Day & Night Map vs Daylight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Day & Night Map
Visualize the Earth's day and night cycles on an interactive world map. Select any date and time to see current illumination, or create animated GIFs of changing light patterns.
- Real-time day/night map
- Selectable date and time
- Animated GIF creation
- Minute-by-minute updates
- Global illumination visualization
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Day & Night Map shows you exactly which parts of Earth are in daylight and which are in darkness — right now, or at any date and time you choose. Watch the terminator move across the globe as hours and days pass. Explore sunrise, sunset, and twilight around the world. Perfect for travellers, astronomers, photographers, teachers, and anyone curious about time on our planet. KEY FEATURES • Live world map of day and night • Move through time with intuitive date and time controls • Jump back to the current moment with one tap • Pinch to zoom and pan across the map • Full-screen map view • Home Screen widgets in multiple sizes (including Extra Large on iPad) • Configurable widgets: sun, moon, moon phase, twilight, icon size, and more • Show sun and moon positions on the map • Display the current moon phase • Twilight zones: smooth shading or separate civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight • Equator and tropics lines • Show your current location on the map (optional) • Display time in local time or UTC • Light, dark, or system appearance • Share a map image by email, message, and more • Create animations over a chosen time range • Export animations as animated GIFs ANIMATIONS Pick a start and end date, set the step interval and speed, and watch the day/night line move over hours or days. Play the animation in the app or create an animated GIF to share. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Add the widget to your Home Screen and keep the current day/night map at a glance. Customize what is shown and how it looks directly when adding or editing the widget.
Daylight
This app helps you monitor the amount of daylight remaining in your day. It provides sunrise and sunset times, along with the total duration of daylight for any given day.
- Track remaining daylight
- View sunrise times
- View sunset times
- See total daily daylight
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Use this app to keep track of the day's remaining daylight, track the sunrise and sunset times, and see the total daylight for the day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Daylight at every 2 days against Day & Night Map's every 7 months. Daylight also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Day & Night Map's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 19). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Day & Night Map against 4.9 for Daylight. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Day & Night Map has 1.4K ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of Day & Night Map's written reviews are positive against 80% of Daylight's.
Day & Night Map ships an update every 7 months, Daylight every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Day & Night Map | Daylight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.4K ratings) | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.3% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Volker Voecking Software Engineering | Ben Farmer |
Customer experience
Day & Night Map
Daylight
Bugs and requests
Day & Night Map
Reported bugs
2 issues- Moon position not displayed on iPad
- Daylight savings time not working properly
Requested features
4 requests- Option to keep noon at center and have map move
- Show analemma and sun position on it
- 24-hour clock setting for widget
- Improve moon position display on iPad
Daylight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Day & Night Map
No in-app purchases
Daylight
No in-app purchases
Questions
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