Planit Pro vs Deneb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planit Pro
This app helps photographers pre-visualize scenes by combining map data with simulated viewfinders. It offers tools for location scouting, celestial object tracking, and time-lapse planning, making it ideal for landscape and night photography.
- Map-based scene pre-visualization
- Simulated viewfinders (VR, AR, Picture, Street View)
- Celestial object tracking (Sun, Moon, Stars, Milky Way)
- Time-lapse and star-trail planning
- Location scouting tools (GPS, elevation, distance)
- Exposure and filter calculators
- Offline functionality
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Please email info@planitphoto.com for bug reports or feature requests. Please also remember to visit https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTmlTTxPbBbcn1Fd1NRWTOczTY1RYEug4 for more video tutorials. Each video only lasts a few minutes but you will surely learn a lot from them. You can also reach us through Instagram. Links are under the menu inside the app. This is a special call to landscape photographers, travel photographers, nature photographers, and those who are interested in night photography, city photography, time-lapse, star-trails, milky way or astrophotography: look no more, this is the ultimate app for you - the Planit Pro. It only costs you a cup of Frappuccino but will save you tons of time and effort and a lot of gas money. Most importantly, it will make you enjoy landscape photography even more. Ansel Adams dedicates the beginning of his first book "Taos Pueblo" to visualization. He introduced the idea of "previsualization", which involved the photographer imagining what he wanted his final print to look like before he even took the photo. Of course, there are many great photos that were taken impromptu. However, for landscape photographers, being able to previsualize the scene before going there will greatly reduce the chance of being caught unprepared and will greatly increase the chance of getting better photos. Photographers use various tools to help them pre-visualizing the scene. Nowadays, many of those tools are phone apps. Planit Pro is an all-in-one solution that is designed to leverage the map and simulated viewfinder technologies to provide the necessary tools for photographers to pre-visualize the scene in combination with the ground subjects and the celestial objects such as the Sun, the Moon, Stars, Star-trails and Milky Way. In the Planit Pro app, we packed it with features - from location scouting such as GPS coordinates, elevations, distance, elevation gain, clear view, focal length, depth of field (DoF), hyperfocal distance, panorama, and aerial photography, to the Ephemeris features such as the sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset time and direction, twilight time, special hours of the day, sun/moon finder, major stars, constellations, nebulae azimuth and elevation angle, star trail planning, time-lapse calculation and simulation, sequence calculation and simulation, milky way searching, solar eclipse and lunar eclipse, exposure/ND filter calculator, light meter, rainbow position prediction, tide height, and tide search, etc. All the information is either represented on the map as an overlay or visually presented in simulated viewfinders (VR, AR, picture, or street view), just like you look through your camera's viewfinder. Whatever you want for your landscape photography, it is there in the Planit Pro. Landscape photography is an adventure in the natural world. We understand that sometimes there won't be any network connection when you are out exploring. Planit Pro was designed for having it in mind. If you preload the offline elevation files and the offline mbtiles maps, you can use the app fully offline without the need for network connections. License agreement at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy at https://planitphoto.com/privacy.html
Deneb
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Deneb es tu copiloto para la fotografía nocturna y de paisaje. Planifica al detalle dónde y cuándo capturar la Vía Láctea, la Luna, el Sol, los eclipses, Orión y las lluvias de estrellas, todo sobre el terreno real. FUNCIONES PRINCIPALES • Planificación de la Vía Láctea y el Centro Galáctico sobre un mapa con relieve. • Foto de la Luna o el Sol "con objeto": encuentra fechas y lugares donde el astro queda alineado tras un monumento, edificio o escultura, a la distancia y tamaño adecuados. • Eclipses solares: comprueba si tu ubicación está en la franja de totalidad y planifica la escena. • Visor de composición: simula la escena con tu focal para encuadrar antes de ir. • Comprobación de horizonte: detecta si las montañas taparán el astro. • Realidad aumentada: superpón la Vía Láctea sobre la cámara para orientarte. • Detección de tu ubicación por GPS y búsqueda de lugares. • Asistente de chat para resolver dudas de planificación. • Información de talleres de astrofotografía y paisaje. Ideal para astrofotógrafos y aficionados que quieren llegar al lugar con la composición ya pensada.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Deneb at Free against Planit Pro's $9.99. Deneb also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4). Planit Pro's advantage is chart position (#35 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Deneb is free to download; Planit Pro costs $9.99 up front. Planit Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Deneb asks for nothing beyond the download.
Planit Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Deneb weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planit Pro | Deneb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #35 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | JIDE Software, Inc. | Josep Guasch Sanchez |
Bugs and requests
Planit Pro
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crash on iPhone 13 after the update
- Sync issues with update
- Crash, can't open after upsate
- Tides are way off.
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Desktop version
- User manual
- Record walking track (GPS positions)
Deneb
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Planit Pro
- 3D Model (A Month)$0.991 Month
- Location Explorer (Month)$4.991 Month
- 3D Model (A Year)$5.991 Year
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- Location Explorer (A Year)$29.991 Year
Deneb
No in-app purchases









