Introducing Aura, Your Personal AI Super Astronomer
Designed for iOS & iPadOS 26 with Liquid Glass
Night Sky is a powerful AI personal planetarium.
Quickly identify stars, planets, constellations and satellites above by simply holding your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch to the Night Sky! This is all done magically. Whether you’re looking for a constellation, or the International Space Station, let Night Sky direct you to it, then explore the object in AR!
FEATURE SET:
- NIGHT SKY + AURA (Night Sky + Aura Subscription required) - Your Personal AI Super Astronomer! Ask Night Sky Aura virtually anything about Space and it will know the answer. Night Sky Aura fully interfaces with features within Night Sky, to direct you to objects you’re interested in, provide information on anything to do with astronomy, or even show you how the sky looks on the other side of the world! With your own personal AI Super Astronomer right by your side, Night Sky Aura becomes the new natural way to interact with the sky above!
- SKY TAGS - Make Night Sky yours, by adding personal Sky Tags to the map! Pin Sky Tags to objects in the sky to save for future reference, and share them via iMessage so others can find them! Sky Tags can be categorized, and are completely personal to you. Maybe you want to tag a star as a memorial to someone, or tag something you’d like to observe later that night. You can even add Astrophotography photos and observation notes to your Sky Tags!
- CONNECTED STARGAZING (+ Feature) - Connected Stargazing is a revolutionary new feature that utilizes SharePlay in iOS 15.1, allowing you to stargaze with others when you are apart! Start a FaceTime Audio call with those who you would like to stargaze with, then create a session by adding objects for everyone to find in the sky!
- SPATIAL AUDIO OBJECT NAVIGATION - Using AirPods Pro or AirPods Max, search for an object when automatic sky tracking is on, and Night Sky will make the star, planet or constellation ‘chirp’ in the 360° soundscape, assisting you to navigate to the object with sound!
- AR SKY WINDOW - Erase the ceiling of your bedroom, lounge or classroom with AR! Night Sky intelligently detects the ceiling or other flat surface in a room, and can make it magically disappear to reveal the sky behind it!
- BILLIONS OF STARS! (+ Feature) - Space is vast, so Night Sky has been hyper charged with over 1.7 BILLION STARS streamed from the cloud! With a new super deep zoom (greater than 10X before), prepare to delve deeper into space than you ever imagined!
- MAPS UI - A clean and familiar interface with Search features including Quick Find, intelligent Night Red Mode, Light Pollution indicator and easy to use menu, prepare to navigate Night Sky quicker than ever before!
- AR PLANETARY PORTALS & AR GRAND ORRERY (+ Features) - Step onto the surface of other planets by placing AR portals around your room! Or walk around the entire Solar System using the newly refreshed interactive Grand Orrery!
- NIGHT SKY WATCH AR - Night Sky magically comes to life on Apple Watch, with Glass Constellations, Red Vision, and Night Sky Live Tours - all on your wrist!
- AR OBJECT EXPLORATION - Pull Planets, Stars and Constellations out of the sky and look at them in detailed AR!
- NIGHT SKY TOURS (+ Feature): Get a live sky tour or create your own sky tours for any location and time in the world!
- NIGHT SKY MINDFULNESS (+ Feature) - A mindfulness stargazing experience adding mindfulness minutes with Apple HealthKit.
- AND MANY MORE FEATURES!
Subscription Information: 'Night Sky +' and 'Night Sky + Aura' are available as optional subscriptions. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy policy: http://www.icandiapps.com/privacy-policy/ Terms and Conditions of Use: http://www.icandiapps.com/terms-conditions/
This planetarium in your pocket makes it easy to discover the wonders of space wherever you go. Day or night, just aim your device skyward to see a live 3D map of the heavens, complete with beautifully illustrated constellations, stars, planets and satellites. A special night mode helps you read the map in the dark, while integrated weather reports show the best times for stargazing. You can even have notifications alert you to future astronomical events.
Recommended
NightFlyingHawk
I always recommend this app to people, I use it so often that friends and strangers react to it when they first see it and ask what it is. My favourite reaction was a 25 year old male friend of my other half exclaiming “look! she’s got the stars on her phone!” Even when I just discuss stars with people (simple stuff like have you heard there’s a comet?) I usually mention the app. My only struggle with it is that it doesn’t line up perfectly so it takes some time to work out where you should be looking using obvious constellations like the plough and Orion etc, but you can’t expect miracles from a free app, and being able to hold the phone slightly to the side of where you’re looking has its benefits for actually looking at things without killing your night vision.I definitely recommend this app for anyone with a fledgling interest in the stars, I suggest learning some basic constellations to help you out. Talk to someone in person who can point out the plough, Orion’s Belt, maybe some zodiac signs, and then this app will do everything you could need it to.
Developer Response
Thank you for your review! Happy stargazing!
I love this app. It does have one or two flaws
gg3817399
It’s a great app. This isn’t to say it’s a negative review. One thing that annoyed me recently was the notification of a new comet in the sky. Taping the “i” for info doesn’t give much detail at all. That wasn’t what annoyed me. It stated if you wanted more info on THAT particular comet go to the wiki page (and there was a link) however the wiki page wasn’t about that comet at all it was simply a brief run down of what “a comet” was. I was hoping to discover info such as distance. Speed the comet is travelling etc. Apart from that though it’s a great app to use and also easy to navigate around with great animations. The comet thing above is annoying but it won’t stop me using the app and I’d still recommend this app to anyone looking for a handy and nicely made star gazing platform.
Developer Response
Thank you for your review! We'll take your feedback on board. Happy stargazing!
Can’t match screen display to sky
MrMeldrew
TLDR version: Not user friendly, can’t match anything from app to sky, display way too cluttered with stars that I can’t see (living in a very light polluted area) and unintelligible options unless you have a degree in astronomy! Uncontrollable and force closes on almost every selection. Can’t recommend. Using Star Walk instead. ——-Update: Having tried all developers suggestions without success, it’s clearly not a calibration issue. Unfortunately, for me the interface is just not user friendly, with nothing behaving predictably ... touching the screen sometimes brings up AR blend mode (which has no discernible effect - I’d expect to see my surroundings via the camera with the stars overlaid, but I don’t), another time it switched through suburban to urban to city etc, and at some point touching it got me into some kind of time travelling mode... all very nice, but I have no idea how to make any one of those happen on purpose. The watch version is just as unpredictable and uncontrollable as the phone app. I live in a light polluted area and can’t see anything like the number of stars this app shows, but I can’t find how to eliminate what I can’t see. Oh, and it force closes a LOT. Looks pretty, I just can’t get on with it.
Developer Response
Thank you for your updated review! We're sorry you experienced this issue. Please reach out to the team at Support@NightSky.com. We hope to earn your 5 star review!
Version 26.4 brings the following features and enhancements:
+ Bug fixes and numerous additional minor enhancements.
If you enjoy using Night Sky a great review on the App Store is always appreciated. If we can be of any assistance, please reach out to the team at Support@NightSky.com who will be happy to help!
Happy stargazing!
Version 26.4
Subscriptions
Night Sky + Aura
Night Sky + Aura (Weekly Subscription)
£9.99
Night Sky + Aura
Night Sky + Aura (Monthly Subscription)
£17.99
Night Sky + Aura
Night Sky + Aura (Annual Subscription)
£69.99
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