Kagehinata: Sunlight & Shade
Sun, shadows & home sunlight
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Kagehinata shows sunlight and shadows for any place you pick on the map.
Choose a place and a date and time, and the app shows the sun's direction and height and which way and how far shadows fall. Shadows of nearby buildings are drawn on the map too, so you can see whether a spot is in sun or shade and which hours of the day it gets sunlight.
Great for
- Checking whether a south-facing room gets sun even in winter, before you visit a home
- Knowing how harsh the afternoon sun is and until when a place gets sunlight
- Planning a balcony, laundry or a small garden
- Finding golden hour and sunset directions before a photo walk
Features
- Tap the map to see the sun's direction, height and shadow direction
- Shadows of nearby buildings on the map, and the hours a spot gets sunlight (PLATEAU 3D city models in Japan, OpenStreetMap buildings elsewhere; online)
- Compare sunlight hours with and without buildings
- Check sunlight for a specific floor and window direction (the window direction is estimated from the building's shape)
- Takes ground elevation (slopes) and nearby hills into account
- How well a solar panel would charge, and which way to point and tilt it
- Change the time and date with sliders, or jump to today, the equinoxes or the solstices
- Sunrise and sunset times and directions, and day length
- A view of the sky from where you stand, with today's sun path and the sun at the same time over a year (the figure-eight analemma)
- Friendly comments such as how long your shadow is, or how much lower the sun is than a month ago
- Weather-aware comments about shadows and sunsets (online)
- A compass that tells you where the sun is relative to the way you face
- Your location as a blue dot, with a button to jump back to it
- Search by station, address or town, and save places with the star
- Send places from Google Maps or Apple Maps with the Share button
- Share sunlight info for a place (coordinates, sunlit hours, weather and more) as text or a single image
- Open the same place and time from a shared link or text
- Maps, search and sun calculations keep working offline with bundled data
Available in English and Japanese.
Privacy: no account is needed. Your location and saved places stay on your device and are never sent to the developer.
Sun positions are astronomical estimates. Building shadows are approximate, based on open data. Ground elevation up to about 6 km away is taken into account, but shadows from trees are not. Building shadows can be turned off in Settings.
Disclaimer: The sun positions, sunlight, building shadows, weather and other information shown in this app are estimates, and their accuracy or completeness is not guaranteed. For important decisions such as buying or renting a home, please check on site and decide at your own responsibility. ULTRAWARP is not liable for any damages arising from the use of, or inability to use, this app.
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- Share sunlight info for the selected place as text or a single image (coordinates, the day's sunlight, weather and a disclaimer)
- Open the same place and time from a shared link or text
- Now available in English (follows your device language; you can switch in Settings)
- Check sunlight for a specific floor and window direction. The window direction is estimated from the building's shape
- Takes ground elevation (slopes) and nearby hills into account
- Send places from Google Maps or Apple Maps to Kagehinata with the Share button
- A day-and-night ring with hour marks around the selected spot
- Drag the sun on the map to change the time
- Play the day automatically from sunrise to sunset
- Color themes, with buildings and shadows easier to tell apart
- A north indicator on the map
- Shop icons are hidden by default (you can show them in Settings)
- A clear button in the search field
- The app opens at your saved place if you have one
- Comments that match the time of day
- Smoother in areas with many buildings
- Fixed building shadows sometimes not showing outside Japan
- Other minor fixes
The developer, Shinya Sato, 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:
- Location
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Shinya Sato
- Size
- 18.4 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 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 Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 ULTRAWARP