Stay safe in the sun with accurate UV forecasts, personalized exposure insights, and smart tools for Time in Daylight and Vitamin D across iPhone and Apple Watch.
Trusted by thousands worldwide, Sunbeam helps you know when UV levels are high, reduce your risk of sunburn, and make more confident decisions about time outdoors. Check the UV Index in seconds, track your sun exposure, and better understand how sunlight fits into your health and daily routine.
Why people choose Sunbeam:
- Know when to protect your skin: See accurate UV forecasts for your current location or anywhere you travel.
- Reduce your risk of sunburn: Understand when UV levels are high and track your personalized sunburn risk over time.
- Understand your sun exposure: Monitor Time in Daylight, Vitamin D, and exposure history with simple, useful insights.
- Plan outdoor time more easily: View hourly UV forecasts for the next 10 days across your favorite locations around the world.
- Beautiful widgets: Check UV forecasts, Vitamin D, and Time in Daylight right on your Home Screen or Lock Screen.
- Live Activities: Track sun exposure sessions in real time from your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
- Full Apple Watch support: Use the Apple Watch app and complications to stay informed in the sun wherever you are.
- Siri and Shortcuts support: Check the UV, start an exposure session, view your sun exposure, and more with best-in-class iOS integrations.
- Make your health data more useful: Sync Time in Daylight and Vitamin D with Apple Health.
- Choose a privacy-first app: Your data stays yours. Sunbeam never sells your data or uses it for targeted ads.
Whether you want to protect your skin, spend more time outdoors with confidence, or build a better understanding of your daily sunlight exposure, Sunbeam helps you make smarter decisions in the sun.
Certain features require a Sunbeam Pro subscription.
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If you purchase a Sunbeam Pro subscription, payment will be charged to your Apple ID Account. You will be automatically charged for renewal unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. All purchases are final and refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term.
Privacy Policy: https://richardj.org/sunbeam/privacy-policy/
Terms and Conditions: https://richardj.org/sunbeam/terms-and-conditions/
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Myself and my kids are all very fair skinned. I can’t tell if or when we need to apply sunscreen, just by looking outside. Sometimes the rays are strong, even when it looks cloudy, or not that bright out. That’s where this app comes in. It tells me how strong the rays are, hourly, and estimates how long it would take us to burn. I love this app!!! It’s cheap too! Only $2.99 per year. I use it all the time! First I check my weather app for rain, then I use this app to check the rays. I highly recommend this app. To the owners/creators, please don’t drastically increase the subscription cost.
Developer Response
Thanks for the review, really glad you’re enjoying the app!
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so don’t get me wrong i love this app but every time i go somewhere and i want to now the UV it says somewhere that i was before and not my location so i have to delete the app and get it back ( minus a star )and i live in XXX and it said that i was in XX witch i’m very far from that place( minus a star )so it’s not accurate at all, sometimes and on my other weather app that’s very accurate and, trustworthy said the UV was like 7 and this app said it was 10 ( minus a star )so i was very confused. the widget is so hideous ( minus a star )so developer please make new widgets and it says the max UV is 10 and it’s not so (minus a star) and a lot of the stuff it pro and your basically paying for the hole app and the stuff that’s free is like the UV and 3 days of the UV and the widget that’s plain white with the UV on it and your location and whatever this thing is it’s like this 🔅\76 i love this app but it needs A LOT OF IMPROVEMENT i’m giving it a 1 star but would give it a 0
Developer Response
Hi, this is Richard - developer of Sunbeam 👋 Thanks for your feedback and sorry the app hasn’t been meeting your expectations. If you reach out to me using the support link in the app I can try to help you fix the issue you’re having with the app picking up your location correctly. One thing to try might be enabling ‘precise location’ for Sunbeam in the Settings app - by default the app only uses your approximate location for privacy reasons. As for data accuracy, Sunbeam uses Apple Weather for its UV Index data so you should find that this lines up with the built-in Weather app. I also would love to introduce more widget options in future - so if you have any specific suggestions for what you’d find helpful please feel welcome to send them my way 🙏
no words but AMAZING
ava__24
I don’t usually review apps but I think this one deserves it! This app is so simple and easy to use I love it so much! I set it as a widget on my home screen and it looks so good with my background. It has the weather, degrees, and UV. I’ve been traveling a lot recently and it switches for each city you are in without having to adjust any setting— convenient! I love using this app to track the perfect times to tan and how much sunscreen I need. The hourly is the best for that! Thanks so much for making this!!
Developer Response
Thanks so much for the review, reading this made my day! 🙏
Best UV exposure app I could find
Jona.7482
… and I tried several on the App Store. The user interface is more professionally done, and not many others have sunburn and vitamin D info.I would love a watch app! Also, it would be amazing if you could get sunburn and vitamin D info for the predicted UV index (not just the current one).EDIT: noticed that there already is a watch app! I’ve been using it daily for the last two weeks, and it has been very smooth.
Developer Response
Thanks for the review! There's actually already a Sunbeam app for Apple Watch, which you should be able to download as long as you're on the latest version of watchOS. Just drop me a line if you have any problems finding it.On your suggestion, this is something I definitely want to do, so watch this space! Glad you're enjoying the app :)
- Improved Shortcuts support with richer results and return values for automations.
- Fixed a crash when logging very long daylight entries.
Version 2026.4
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Information
Seller
Electric Acorn LTD
Size
118.1 MB
Category
Weather
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 10.6 or later.
Languages
English and 7 more
English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
