Is Mercury retrograde? One glance answers it. A living map of the sky, uncannily timed advice, and every window from 1900 to 2100 on your phone, never on a server.
Retrograde answers one question elegantly and accurately: is Mercury retrograde?
...and then makes it useful, beautiful, and a little bit funny.
Open the app and the sky itself answers: a living map of the inner solar system, computed on your phone with Kepler's equations, replays the last sixty days so you can watch Mercury's apparent motion reverse. Drag it to travel through time. Feel a gentle tap at the exact moment it turns around.
WHAT YOU GET
- The answer, instantly: "Mercury is retrograde. 13 days until direct."
- A living orrery: Sun, Earth, and Mercury at their true positions — tap to replay, drag to scrub time
- The window map: lead-up, retrograde, and all-clear as one glowing bar, with today marked
- Planner: every window from 1900 to 2100 — check your wedding date, your launch day, your birthday
- Premonitions: witty, genuinely useful advice that arrives at uncannily random times, only while you're awake, never more than twice a day
- Daily advice worth sharing; one tap turns it into a story-sized image
- Alerts: morning status, lead-up begins, 24-hour warning, retrograde begins, direct, all clear
- Widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen, including a daily-advice widget
*PRIVATE BY DESIGN*
There is no server to trust. Two centuries of NASA/JPL-derived retrograde data ship inside the app. The sky view is computed on your device. No account, no tracking, no analytics, no network requests. Your data stays yours because it never leaves.
Buy it once. Use it for two hundred years.
They added a function where each day there is a piece of ancient wisdom and the new functionality is really good
Love the app!
kota8
Love this app! Hoping that they add a widget feature to eventually.
Developer Response
Widget coming and a complete design refresh!
Notifications do not work
steph22555
This app would be perfect. The layout is perfect and I wouldn’t change anything about it except the notifications do NOT work. I have played with the settings and have all the notifications turned on on my phone but I do not receive any notifications from this app no matter what I do. Please fix this ASAP as this was my reason for downloading this app. Thank you.
Developer Response
Hi Friend! The notifications have been fixed! Thanks for reporting this in and please feel free to send any more suggestions or questions to hello@retrogradeapp.com
No pre or post shadow
Mjheas111
It’s ok. Not anything great. It shows the Mercury retrograde dates & will send notifications but it doesn’t show pre or post shadow. It’s not worth the money. I am looking for an app that does it all...shows retrograde of all the major planets, shows pre & post shadow, strength of retrograde, as well as notifications. Thanks anyway.
Developer Response
Hi there! I know it's been years, but we've completely rebuilt it from the ground up, and your upgrade is free. Thanks for being one of our early users. If you like the new stability, features, and speed, please leave a new review!
Smooshed bugs, improved the share sheet and notification sounds. Speed speed speed.
Version 3.1
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Information
Seller
Dialect Agency Inc.
Size
3.3 MB
Category
Lifestyle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
