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Star Chart
 This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • Price
    Free
  • CategoryEducation
  • First releasedDecember 23, 2009
  • Versions5 archived
  • Installable5 of 5
  • AvailabilityStill on the App Store
  • SellerFeel Great Publishing Limited

RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

Customer Ratings

As of December 12, 2024
     
24,797 Ratings

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*** Star Chart is now FREE! *** The top educational & augmented reality astronomy app - download and find out why over 20 million people use Star Chart!

You can now have a virtual star chart in your pocket. Look through the eyes of your iPhone or iPad* to see a high-tech window into the whole visible universe.

All you have to do is point your AR enabled device* at the sky and Star Chart will tell you exactly what you are looking at.

Using state of the art GPS technology, an accurate 3D simulation of the visible universe, and a great deal of technical wizardry, Star Chart calculates – in real time - the current location of every star, planet and moon visible from Earth and shows you precisely where they are; even in broad daylight!

Want to know what that bright star is called? Point your device* at it – you might just find out it’s a planet!

Want to know what the night sky looks like to people on the other side of the earth? Well just point your device down!

Want to know where your star sign is in the sky? Star Chart will tell you all this and more.

Star Charts features include: - Just point and view. When you hold your device up to the sky, Star Chart will automatically start tracking your movements to match the sky *.

- Alternatively, look around the sky using finger gestures – perfect for armchair astronomers!

- In a single app of less than 30MB, Star Chart dynamically scales its visuals and capabilities across all iOS devices to meet the high end capabilities of a retina display iPad while also running smoothly on the earliest iPhones and iPods.

- Accurately depicts all the visible stars of the northern and southern hemispheres - a total of approximately 120,000 stars!

- Fly to and explore all the planets of the solar system, their moons and the sun all rendered in beautiful 3D with state of the art visual effects.

- Using the powerful Time Shift feature, simply tap the time button and smoothly shift up to 10,000 years forward or backward in time.

- Displays all 88 constellations, with constellation imagery based on the beautiful artwork by 17th century astronomer Johannes Hevelius.

- Includes the complete Messier catalogue of 110 exotic deep sky objects.

- Tap on anything in the sky and get the facts on what you are looking at, including distance and brightness.

- Very powerful zoom function, lets you view the sky in extra detail, using intuitive finger gestures.

- Fully configurable. Star Chart displays only the sky objects that you are interested in.

- Allows you to view the sky underneath the horizon. So now you can see where the sun is, even at night!

- Manually set your location to find out what the sky looks like from anywhere in the world.

- Supports dynamic device orientation viewing. Allows you to view the night sky whilst holding your iPhone/iPad* at any angle.

So point your iPhone/iPad* at the sky and see what's out there!

------------ * Augmented Reality mode is available on devices that include a built-in compass. Manual scrolling is supported on all other devices.

------------ Star Chart is published by Escape Velocity Ltd and developed by Escapist Games Ltd. We update Star Chart regularly, so please send us your feedback and feature requests to [email protected].

And thanks for all your feedback so far!

Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/starchart Follow Star Chart on Twitter: StarChartApp

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2.0
Requires iOS 3.0+
5.5 MB Install Download
2.3 (4.3)
Requires iOS 4.3+
17.0 MB Install Download
3.5
Requires iOS 3.0+
Non-Retina
August 27, 2013
15.9 MB Install Download
3.7
Requires iOS 3.0+
November 6, 2013
11.1 MB Install Download
3.80 (5.08)
Requires iOS 4.3+
Retina
April 27, 2014
19.1 MB Install Download

Bundle Size Over Time

Bundle size over time15.9 MB — August 27, 2013. 11.1 MB — November 6, 2013. 19.1 MB — April 27, 20144.8 MB9.6 MB14.4 MB19.1 MB15.9 MB — August 27, 201311.1 MB — November 6, 201319.1 MB — April 27, 2014Aug 2013Apr 2014

Chart History

Top Free · Education View chart ›
Peaked at #1 (April 15, 2014) · 10 archived captures · May 2013 – Aug 2021
Top Paid · Education View chart ›
Peaked at #16 (September 15, 2010) · 3 archived captures · Aug 2010 – Apr 2012

Ratings Over Time

sampled from 18 archived captures
DateVersionRatingRatingsPrice
May 14, 2010 1.6 — 28 $2.99
April 6, 2011 1.86 — 229 $2.99
January 12, 2012 — — 1,309 $2.99
August 28, 2012 2.2 ★ 4.5 6,089 ¥250
May 4, 2013 — — 3,492 Free
November 14, 2013 3.72 ★ 4.5 14,908 Free
December 6, 2019 — ★ 4.6 7,835 Free
November 24, 2020 — ★ 4.6 14,884 Free
December 1, 2023 3.98 ★ 4.6 24,716 Free
December 12, 2024 3.98 ★ 4.6 24,797 Free

From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.

Archived Reviews

8 of 25
Star fan
     
by glitterfocelove · June 6, 2025

The best app ever

Not Updated In 9 Years 👎
     
by Sabor Místico · November 23, 2024

While I *did* once enjoy using this app in the past, it has developed a number of weird glitches. However, the app is no longer being maintained by the developer and appears to have been abandoned. As a result, these problems are never addressed. Star Chart is no longer a very good or trustworthy app.

Good information but crashes a lot
     
by KermitTGator · December 27, 2024

I like the app except for the constant crashes.

☑️📩💌______✍🏻
     
by Saeed azoogh · April 5, 2025

Thanks

best, even after a decade
     
by ||homEsick · December 30, 2024

had been using top free apps for this 'til i bothered going back through my old apps & finding this. can't believe it's still up & works fantastically. the simple UI! the lack of popups & ads/banners! simpler times (in the web world). glad it works; going back to it. simple as.

Ads, ads, ads, did I mention ads?
     
by DMZABO · October 9, 2025

Too many ads. I get it if you give a sample free product you got to pay the satellite bills, but I just got into the application and I got a quick add. Can you give people some time to set the app up to their liking and to look around the Milky Way before you slap ads in their galaxy direction? Just too many ad asteroids ☄️for this Martians 👽 liking. Slow down the ads please. Life’s too short even in this long universe.

We need CURRENT comets and 99942 Apophis
     
by zzz97 · October 2, 2025

There’s something like seven comments plus the interstellar object atlas coming through our solar system right now, October 2025. I want to see these. I wanna look straight at them and I want to use this app to locate them. Get busy guys! And we want to track 99942 Apophis the big scary asteroid.

Bought all upgrades - now garbage
     
by svankley · March 1, 2025

I bought this back in 2018, with all the upgrades, and now on my iPhone 16, the things a piece of garbage, it does not work at all and constantly crashes! DO NOT BUY! I wish I could give it zero stars, but I can’t

Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.