Sun Path & Shadow Tracker
Sun position & golden hour
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Clocks go back 1 Nov and golden hour lands an hour earlier. New: a reminder 15 minutes before it, for the place you choose, computed on your phone. No account.
Where the sun will be and where the shadow will fall, for any place at any hour. Bearing, height above the horizon and shadow length, computed on your phone: offline, no account. For photographers chasing golden hour, gardeners, and anyone choosing an apartment, a campsite or a terrace table.
THE THREE NUMBERS
• Bearing — the compass direction the sun is in, right now
• Height — how far above the horizon it stands, in degrees
• Shadow — how long a shadow anything casts, in meters or feet
They are the largest type on the screen, because they are the answer to the question you opened the app to ask.
DRAG THROUGH THE DAY
Take hold of the timeline and the sundial moves under your thumb. The shadow sweeps around the ground — short at noon, long at dusk — and vanishes the moment the sun sets. It is the fastest way to understand a day's light without reading a chart.
HOLD IT UP TO THE SKY
Point the camera at the horizon and the sun's whole arc is drawn over the view: where it rose, where it stands now, where it will set. It uses the compass and the tilt of your phone. No photo is taken, saved or sent.
THE MAP
Drop a pin anywhere and see the shadow direction for that exact spot. Useful before you view an apartment, plant a tree, book a table, or carry a tripod up a hill for nothing.
SUN PATH PLANNING
Look around Sun Path before you decide: it shows where the sun is for you right now. Everything else needs Sun Path Planning: a one-time purchase or a monthly subscription. It covers everything above, and:
• Any date — next Tuesday, next June, or the morning of a wedding two years out
• Any location on earth, not only where you are standing
• Save the places you keep coming back to
WHO IT IS FOR
• Photographers and film crews chasing the golden hour and the blue hour
• Gardeners working out which corner gets afternoon light
• Architects, builders and solar installers checking overshadowing
• Anyone choosing an apartment, a hotel room, a campsite or a terrace table
HOW ACCURATE IT IS, AND WHAT IT ASSUMES
The position is computed with the NOAA solar algorithm and is precise to a fraction of a degree. It assumes a level, unobstructed horizon: it knows nothing about hills, buildings, trees, cloud or weather. Sunrise and sunset are ideal-horizon times and will differ from what you see from your window. Treat it as a very good first answer, not a survey.
Not for navigation, aviation or maritime use. It says nothing about UV — it is not a health or sun-exposure app.
PRIVACY
No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Your location is used on your phone to compute the sun and is never sent to me. The full policy is at the address below.
BUILT BY ONE PERSON
I read and answer every email, usually within two business days. If the sun looks wrong where you are, tell me the place, the date and the time and I will look — solar position is exact geometry, so a real error is reproducible and fixable.
Support and privacy: https://anilsancarr-web.github.io/sunpath-site/
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://anilsancarr-web.github.io/sunpath-site/privacy/
Bali photograph by Zexsen Xie, CC BY 2.0.
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Look around Sun Path before you decide: it shows where the sun is for you right now. Everything else needs Sun Path Planning: a one-time purchase or a monthly subscription.
The sky view now finds the sun correctly however you hold the phone, and measures from true north.
Golden hour reminder. Turn it on from Today or in Settings and you get a note 15 minutes before the evening golden hour, for the place you are looking at — computed on your phone, no server, no account.
Sunrise, golden hour, sunset and blue hour now show on Today; tap one to jump to that moment. A share button sends today's light to a friend. The map works without location access: tap it to pick a place.
If the sun looks wrong where you are, write to me with the place, date and time. I answer every message.
The developer, anil sancar, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- anil sancar
- Size
- 62.9 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 43 more
- English, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Sun Path Planning — Lifetime $19.99
- Sun Path Planning — Monthly $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Anıl