Lunar Eclipse vs Daylights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lunar Eclipse
Track upcoming lunar eclipses with this app. Choose to view total, partial, or both types of events. Easily add eclipse dates to your calendar and share them with others.
- Countdown to lunar eclipses
- Filter by total or partial eclipses
- Add events to calendar
- Share event dates
- iPad multitasking support
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Countdown to the next total and partial eclipses of the moon. Features: - show only total eclipses, only partial eclipses or both events - add eclipse events to your calendar - share event dates via e-mail, Twitter or Facebook - displays the last eclipse for 6 hours after - support for iPad Pro and the iPad multitasking
Daylights
Visualize daylight and night hours globally with three distinct styles. Explore how time zones and daylight saving changes affect your location's light cycles.
- Global daylight visualization
- Three distinct visualization styles
- Explore polar night and midnight sun
- Daylight saving time impact simulation
- Time zone shift simulation
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Daylights is your calendar for daylight and night-dark hours around the year, all over the globe. It offers three alternative daylight visualization styles, allowing you to choose whichever feels the most intuitive to you: • The Classic: the 12-hour clock alternates between daylight and night-dark, whichever is shorter. • The Light: the 12-hour clock always shows daylight, overlapping with itself when necessary. • The Magic: a 24-hour clock shows the full day, and highlights the "magic hours" around sunrise and sunset! You can pick any location on the planet to look at the interplay of the polar night and the midnight sun at the big latitudes. And finally, you can see how the light and dark hours would shift in your hometown if daylight saving time became the permanent state of things or was removed altogether, or if they decided to move to the next or previous time zone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Daylights at 67% against Lunar Eclipse's 0%. Daylights also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.7 vs 2.5). Lunar Eclipse's advantage is chart position (#179 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On update cadence, 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
Daylights is free to download; Lunar Eclipse costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Daylights holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daylights has 55 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Lunar Eclipse's written reviews are positive against 67% of Daylights's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lunar Eclipse | Daylights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.5 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (55 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 55 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #179 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | Janne Käki |
Customer experience
Lunar Eclipse
Daylights
In-app purchases
Lunar Eclipse
No in-app purchases
Daylights
No in-app purchases









