Star Walk：Find Stars & Planets
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | Vito Technology Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Star Walk now works with Apple Watch to alert you of upcoming astronomical events.
Star Walk is the most beautiful stargazing app you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. It will become your go-to interactive astro guide to the night sky, following your every movement in real-time and allowing you to explore over 200, 000 celestial bodies with extensive information about stars and constellations that you find.
Get started quickly
• Launch the app and point your iPhone at the night sky, you'll see the stars, planets, satellites, and constellations in their proper place from your location. As you move your device, the star map updates in real time. The Moon is the easiest first target.
• Tap Augmented Reality icon in the upper right corner to add the image from your camera to your sky view.
• Use Night Mode to go easy on your eyes and preserve night vision when exploring the Universe.
Go deeper and beyond
• Every object you tap has an (i) next to its name, tap it to access information.
• A scale on right is the Time Machine, slide it to explore the map of the night sky of tomorrow or years ago.
• A calendar of celestial events will make sure you never miss anything interesting.
• TelRad will help you find the exact position of an object when stargazing with a telescope.
Share your experience
• Project to a big screen with no picture quality loss. Star Walk is your personal planetarium.
• Explore stunning space pictures in Picture of the Day.
• There is an entire stargazing twitter community within Star Walk - don't miss out!
Duran Duran's keyboard Nick Rhodes mentions Star Walk as his favorite app:
"With the Star Walk app, if you hold your iPod up towards the sky, you can see all the stars and constellations. It even tells you the names of all the planets. Then, if you point it towards the ground, it shows you what all the stars are in the other hemisphere. It’s brilliant, and if you’re ever somewhere with a clear sky and no light pollution, it’s a revelation. It’s beautifully designed and makes clever use of the available technology. I’m fascinated by astronomy, but even if you’re not, give this a go."
Links:
http://vitotechnology.com/star-walk.html
http://www.facebook.com/StarWalkApp
http://twitter.com/starwalk
Reviews
Meh
jrocksburr
If you want a better free experience I’d say pick SkyView lite because everytime I touch the screen on this app I get an ad which is very annoying especially since it’s literally every time.
Bug or scam?
outc1
I don’t use this enough to want to pay a monthly fee, so I went to cancel, clicked the “manage subscription” button and it opened my browser to a page with a bunch of broken, bugged code that seems to be intended to ask for my Apple ID info, but there’s nothing actually on the page. So I guess now I have to just pay you $3 a month until you fix your code or I die? Edit: I may have found a way to unsubscribe by doing it under “manage subscriptions” on the App Store menu.
Dark mode widget unreadable
RobD14094
Overall very good the widgets typeface is still black in dark mode on iPadOS, making it unreadable, also after changing the time in the app, to see a future event, it’s been difficult to reset it to sync with the iPad
Insane amount of ads
Cookienookiebutter
Had it open for a minute or two only to try to look at the stars and was hit with three ads. Ridiculous. Deleting this app immediately.
Star Walk, my review
narwhal1900
I love star walk. I’ve had it since 2011 and it’s the best app I’ve used for finding stars and constellations. I’ve never had any issues and the developers are GENIUSES! Thank you! Something I love about the app is you can search for constellations and stars which is helpful because of the Geminid shower happening in these coming days. Thanks to star walk for all the amazing technology you provide us with!
Bad
apollo13jim
I do not understand why the app does not work on my phone. iPhone XR. I could not leave the app to go back to my main screen. If I would swipe up to get the app back to my main screen, it started a commercial! And I paid $4.99 for this. I had to literally restart my phone after powering it down every time I used the app just to get it to go back to my home screen. I have deleted the app permanently.
