ratings volume (964 vs 20). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

And Today Is is free to download; Orbitrack costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for And Today Is against 4.7 for Orbitrack. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orbitrack has 964 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of And Today Is's written reviews are positive against 76% of Orbitrack's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

And Today Is ships an update monthly, Orbitrack every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
And Today Is versus Orbitrack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnd Today IsOrbitrack
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.5 (20 ratings)4.7 (964 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.9% of reviews75.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20964 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#86 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS16.4 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB137 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCornelius BehrendSouthern Stars Group, LLC

Customer experience

And Today Is

All ratings20 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive40.9%
Neutral13.6%
Negative45.5%

Orbitrack

All ratings964 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive75.9%
Neutral8.9%
Negative15.2%

Bugs and requests

And Today Is

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Orbitrack

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Motion tracking issues
  • Stuck on old date
  • Accelerometer not working
  • Satellite positions not accurate

Requested features

5 requests
  • Sort by magnitude feature
  • Favorite satellites option
  • Customizable field of view
  • Notifications for visible passes
  • Metric/imperial toggle

In-app purchases

None

And Today Is

No in-app purchases

None

Orbitrack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is And Today Is free?
And Today Is is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orbitrack free?
Orbitrack costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, And Today Is or Orbitrack?
Orbitrack is rated higher. And Today Is averages 4.5 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Orbitrack averages 4.7 from 964 ratings.
Do And Today Is or Orbitrack have ads?
Neither And Today Is nor Orbitrack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, And Today Is or Orbitrack?
And Today Is ships an update monthly, and Orbitrack every 3 weeks. Most recently, And Today Is was updated on October 23, 2026 and Orbitrack on October 29, 2026.

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