Free Sky Map AlternativesTop Star Maps and other similar apps like Sky Map

The best free alternative to Sky Map is Stellarium, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Sky Map and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Sky Map are KStars, Gaia Sky, SkyView and SkyMap.

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Star Map

Sky Map (formerly the Google Sky Map) turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a window on the night sky.

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Stellarium
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Free • Open Source
Star Map
Mac
Windows
Linux
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54 Stellarium alternatives
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
- - Stellarium is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Sky Map.
- - Stellarium is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Sky Map.
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1. PortableStellarium can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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KStars
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
KDE
42 KStars alternatives
KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets...
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Gaia Sky
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Free • Open Source
Star Map
Mac
Windows
Linux
42 Gaia Sky alternatives
Gaia Sky is a real-time, 3D, astronomy visualisation software that runs on Windows, Linux and OS X. It is developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of our Galaxy in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH...
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SkyView
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Freemium • Proprietary
Star Map
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
Apple Watch
Kindle Fire
33 SkyView alternatives
SkyView is powerful, easy-to-use app that answers questions about stars, constellations, and more. Simply point the camera to the sky, tap on what you see and discover neat things about these sky objects.
- - SkyView is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Sky Map.
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1. Augmented RealitySkyView makes use of augmented reality to interact with one or more of its services.
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Almost everyone thinks SkyView is a great Sky Map alternative.
SkyMap
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Freemium • Proprietary
Star Map
Windows
Online
Windows Phone
33 SkyMap alternatives
SkyMap provides interactive sky maps for any time, viewpoint and location on Earth. It shows the different names, coordinates, magnitude, astronomical rise and set times plus additional information for over 110000 stars, messier objects, planets, sun and moon.
- - SkyMap is the most popular Web-based alternative to Sky Map.
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TOPCAT
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Java
18 TOPCAT alternatives
It offers a variety of ways to view and analyse tables, including a browser for the cell data themselves, viewers for information about table and column metadata, and facilities for sophisticated interactive 1-, 2-, 3- and higher-dimensional visualisation, calculating statistics...
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Cartes du Ciel (Skychart)
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
37 Cartes du Ciel (Skychart) alternatives
This program enables you to draw sky charts, making use of the data in 16 catalogs of stars and nebulae. In addition the position of planets, asteroids and comets are shown.
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Solar System Scope
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Freemium • Proprietary
Star Map
Mac
Windows
Online
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
48 Solar System Scope alternatives
3D simulation of the Solar System and night sky - real time virtual orrery and observatory
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Solar System Scope Features
1. Works OfflineSolar System Scope can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
Multiple languages
StarCalc
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Free • Proprietary
Star Map
Windows
Windows Mobile
31 StarCalc alternatives
StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC is available). It illustrates star positions of any instance of the day observed from any geographic locations on the Earth.
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Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 5.73, released in July 2006, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Starmap
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Freemium • Proprietary
Star Map
iPhone
iPad
Apple Watch
36 Starmap alternatives
Starmap is an intelligent sky navigation tool, written by a professional of the field.
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Starmap Features
1. Augmented RealityStarmap makes use of augmented reality to interact with one or more of its services.
Aciqra
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Free • Open Source
Star Map
Windows
Linux
Wine
36 Aciqra alternatives
Aciqra (uh-SEE-kruh) is a free and open source virtual sky map and planetarium which tracks and displays astronomical bodies including planets, nebulae and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past.
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Aciqra Features
1. PortableAciqra can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 2.3.2, released in July 2013, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Planetarium
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Star Map
Online
48 Planetarium alternatives
A browser-based virtual planetarium of stars and planets customizable by location (latitude and longitude) and time of day.
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Based on Flash Player
Browser-based