SkyView® Lite
August 03, 2024
More About SkyView® Lite
Features:
• Simple: Point your device at the sky to identify galaxies, stars, constellations, planets, and satellites (including the ISS and Hubble) passing overhead at your location.
• Night Mode: Preserve your night vision with red or green night mode filters.
• Augmented Reality (AR): Use your camera to spot objects in the sky, day or night.
• Sky Paths: Follow the sky track for any object to see it’s exact location in the sky on any date and time.
• Time Travel: Jump to the future or the past and see the sky on different dates and times.
• Social: Capture and share beautiful images with friends and family on social networks.
• Mobile: WiFi is NOT required (does not require a data signal or GPS to function). Take it camping, boating, or even flying!
• Supports Space Navigator™ binoculars, spotting scope, and telescopes.
What a fun way to teach yourself, your children, your students, or your friends about our wonderful universe!
Latest Version
3.8.3
August 03, 2024
Terminal Eleven LLC
Education
Android
19,719,311
Free
com.t11.skyviewfree
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User Reviews
A Google user
6 years ago
It's ok. It's not very accurate even after several times calibrating my compass. Everything is about 45° too far to the left. Once I find a planet with my naked eye (Mars for example), I can base everything else on that. But it drives me crazy that the horizon line is at a 30° angle even if I tilt the phone in either direction.
Mary OBrien
4 years ago
Not too accurate. When my constellations are let's say in the NW sky, your app shows them straight to the north. I've tried using the automatic location & also tried putting in the closest big city I found on your list. Same thing. Otherwise, I love the detail of your app. And it's much easier than other apps to figure out names of stars & constellations. They just aren't in the right place though.
Michelle Bassette
4 years ago
I've had this app for years and it used to work great, but now it doesn't line up properly at all. (It shows planets I can see with a naked eye in a completely wrong area of the sky) I've made sure my phone is calibrated like they suggest. I saw there's a pay version, but I definitely don't want to pay to find out if didn't work either.Such a bummer, I used to love it.
A Google user
6 years ago
I need to be able to select a font that is easily read with my eyes. Looks like the software may have been adapted with a 20 or young 30-something person with perfect eyesight. The curse of Shadow Style just does not work for everybody. How about allowing a font change to something more simple and text for such as block times Roman something along those lines helvetica
A Google user
6 years ago
Great app. I wish the features we're more intuitive. On a cold night of AP it is easy to push the wrong part of the screen and lose what you are targeting, zoom in x100, or completely do a 180 on the sky. Suggestions: lose the zoom sounds because as I said above, on a phone with a smaller screen it is easy to hit the zoom buttons accidently and the VvvrroooOoom spacy Kubrick sounds scare the baggeesus out of me. Also have a default zoom buttons we can set. That would be so handy. Making the sky 'turn' with less touch sensitivity would be nice since like on these cold nights it is easy to over swipe and end up on Gemini when you meant to get on Orion. The guiding arrow for searching also shouldn't disappear once you frame your target with the phone/tablets sensors. It should lock until I tell it not to. Overall great app and worth every penny.
Courtney Luce
4 years ago
The app would be great if it stayed calibrated. I love the augmented reality when it is actually showing what you are looking at. It displays the wrong direction and tracks what you were looking at instead of changing based on what direction you are facing. Example: I was looking at a constellation in the SE. As I turned it kept showing the same constellation. The stars followed my movement instead of showing the stars in the new direction.
Greg Thein
2 years ago
Nice app. When I first downloaded and tried it, the compass settings (and sky) didn't line up with reality - ie. South showed up as though I was looking northeast. A few days later though, it worked perfectly. The graphics on this app are really good. If you hover over a star, satellite, or planet, it gives you info on it. In the case of planets and satellites it expands the planet or star into an image of it. If you hover near constellation it connects the stars with lines and an image.
A Google user
5 years ago
If you want an app where you can easily identify different constellations without any fuss, this app is for you!! It doesn't show you a stupidly large amount of stars like some of the other apps, but honestly, I like it better this way. It just shows what you would normally see in the sky if you're not away from civilization with no light pollution. Also, it didn't have a pop up ad every 5 seconds telling us to upgrade the membership. Overall, I am really happy with this app!!
AnnieB 1
4 years ago
Have to lower my review. I point directly at a star and before I know it my view shows the event horizon, and I am aiming directly above. I am going to try another app with better functions. I have to chase the starts across the sky. Pointing at a planet does not show the correct planet in the area I point in. Would be nice if they would hold still in real time. Like the music and constillation views.
Moraenil
2 years ago
Great concept but needs lots of work. The compass is seriously off, for example when I'm looking East, it says I'm looking SSW. This makes it super difficult to see anything accurately. Look at the FAQ & help and there's just 2 partial sentences about compass issues, with no help at all on how to fix it. Click on them & you get the question instead of the answer. Totally backwards & not helpful in the slightest. Google maps shows me looking the correct direction, so it's not my phone.
A Google user
6 years ago
I first used this on a Samsung Galaxy s5. It seemed to work fine for a period of time. Then it went 180 degrees out of sync. I figured it was my phone and deleted it. I just got a new Galaxy s8...and it does the same thing. I tried the "figure 8" location set. Nothing. It seems there must/should be an inverse setting or something. It's useless on all unknown stars/galaxies. I really like the idea. Don't like the workings.
z Announce
1 year ago
I don't understand why "precise location" is required. Technically, it only adds Bluetooth and wifi to make the location better, mostly useful in the cities. When I'm out there looking at the stars, I have no wifi nor Bluetooth. GPS location alone should be good enough. I cannot speak of other capabilities of this app, because it doesn't let me use it without so-called precise location.
Christina Guran
4 years ago
Very beautiful as well as informative with regards to the purpose of orienting oneself in the night sky and locating cosmic "goodies". If you draw over stars within a constellation, it will produce an overlay of the image of that constellation (a setting option) and even tracks faster moving objects (such as comets and satellites) as they are moving through space in real time. This is just in the "Lite" version that is free. ...oh, and the background music is EPIC!
Heath Eckstine
3 years ago
I can't get it to calibrate. The moon on the app is to the right of the moon in real life. I keep trying the figure 8 and to slide it over with 2 fingers but all i get from that is screen shots. I would much prefer to be able to calibrate when the moon is out by using the camera feature to line up the real moon with a target. On the screen and then pressing a button that made the virtual moon line up with the real one. Is there any way you can make that happen.
A Google user
6 years ago
It has a beautiful design, easy user interface, and plenty of hidden features that keep you excited for hours. But all that excitement drains quickly when you point it at the moon in the sky and see it 3 inches to the left on the screen. The calibration aspect needs a lot of work. it is just too iffy for an app that requires precision. And the fact that there is not a calibration utility in the app's settings tells me that the makers don't know how to make this feature perform better. How sad!
Dee Lord
2 years ago
It was working great. Opened the app and pointed at the sky and it shows everything spinning to the right. Aimed to the southern hemisphere and it spins to the left. It wouldn't focus on any single point, just sounds away from what I was trying to look at. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and that did nothing. It told it was recalibrating the camera twice. How does that take nearly an hour? Worked great until it didn't. Gonna try something else.
Steven Hornburg
2 years ago
This is a review based on literally 30 seconds of use. Did exactly what I wanted it to do - identified Jupiter on the horizon. When was the last time, even if you researched the best free app (like I did), that it worked like butter the first time? Just from that 30 second specific task, I saw other features that look very intriguing. Hope to play with it soon, but it did the utilitarian task I wanted quickly, and I must say effectively.
S Maximoff
10 months ago
It does what I want. I use it every time I go out with my telescope and sometimes for fun when I'm bored and I want to see where Hubble is. I use it almost every day so I thought why not get the paid version since it's a one time payment. The paid version boasts more planets and meissners (meissners are not included in the free version) however that's a lie. There is NO difference between the paid and free versions. There is no new perks or new things to view. There are still no meissners.
Keef Fluke
9 months ago
Compass is completely backwards (showing me south when the phone is looking north) and recalibration does nothing. The map constantly rotates as if it's trying to face itself the right way again, but only gets so far before beginning to spin back the other direction. Why does the version of this app that I had on my first gen ipad air still work perfectly but you can't manage to get this version's basic functions to, y'know, function? Did something break in the code?
Kimberly Miller
9 months ago
I've downloaded this app on my last 3 phones because I love it so much. I love sharing it with people when we are outside under the stars so they can identify, and sometimes see with their naked eye, planets, galaxies, constellations, satellites, and my favorite, finding the ISS. The music is so comforting too. Thank you for keeping it accessible!
