Sun Surveyor takes the mystery out of the sunrise, sunset, and moon phases, allowing photographers and filmmakers to scout the best locations, plan effectively, and get the perfect shot.
The Live Camera View, Interactive Map (with Street View), 3D Compass, and detailed Ephemeris provide a wealth of information about the largest natural light source in the galaxy, as well as the moon, and milky way:
- View augmented reality projections of the sun and moon paths, pinpoint the time the sun or moon will be at a particular location in the sky - Predict and plan for the golden hour, blue hour and every sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset - Prepare night photography shots with the Milky Way & star trail features
Solar Industry (PV) Professionals, architects, real estate agents, and gardeners will also find a wealth of empowering interactive features:
- Show clients the quality and quantity of seasonal sunlight at a given location - Understand potential shade of surroundings and discover any obstructions - Create images of the summer and winter Solstice & Equinox paths for a site
Additional features:
- Photo Opportunities (new!) - an interactive listing of critical times to help inspire and generate shot ideas; including the full moon looming low in the sky during magic hour, total darkness for stargazing, and more - Position Search (new!) - an extremely powerful tool to search for sun, moon and milky way center positions within various constraints, for the perfectionist planner - Visual time machine - take a quick glance at the light for a day, or dial in desired compositions easily - Moon distance, age, apogee, perigee, super moon predictions - Sun shadow information - calculate the length of shadows cast by objects - Share details and locations with clients and colleagues - Offline usage (excludes Map View, Street View) - enter coordinates, save & load locations with no data connection or GPS available - Measure distance, and difference between elevations, and vertical angle differentials with the Map view - Import and export Google Earth .kmz/.kml locations - Magnetic declination compensation - Widgets - 9 varieties of sun and moon widgets for your homescreen
** NOTE: the Live View and 3D Compass portions of this app make use of your device's compass. Some devices may not have a compass.
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Aug 30, 2025
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October 1, 2025
adding text to review Oct 2025: well worth the money they've been updating consistently for like a decade I've been using this app and I dont even use all the features. I use it to keep track of sunrise and set moon phases the 3d map of sun and moon sky path and that compass comes in handy. love showing my kids the moon path they love finding the moon. thanks to the developer(s) for one of my most and longest used and appreciated apps
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Arun Mukundan
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May 26, 2025
I've been using this app on Android for nearly 12 years. I had an issue and Adam was quick to respond. It seems there was no issue in the first place. Works well on both Andriod and iPhone. I'd recommend the app to film makers. Best part is, its a one time payment.
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Adam Ratana
May 25, 2025
Hi, can you get in touch: [email protected] - you should be able to zoom with the new camera implementation, assuming you’re talking about the live view. If not I’d love to troubleshoot.
W. P.
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October 18, 2024
This is a great app for finding out where sun, moon and even the milky way will be visible during any calendar day and at any location. The position of the sun in the sky (and i guess the moon) is not always 100% accurate but the app has a nice feature that you can correct it manually in live view mode. As photographer, I would like to see a weather layer integrated (e.g. cloud cover or precipitation)
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What’s new
2.7 - Targeting the latest Android version (SDK: 36) - Visual updates, bug fixes, and tweaks.
2.6 Major visualization update! - New 3D Renderer, multiple camera usage, among many other updates.