The Grand Orrery
A Solar System Field Guide
$2.99
The whole solar system, drawn like an antique atlas and checked against NASA. $2.99 once — no subscriptions, no ads, nothing collected.
No subscriptions. No ads. No accounts. The whole solar system.
The Grand Orrery is a hand-built model of our solar system, drawn in the
style of an antique astronomical atlas and powered by a native Metal
renderer. Twenty-five worlds — the Sun, every planet, Pluto, and fifteen
notable moons — spin and orbit in real time. Tap any of them and the
camera sweeps you to its sunlit side while its field-guide dossier slides
up: measurements, atmosphere, notable moons, and the kind of margin notes
an astronomer would actually tell you at the eyepiece.
Every world's surface is generated on your phone — except Earth,
which wears NASA's own Blue Marble portrait — and every figure in every dossier was verified against NASA and
JPL references, with the sources one tap away.
- Pinch, drag, and fly through a living orrery rendered at up to 120 fps
- Field-guide dossiers for 25 worlds, checked against NASA and JPL
- The Grand Tour: sit back while the orrery visits each world in turn
- A quiet, generated ambient soundscape (leave it on or switch it off)
- Orbit lines, floating labels, adjustable time — from hours to years
per second — and a pause button when you just want to look
- Sources for every world, cited in the app
- Works completely offline; collects nothing
Buy it once. Keep the solar system in your pocket.
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The Grand Orrery is now built for iPad and Mac.
On iPad, the whole solar system fills the screen in both portrait and
landscape, with type and controls scaled for the larger canvas — and the
worlds now render at higher resolution, so close-ups of Mercury, the Moon
and the outer moons stay crisp.
On Mac, the app runs in its own resizable window with full-screen support,
a proper menu bar, and keyboard shortcuts — press Space to pause, the arrow
keys to change speed, and O, L or T to toggle orbits, labels or the Grand
Tour. Scroll to zoom in and out.
One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The developer, CRAIG ANTHONY PERKINS, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- CRAIG ANTHONY PERKINS
- Size
- 3.7 MB
- Category
- Education
- 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. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Craig Anthony Perkins
